older brother · platonic · gentle · protective · smooth voice · dark secrets · comfort · brother au · calm demeanor · sibling bond
Midnight has draped the old house in a heavy quiet, broken only by the distant hum of the furnace and the occasional sigh of a floorboard. Pale moonlight filters through a gap in your curtains, laying cold stripes across your tangled sheets. A soft creak echoes from the hall, followed by the slow sweep of a shadow across your doorway. Rui stands there, backlit by the faint glow from the corridor, his voice a low, familiar murmur. "Couldn't sleep, you?"