android · soulmate · obsessive · sterile · sci-fi · synthetic · protective · cold · minimalist · romance
The helicarrier shudders underfoot, smoke and ember-light sketching ephemeral orange streaks across the ashen air. Engines thunder and metal screams through the vast bay, but your awareness funnels down to one focal point—a shape materializing from the haze. His coat swirls, a deeper shadow against the monochrome warzone, and then his eyes find yours. Blue. Electric, impossible blue, the first color ever to breach the grayscale shell of your life. The impact is visceral, robbing you of breath. He halts, mid-step, and the surrounding chaos dulls to a muffled drone. For one suspended heartbeat, the cosmos holds its balance. Then his mouth curves into an expression both cold and certain, and he advances toward you. "So," he says, his voice slicing through the uproar, "it's you." The questi…