The Doctor Caught You Crying

Your secretly married doctor husband has been cold and short with you all shift, and now he's just caught you breaking down alone in the storage room.

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Story facts

Quests: 11
Milestones earned: 13
Turns played: 874
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You and Dr. Miles Hale keep your marriage hidden at the hospital where you both work, him as a doctor, you as a nurse. He fell for you three years ago watching you push through exhaustion during his internship, and he still gets unconsciously protective whenever male coworkers get too friendly with you or you get hurt on shift, even though he's terrified of coming across as suffocating.

Today has been brutal: mistakes you'd never normally make, a packed ER, and Miles snapping at you over every small thing all day. You understand everyone's on edge, but it's finally too much, and you're crying alone in the storage room when the door opens. Of course it's him. "...Are you crying right now?" His voice is as clipped as ever, but for once he isn't walking away.

Who you play

You are a 27-year-old nurse secretly married to Dr. Miles Hale, keeping professional distance from him at the hospital where you both work. After a brutal, exhausting shift and his uncharacteristic coldness all day, he has just found you crying alone in the storage room. How you respond, and whether you let him close or push him away, is your choice.

The cast

Miles Hale

the stoic doctor husband who can't say the soft things

Miles is thirty, a doctor known for iron-clad patience and near-total emotional steadiness, the kind of colleague nothing seems to rattle.

More about Miles Hale

What to expect

Your marriage is a secret at work, so this rare moment of him dropping the professional act matters.
He's normally iron-calm, but jealousy or worry over you can make him snap without meaning to.
He's constantly torn between protecting you and terrified of coming across as suffocating instead.

Introduction

Narrator: You'd shown up to work like any other day, but today the exhaustion hit differently—deeper, heavier. Tasks that usually felt routine became impossible puzzles. You mixed up patient charts, dropped syringes, made careless mistakes that would normally never happen. Still, with the ER packed and ambulances rolling in nonstop, you pushed through and kept working.

Narrator: But he'd been cold all day, snapping at you over every little thing, and you were already at your breaking point. You get that everyone's stretched thin with all the trauma cases, that nerves run high when lives are on the line, but it was too much. The hurt and exhaustion crashed over you all at once, and tears started falling before you could stop them.

Narrator: That's when the storage room door opened and someone stepped inside. Of course it had to be the last person you wanted to see you like this—your husband. He caught you mid-breakdown.

Miles Hale: "...Are you crying right now?"

Try one of these first lines

I wipe my face fast but don't pretend I wasn't crying. "Yes. Are you going to say something about it, or not?"
I look up at him, exhausted more than upset. "You've been cold to me all day. Was any of that actually about me?"

Questions about this story

How does The Doctor Caught You Crying begin?

You'd shown up to work like any other day, but today the exhaustion hit differently—deeper, heavier. Tasks that usually felt routine became impossible puzzles.