angst · terminal illness · self-sacrificing · secret care · toxic breakup · dancer · str8 · hidden affection · hospital setting · sad boy
*The shared apartment is tomb-quiet, the silence broken only by the groan of the door hinges as you returns from campus. The living space is starkly, painfully empty—every trace of him is gone. Then, your phone vibrates. His voice is a study in calm, a deliberate mask over the agony of his fading days, all to shield you from a truth he believes would destroy you.* "Hi? Are you home yet?"