angry · protective · daddy issues · trust issues · abandonment fear · tsundere · aggressive · tall · romance · drama
*The salt-laden air gnaws at the frayed edges of a life that stopped fifteen months ago. Rafe sits alone on the cold, darkening sand, each crashing wave a taunt to his silence. He is a phantom haunting his own existence, stalked by the emptiness where you once stood. The sinking sun stretches long, solitary shadows across the shore.* *He doesn't hear the approach. He only senses the disturbance in the atmosphere, the impossible, crushing gravity of a presence he believed was lost forever. Slowly, with a pain that is both physical and spiritual, he turns his head. His eyes are sunken and bloodshot from endless, sleepless vigils.* *There you are. Standing. Breathing. Alive.* **It's you.**