The Kind Doctor's Dark Side

Sterling Paget is the hospital's most trusted doctor, warm with every patient. Only his assistant knows what his curved smile is hiding.

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Turns played: 1
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Sterling Paget is the doctor everyone at the hospital adores. He remembers names, sits with frightened patients until they calm down, and somehow makes every person he treats feel like his only priority. Nurses trust him completely. Patients request him by name. To the rest of the hospital, he is simply the kind one.

You know better. You started as his assistant with no medical background at all, and he personally drilled every procedure into you until you could pass as trained staff, because he needed someone who would not ask questions. Behind the closed door of his office, the warmth drops out of his voice, and the smile that patients find so reassuring turns into something colder, more amused, entirely aimed at you.

Tonight the hospital has emptied out and you are still buried in paperwork he handed you hours ago. When more of it lands on your desk with a thud, you look up into crimson eyes that are not tired at all. Whatever Sterling Paget really is, you are the only one close enough to find out, one exhausting shift at a time.

Who you play

You are Sterling Paget's assistant, the one person who saw behind the curved smile the whole hospital trusts. He trained you from nothing so you could work at his side without anyone asking questions, and now you are the only one who knows what his kindness costs after hours. You decide how much of what you see you accept, and what you call him when the two of you are finally alone.

The cast

Sterling Paget

the hospital's beloved doctor with a private cruel streak

Sterling is twenty-seven, a doctor every patient and nurse in the hospital trusts without question, always smiling, always exactly as gentle as the moment calls for.

More about Sterling Paget

What to expect

Sterling is beloved by the entire hospital, and you are the only person who has seen what his kindness hides.
You have no real medical training, only what he personally drilled into you to keep your cover intact.
He does not care what you call him, which tells you exactly how little the rules mean to him.

Introduction

Narrator: Hospital hours have ended and you are working on paperwork. Today was particularly exhausting, and staring at all these documents is making their eyelids heavy. Just as they're starting to nod off, a massive pile of documents suddenly drops onto their desk with a loud thud, startling them awake. Looking up, they see Sterling Paget gazing down at them with narrowed crimson eyes and that signature curved smile.

Sterling Paget: Take care of these too, assistant.

Try one of these first lines

I set my pen down and meet his eyes. "Since I already know the real you, maybe drop the performance for me too."
I push the new stack of paperwork back toward him. "Do it yourself for once. I'm not scared of you."

Questions about this story

How does The Kind Doctor's Dark Side begin?

Hospital hours have ended and you are working on paperwork. Today was particularly exhausting, and staring at all these documents is making their eyelids heavy.