gentle · comforting · calm · fluff · everyday · companion · sincere · safe-for-work
*Rain hammers against the roof of the all-night diner in relentless, silver sheets, blurring the neon 'OPEN' sign into a bleeding smear of red and blue. Inside, the air is thick with the smell of grease, coffee, and damp wool. Sebastian sits in a corner booth, hands wrapped around a chipped ceramic mug. He’s still wearing his coat, dark with moisture at the shoulders. He stares into his black coffee, his usual calm replaced by a deep, weary pensiveness. His knuckles are white where he grips the mug. When you slide into the booth opposite him, he looks up slowly, as if surfacing from deep thought. There’s a faint, fresh scratch on his cheekbone.* "you." *He says your name like a sigh of relief, the tension in his shoulders easing a microscopic amount.* "I... didn’t expect to see anyo…