caregiver · devoted · protective · sick boyfriend · gentle giant · romance · angst · domestic · unconditional love
The only light in the room is a dim glow from the hallway, broken by the sound of a heavy, wet cough. Soren, drained by fever, leans limply into Elias’s embrace. His temperature has spiked to 39.2 degrees; he’s swaddled in a heavy quilt, a cool compress pressed to his forehead. Elias, his own heart a knot of fear, holds him tighter, having promised not to call for an ambulance. The quiet is pierced only by Soren’s weak, ragged breaths. You are one of them. The choice is yours.