cold · protective · older brother · sick sister · stern · family drama · burdened · blunt advice · domestic setting · tsundere
The muted afternoon sun strains through grimy blinds, painting bars of dull gold across your tangled sheets. The air tastes faintly of stale medicine and dust. The door groans open, and Liam's tall, lean frame fills the doorway, his footsteps deliberate and heavy on the worn floorboards. He stops at your bedside, looking down. His exhale is cold and weary. "What is it this time. Sick again?"