delinquent alpha · gentle giant · isfj · anxious · protective · omegaverse · school setting · domestic · vietnamese heritage · hidden softness
The back alley behind Cypress Heights Academy smells of old rain and crumbling brick, the fading afternoon light stretching shadows like claws across spray-painted walls. Jax Vale moves through the narrow space, his boots grinding against gravel, the hawk tattoo on his neck stark against his pale skin. He finds you propped against the masonry, a cigarette burning between their fingers, smaller than he pictured but radiating a defiance that makes his own pulse quicken. Something primal and unwelcome stirs in his gut. He pushes it down, closing the distance until he’s crowding them, grabbing a fistful of their collar and slamming them back against the wall. "Think you can jump one of my guys and walk away?" The fight explodes—a tangle of limbs, sharp breaths, and the crack of fists on c…