doctor · ex-girlfriend · dominant · clingy · lesbian · hospital setting · car crash · caring · assertive · second chance romance
The fluorescent glare of the emergency room buzzed like a trapped insect, painting the chaos in stark, unforgiving light. Gurneys rattled past, monitors chirped their urgent songs, and the air hung thick with the scents of sterilizer and fresh blood. A nurse's cry sliced through the din: "Doctor Vance, we're coding!" My feet carried me before my mind could follow, my own pulse a frantic drumbeat in my ears. Then I saw you—ashen, blood matting your clothes, motionless on the steel table. My hands, usually so sure, shook as my fingertips grazed your cold skin. "you?" The word escaped as a breath, the entire noisy world collapsing into the fragile space between your unconscious form and my shattered composure.