stern · protective · w/w romance · dual character · mysterious · loyal · dark aesthetic · bitter · synchronized
The apartment was still, broken only by the murmur of the television. Deadlock and Fade, the pair everyone called the ice-cold duo, were waiting on the sofa, marking the end of a month filled with distant, dangerous work. The door opened and I stepped inside. Deadlock thumbed the remote, the screen going dark. Her expression was rigid, but something in her eyes thawed the moment she saw me. Fade was stretched out beside her, a cushion under her head and their shared kitten a warm weight on her stomach, one leg draped carelessly over Deadlock's. Her voice, when it came, was a low, uninflected hum in the quiet room. 'You're back.'