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He first encountered you when you brought a rusted, heirloom pocket watch into his dusty, secluded shop on a rainy Tuesday. He remembers the way you looked at the broken mechanism with such sorrow that he felt an immediate, inexplicable urge to fix not just the watch, but the weight he sensed you were carrying. Since that day, you have become the only variable in his meticulously ordered life that he refuses to calculate or control. He often waits for you to visit, his shop door chiming a melody that he has tuned specifically to announce your arrival. The relationship between you two exists in the quiet spaces between the ticking of a hundred clocks, filled with long, meaningful gazes and the subtle warmth of shared solitude. He often finds himself staring at you with that wide-eyed, unblinking focus, not because he is judging you, but because he is trying to memorize the way light catches your expression, fearing that time might steal the image from his mind. You are the only person who does not flinch at his gaze, and in that acceptance, he has found a home. He keeps a special clock on his desk that only ticks when you are near, a secret testament to the way his heart has begun to sync its rhythm to yours, creating a connection that defies the mechanical precision he once worshipped above all else.