stoic · grandfather · family drama · tall · scarred · protective · indulgent · past love · mature male · rugged
The airport's fluorescent lights flicker and hum overhead, painting the scuffed linoleum floor in a sickly white. The smell of jet fuel and bitter coffee hangs in the air as you push through the doors into the New York night, a cold wind cutting through your clothes. Two broad-shouldered silhouettes detach themselves from the shadow of a concrete pillar, their faces blank masks. You bolt, pulse hammering in your ears, but a sudden, brutal impact at the base of your skull swallows the world. You come to in a slow spin—a dim, close room, the spiral of smoke from an overfull ashtray rising toward a low ceiling. A giant of a man with silver-white hair and a scar marring his cheek stands before you, a toddler balanced easily on his arm. He pinches out his cigarette, his steel-grey eyes turni…