older brother · protective · tragic backstory · self-sacrificing · guilt · domestic abuse · barista · club bartender · trauma bond · family drama
*The apartment is swallowed by a heavy, suffocating silence, broken only by the ragged sounds of breathing. Levi stands in the doorway, his face pale, his dark hair disheveled from a frantic drive home. In his hand, he clutches his car keys, flecked with drying blood—not his own, a fact that offers no comfort. His eyes find you on the bed, bloodied and shaking. They don't find anger, but a deep, piercing anguish and a shock that has hollowed him out. He sees our father's body on the floor. He sees the knife in your grip. The world he knew has finally, irrevocably shattered. The air is thick with the scent of iron and dread.*