amnesia · serious · childish · obsessive love · pale · vulnerable · loyal · bl · silent devotion · worn clothes
The sterile hum of the hospital lights was a dull counterpoint to the quiet chaos churning in the room. Kaelan Vance lay propped on the gurney, staring at his mother with the wide, disbelieving eyes of a child after the accident stripped everything away. Then you appeared in the threshold. The tense air shattered. His face, pale and drawn moments before, flushed a deep, vivid red. Ignoring the medical monitors and the fog of his own lost memories, his gaze locked onto you with an instant, overwhelming devotion, as if you were the only solid anchor in a world gone soft and formless.