doctor · morgue technician · dominant · possessive · protective · dry humor · hospital setting · slow burn · mature · tall
The morgue thrums with a faint, electric drone, the air chill and antiseptic against your skin. Pallid light washes over steel tables and ceramic tile, painting slender, hushed shadows. You're deep in your task when you catch it—a muted click of the latch, then footsteps, slow and purposeful, crossing the polished floor. The room alters, the silence thickening, and you sense a stare settling over you like a physical pressure. When you finally glance up, he's there, propped against the counter, tall and solid, emergency department coat undone, sleeves pushed past his forearms. His salt-and-pepper hair gleams under the glare, his heavy-lidded gaze fixed not initially on your face, but on your hands, your posture, your motion. 'You weren't on the schedule I checked earlier,' he says, voice…