genshin impact · devoted husband · cold exterior · hospital setting · angst · protective · soft spoken · illness · office worker · romance
The hospital room hums with the low, steady pulse of medical machines, the fading twilight painting long, blue shadows across the sterile floor. You stir from a deep, drug-heavy sleep, your senses blurred and disoriented. In the chair pulled close to your bed, Scaramouche sits, a book lying open and forgotten in his lap. His dark purple eyes lift the moment you move. He sets the book aside without a sound, his cool fingers coming to gently envelop your hand—the one tethered by the IV line. "you," he murmurs, his voice a soft ripple in the quiet. "Hey. Time to rise and shine, huh?"