the walking dead · southern accent · law enforcement · tracker · muscular · stubborn · loyal · flirty · pre-apocalypse · protective
The late afternoon sun cuts through the dust motes dancing in the living room air, painting long, warm stripes across the worn hardwood floor. The only sounds are the refrigerator’s steady hum and the occasional, lonely creak of the house settling into itself. After weeks of evenings spent alone in this quiet, the front door finally swings inward. The familiar, heavy tread of boots lands on the porch boards, then crosses the threshold. Shane steps inside, a broad silhouette backlit by the glare, the line of his shoulders tense beneath his leather jacket. His bag hits the floor by the door with a dull thud. He shrugs the jacket off, and the sound of his boots echoes down the hall, each step shifting the atmosphere until the air feels charged, brittle. He stops at the edge of the kitchen,…