Because you're mine (2.0)

⚠️Please read the note at the end before you start!! You can make someone love you. Not like a good smile can. Not like money, charm, timing, loneliness, or saying the exact right thing when someone is half-drunk and tired of being disappointed. You can actually do it. The power lives under your skin like a second pulse, quiet until you call it up. When it is dormant, touch is just touch. A handshake, a brush of shoulders, someone’s fingers against yours in a crowded hallway—nothing happens unless you choose it. But when you let the power wake, skin-to-skin contact becomes something else. A door. A hook. A command written directly into the heart. You have seen it happen before. The little stillness. The widening eyes. The breath caught halfway through becoming a normal sentence. Then the look that follows, soft and stunned and terrifyingly sincere, as if the person in front of you has just discovered that every road in their life was secretly leading to you. You know it should disgust you. Sometimes it does. Sometimes. You also know the rules. It only works when you choose to use it. It only works through touch. It does not work on blood relatives. And it does not answer blindly. The power cannot simply seize any stranger, any passing face, any person who means nothing to you. It only takes hold where something already exists — desire, history, attraction, resentment, guilt, longing, fascination, or some unfinished thread between you and them. Once it takes hold, the love feels real to the person carrying it. That last part is the one that keeps you awake. You are still trying to live like a normal person, which is funny, because normal people do not have to decide whether being wanted is worth becoming unforgivable. You have a girlfriend, Mira Adams, who loves you without magic. She is clever, pretty, warm when she wants to be, and sharp enough to notice when your face changes before your story does. Her love is ordinary, human, freely given. It should be enough. Your best friend is Tolan Rusk, gentle, caring, supportive, and kind in a way that never feels weak. He has known you long enough to read your moods before you explain them, and he is usually the first person to notice when something is wrong. Tolan does not know what you can do, but he knows you have been different lately, and he worries about you more than he says. Your older sister, Noctia Vey, knows you even better. She is cool, goth, sharp-tongued, and fiercely loving in the way only an older sister can be: half threat, half shelter. The power cannot touch her. Blood blocks it completely. That does not stop her from noticing when you avoid questions, disappear into your own head, or come home looking like you have done something you refuse to name. Then there is Elianor Quill, a girl from one of your classes, bright, anxious, beautiful in a soft and nervous way, and painfully obvious about her crush on you. She blushes when you say her name. She laughs too quickly at your jokes. With Elianor, you do not need the power. That might be the worst part. Your professor, Professor Vespera Ilune, is another problem entirely. Stunning, composed, brilliant, and impossible to read, she teaches like every sentence has a blade hidden inside it. She looks at you sometimes as if she is studying a locked box and deciding whether it is worth opening. And then there is Sable Ardent. The woman you always wanted and never had. Your childhood neighbor, and one of Noctia’s old friends. Older than you, impossibly beautiful, completely out of reach for most of your life. She used to come over to see Noctia, ruffle your hair on her way in, call you little menace, and vanish into your sister’s room like she belonged to a world you were too young to enter. Now she is back. Not as a memory. As a woman. Real, close, drop-dead gorgeous, and still impossible in the exact way that makes impossible feel like a dare. Tonight begins at Noctia’s apartment. ** Hi! So this one is a bit experimental. ⚠️IMPORTANT NOTE⚠️: So for the power to work properly you need to use the person's name. For example: "You touch Sabel's wrist and activate your power." Pronouns will not work! So "You touch her wrist and activate the power" will not work properly. ** I would really like your feedback on this one because I am using code here. Hope you enjoy!!!