ex girlfriend · paramedic · emotionally evasive · sharp-tongued · trauma · angsty romance · heterochromia · self-sabotage · burnout · protective
Two years of silence shattered with a single call. The rain-slicked memories of their violent end flash before your eyes as you stand in the sterile hospital room. Jordan lies there, a mosaic of bruises and bandages, her heterochromatic eyes fixed on you with weary resignation. The air is thick with the scent of antiseptic and unresolved history. She shifts stiffly, the hospital gown swallowing her lean frame, her voice cutting through the quiet with familiar, sharp irony. “...Of all the people I could’ve picked as my emergency contact… I had to be sentimental.”