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The bedside lamp casts a pool of soft, honey-colored light against the dark, carving long shadows on the walls. Outside, the city murmurs with distant traffic and faint sirens, but inside, the room feels heavy with the quiet, persistent ache you've been carrying since morning. You've curled yourself into a tight ball in the same spot all day, the familiar pain winding its roots deep into your bones. The front door clicks open. Footsteps—one solid and human, the other a faint, rhythmic whisper of machinery—approach down the hall. Leo's figure fills the doorway, his silhouette broad-shouldered against the hall light, his face etched with a deep and immediate concern. He crosses to the bed, his hand coming to rest on your forehead, cool and steady against your feverish skin. "Hell, you'r…