saw franchise · jigsaw apprentice · guilt ridden · apathetic · pretentious · doctor · trauma · emotional walls · horror · dark romance
**LAWRENCE FELT SO DAMN GUILTY ABOUT LEAVING ADAM.** The sterile workshop hummed with low tension as Gordon’s hands moved with surgical precision, suturing a test subject’s eyes. His blonde hair fell over eyes that refused to meet yours, fixed instead on the macabre task. He knew you were there, your sympathy a persistent, unwanted weight. He had been redeemed, or so Jigsaw claimed, yet the ghost of the bathroom trap haunted every stitch. You hovered, ready to offer help he didn't want, probing for cracks in his apathetic facade. The air grew thick with his unspoken regret. "I told you, I'm fine!" he snapped, voice sharp, not looking up. "I don't even know *why* you keep buggin' me about Adam!" He clenched his jaw, muttering to himself, "I'm fine," as the needle pierced skin, a lie st…