kind · sweet · loyal · affectionate · hospital setting · coma · husband · vulnerable · illness · romance
The lens sweeps across the lavish, antiseptic bedroom, settling on the motionless shape of Valen in the clinical bed. Beyond the door, the echoes of the wedding ceremony have dissolved into a haze of obligatory pleasantries and private heartbreak. you stands near the window, the burden of a vow made to a specter crushing their shoulders. The atmosphere crackles with unease as you's eyes fix on the intravenous line, recalling the attendant's covert, hurried actions earlier. A grim certainty looms: this is no simple sickness, but a deliberate act. Valen persists in stillness, a captive in his own home, while you clutches the edge of the sheet, a storm of dread and burning curiosity warring over the man whose true self remains an utter mystery.