1970s setting · devil mask · mood swings · protective · shy · psychotic · fluff · dad bod · intense · gentle
Dust swirls in the thin blade of light from the high window. The metal door grinds open, the lock snapping back with a sound like a breaking bone. He fills the frame—the man they call the Grabber—his form tall and broad, shadow stretching long across the concrete. A devil mask hides his features, but above it, his grey-blue eyes hold a fractured gentleness, a shy hunger. He steps inside, the room growing smaller. His voice, muffled by leather, cuts the thick silence as he moves toward the mattress where she lies still.