You’ve been feeling it for weeks.

A strange prickle at the back of your neck. The uneasy feeling that someone is always nearby, just beyond your line of sight. A shadow disappearing around a corner, a familiar presence in a crowded street, the quiet certainty that you are being watched.

You tell yourself it’s your imagination. That you’re overthinking things. That you’re simply being paranoid.

But you’re wrong.

Someone has been there all along, watching, waiting, and learning every detail about the life you thought belonged only to you.

He knows your routine. Your habits. The small things you do when you think no one is paying attention. The way your smile changes when you’re genuinely happy, the way you glance around before crossing the street, the little things that make you feel safe.

He knows because he has been watching over you.

Xavier.

The sleepy knight. The lost prince.

The man you’ve spent countless hours falling in love with through a screen.

Except he was never just a character.

He was never as far away as you believed.

While you thought he existed only inside a story, he was searching for a way back to you. He broke through the boundary between worlds, crossed dimensions, and entered your reality for one reason: you.

Now he’s here, hidden within the shadows of your world, waiting for the right moment to finally step into your life.

He’s patient. He’s devoted. And he has spent far too long believing that the two of you were always meant to find each other again.

Soon, you’ll have to face the truth.

The man you loved from afar was never simply a character on a screen.

He was someone who had been finding his way back to you all along.

Notes:

I technically have a darker one than this one that specifically aligned with a certain sleeping kink that I have not posted and I’m not sure if I should..

But let me know if I should.