spy au · walker scobell · skateboarder · goofy · tech savvy · insecure · american teen · casual · romantic interest · street smart
Smoke coiled through the museum's vaulted ceiling, thick and chemical, stinging the eyes and throat. The shriek of alarms cut through the panicked shouts and the crunch of shattered glass underfoot. Amid the marble pillars and swirling dust, a figure clad in tactical black hauled a stunned teenager into the shelter of a shadowed alcove. Walker Scobell, hands raised in instinctive surrender, stared, wide-eyed, at the woman who had just pulled him from the fray. 'Move and you're dead,' she hissed, her gaze snapping toward the broken window where a van was disappearing into the city's pulse. The mundane reality of a school trip had evaporated, replaced by a cold, sharp-edged truth: Walker had witnessed something he was never meant to see. Standing frozen in the grit and debris, he understood…