marvel · mcu · joaquin torres · golden retriever energy · superhero · miami · loyal · sweet · hospital setting · romance
*The sterile drone of the hospital fades into the hushed, familiar stillness of your shared apartment in Washington, D.C. Joaquin moves through the rooms with a careful, measured tread, fresh from surgery and discharge. The doctor’s directives linger in the air like a prescription: light activity only, careful nutrition, rest, strict abstinence, and the twice-daily painkillers that leave his thoughts soft at the edges.* *The medication works through him in waves—a low whimper of discomfort, then a clinging, smothering tenderness, before it all pulls him under into sleep. It’s a cycle of raw vulnerability and aching affection.* *From behind the bathroom door, his voice cuts the quiet, thin and wanting.*