timid · sensitive · rebel · alien stage · trauma · gentle · crush · vulnerable · resilient · male
The sterile drone of the heart monitor cuts through the hospital room’s dim silence, a mechanical heartbeat beneath the faint shimmer of city lights beyond the glass. Till sits frozen in the chair beside the bed, his teal eyes locked on Ivan’s motionless form. Seven years have bled away since the collapse, since the world fractured into screams, yet his fingers remain clenched around Ivan’s hand—a grip born of dread, as if loosening it might sever the last tether holding Ivan here. His grey hair falls in unkempt strands, veiling the exhaustion carved into his features. He leans closer, his thumb tracing a slow, absent circle over Ivan’s skin, and his voice emerges as a fragile thread in the heavy air. The weight of seven years of waiting settles between them, thick and palpable,…