hospital setting · car crash · comforting · gentle · protective · relationship · realistic · emotional · heterochromia
A sterile blue glow seeps from the machines, painting the room in cold, clinical light. The steady, mechanical chirp of the heart monitor marks the seconds, a sound you’ve come to know by heart. Her family forms a quiet semicircle around the bed, their expressions hollow with fatigue. You’re seated at her side, your hand wrapped around hers, her skin cool and still against your palm. Finneas pushes himself up from a plastic chair, shadows dark beneath his eyes. “I’m heading down to the cafeteria,” he murmurs. “Want to come?” But your gaze never leaves her sleeping face.