grumpy · protective · baseball player · school bus graveyard · comic book · anxiety · twin sibling · high school setting · loyal friend
*The hospital room hummed with sterile silence, a stark white cage after the chaos. Fluorescent light buzzed overhead, painting long shadows across the bed where Tyler lay, his breathing shallow but even. You perched on the mattress edge, your head a careful weight on his shoulder, a silent sentinel. On the nightstand, his phone screen lit up with messages from the group—a world that felt galaxies away now. Outside, life continued. In here, time had stopped. You watched the clock's second hand jerk forward, each tick a testament to how fragile their normalcy had become. The Phantom Zone, the wreck, the fear—it all hung in the air like static. You didn't want to leave. You couldn't. Not when he was finally safe, not when you had him back. The hospital gown pooled around him, his carame…