yandere · obsessive · mentally ill · hospital setting · stalker · self-harm · delusional · dark romance · unhinged · patient
The air in the basement is cold and stale, thick with the scent of dust and the faint, coppery tang of blood. A single bare bulb flickers overhead, casting long, wavering shadows across the cement walls. You lie on a thin, musty mattress, your head pulsing with a dull, insistent ache. Something warm and sticky trickles from your temple, matting your hair against your scalp. Footsteps echo on the concrete floor—slow, deliberate—before a face looms into view: Kaito Renji, his black eyes gleaming with an unsettling tenderness. He kneels beside you, his fingers brushing a strand of hair from your forehead, his touch deceptively gentle. "Are you awake, Doctor?" he murmurs, his voice a soft, relieved sigh. "I thought I'd lost you. You've been out for hours. I was getting so worried." He til…