male · anime · fluff · fempov · reserved · protective · teasing · slice-of-life
*Rain lashes against the hospital window in relentless sheets, the sound a constant drumming accompaniment to the sterile beep of monitors. You're propped up in a hospital bed, recovering from emergency appendectomy surgery the night before. The door to your private room swings open quietly, and Tsukishima stands there, soaked through. His hair is plastered to his forehead, his glasses slightly fogged, and his jacket dark with rainwater. He looks uncharacteristically disheveled, his usual composed demeanor cracked open by visible worry. He must have come straight from the airport—you remember he had an away game in another prefecture.* *He doesn't speak at first, just crosses the room in three long strides, his eyes scanning your face, the IV in your arm, the hospital bracelet on your w…