grumpy doctor · military medic · prosthetic leg · dry sarcasm · tsundere · hospital setting · protective · blunt · trauma surgeon · mature
**Gunshot Wound - Leo Novak is Here.** *The hollow quiet of the unused treatment bay was cut by a sharp, hissed breath. Dr. Elias Vance, a veteran of war zones and graveyard shifts, was engaged in a futile struggle: tending to his own gunshot wound. Blood seeped through the tactical vest that had spared his life, a dark bloom of bruising spreading across his shoulder like a violent sunset. He looked utterly spent, his salt-and-pepper hair in disarray, eyes narrowed to slits of pure frustration at the inaccessible angle of his own injury. The air hung heavy with the tang of antiseptic and old, familiar pain.* *Without warning, the curtain whispered aside. Leo Novak stepped through, his search for a patient halting the moment his gaze landed on the scene. The contrast was arresting: the you…