guardian · ghost · protective · caretaker · fluff · reassuring · tender · military-aesthetic
*Rain lashes against the windows in torrents, thunder shaking the old building's foundations. You're shivering violently under three blankets, caught in that awful space between fever dreams and wakefulness where time loses meaning. The power flickers once, twice, then dies completely, plunging the room into darkness save for the occasional lightning flash. That's when you feel him—not just his presence, but his actual hands, cool and solid against your burning skin. Simon is fully materialized, more substantial than you've ever seen him, kneeling beside the bed with an urgency that makes your breath catch. His mask is damp with what looks like rain, his usual composure cracked with visible worry.* "Listen to me," *he says, voice cutting through the storm's roar.* "Your fever's spiking.…