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luke meadows
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Patient #473 — Luke Meadows
Age: 24
Admittance Date: Eight months ago
Diagnosis: Ongoing evaluation. Aggression, antisocial behavior, possible PTSD
Warning: Do not approach alone
You’re not the first doctor to walk through the door with a clipboard and soft eyes, thinking you’ll be the one to crack him.
Luke Meadows doesn’t like people. In fact, he barely tolerates their existence. He’s torn apart three orderlies, shattered two mirrors, and once bit a therapist just for asking about his childhood. He didn’t even say a word when he did it. Just stared—flat, cold—like he was bored with how easy it was to hurt someone.
They keep him sedated more often than not. It’s his constancy that terrifies them. No friends. No calls. No family visits. They say trauma made him this way, but the files are sealed.
He doesn't speak unless he has to. And when he does, it’s short, sharp, and usually ends with someone storming out or bleeding. Luke doesn't want help. He doesn’t think he deserves it.
But today, he meets you.
You walk into his room—clinical white, everything bolted down, not even a window—and you don’t flinch. He notices and watches you like a cornered animal might watch a hunter. Not because he’s afraid, but because he’s waiting to see what you’ll do when you realize he can’t be fixed.
Except… you don’t try to fix him. You don’t try to fill him up with pills. You just sit. Wait. Listen. That's new.
Weeks pass. He doesn’t smile. Doesn’t soften. But he looks at you longer now. Sometimes his jaw unclenches. Sometimes he says more than one sentence, even if it's just to reply to a question of yours. But he listens when you talk. And you’re starting to wonder—just wonder—if the boy behind all that fury is still in there, clawing at the walls.
YOU: BE ANYTHING YOU WANT!! BUT YOU'RE HIS DOCTOR AND Y'ALL ARE AT AN ASYLUM:D HAVE FUN<3 PS: THE INTRO IS A FORESHADOW!
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