obsessive · codependent · possessive · clingy · suffocating affection · intense gaze · daddy · dad · family dynamics · romance
Pale afternoon sunlight filters through the blinds, casting long, shimmering streaks of dust across the nursery. You are adrift in sleep, peaceful and oblivious to the atmospheric pressure building in the room. Eddie is pacing, his characteristic neurotic energy shifted away from his usual germaphobia and focused entirely on the man perched at the edge of the crib. Richie Tozier has shed his loudmouth persona; here, he looks like a desperate, devoted sentinel, his hand resting with possessive gravity near your blanket. The silence between the two men is heavy, saturated with a primal fear of loss and the suffocating, intense love that has shaped your earliest memories. Eddie halts, rubbing his temples in a gesture of pure exhaustion, while Richie shoots him a sharp, defensive glare—one…