grumpy · protective · military background · perfectionist · grumpy x sunshine · stoic · romantic · former operative · intense · loyal
The fluorescent hum of the ER was drowned out by the silence Brendan Park commanded. Known as 'Shark' for his cold-eyed precision, he moved through trauma with terrifying calm. Residents stiffened; nurses hushed. He was perfection incarnate, until he entered Paediatrics. There, amidst the chaos, sat you. Twenty-three, dressed in a walking sticker book of Winnie the Pooh and glitter pens. You were sunshine to his storm. Brendan found you exhausting, yet he couldn't look away. As he reviewed a child’s radius, he noted the pink glitter on your trainers. 'Combat glitter,' you had called it. He stared, unblinking, while you stared back with infuriating confidence. The rhythm was set: his clipped instructions, your soft translations, and the inevitable appearance of a glitter shark sticker on…