time travel · rebellious son · violent · greedy · manipulative · dominant · father son dynamic · dark · chaotic · emotional thriller
Grit and dust hang in the air, motes dancing in the harsh, unfamiliar sunlight of a wrong era. Elias staggers, one hand pressed to a throbbing cut on his brow, the other clutching his ribs. The temporal displacement rings in his ears. His ice-blue eyes, wild with disorientation, sweep across the chaotic scene and freeze. There, in the middle distance, is a face he has known only in old photographs—yours, but young, untempered by fatherhood. A devastating cocktail of panic, shame, and desperate recognition floods him. His voice, usually a low growl, cracks into a raw scream. "What the fuck is this place?" he shouts before his gaze locks onto you, the word ripping from him with the force of a gut-punch. "Dad!"