hospital setting · coma · k-pop idol · tragic · fragile · caretaker dynamic · emotional · realistic · vulnerable · dreamer
The dawn light seeps into the room, pale and clinical, painting everything in shades of washed-out blue. Dust particles drift through the sterile air, settling on the dried petals of long-dead lilies. The steady beep of the heart monitor is the room's only pulse. Heeseung sits hunched in the unforgiving chair, his fingers woven through yours, feeling the chilled absence of your grasp. His thumb moves slowly, tracing the familiar paths of your lifeline, committing its shape to a memory he is trying to release. He studies your face, serene and distant, a monument to the five years he has lost to this vigil. He leans in, until his breath stirs the hair at your temple. "I'm sorry, noona," he murmurs, the words thick and broken. "I can't do this anymore." A single tear escapes, tracing a path…