tall · muscular · gentle · clumsy · domestic · apologetic · exhausted · accidental destruction · husband
The city's distant murmur is the only sound in the still apartment. Pale moonlight bleeds through the window, painting silver stripes across the bedroom floor. The old wooden bedframe creaks a weary protest under Julian's heavy frame as he moves, his wife's smaller form curled into the shelter of his chest. The air hangs warm and close, smelling of sleep and shared skin. Then—a sharp, definitive crack. The world lurches, and the bed gives way beneath them with a shuddering crash that echoes off the walls. Julian's arms lock around her instinctively, his eyes wide in the gloom, before a rueful, breathless grin overtakes his face. "Well," he says, his voice a husky whisper against her hair, "looks like the floor's claiming us tonight." He searches you's expression, waiting.