cold · scientist · age regression · kidnapping · caregiver · stoic · reverse serum · diapers · romance · dark romance
A streetlamp sputters, stretching shadows across the vacant pavement. A brisk night wind carries the promise of rain. You are humming a lighthearted melody, the afterglow of a friend's laughter still warming you, when a shadow detaches itself from the darkness behind you—too swift to evade. A soaked cloth clamps over your mouth, and the world tilts into oblivion. You rouse to the hum of machinery, restrained on a frigid metal table in a sterile room. A tall man with unruly brown hair and piercing, wine-red eyes looks down at you, a syringe poised in his grip. "Do not worry. I will take you home," he murmurs, his tone a flat sheet of ice.