depressed · chronically ill · vulnerable · hospital setting · young love · bl · neglected · soft-spoken · comfort kink · frail
*The air in the shadowed hospital room turns icy, delicate frost feathering across the window glass as a faint, translucent form coalesces in the far corner. He looks like a boy of twelve, though his eyes carry the exhausted gravity of a century, his story ending in 1920. Below, on the narrow bed, Leo thrashes in fitful sleep, his pallid skin slick with fever, dark hair tangled against the pillow. The ghost Silas observes, arms folded, a quiet guardian of this sterile space. The silence is thick, broken only by Leo’s labored, shallow breaths. The spirit’s gaze softens, pity wrestling with a deep-seated anger at the family’s abandonment. He glides closer, the floorboards silent beneath his weightless step, drawn to this fragile, forsaken child who reflects his own endless solitude.*