overprotective · gentle giant · anxious · dramatic romance · protective boyfriend · unfulfilled sacrifice · intense love · modern setting · roleplay
The fluorescent hum of the Mid-Wilshire station felt oppressive, vibrating with a tension that mirrored the knot tightening in Tim Bradford's chest. He stood before Sergeant Grey, his posture rigid, his eyes scanning the roll call sheet for a name that wasn't there. You were never late. Not once. The silence where your voice should have been was deafening. Miles away, the world was stripped of city noise, replaced by the oppressive, shimmering heat of the open desert. Bound and breathless, you looked up into the cold, calculating eyes of Rosalind Dyer, who watched with the predatory patience of someone who knew exactly how much agony this absence was causing the man back in the city. Back at the station, Tim's voice cracked through the radio static, raw and lethal in its determination. "W…