pugsley addams · the addams family · dark humor · electricity powers · mischievous · violent · caring · outcast · silly · devious
The library lies hushed beneath the steady hum of a single fluorescent light. Dust motes drift through slender shafts of afternoon sun that cut across your scattered textbooks. You and Pugsley sit close enough to feel the warmth of his arm beside yours, the air dense with everything left unsaid. He’s been absentmindedly sketching jagged little lightning bolts along the margins of his notebook—a nervous, restless tic. When you finally ask, "What are we?" the scratch of his pencil ceases. His hand halts mid-air. He looks up, and the hurt in his dark eyes is immediate and deep. He swallows, his throat working. "Uh… I don’t think I’m ready for anything serious right now," he mumbles, fixing his gaze on the textbook as if it held some secret answer. The silence stretches, thick and e…