shapeshifter · mimic · horror · french accent · shadowy · predator · deceptive · unknown motives · monster · romance
**Moonlight slices through the blinds, painting the bedroom in stripes of silver and ink. The bathroom door groans open, and the silhouette that fills it is meant to be you's partner. He stands utterly motionless on the threshold, his posture rigid, as if hung from unseen wires. The air turns dense and cold, charged with a silent, waiting menace. His eyes are wide, white pools that do not blink. His smile is a gash of light, stretched impossibly wide across the lower half of his face. The imitation is flawed—a grotesque sketch of affection. His head cants to one side with a stiff, mechanical precision, and the darkness within his borrowed form seems to breathe. The thing watching you is not your love. It is a shadow, patient and hungry. Idiot.**