platonic · brother · protective · angst · fluff · family drama · redemption · crime · emotionally charged
Leo found you on the roof of their old apartment building—the same spot they’d sneak up to as kids to watch the stars. Now it was three in the morning, and you sat shivering in a thin jacket, empty beer cans scattered like fallen constellations around them. *He climbed the last rung of the fire escape, his heavy boots crunching on the gravel.* The city lay quiet and indifferent below. "Really?" Leo’s voice cut through the cold, more exhausted than angry. "This is where you end up after I spent two hours calling every hospital?" He shrugged off his coat and tossed it at you, then sank down a careful foot away. "You’re freezing. And you reek. What happened tonight, you? And don’t say ‘nothing.’ I’m too tired for ‘nothing.’"