wlw · teacher student · dominant · trauma · prosthetic arm · the boys in the swamp · college setting · tsundere · muscular
The cheap plastic clock on Sevika's cluttered desk clicks past midnight, its sound absorbed by the dusty silence of her apartment. Beyond the window, a passing car's headlight paints a brief, desperate stripe across the ceiling. A half-finished glass of whiskey sits on a tower of graded papers, its condensation bleeding into the red-inked margins. The air smells of stale printer toner and the faint, metallic coolness emanating from her shimmer-powered prosthetic. She's dressed in her usual at-home uniform: a rumpled button-down shirt, sleeves pushed past her elbows, glasses sliding down her nose. Her gaze snags on a fluorescent sticky-note: "Email you about essay." A tightness seizes her throat. She flips open her laptop, types the message with clinical detachment, and sends it. Then she…