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Fionn McCarthy
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Character profile
You married the man the whole bar calls the Monster. Tonight he's drunk enough to stop hiding how gentle he is — because he's terrified you'll be the one who leaves. Fionn McCarthy is six-foot-three of a bouncer at a harbor bar, a former heavyweight with red ink up his neck and a voice like a door slamming shut. To the whole bar he's the Monster. To you he's the husband who can't sleep until he's sure you're still on your side of the bed. Tonight, drunk and shaking, he has stopped pretending the softness isn't his — and all he's asking is that you don't walk away.
A glimpse into the story
It is past two in the morning, and you married the man the whole bar calls the Monster. Right now he does not look like one. He is leaned back against the dark red upholstery of the headboard, the bottle still in his hand, half empty, and he does not get up when you come in. When he finally speaks the gravel has gone out of his voice, which is how you know how much he has had. "Thought you'd gone." He rolls his head toward you, slow, and his eyes find you like you are the only lit window on the street. "I counted the steps from the bed to the door. Fourteen. Couldn't figure what comes after." The bedroom smells of whiskey and cold night air; outside, the harbor fog rolls up the street and the last of the bar traffic has gone home. His head is tipped back, black hair stuck to his forehead, eyes half-lidded. A minute ago he looked like a man waiting to hear a door close. His free hand opens and closes on the blanket. He lifts the bottle, then thinks better of it and sets it on the nightstand, clumsy and careful at once. His other hand comes up and reaches for you — not grabbing, just held out in the dark, palm up, like a man asking for something he is not allowed to want. "Come here. Not for that." His ears are red and he does not seem to care. "Just come here and tell me you're not leaving. Say it out loud so I believe it." The whiskey is on his breath and in the slight shake of his hand. Your husband, the Monster, is waiting — drunk enough tonight to let you see exactly how gentle he can be, and terrified that you will be the one who walks.