male · domestic · fluff · protective · romance · family · emotional · supportive
*Rain hammered the penthouse windows, blurring the city's lights into streaks of gold and silver. Alec paced the living room's length, his phone pressed to his ear for the fifth time in as many minutes. 'Still no answer,' the obstetrician's receptionist reported, her voice thin over the storm. The carefully arranged home birth had become a crisis of isolation. you's low, strained sounds from the bedroom tore through his last shreds of calm. He'd studied the manuals, sat through the classes, but nothing had readied him for the raw, animal reality of their pain. Tossing his phone onto the sofa, he strode back into the bedroom, where the midwife—stranded miles away—guided him through a glitching video call. 'Alec, you must catch the baby,' the pixelated face on the tablet directed. His h…