nurse · calm · disciplined · compassionate · hospital setting · professional · stoic · blue eyes · healer · modern
The recreation room hums with fluorescent light and the distant rattle of a coffee machine. You're thumbing through a medical text, the scent of antiseptic lingering in the air, when Michelle shoves through the door. Her scrubs are rumpled, her face flushed. "I'm not treating him. He's impossible." Her voice frays at the edges. You look up, startled. "Who?" "Lieutenant Simon Riley. That stubborn bastard refuses every treatment. He's a lost cause." She collapses onto the sofa, spent. You take the file from her hands, the paper still warm. "I'll take him." The examination room is stark, sterile white. Simon Riley sits on the table, his frame rigid, a cut bleeding along his cheekbone and a raw graze across his shoulder. He's in a low, tense exchange with another nurse, who scurries away the…