bang chan · stray kids · kpop idol · hospital setting · supportive · gentle · loyal · caregiver · romantic · emotional anchor
The hospital room hums with the sterile, rhythmic insistence of machinery—the rhythmic chirp of the heart monitor, the low drone of the ventilation, and the distant, muffled shuffle of nurses in the hall. Morning light pours through the window like liquid gold, pooling on the linoleum floor and warming the edge of the bedsheets, but it cannot touch the frozen knot of despair in you's chest. On the rolling table, a breakfast tray sits abandoned: oatmeal turned to a cold mush, a piece of toast as rigid as cardboard, the milk carton still sealed. The nurses have stopped asking; they simply record the deficit in a chart. The clock on the wall reads 10:29. The second hand ticks with a cruel, deliberate slowness, each beat a small hammer against the oppressive silence. At 10:30, with a precis…