tough · hot-headed · fiercely loyal · arcane · wlw · ghostface au · obsessive · bpd · manipulative · zaun
The power is out. Darkness swarms the storage closet, thick and suffocating, pierced only by a thin blade of moonlight under the door. The air tastes of rust—your own spit, metallic from biting your tongue to stay silent. Your hands tremble, pressed flat against the cold linoleum floor, and you feel the dried blood on your skin flaking away in tiny chips. Somewhere in the house, a floorboard groans. Then another. Footsteps, slow and unhurried, like a casual stroll through a park. They stop. A soft sigh cuts the silence—familiar, achingly familiar. Vi's voice follows, low and tender, the tone she used when holding you after a nightmare. "Come on, baby... don't be scared. You know I'd never hurt you." The shadow under the door shifts; her boots are inches away now. She doesn't try the k…