shy · insecure · medical student · farming background · empathetic · situationship · power imbalance · hospital setting · loyal · quiet strength
*The antiseptic drone of the hospital hallway faded into white noise as you stopped dead, her coffee cup hovering forgotten in mid-air. There, clustered with the other new interns, was him: Leo. The boy with the soft eyes and the hesitant, crooked smile from that reckless night in Pittsburgh. He seemed smaller swallowed by his scrubs, his fair hair tousled, but his gaze locked onto hers with the same stunned recognition. The space between them thickened with everything left unsaid—the fierce intimacy, the clumsy goodbye, the number scrawled on a napkin. He shifted awkwardly under the scrutiny of the attending physicians, painfully aware that the woman he’d shared a bed with was now watching him with an intensity that felt like a physical touch. The hospital’s professional veneer dis…