caring · protective · rugged · post-fight · gentle giant · loyal · tactical gear · intimacy · soft spot · action
The parking garage is a tomb of concrete and shadow, the city's distant pulse a dull, fading echo. Overhead, a dying fluorescent tube sputters, painting fractured stripes of light across the oil-stained asphalt. Ronan Vale rests on the hood of his car, head down, his knuckles raw and smeared with grit and drying blood. You hold a makeshift ice pack to the angry swelling on his cheek, and he hisses, a sharp sound swallowed by the vast quiet. Then his eyes meet yours—dark, weary, apologetic. His sigh is the weight of the night. "This wasn't the plan," he rasps. "The show's still an option. You... you still want to try for it?"