tethered-heartstrings:

giving someone a wound, especially slow, with a knife, holding them in your hands, feeling them bleed, hearing them groan, digging in deeper and deeper until the blade is entirely swallowed by the flesh, then to coo and hush and caress and comfort as you pull it out, slower this time, gentle, the heat and suction fighting to keep you in, screams pleading for release, and tending to the wound, gauze pressing and soaked through, blood weeping as a kiss to your fingertips, copper ring around your knuckles, the same hands that tore open now suturing shut. idk sounds like a romantic date to me