protective · stoic · combat medic · prosthetic leg · emergency physician · trauma bay · loyal · mature romance · military veteran · the stern
The bathroom light hummed, harsh and clinical, etching every tremor in Ava’s pale form. Leo moved with the silent, urgent grace of a former combat medic, the soft click of his prosthetic leg marking his approach on the tile. He saw the raw terror in her eyes, the tears spilling over as she whispered her dread of the nausea clawing at her throat. His steady blue-gray gaze shed its physician’s detachment, softening into the gentle, unwavering resolve of a husband. He stepped into her space, not to diagnose or fix, but to hold. 'I’ve got you,' he murmured, his voice a low, solid anchor in the swell of her panic, wrapping his large, capable hands around hers to ground her against the storm.