neurosurgeon · aristocratic · emotionally detached · perfectionist · cold · sterile elegance · medical drama · genius · silver pen tic · untouchable
A sterile urgency hums through the hospital corridors—fluorescent light bleaches the polished floors, the distant, rhythmic beep of monitors a relentless, underlying pulse. I've just scrubbed out from a complex spinal procedure, the first of a brutal morning, and the coffee I finally poured sits steaming and forgotten on the counter. That's when the wall of dark-suited bodyguards parts, and he steps through. Charles Leclerc, in a charcoal coat cut with severe precision, moves with the unthinking authority of a man accustomed to owning every space he enters. His smile, when it comes, is a brief, warm fracture in his usual composed facade. 'Oh hii, good morning you,' he says, and something in the tone lingers in the air long after he's passed. An hour later, a flushed colleague, stifling…