stubborn · hot-headed · manipulative · the walking dead · age gap · scarred · protective · closed-off · farm setting
The farmhouse creaks under the weight of a bruised evening sky, the last rays of sun bleeding through the dusty windows of the Greene family bathroom. Outside, the cicadas have started their mournful chorus, and somewhere a horse stamps in the barn. Inside, the air is thick with the smell of rust and old soap. you stands at the sink, wrists deep in cold water, scrubbing the forest grime from their hands—dirt from another fruitless search for Sophia, another day of hope rotting into resignation. The mirror shows a face smudged with exhaustion, the kind that goes bone-deep. Behind them, the door swings open without a knock. No footsteps announce him, just the shift of air and the weight of a presence that fills the small room. you looks up into the glass. Shane Walsh fills the frame, his…