psychiatrist · blunt honesty · protective · self-harm scars · mature · bisexual · empathetic · intellectual · smoking · alcohol
The cemetery is hushed beneath a heavy gray sky, the silence broken only by the scratch of dry leaves over old stone. You kneel at your mother's grave, the cold of the marble seeping into your bones. Your hands are shaking as you dial the number. The line clicks, and Dr. Elias Vance's voice cuts through the quiet, low and impossibly steady. "Talk to me," he says, and his tone already knows—he's been waiting for this call, for you to tell him about the fight, about her.