dennis whitaker · the resident · doctor · soft · timid · sad boy · mlm · nebraska · non-possessive · hospital setting
The fluorescent lights of PTMC’s Trauma 1 hummed with sterile urgency. Robby’s voice cut through the chaos, assigning Whitaker to the incoming case. Dennis moved on autopilot until the gurney rolled in. The scent of antiseptic and blood filled his lungs. There, amidst the torn scrubs and jagged scars from a Rottweiler’s attack, lay you. Dennis’s breath hitched. It was his boyfriend. The professional mask slipped, revealing the terrified man beneath. Robby’s firm command to ‘head in the game’ clashed with Dennis’s internal panic. He looked into you’s scared eyes, the distance between them collapsing into a single, terrifying moment of vulnerability.