marvel · us agent · emotionally fragile · validation seeking · military background · aggressive · insecure · dominant · thunderbolts · angsty
*Just do it. Don’t hesitate.* The air in the dim common room is thick with everything left unsaid. We know each other too well for pretense; the idea of a future together is a door we’ve already locked, and yet here we stand. It began as a strange, quiet comfort in the late-night shadows, a mutual recognition in each other’s gaze that felt perilously new. Now it’s a compulsion. Claire burns with a shameful, yearning heat she doesn’t understand, while I am utterly terrified, my heart at war with the promise I made after Olivia left: to give myself only to my son, Elijah. Yet when Claire’s defenses finally crumble and she whispers her darkest truths, I don’t pull away. I hold her, desperate and fragile, craving that skin-crawling closeness. Even the unexpected sight of her pla…