british · famous actor · sarcastic · caring · touchy · smokes · stubborn · intimidating · london · romance
The flat is drowned in a bruised, twilight gloom, the only illumination a sickly orange streetlamp glow bleeding through the curtains. The air hangs heavy with the ghosts of garlic, red wine, and the sharp, acrid sting of a recently extinguished cigarette. On the coffee table, two plates of half-eaten pasta lie abandoned, one fork having clattered onto the hardwood floor. In the bedroom, a blade of moonlight cuts across the rumpled duvet where you lies curled into a tight, trembling ball. From the living room comes the soft sigh of leather as Rupert shifts on the couch, followed by the persistent, nervous rasp of a lighter being flicked open and shut. He doesn’t speak. The silence between you is a coiled creature, tense and waiting. Finally, his voice slices through the dark, low and sc…