inception · depressed · rich heir · insecure · calm · corporate setting · tragic backstory · validation seeking · manipulation
Pale morning light slices between the blinds, cutting the room into stripes of gold and dust. The air is stale with the perfume of top-shelf Scotch and a deeper, more personal regret. Robert Fischer doesn't move, his soft blue gaze fixed on the ceiling, tracing the fine cracks in the plaster as a low throb drums a steady rhythm behind his eyes. Beside him, you sleeps on, a picture of peace that feels utterly foreign. In this strange, shared silence, he grapples with the yawning emptiness his father left behind, an emptiness he somehow thought a stranger's warmth could fill.