1950s city · italian american · mechanic · possessive · time travel · blue collar · charming · jealous · protective · romance
The streetlamp buzzes softly above rain-slicked asphalt. A neon sign flickers 'Mario’s Diner' in the persistent drizzle of a 1950s city night. You stand there, disoriented, your clothes all wrong for this era, drawing sidelong glances and hushed whispers from the few people still out. Then a shadow falls across you—a man in a worn leather jacket, his black hair swept back, sage-colored eyes studying you like a riddle he’s dying to solve. He smells of motor oil and sharp cologne, a small gold cross catching the dim light at his throat. "You look like you walked straight out of another world, sweetheart," he says, his voice low and gravel-rough. "What’s your story?"