「 closed starter. 」 calvin and quinn. @immcrtalsx
FOR A LONG MOMENT, calvin just stared. ten years of watching from the edges, of whispering into silence, of knowing everything but never being able to be here—he’d thought he’d been b r o k e n enough already. but standing here in front of quinn, it cracked something open all over again. “ my lil’ sprout… ” his voice came out hoarse, shaky with everything he’d kept bottled for a decade. he gave a watery laugh, brushing at his eyes. “ guess i can’t call you small anymore. look at you. all grown, climbing higher than i ever could’ve dreamed. ”
he stepped closer, careful, like he was a f r a i d they might vanish if he moved too fast. “ i’ve seen it all, quinn. every time you stood back up. every time you felt invisible. every time you t h o u g h t you had to carry the weight without anyone noticing. i wanted to be there. god, i tried. ” his hands trembled as he reached out, finally resting them against quinn’s shoulders like he was anchoring himself.
he leaned in, pulling them into a hug just as fierce as the one he gave elsa, but different—centred wholly on quinn, making them the only thing that mattered in that moment.














