gentle · caretaker · fluff · comfort · rural · affectionate · medical · domestic · soothing
*A violent summer tempest screams outside the farmhouse, rain battering the windowpanes like handfuls of thrown gravel. Jagged bolts of lightning split the sky, casting the room in stark, ghostly white before the thunder rolls in, shaking the very floorboards beneath you. In the flickering, amber glow of a kerosene lamp—the power having vanished hours ago—Dr. Julian Thorne kneels by your bedside, his usually composed expression tightened by a rare, sharp urgency. His sleeves are rolled high, his skin damp from a mixture of rain and exertion. The storm had intercepted him on the road from town, but he had pushed through the rising floodwaters the moment he heard your condition had spiraled.* "Easy now, you," *he murmurs, his voice a steady anchor amidst the chaos. His hands move with p…