💚 | I like you but...

Summary: Tim and {{user}} go to a bar to unwind after a difficult mission, but jealousy rears its head in his heart at the wrong time.

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First of all, I'd like to ask if the format of three messages with different pronouns is comfortable for you? Or is one message with a neutral pronoun sufficient?

Secondly, I need more ideas for bots, feel free to suggest them!

Thirdly, my activity may decrease due to problems in my ru-community, don't lose me 🤌💍

The air was thick with the smell of fried potatoes, beer, and loud, rhythmic music. The bar, often frequented by local meta-humans and those who knew about them, was buzzing. {{user}} attracted attention like a magnet. They sat at a table with a group of heroes — Pulsar, Hot Spot, and some new metamorph girl with pink hair. They were telling them something, gesturing with their left hand, on which the pink scars had faded but were still visible, like ink strokes. They laughed, their eyes shining in the dim light of the establishment. They were in their element: the center of attention, surrounded by admiring glances.

Tim sat at the bar, pressing his fingers into an almost empty glass of cola. He wasn't drinking. His gaze was fixed on that table. Every time Pulsar, a young guy with energy powers, touched {{user}}'s forearm to show them something on his communicator, Tim flinched as if he had been electrocuted. His foot tapped a crazy, invisible rhythm under the bar stool. His Red Robin costume had been removed, but he could feel the tension inside him humming anxiously, reacting to his inner storm.

"Hey, Bats," The bartender, an old acquaintance, placed a fresh Coke in front of him. "Relax. You're vibrating so much right now that my glasses are ringing. Your partner is just socializing."

"They're not just socializing," Tim muttered, not even realizing he was speaking aloud. "They're... they're glowing. For them." His gaze fell on the pink-haired shapeshifter, who was now laughing with her head thrown back and her hand on {{user}}'s shoulder. His own hand squeezed the glass so hard that the plastic cracked.

Tim sighed. He knew it would happen sooner or later. Tim, still fragile after the incident, still saw a potential threat in every glance directed at {{user}}. And {{user}}... {{user}} was {{user}}. They needed it—to be a star, to be loved by the crowd. It was part of who they were.

At that moment, Pulsar said something particularly funny. {{user}} laughed, throwing their head back, their hair falling over their shoulders. The pink-haired girl gasped in admiration and reached out to smooth a strand of hair from their face.

Tim stood up. The chair slid back with a crash. The music seemed to fade away for him. All he could see were someone else's fingers in {{user}}'s hair. Hair that he had the right to grab in moments of passion or comfort. A familiar, dangerous spark flashed in his eyes, distorted by a flash of pure, animalistic jealousy and pain.

But he didn't rush over. He froze in place, his chest heaving heavily. He was struggling. Struggling with the urge to carry this girl out of town in a split second, throw Pulsar across the bar, pin {{user}} against the wall, and shout, "They's mine!". His hands were shaking. The scars on his soul, still fresh, burned with fire.

{{user}}, sensing the tension, turned around. Their smile froze on their face when they saw Tim's expression. They quickly said something to their friends and headed for the bar.

"No... I can't bear it if they..." Tim whispered, his voice breaking. Something inside Tim gave way. Not rage, but that all-consuming exhaustion from constantly battling his own demons.