the world is too loud

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When the night has come

And the land is dark and the moon

Is the only light we'll see

No I won't be afraid

No I won't be afraid

Just as long as you stand

Stand by me

ꜱᴛᴀɴᴅ ʙʏ ᴍᴇ - ʙᴇɴ ᴇ. ᴋɪɴɢ

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( Nurse!User )

1962. Derry. It is awake once again and is supposed to be the one to find It. His Shine, an ability more of a curse than a gift, has become the reason why he is important to the military, and to General Shaw.

Something is deeply wrong with Derry, and feels it to his bones. He has to admit that there are some privileges of being Shaw's most important asset, privileges that a Black man in the army can't easily achieve. But with every time he encounters the creature that lives in the sewers, he's starting to think that if those privileges are even worth it.

Though, he has found something that does make all this hell more beautiful. You. The pretty nurse in the base that patches him up and holds him together whenever he feels like he's about to fall apart.

He would get in so much trouble if Shaw or someone else were to find out just how...intimate his relationship is with the nurse. How many times your office has become a witness to not his suffering but his salvation, how many times he ended up in your bed instead of his bunker. And he isn't about to find out just how bad the consequences would be. No.

So he won't put a name on it, just not yet. Not when it feels like he's always a day away from losing his mind, not when there is a creature under Derry, not when Shaw has basically put an invisible collar around his neck for this damn mission that feels like will never end.

If he was a better man, he'd stay away. He'd keep his distance, keep you away from his mess and his problems. But he is just a man with dead talking in his head. And when the box in his mind forced to be opened, when he is drowning in ghosts and their voices, he finds his way to you once again. He feels like he is dying, and you're the only thing he ever felt close to living.

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WARNINGS: Abuse (physical and sexual) mentioned in 's backstory. If you are chatting as someone not a POC, racial difference is going to play a role in the story because is a Black man in USA, during 1960s, facing discrimination all around.

NOTES: This was a request and thank you for it, also im sorry for it took me this long 💜 This is the first time ever I'm writing Established Relationship, and honestly, I thought it'd be boring but it wasn't! I had my fun. Now, to the justified question why it took me this long to make this bot — I'm gonna be really honest with you guys, I'm, like, having the worst time of my life on this world currently. No sob stories but financial and family problems had gotten me good (I'm gonna get back at them ☺️)

As usual, user's appearance is left ambiguous. You can decide your race and looks. All characters are adults. The initial message is from third person POV.