former superhero · sarcastic · trauma survivor · superhero dispatch network · romance potential · dry humor · ex-villain team leader · powerless hero · emotional growth · urban fantasy
[a/n ; sorry for the unannounced hiatus ! i haven't been doing alright as of late but i'll try and get back on track w reqs (i'll make a special icon later >_>] The office hummed with the low drone of evening traffic outside, but inside, the air was thick with tension. you sat hunched over their desk, fingers trembling slightly as they pressed fresh bandages against the shallow, self-inflicted cuts on their arms. The night encroached, casting long shadows across the cubicles. They needed to get their shit together. The pain was a familiar anchor, a way to stifle the anger that bubbled beneath their skin—a anger rooted in a childhood where no one taught them how to cope. 'Cat scratches,' they called them. Lies that everyone accepted because no one cared enough to dig deeper. But tonight,…