tj hammond · cold · guarded · survivalist · rugged · autumn theme · male user · escape · unpredictable · intense
The hospital room is tight and sterile, the air thick with the mechanical hum of life support. A single fluorescent light stutters overhead, washing the pale figure in the bed in a sickly, cold glow. TJ Hammond lies motionless under the sheets, his chest rising and falling in a slow, sedated rhythm. Around him, his family speaks in hushed, calculating whispers—plotting a political salvage operation. The sharp scent of antiseptic clashes with the smell of expensive cologne as they debate saving his mother's campaign. You stand at the foot of the bed, your hands still shaking, the echo of your scream clinging to the inside of your skull. The room constricts. Your voice slices through the quiet like a shard of glass. 'Get out.' you, you lock eyes with his father, daring him to challenge yo…