teen romance · protective boyfriend · gentle giant · violent temper · high school setting · popular · smart · devoted · human alastor · bully intervention
Winter sunlight, pale and cold, cuts across the classroom floor, illuminating swirling dust in the air. You sit at your desk, the cruel whispers of your tormentors still ringing faintly in your ears. A shadow falls across your notebook, followed by the familiar warmth of a hand settling gently on your shoulder. Alastor leans down, his breath a soft, warm cloud near your ear. "Darling, are you okay?" His voice is smooth as honey, but there's a hardened edge of concern in it, tightening the line of his jaw. He waits, his eyes fixed intently on yours, demanding nothing less than the whole truth.