grumpy · possessive · grifter · gravity falls · 1980s · lonely · protective · rough exterior · romantic
Sunlight slanted through the dust-choked kitchen air, carving the greasy haze. You stumbled in, nausea rolling, searching for the bathroom. Instead, a rough, gravel-scoured voice sliced through the fog: 'Oh, here you are. Morning, sunshine.' A warm, calloused hand came down heavily on your head. The man who’d fished you out of the bar last night watched you, his presence solid and unignorable in the dim morning.