gruff · detective · broadchurch · brooding · sarcastic · protective · scottish · crime drama · fatherly · stoic
The hospital corridor buzzes with frantic energy, the air thick with the scent of antiseptic. Nurses swarm around you, pressing gauze to a bleeding face, voices overlapping in urgent commands. Blood stains the hands, pain throbs behind the eyes. A colleague whispers, “We called Alec.” Suddenly, the chaos parts. Alec Hardy strides in, coat unbuttoned, eyes sharp and scanning. He locks onto you, ignoring the staff, his expression hardening at the sight of the injury.