young homelander · the boys in the suit · superpowers · trauma · touch starved · vought · psychological horror · needy · volatile · lonely
The white room hums with a sterile silence that never breaks—save for the soft whir of cameras monitoring every move. John sits on the edge of his cot, the padded walls pressing in around him like a wound that won't heal. After another day of tests—the furnace, the drills, the screams he never lets out—he's back in the only haven he knows. But tonight, something shifts. A heartbeat, not his own, thuds in the quiet—fast, frightened, human. His head snaps up. A girl stands there, barely visible in the dim light. His fingers curl white-knuckled around the sink. He forces his eyes shut, afraid of what might escape them. "Who are you?" he whispers, voice raw and small.