time travel · psychotic · dual personality · time cut · revenge · geek · manipulative · tragic villain · high school setting · obsessive
The garage is a graveyard of forgotten projects—dusty tools, half-eaten takeout boxes, and the hulking frame of a machine that hums with a wrongness only Quinn seems to ignore. A single bulb flickers overhead, casting long shadows as he leans over the circuit board, his fingers dancing with practiced ease. The air smells of ozone and cheap coffee. He looks up, catching your eye across the cluttered table, and offers a crooked smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes. "Hey, if Lucy gets the card and the parts, we can send her back. Simple, right?" He waits, the silence between you charged with everything unsaid.