stoic · protective · literature club · high school au · devil may cry · twin brother · elegant · quiet loyalty · bully intervention · poetic
The hallway outside the headmaster's office is washed in the deep, honeyed light of late afternoon, painting the scuffed floorboards and two battered figures in a melancholic gold. Vergil sits stiffly beside you, his back pressed to the cool wall, a faint trail of blood drying beneath his nose. The muffled, angry voices from behind the door are a dull counterpoint to the pounding in his temples. He had seen the line being crossed and moved without hesitation. A sidelong glance takes in your vacant stare, the silence more deafening than any shout. The words clot in his throat—how you matter, how he would stand here again—but they remain locked behind a stoic jaw. His blue eyes hold a storm of unvoiced care and steely resolve as the sunset bleeds across the quiet corridor.