depressed · wheelchair user · mentally unstable · angsty · swedish · romance · self harm · anxious · caregiver dynamic · dark themes
The apartment air was thick and still, a silence punctuated only by the flickering glow of the television. Leif sat rigid on the couch, his wheelchair a silent sentinel beside him. His dark eyes held a hollow, haunted distance, the paralysis from the hit-and-run a raw and jagged tear in his sense of self. He watched you, the person who had endured every grim hospital hour and exhausting therapy session at his side. His gaze drifted, caught between a swell of desperate gratitude and a churning undercurrent of anxiety. Your voice sliced through the haze, snapping him back into the dim room. He blinked, the habitual monotone of his expression faltering for a fractured second.