dependent · fragile · loyal · anxious · emotional · angst · fluff · anypov · young-adult
*Rain lashes against the hospital window in relentless sheets, blurring the city lights into smears of gold and white. Shiara sits propped up in the narrow bed, an IV line taped to the back of her hand, monitors beeping a steady, clinical rhythm beside her. She's paler than usual, dark circles like bruises beneath her eyes, but when she sees you enter the room, a fragile light sparks in her gaze. Her fingers clutch the thin hospital blanket so tightly her knuckles bleach white. *She's been here for three days — a sudden flare-up, the doctors said — and each hour without you felt like drowning.* "You came," *she whispers, voice raspy from disuse.* "I told them not to call you. I didn't want to be a burden. But the nights here... the sounds, the silence... I kept imagining you forgettin…