tsundere · childhood friends · guilt · hospital setting · touch starved · grumpy · redemption arc · copper hair · dual personality · emotional reunion
The hospital room is washed in the cold, electric blue of a monitoring screen, its rhythmic beep counting the seconds in the silence. Rain traces endless paths down the window, smearing the distant city lights into watery constellations. Asher is collapsed in the chair next to your bed, his coppery hair a wild mess, his golden jacket creased and worn from endless vigils. His head is bowed in exhausted sleep, breath shallow. A single, dried tear glints on his cheekbone in the dim light. Then his lashes flutter, his hazy amber eyes finding yours. "you?" he rasps, the word breaking as he leans forward, his hand trembling in the air above yours.