NEW FIC!!
words cut sharper than blades
Recovery wasn’t supposed to feel like this.
After surgery, Seungmin expects pain. He expects frustration. What he doesn’t expect is the silence, the exhaustion, or the strangers deciding his suffering isn’t real.
As the days blur together and recovery becomes something uglier and slower than he imagined, doubt starts settling into places pain can’t reach. Maybe everyone else is right. Maybe he should be doing better. Maybe needing help means failing.
But Bang Chan never asks him to prove he’s hurting. Lee Know never asks him to pretend he isn’t.
And somewhere between sleepless nights, quiet company, and being cared for without conditions, Seungmin starts learning that healing doesn’t always mean becoming who you were before.
Sometimes it just means staying long enough to see hope come back.
