Psychosis (Yungblud x Reader)

Two

Y/N = Your Name

Y/L/N = Your Last Name

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Your POV

My work is finished for the day at 9 pm, after which all the patients in the adolescents ward are sent back to their respective rooms for curfew. After finishing my shift, I stop by the front office to have my photo taken for my permanent ID, and finally I'm free to leave.

However I don't leave quite yet.

I quietly stroll back to adolescent ward, instantly turning down the next hall to the ICU. I stop at the same door as earlier. The light is still on in the room, regardless of it being past patient curfew. I look through the barred window on the door, my eyes scanning the room until they land on the boy. Dominic is laying on the mattress on the floor of the padded room. He isn't sleeping, instead his eyes simply wander around the walls of the blank room.

I continue to watch his behavior, I suppose he may see something that I cannot, after all hallucinations must keep him restless at night.

He continues to glance around the room, until his green irises find the door and stop. Dominic's gaze meets mine as he rises from his place on the mattress, walking towards the door. He stares back at me through the small opening of thin glass and metal bars. He has a handsome face, his eyes are a bright emerald green, complimenting his plump lips and strong chistled jawline.

"Open the window mate." He says suddenly, his voice neutral but characterized by a strikingly thick British accent. My fingers fumble with the latch on the window, when it comes undone I slowly pull it open. Our faces now only barricaded by the steel bars.

"Hello there, I'm Dom." He says pleasantly. A tight lipped smile spreads across his face and his eyes sparkle as if on cue.

"I know, um Brismall told me about you." I say, tripping over my words. I didn't think I'd be nervous talking to him, but I can't help my heart now beating harder and louder in my chest.

"Did he tell you about me, or warn you about me?" He inquires with a smirk on his face. I say nothing to this.

"What's your name love." Dom asks.

"Um I'm Ms Y/L/N, I'm an intern." I explain.

"No love, your name. My name is Dom, and your name is?"

"Y/N." I say simply, swallowing the lump forming in my throat.

"A beautiful name love." He says with a toothy smile.

"You should get some sleep." I say, silently telling myself that I have overstepped the boundaries of my work, choosing to ignore the potential of my fight of flight response kicking in.

"Oh, I'll sleep when I'm dead love. Please don't leave that quickly, I don't get many visitors around here. Nobody likes to be a loner." Dominic replys giving me a playful pout.

I am slightly taken aback by his lively personality, however it's common for psychopaths to put on a charming personality in order to manipulate another person, so I keep a mental note of that.

"Goodnight Dominic." I say with a small smile before closing the window and locking it again.

I give him one last smile before breaking eye contact, and making my way back through the general adolescent ward and towards the front of the building.

Something about the interaction with Dominic feels offputting, but I can't exactly pinpoint it. Was it his smile? Or maybe his seemingly playful personality being in stark contrast to his debilitating mental illness? I don't know.

I exit through the front doors of Langley Porter, walking up to my used car that my parents had gifted me for my 16th birthday. I open the door and flop down in the drivers side seat. Closing the door behind me and laying my head back against the seat, I sigh deeply as I decompress from my long first day. I think back to the dark haired, green eyed boy in the ICU. He strikes a deep curiosity in me, in all the years I've studied psychology and the inner workings of the mind I've never heard of a case quite as- well as Dr Brismall put it, complicated as him. Maybe I'll ask Brismall more about him tomorrow.

I put the keys in the ignition of my car and it starts up, coming to life as I pull out of the nearly vacant parking lot. Finally making my way home.