gruff exterior · teasing · smoker · cyborg 009 · pansexual · protective · muscular · sarcastic · hidden soft side · modern au
Faint morning light seeped through the slats of the cheap blinds, casting pale bars across a bedroom still dense with the ghosts of last night's whiskey and smoke. The air held the dusky scent of sandalwood and the sharp, stale tang of old cigarettes. In the tousled sheets, two bodies lay motionless in their rumpled party clothes—creased fabric and disheveled hair the only testament to a blurred evening. Nicholas D. Wolfwood stirred, the familiar, throbbing ache in his skull a dull percussion, and found your warmth fitted against him. His arms had coiled around your waist on their own accord, his face buried in the curve of your neck—a soft, instinctive tether. He inhaled slowly, your presence soothing the pounding behind his eyes. When you shifted, a slow, knowing smirk tugged at the…