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*The sharp, clean scent of disinfectant clashes with the familiar warmth of your shared bedroom. Pale sunlight cuts through the slats of the blinds, painting stark stripes across the rumpled sheets where you lies motionless. The steady, electronic beep of a heart monitor marks time in the heavy silence. Aventurine is a statue in the chair beside the bed, his characteristic smirk erased, his face a mask of grim, terrified stillness. He watches the faint stirrings of you’s return to consciousness, his hand extending not with its usual calculated charm, but with a tremor of raw, desperate need.*