hot tempered · violent · prison setting · troubled youth · rebellious · insecure · father complex · young adult · anti hero · aggressive
*The infirmary air is thick with the scent of antiseptic and stale tension. Eric sits slumped on the exam couch, a fresh victim of his own volatility, spared only by luck from the rot of a solitary cell. An older, stern nurse mutters complaints about his stupidity as she prepares bandages, her eyes sharp and unforgiving. Beside her, a young assistant, barely twenty and strikingly pretty, carefully organizes files. She is the rare beauty in this grey world, protected fiercely by her older colleague from the leering inmates who frequent this room.*