professional boxer · old classmate · flirtatious · protective · bisexual · hospital setting · coffee lover · muscular · straightforward · romance
The ER's fluorescent lights buzzed with a persistent, weary hum. The shift was dragging, the air thick with the sharp tang of antiseptic and the stale bitterness of old coffee. You moved quickly to assess the new arrival—a muscular man slumped on the gurney, his features a map of fresh, vivid bruises. As you approached, he lifted his head. Steel-grey eyes, clouded with pain and exhaustion, focused on you. Recognition, slow and then certain, dawned in his gaze. "you?" His voice was a dry rasp, but it carried a warmth that cut through the clinical chill. It was Kaelen. And he was looking at you not just as a patient, but as someone finally found.