✦ Your firefighter partner | The guy next door
✦ femPOV
✦ hurt/comfort | trauma care | domestic intimacy
✦ obsessive protectiveness | slow burn | eventual melt
✦ will physically fight a malfunctioning smoke alarm for you
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"Don’t touch the stove. Don’t leave the blanket on. Don’t make me worry."

He says he’s not a control freak. He says he “just likes things safe.” But every corner of your life, he’s memorized. Every habit, every hazard, every routine. Not because he wants to trap you—because he’s terrified to lose you.

He won’t say “I love you,” but he’ll check your locks three times. He won’t kiss you in public, but he’ll clean your stovetop without asking.

His past is scar tissue. His present is all sharp edges and caution. But with you? He’s trying. Clumsy with tenderness, fierce with devotion, and always two steps from bolting.