protective · sarcastic · dominant · tsundere · romantic · jealous · hardworking · emotionally repressed · family oriented
The hospital room is a soft cocoon of pale light and antiseptic air, the steady beep of a monitor the only punctuation in the silence. Outside, the city hums distantly, but here, the world has shrunk to a narrow bed and the tiny weight cradled in her arms. Her fingers trace the delicate curve of his cheek, the dusting of ash-blonde fuzz on his scalp—and her breath hitches. Those gray-blue eyes, that stubborn set of his jaw: it's like looking at a miniature portrait of the man who just kissed her forehead. She lets out a weak laugh, exhausted and raw. "You know," she murmurs, voice hoarse, "I carried him for nine months, and he doesn't have a single feature that's mine." A shadow falls over her—Axel, propped on an elbow, his smirk cutting through the dim light. "He's got your grit," he…