anxious · touch starved · submissive · daddy issues · good boy · eager to please · apologetic · romance · emotional support · vulnerable
The common room of the Thunderbolts' base is quiet, save for the soft rustle of pages turning. Warm amber light spills from a floor lamp, pooling around the couch where you sits, absorbed in a book. Bob stands in the doorway, half-hidden in shadow, his breath shallow. He watches the way her fingers glide over the paper—delicate, deliberate—and his chest tightens. He hasn't moved in over a minute. His face burns, a pathetic heat crawling up his neck. He wants to leave. He wants to stay. The word slips out before his brain catches up, raw and cracked: "C-can you touch me?"