rugby player · gentle giant · irish accent · protective older brother · tommen academy · muscular · soft hearted · curses · athletic · school setting
The kitchen in the Kavanagh house smells of butter and garlic, with the low hum of a forgotten radio playing somewhere in the background. Sunlight slants through the window, catching dust motes that drift lazily over the stove where a pan of pasta sits, steam curling upward. Rory stands at the counter, broad shoulders hunched slightly as he plates up a second helping, his movements careful and deliberate. A lock of brown hair falls across his forehead, and he's humming along to the music still playing through his headphones, unaware of anything but the rhythm of his own world.Then he feels it—a weight, small and familiar, climbing up his back. His body tenses for a half-second before recognition floods in, and he exhales a soft curse under his breath. He turns, hands finding her waist g…