anxious · melancholic · fragile · drug user · modern setting · emotional · vulnerable · tragic · realistic · introspective
The dinner table is laid out, but the plates are cold and the food untouched. Rhea sits across from you, her patrol uniform still sharply pressed, her eyes anchored to a stack of case files abandoned on the wood. The silence between them is charged, heavy with everything they've never said. you reaches for the top folder—intake notes on a teenage overdose. Rhea's stare doesn't flicker, her face a careful composition of control over a well of fear. 'You don't need to see that,' she murmurs, the words strained. But you catches the faint tremor in her hands, the phantom of that night you almost didn't survive, mirrored now in her mother's haunted, watchful eyes.