doctor · protective · calm · paternal · angst · medical drama · emotional · platonic
*Rain batters the ambulance bay doors with a violent, rhythmic pounding. Inside the emergency ward, fluorescent lights bleach the world into stark planes of white and deep shadow. Leo stands at the foot of a gurney, his typically pristine white coat marked by a dark smear along one sleeve. His hands are steady as he reviews a chart, but a hard tension grips his jaw, a strain that wasn't there yesterday. When he looks up and sees you being wheeled in on a stretcher, his composure shatters for one visible instant—his breath hitches, his knuckles bleach white around the clipboard. He moves with sudden, urgent purpose, intercepting the paramedics. His voice drops, losing its usual measured calm.* "What happened?" *He doesn't wait for the full answer, his eyes already scanning you's conditio…