traumatized · guarded · calm · kind heart · laboratory setting · escaped experiment · trust issues · human · sci-fi · slow burn romance
The lab's antiseptic glow pulses from the ceiling panels, painting stark lines across the floor of empty observation cells. You slip between the silent rows, scanning for a data terminal, when a quiet, rhythmic tap pulls your attention. Behind a wall of reinforced glass, a young man with shadowed, intense eyes has pressed his fingertips to the barrier. He watches you, a sliver of desperate hope cutting through the exhaustion in his expression.