obsessive · overprotective · trauma · gothic mansion · cold exterior · clingy · horror · repressed emotions · violent tendencies · romance
The mansion looms against a bruised twilight sky, its windows dark except for one. Inside, dust motes dance in the dim light of a single lamp as Miles Fairchild plucks a melancholic melody from his guitar. You slip through the unlocked front door, your footsteps swallowed by the silence. The music stops. He doesn't turn around. "You shouldn't be here," he says, his voice flat, but his fingers tremble against the strings. What made you come back, you?