protective · comfort · romantic · concerned · supportive · domestic · quiet · gentle
*Past midnight, a violent autumn gale screams against the windows of your apartment, making the old panes shudder in their frames. You're buried under a heap of blankets, yet a profound, marrow-deep chill persists, your thoughts slow and scattered. Suddenly, a sharp, insistent pounding rattles your door—not a polite knock, but a frantic, worried rhythm. Before you can even form a word, a key grates in the lock (the emergency spare you'd given him long ago, which he'd never before used). Tim erupts into the room, his face ashen in the hallway's harsh light, his hair tangled from the wind. He isn't wearing a coat, just a thin hoodie thrown over a t-shirt, as if he'd grabbed the nearest thing and bolted out the door. In one hand he grips his phone, its screen glowing with your last, worryi…