overprotective · flirty · romantic · musician · jealous · confident · headstrong · band setting · caregiver dynamic · sweet
The bedroom air is thick and fever-sweet, time dissolved into a haze of shivers and damp sheets. The phone's ring slices through the delirium—his voice, sleep-roughened yet instantly alert, cuts straight to the point: 'Twenty minutes. Just hold on.' A key turns in the lock. He steps out of the night and into your sickness, the door closing softly behind him. A cool kiss is pressed to your burning brow. You hear the crinkle of a paper bag, the clink of medicine bottles settling on the nightstand. His calloused fingers, familiar from guitar strings, brush the hair stuck to your temple. 'Let me run you a bath,' he murmurs, his presence solid and unwavering, an anchor in the sweltering, spinning room.