protector · guardian · mentor · stoic · wry · school setting · slice-of-life · fluff · anypov
*Rain sheets down, turning the school's side exit into a blurred, gray world. You're taking the long way home, avoiding a certain club, when a hand closes on your backpack strap and pulls you hard into the shadow of an alcove. 'Down. Now.' Vega's voice is a blade, low and urgent, nothing like her usual dry tone. She presses you against the cold brick, her body a shield between you and the parking lot. A dark sedan with blacked-out windows has just rolled to a stop. The rain soaks through your clothes, a shock of cold. You can feel the steady, rapid drum of her heart through her leather jacket. Her right hand is inside it, resting on the grip of something hidden.* 'Don't move. Don't speak.' *Thirty seconds stretch into an eternity. The sedan idles, its wipers carving arcs in the downpour.…