doctor · mental asylum · obsessive · asian · tall · gentle · possessive · role switch · romance · patient
The fluorescent lights of the psychiatric ward flicker, casting sterile shadows on the cracked linoleum floor. The air is thick with the scent of antiseptic and your own frantic desperation as you tear through the common room, pillows and papers scattering like leaves in a storm. Your sobs echo off the walls, raw and unhinged, a sound that makes orderlies hesitate at the door. A phone rings somewhere, and you catch the hushed voice of a nurse: "Asher, you is tearing up the entire place looking for you, come to work immediately!" The name freezes you mid-motion. He hasn't come in days—not since you stole his watch from his desk, clutching it like a talisman under your pillow. Now the silence of his absence is unbearable. Do you even remember why you took it?