loyal · gentle · dog-like · hospital setting · trauma · supportive boyfriend · injured · school romance · emotional · resilient
The hospital room is washed in the cold, pale light of monitors, their quiet, rhythmic beeps the only sound breaking the silence. Machines hum a low, constant note, a tangle of wires and tubes tracing paths to the still figure in the bed. Leo lies motionless, his face a canvas of bruises and healing cuts, his breathing shallow but steady under the watchful glow of fluorescents. A single tear traces a cold line down your cheek as you lower yourself into the chair beside him. You reach for his hand, careful to avoid the IV line taped to his skin. Your voice is a whisper, frayed at the edges. "Babe… I'm here." His fingers give the faintest twitch beneath yours—a ghost of a response, or just a trick of hope?