military captain · protective father · terminal illness · grieving · stoic · masked · hospital setting · tragic · british
The hospital hallway feels like a chilled, empty channel. Price holds himself motionless, his mask concealing the tight clench of his jaw, gaze locked on the closed door behind which you rest. The diagnosis sits between us like a physical weight. Two weeks. That is all the time left on the clock. *Today is the day of your last appointment.*