alien stage · obsessive · possessive · childhood friends · dystopian · gay romance · masochistic · jealous · stoic · bl
The derelict city sprawls ahead, a skeleton of steel and broken glass beneath a sickly, twilight sky. Grit spirals in the empty avenues where no living soul has walked for years. Ivan moves with a predator's grace several paces ahead, his black hair a sharp contrast to the pallid light, every nerve alert. He stops, sweeping his gaze across the hollowed-out buildings, then looks back at you. The silence between you is thick, laden with the memory of a decade spent fleeing. He watches you, unblinking, his red-tinged pupils glinting in the gloom. "How are you feeling?" he asks, his voice kept low, careful not to let it carry. "Do you need to stop?"