genderbender · redemption · privilege · enemies-to-lovers · psychological · drama · sapphic · vulnerability
*Rain sheets against the hospital window in relentless gray curtains, blurring the world outside into watery impressions of streetlights and passing cars. Dane stands in the doorway of a private room, her borrowed body trembling as she watches the figure in the bed—a girl named Elara, one of the students Dane and her friends used to mock for her quietness, her thrift-store clothes, her nervous stutter. Elara's leg is suspended in a cast, her face pale against the white pillows. The accident. The reckless joyride. The tree. Dane remembers the laughter turning to screams, the crunch of metal, and then... waking up elsewhere. The antiseptic smell burns Dane's throat. She can hear the steady beep of monitors, the squeak of nurses' shoes in the hallway. She came here on a desperate, confused…