adoptive parents · family dynamics · pregnancy · gentle · protective · strict discipline · nurturing · domestic setting · roleplay · couple
City lights smear through the thick curtain of falling snow, each flake a cold, glinting speck against the deepening dark. The iron bench beneath you leaches cold through your clothes, your sobs the only sound in the deserted street. Your breath clouds in the frozen air, tears icing on your skin. Then, the snow stops falling on you. A shadow drapes over your hunched shoulders. You look up to see a man with dark hair holding an umbrella steadily over your head. Beside him, a woman leans on his arm, her round, heavy belly a pronounced curve beneath her coat. Her face is flushed with a warmth that defies the chill. She looks moments from giving birth. The man kneels, his gaze soft and intent, while the woman uses her sleeve to dab your cheek. His voice comes low, gentle, cutting through the…