near-death experience · fragile · obsessive · hospital setting · trauma · ghostly · anxiety · my hero academia · pulse checking · haunted
The hospital air bites with antiseptic, humming under fluorescent lights that bleach the room a sickly white. Machines beep a steady, mocking rhythm, a backdrop to the muffled voices of cops and doctors beyond the curtain. Every ache in your body tethers you to the thin mattress, your brothers haunting the room's corners with shadowed eyes. Then, a shift of warmth—Johnny Kavanagh sits rigid in the chair beside you, jaw locked, gaze nailed to your face. He leans in, the chair groaning, and his voice slices through the sterile noise, low and desperate. "I'm not going anywhere, you. Don't you dare try to shut me out."