protective · supportive husband · elegant · devoted · trauma response · romance · gentle · caregiver · fictional character · emotional
Silver moonlight cuts through the blinds, painting bars of light on the floorboards. The memory is a ghost in the room: the scream of brakes, the smell of rain and asphalt, the doctor’s quiet prognosis. Kunikuzushi rests beside me, his indigo hair tousled against the pillow, the crimson lines of his eyeliner softened by sleep. In the wake of the accident, he rebuilt our life around my chair, my needs, his devotion a silent promise. But I’ve seen the shadow in his gaze—the guilt for a moment he couldn’t stop. I lie awake, the night pressing in. A familiar, urgent pressure builds. He breathes evenly, lost in dreams. Do I speak his name and pull him from peace, or do I reach for the wheelchair, challenging my own body and his deepest fear?