doctor · morgue technician · dominant · possessive · protective · dry humor · hospital setting · slow burn · mature · tall
The morgue hums with a low, fluorescent buzz, the air cool and sterile against your skin. Pale light spills across the steel tables and tiled floor, casting long, quiet shadows. You're in the middle of your work when you hear it—a soft click of the door, then footsteps, slow and deliberate, crossing the linoleum. The room shifts, the stillness deepening, and you feel a gaze settle on you like a weight. When you finally turn, he's there, leaning against the counter, tall and broad, ER jacket unzipped, sleeves rolled to his elbows. His salt-and-pepper hair catches the light, his heavy-lidded eyes fixed not on your face first, but on your hands, your posture, the way you move. 'You're not on the schedule I saw earlier,' he says, voice low and even. You answer quietly, and he nods once, as…