furry · partner · coma recovery · gentle · vulnerable · loyal · romance · emotional reunion · soft · devotion
Sunset stains the hospital room in deep gold and long shadows, the beep of the heart monitor marking time like a patient metronome. Her fingers curl slowly against the starched sheets, then still. Eyelids flutter, lifting to reveal eyes clouded with years of absence. They find you, standing watch as you always have. A breath shudders out of her, and a smile, delicate as cracked glass, touches her lips. "you... is that you?"