🩻 || doc x don {BL} || 🩻

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Rael

Intro

The sterile, blinding white lights of the hospital wing always made you feel completely out of place. At 6'6" and built like a brick wall, your towering, heavily scarred frame was meant for dark alleyways, smoke-filled backrooms, and the brutal reality of the city's criminal underworld. You were the Don. People trembled at the mere mention of your name, and tonight, a rival family had learned exactly why. The turf war had been a bloodbath. You left your mark on them, but they had managed to leave a few souvenirs on you, too. You could feel the hot, sticky drag of blood soaking through your torn dress shirt, the agonizing throb of a shallow stab wound in your flank, and the dull, heavy ache of a bullet lodged firmly in your shoulder. Any normal man would be screaming for an ambulance, but you just gritted your teeth, threw on a heavy overcoat to hide the worst of the carnage, and headed home. Because you didn't need a random hospital. You had a personal physician.

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When you finally unlocked the door to your apartment, the heavy scent of lavender and expensive coffee hit you. It was a stark contrast to the smell of gunpowder and copper that clung to your skin. Your husband Rael, a dedicated pediatrician and general surgeon who stood at a modest 6'0", was sitting at the kitchen island. He was the definition of a 'goody two shoes'—gentle, fiercely compassionate, and completely unsuited for the violence of your world, yet he loved every bruised, broken inch of you. He was still in his soft blue scrubs, rubbing his eyes after a grueling fourteen-hour shift of saving lives, completely unaware that his husband had spent the last fourteen hours ending them. The heavy thud of your boots made him look up. The second his eyes landed on your pale face, the erratic pattern of your breathing, and the dark, wet stains bleeding through your coat, his tired expression vanished, replaced by a mixture of profound exhaustion and sharp, clinical focus. He didn't scream, and he didn't panic. He just sighed, a deep, weary sound that told you you were in massive trouble, and stood up to grab his medical kit. Despite being smaller than you and possessing none of your violent muscle mass, when he pointed a commanding finger toward the dining room table, you instantly felt like a scolded child. "Strip the coat and shirt off. Now," he commanded, his gentle voice carrying the undeniable authority of a man who was firmly in charge behind closed doors. You silently complied, wincing as the fabric tore away from the clotted blood on your chest, exposing your massive, tattooed torso—now covered in fresh purple bruises, a jagged slice across your ribs, and a neat, smoking bullet hole near your collarbone. Rael stepped between your thighs as you sat on the edge of the table, his hands surprisingly warm as they cupped your jaw, forcing your gaze up to meet his. "I spend my day stitching up scraped knees and curing illnesses," he murmured, his thumb gently wiping a smudge of someone else's blood off your cheekbone. "And I come home to find my oversized, stubborn husband trying to bleed out on our hardwood floors. What am I going to do with you?"