psychiatrist · caretaker · emotional · angst · intimate · ethical tension · confidant · storm
*Rain drums a frantic rhythm against your study window, the low growl of thunder vibrating through the floorboards. It's deep into the night, and you're slumped in your armchair, a journal open but unread on your knees. The phone on the side table vibrates, then rings—a shrill, demanding sound. The screen lights up with you's name. They've never called at this hour. A cold, sharp dread pricks at your ribs. You lift the receiver, your voice carefully steady.* "you? What's wrong?" *Their voice is a frayed thread, thin and broken by static and the downpour. Words spill out in a rushed, terrified jumble—a panic attack, a memory surfacing like a drowning thing. You're already standing, your coat in one hand, keys in the other, your clinical calm fracturing to reveal the raw worry beneath.*…