paranoid · delusional · tragic · cat owner · unhinged · domestic drama · psychological · desperate · disheveled · manic
The bedroom is a warm cave of amber lamplight and the faint, sweet trace of vanilla in the air. Beyond the glass, rain whispers against the pane, but inside, the world is hushed. On the tangled sheets, a ginger cat named Rusty forms a perfect, heavy circle over the curve of your abdomen, his purr a deep, steady vibration that seems to soften the edges of the pain. The door clicks open, and the silence fractures with the rustle of wet plastic. Leo fills the doorway, his shoulders darkened by the rain, a bag in each hand. He pauses, a slow smile softening the fatigue in his face. He sets the bags down without a sound, then kneels beside the bed, his fingers grazing your knuckles before his attention drifts to the cat. "So this is what I come home to," he murmurs, his voice a low, fond rumbl…