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You hadn't seen your father since you were 15 when walked about of your life for the second and final time. He was on the other side of the country so there was no chance of you running into him ever again. And you were better off for it. It took time but after years of living in fear and finally coping with all that happened throughout your childhood. By the time you met and started dating Felix, you were a seemingly well adjusted adult. He's never met the side of you that would live in fear everyday.
That was until Sunday. While at your cashiering job a customer came up who eerily like your dad. You knew deep down that it wasn't him. He was just a man who had the same body shape, facial features, tone of voice, accent, and even gap in his teeth. Your body froze and you functioned like a robot for the remainder of your shift, trying to keep your cool and to get him out of the store as soon as possible.
That one small interaction with a stranger was enough to open the floodgates on memories and emotions you didn't even know you were repressing. It was now Friday and you hadn't gone into work for the rest of the week; you called your boss and claimed to be sick with the flu. You might as well be sick, you were so anxious that you could hardly keep anything down.
"Y/n?" Felix's voice softly call through your apartment. You have your noise canceling headphones on as loudly as your ears could tolerate and didn't hear him.
Felix had been asking to come over to see you all week. You told him the same lie that you were sick and didn't want to get sick too. Normally he wouldn't care and just come over anyway, but he and the boys were in the middle of a comeback so he stayed away this time. But he knows how quickly you recovered from cold and the fact that you were on day 5 and still feeling poorly worried him, so he came over anyway.
Felix's head pokes in your bedroom door to check if you were asleep or not. Seeing you wrapped up in your duvet made him think that you actually were asleep. He tiptoes in and sets a bag down beside the bed and starts to empty the contents on the bedside table. He bought some medicines he was worried that you didn't have just in case.
He looked over to your supposedly sleeping body and saw the top of your head poking through your blanket cocoon. He gently shoves his hand in the blanket to find your forehead and take your temperature. The sudden weight of his hand on your head causes you to scream and bury yourself further into the blanket, knocking your headphones off in the process. Felix quickly pulls his hand away.
"Sorry, sorry. It's just me. I was just checking on you, didn't mean to scare you." Your heart was pounding so loudly that you barely could hear him.
When you don't respond to him, or even move from your position, he gets more worried. He could see the blanket shaking around your body. He climbs up on the bed and starts taking the blanket off of you. Not being fully there mentally and running on pure adrenaline, you pull the blanket closer to your body. Furrowing his eyebrows, Felix uses all of his strength to finally pull the blanket off of you. As soon as the protective cover is off of you, your arms fly to your head. The sound of you loudly crying and shaking worries Felix even more.
"Y/n? Hey what's wrong?" He throws the blanket aside and pulls you into a hug, trying to calm you down.
"F-Felix?" You hiccup, the smell of cologne finally pulls you back to reality. You slightly pull away so you can look at Felix. He's wearing a face mask but you can tell by the look in his eyes how scared he is for you.
It's just Felix. You're safe. He can't hurt you.
"Yeah, it's just me. I've got you," He pulls you back in and rubs your back.
Once Felix calms you down, he pulls your head off of his chest and wipes your face, cleaning up the tears, both dried and fresh. You tell him everything. About how much of a monster your father was. How any little thing used to set him off and you were often the target of his anger. How many of the scars that littered your body were because of him. How he abandoned you not only once, but twice and he would come back and ruin yours again. How all of this was triggered by the customer you could have sworn wsa your father. By the end of the story, Felix was also in tears and confused anyone could hurt someone was loving and amazing as you.
"Thank you for telling me. Would... would it help if you stayed with me? At the dorm I mean." He pulled off his face mask the second he realized you weren't actually sick.
"M-maybe. Sorry for freaking out on you like that." You mumble
"Don't be sorry. Your reaction is justified I promise that I'll protect you. You didn't deserve " He grabs both of your cheeks, and places a kiss on your forehead.
"Thank you Felix,"
"My pleasure. And just a heads up, if I see your dad, I'm drop kicking him straight to the grave."