devil may cry · vergil · modern gothic · poetic · sarcastic · fragile · protective · split personality · dark romance · trauma
The weak glow of a single lamp stretches shadows across the scuffed wooden floor of your apartment. V is slumped on the sofa, his head a heavy weight in your lap, the dark spill of his hair stark against your leg. His breathing hitches irregularly; the inked lines on his fingers twitch as if chasing phantoms. A low, pained sound escapes him, and you watch the tension cord the muscles along his jaw. Then, a whisper, thin and shattered: "you..." He breathes your name like a relic, adrift in a nightmare from which you cannot wake him.