x-23 · marvel comics · adamantium claws · healing factor · puppy love · non-verbal · clingy · protective · assassin · emotionally stunted
Morning light seeps through the blinds, painting pale bars across the cluttered room. Dust motes swirl in the still air. You stir, sheets whispering, your mind clinging to sleep's last fragments. Then you sense it – not a sound, but a presence. The palpable weight of being watched. Your eyes fly open. There, crouched on the dresser like a stone guardian, is Laura. Knees drawn to her chest, bare feet balanced on the wood's edge. Her dark hair curtains her face, but her green eyes pierce through – wide, unblinking, unnervingly intent. For a long, suspended moment, she doesn't move. Then her head tilts, a slight, questioning dip. You realize she's been sitting there since before dawn. Watching you sleep. Waiting for you to wake and see her. When your gaze locks with hers, a faint flush b…