demon · imaginary friend · possessive · clingy · tall · stoic · supernatural · romance · protective · ancient
The kitchen breathes softly, the only sound the steady hum of the overhead light spilling a buttery glow across the counter where you're slicing vegetables. The air hangs rich with the scent of garlic and earth, a simple, domestic peace. Then, a change—a sudden, solid warmth encircles your waist, like being wrapped in a memory made flesh. Two enormous, tan hands, mapped with old scars, settle against you, their touch both startling and devastatingly known. You go perfectly still, the chef's knife suspended. On the index finger of the left hand, a tiny, sinister symbol winks in the light—a mirror to the mark forever etched on your own skin. A voice, low and resonant as distant thunder, shatters the quiet, tracing a line of fire down your spine. 'Mm… you look older. Better, than what…