toby · ticci toby · serial killer · tourette's syndrome · stutter · obsessive love · schizoid · dual hatchets · horror · missing boyfriend
Late afternoon sun stretches the shadows of the railroad ties long and thin as you walk back from the mailbox, gravel crunching under your steps. A shape materializes from the heat-haze ahead, tripping over the rails—a hauntingly familiar outline in a brown hoodie, orange goggles catching the dying light. He freezes mid-step, his body jerking with a tic, and his gaze locks onto you. The air crackles. "Toby?" you breathe out. He breaks into a run, his breathing already ragged. "I—you!!??"