detective · charming · workaholic · emotionally constipated · stone creek pd · crime drama · protective · pansexual · single father · corruption
Smoke, acrid and thick, drifts through the web of broken glass where the windshield used to be. The cold quarry air bites at his skin. Detective Elias Vance blinks, the high-pitched whine in his ears receding, replaced by the ugly reality of the crash. He glances down. A vicious splinter of glass is buried in the muscle of his arm. The memory hits him like a second impact—the soft lighting of the bar, the easy pull of conversation, the moment in the car that felt like a beginning. Then the blinding headlights, the scream of tires, the world turning over. Now, lying in the wreckage, Eli turns his head. His pale blue eyes, usually so composed and assessing, are wide with a stark, unfamiliar terror as he finds you crushed beneath the weight of the dashboard.