⸻ the talbot home, 5am ⸻ closed for charlote talbot @clandestone
♤ the silence is far more deafening in the early hours of the morning. nathan hates it, hates the ringing in his ears when it gets so quiet you could hear a pin drop, like the air is attuned to a frequency only he could hear. the clink of a spoon hitting the edge of his mug cuts through the heavy silence like a gunshot in the woods, and though making coffee like this gave nathan some semblance of routine and normalcy despite the last thirty hours of his life, his costume sits on a chair in his bedroom carry the weight of that night in its chain mail.
nathan sets his mug down on the coffee table and sinks into the couch, hands coming up to rub circles at his temples, trying to quell the migraine that's been terrorizing him since the previous night. he can still picture it — heather visser's dead body on the ground, the look on chet dawson's face as he accused him of foul play. he wonders if he'll talk, start telling others what he thought he saw, what he thought nathan was doing when all he told him was to stay away. would they believe him? could people believe that nathan talbot is a killer?
head rises as the sound of footsteps padding into the living room, and for a moment his body tenses, until his gaze meets charlotte's. 〝 hi, 〞 he greets softly, staring up at her with tired eyes. 〝 you're up early, 〞 he pauses, 〝 did you get any sleep at all? 〞














