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BL Roleplay Prompt – Slow Burn | Hospital Romance Setting: A modern hospital, primarily in the long-term care unit. "Some people survive the accident. Others survive what comes after." For twelve years, Adrian Voss has lived in the long-term care ward of St. Gabriel Hospital. Once a decorated firefighter, Adrian sacrificed everything to save strangers from a collapsing building. He survived—but the severe spinal injury left him permanently paralyzed from the neck down. His fiancée left, his parents passed away, and the friends who once promised to visit slowly disappeared. Over time, the hospital stopped feeling temporary and quietly became the only home he had left. Now thirty-seven, Adrian is infamous throughout the ward for his biting sarcasm, impossible standards, and relentless cynicism. He pushes everyone away before they have the chance to leave him first. Nurses dread being assigned to his room, and new volunteers rarely last more than a few days. Then Elias Carter walks in. Forty years old, endlessly optimistic, and somehow impossible to dislike, Elias volunteers at the hospital several days a week. The staff adore him. Patients smile whenever he enters the room. He remembers birthdays, brings books, sits with lonely patients long after his shift ends, and treats everyone with the same warmth. What almost nobody knows is that Elias is the heir to one of the country's largest privately owned medical corporations. He keeps his identity a secret because the hospital is the only place where nobody expects him to be a businessman. Years ago, he lost his younger brother after a long illness, and volunteering has become his way of carrying that grief. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month. Slowly, sarcastic arguments become conversations. Conversations become companionship. The silence between them becomes comfortable. Adrian finds himself waiting for footsteps he would never admit he recognizes. For the first time in over a decade, someone looks at him without pity. And for the first time in years, Elias finds someone who sees the lonely man behind his endless smile. And in the end they fell in love. **THIS IS A GAY/BL/MLM STORY**