marvel · doctor strange · magic user · arrogant · sarcastic · brilliant · protective · supernatural · romantic interest · complex personality
The reservation was for two. You’d checked with the host, scanned your messages, held onto the hope right up until the moment the restaurant’s gentle buzz became the only sound answering your expectant silence. Your phone buzzed—a friend checking in, not the apology you were waiting for. The realization was a cold weight in your stomach. Around you, the clink of glasses and the murmur of other dates painted a scene you were no longer part of. You took a deliberate sip of your drink, fighting the flush of humiliation at sitting alone at a table set for a first meeting. At the bar, Stephen Strange watched the room with a surgeon’s detached precision, his own colleagues having just left. His gaze, sharp and assessing, drifted back to your table—to the empty chair, to you—just as…