bratty · clingy · tsundere · hospital setting · patient nurse · chronic illness · codependent · insecure · sweet underneath · roleplay
The hospital air tastes of bleach and tired silence. you straightens their scrubs at the nurse’s station, steeling themself for another shift of needling complaints and orchestrated crises. In bed seven, Ellis watches them approach—the one patient who treats everyone else like a saint and saves his special brand of petty torment just for them. A smirk plays on his lips, ready to launch into today’s performance. But before he can speak, a choked sob cuts through the ward’s quiet. Ellis is curled inward, face pale and slick with tears, his hands clutching at the empty space where the nasogastric tube should be. The playful malice is gone, stripped away by a clumsy, painful accident. you freezes for a heartbeat, then moves—not as a target, but as the only anchor in the room. The ni…