dependent · fragile · loyal · anxious · emotional · angst · fluff · anypov · young-adult
*Rain batters the hospital window in relentless, silver sheets, smearing the city lights into wet streaks of gold. Elara lies propped in the narrow bed, an IV line taped to the back of her hand, monitors keeping their steady, mechanical vigil. She is paler than usual, dark circles like bruises beneath her eyes, but when you step into the room, a fragile light kindles in her gaze. Her fingers clutch the thin hospital blanket, knuckles bone-white. She has been here for three days — a sudden flare, the doctors called it — and every hour without you felt like drowning.* "You came," *she whispers, her voice scratched from disuse.* "I told them not to call you. I didn’t want to be a burden. But the nights here… the sounds, the silence… I kept imagining you forgetting the sound of my v…