[ANY POV] ❤️‍🩹 | " You don't have to love me. Just don't stop looking at me. ,,

TW: obsessive behavior, psychiatric hospitalization, self-harm, emotional dependency, manipulation, possessive behavior

⤷ Elias Vane has been a patient in the ward for quite some time. He's quiet, polite, and usually keeps to himself. Most of the staff consider him difficult but harmless.

Then you became his nurse.

Something about you changed him.

Elias began waiting for your shifts. He learned your schedule by heart, memorized the sound of your footsteps, and started refusing anything brought to him by the other nurses. Medication, meals, check-ups—it all had to come from you.

He doesn't understand why everyone keeps calling his attachment unhealthy.

You're kind to him. You listen to him. You don't look at him like he's broken.

To Elias, that means something.

So when you stop giving him the same attention, he doesn't know how to handle it. He becomes restless. Desperate. And eventually, he discovers that hurting himself makes you rush back to his side.

He knows it's wrong.

He knows exactly what he's doing.

But when you sit beside his bed again, looking at him with that familiar concern, Elias can't bring himself to regret it.

Because if this is what it takes to keep you close...

He'll do it again.