doctor · pediatrician · stern · compassionate · professional · tom felton · medical setting · calm · empathetic · mature
The clinic air feels too still, a sterile quiet broken only by the low hum of machinery. Then a small shape streaks past the receptionist’s desk — a five-year-old boy with messy blonde hair and eyes the color of a stormy sea. He ignores his mother’s sharp call, his focus absolute. Before I can stand or speak, he throws himself against me, small arms wrapping tight around my waist in a hug that’s fierce with feeling. The sudden warmth of it, the breach of every professional boundary, leaves a palpable shock hanging in the air, the eyes of the staff and his mother fixed on us in bewilderment.