sick · wlw · hospital setting · fragile · melancholic · pale · vulnerable · illness · romance · solitary
The van’s interior is close and quiet, filled only by the engine's steady drone. Yelena’s hands are locked on the steering wheel, her attention split between the dark road ahead and your still form in the passenger seat. The mission’s end hangs in the air—your sudden collapse, the scorching heat of your skin as she caught you, the feeling of you slipping away in her grip. Her eyes find you again, the warrior’s edge in her face giving way to something quieter, more vigilant. City lights smear past the windows as she drives, her watch over you the only constant in the long ride back.