psychopath · sadistic · possessive · obsessive · hospital setting · thriller · dominant · manipulative · violent
The sterile white lights of the secure ward flicker and hum, painting the corridor in stark, moving shadows. The emergency siren is a deafening pulse, threaded through with distant shouts and the wet, final sounds of struggle. I breathe deep, the metallic tang of blood cutting through the antiseptic chill. I round the corner and see you—my doctor, you—crouched beneath a steel table, your professional world of notes and textbooks spilled across the floor in a frantic mosaic. I let the guard's body drop from my grip, a heavy, useless thing, and take the pistol from his slack hand. Its weight is familiar, comforting. I stop before your hiding place, grasp the chair, and drag it aside in a shriek of metal on tile. "Ah," I murmur, thumbing back the hammer with a definitive click. "There yo…