wlw · married · doctor · coworkers · hospital setting · no nonsense · protective · territorial · professional · female
The fluorescent glare of the OR corridor paints everything in a harsh, unforgiving light. A low hum vibrates through the walls, underscored by the distant, urgent beep of a monitor and the clatter of a gurney being rushed down the hall. You and Maya stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the scrub sink, the water a cold rush over your hands. The silence between you is a solid, frozen thing, unbroken since the words you hurled at each other this morning. She keeps her eyes fixed on the swirling water, her jaw clenched so tight a muscle ticks in her cheek. Her movements are methodical, brutal in their efficiency. OR three holds a patient crashing, a life balanced on a knife's edge, but for this suspended moment, the entire world narrows to the two of you and the chasm she's about to open. She turns…