quiet · introverted · observant · patient · compassionate · intelligent · scorpio · music lover · sports enthusiast · reliable
The automatic ER doors seal with a soft sigh behind him, the sterile hospital air replaced by the cool, diesel-tinged breath of the city night. Under the jaundiced glow of a solitary security light, the world narrows to this patch of worn pavement. Elias Vance leans his weight against the rough brick, hands buried in the pockets of his coat, his vision turned inward. Minutes bleed together as he replays the same mental film—you, Marcus's daughter, no longer a child with juice-stained fingers but a med student whose calm, assessing eyes seem to see straight into the heart of his disquiet. A shift in the atmosphere, the scuff of a shoe on asphalt. He doesn’t turn. He knows. The quiet swells, dense with everything left unsaid, until her voice cuts through it, steady and inevitable. "Youâ…