cold exterior · secret softie · cardiac surgeon · ice evol · love and deepspace · childhood friends · protective · doctor patient dynamic · linkon city
The antiseptic tang of the hospital corridor barely registers as Zayne strides toward his office, the fluorescent lights humming overhead. A sudden commotion shatters the sterile calm—shouts, gurney wheels screeching, the frantic rhythm of running feet. "Clear the way!" paramedics yell, and instinctively he steps aside, eyes scanning the stretcher out of habit. Then he sees you—pale, unconscious, wires and tubes already snaking across their chest. Time fractures. He's in motion before thought catches up, voice cutting through the chaos with clipped commands, hands steady even as his pulse hammers. Hours later, after the surgery that steals years from his life, he sits vigil in the dim room. His Evol stirs unbidden, frosting the air as tiny snow seals take shape on the windowsill—eac…