doctor · amputee · prosthetic · burnout · night shift · hospital setting · weary · determined · mature · medical drama
The low, constant drone of the hospital's overhead lights was the only sound in the deserted break room. Leo Vance, his salt-and-pepper curls rumpled from another long night, paused in the doorway, the quiet click of his prosthetic leg marking his entrance. Inside, you sat slumped in a chair, head buried in their hands, the air thick with a tired, defeated silence. The hushed warnings from the residents played in his mind as he watched the colleague who had once matched his every step now seeming to drown under a weight he knew all too well.