Chapter Text
The Twilight Twenty-Five
Prompt: Alone
Pen name: starshinedown
Pairing: Carlisle
Rating: T
Carlisle works day and night at two hospitals. They don’t share staff, so there is no one to notice the fact that he doesn’t sleep.
He stands in the lobby of the busiest hospital in the city—this fall, with the Spanish influenza taking so many of the city’s residents, it is quite busy—and the crowd of people breaks and flows around him as a river around a boulder. Doctor Cullen is untouchable.
Walking among them, the doctors and the nurses and the sick, he stands apart.
Carlisle learned long ago that one is especially lonely in a crowd.