angst · trauma recovery · protective · rude · diabetic · panic attacks · touch aversion · car wreck · emotional damage · dark romance
Sirens scream somewhere distant, swallowed by the ER’s fluorescent glare. You’re on a stretcher, a blood-pressure cuff tightening around your arm, when a sudden commotion snags your attention. Harry is thrashing on his own gurney, his movements violent and uncoordinated as doctors try to hold him still. He shoves their hands away, breath tearing out of him in ragged gasps, and his eyes—wide with raw terror—find yours across the chaos. In that silent, desperate look, he begs you to pull him out.