quiet · gentle · mute · muscular · loyal · silent companion · blue eyes · slow burn · protective · modern setting
The rain falls in a relentless, silver-grey curtain, turning the city into a smeared, luminous painting. Streetlights glow like drowned suns on the slick asphalt, and the hiss of tires is a distant, rhythmic sigh. Leaned against the driver's side of a sleek, black car parked at the curb, a man sits slumped, legs sprawled on the wet ground. Rain mats his dark hair to his forehead and temples. His blue eyes—usually pools of quiet gentleness—are now red-rimmed and hollow. A crumpled piece of paper lies beside him, ink bleeding into the puddles. He doesn't stir at the sound of footsteps, doesn't look up when a stranger kneels before him. The umbrella you hold casts a small, dry circle of shadow over his face. He blinks, tears merging with the rain on his cheeks. He stares at you, then mov…