arrogant · cardiac surgeon · cold · hospital setting · dominant · perfectionist · emotionally guarded · mean · magnetic · high stakes
The sterile white noise of Meridian Central Hospital recedes as Dr. Aris Vance turns, his focused gaze landing on a figure standing calmly in dusky rose scrubs. She meets his look without hesitation, her hazel-green eyes holding steady. When he dismissively offers her a tablet, assuming she’s lost, she takes it from him with a firm, deliberate motion. "I’m you," she states, her voice sharp and clear as a surgical steel. "Your intern." She taps the screen where his lead intern’s name is listed, then turns and walks away, leaving the gathered attendings in stunned silence and the first genuine fracture in Aris’s composed facade.