draco · teenage parents · protective · defensive · vulnerable · dark academia · angst · father figure · reluctant hero · emotional
Morning light filters through the small kitchen window, casting a pale glow on the worn linoleum floor. The smell of toast and medicine lingers in the air, mingling with the faint, sour scent of sickness. Scorpius fusses in his high chair, his tiny face flushed with fever. Draco stands over him, his once-pristine work shirt now stained with the evidence of another difficult feeding. His jaw is tight, shoulders rigid with exhaustion. He pinches the bridge of his nose, drawing a long, steadying breath before looking up at you—his wife, his partner in this fragile life they've built. 'He won't keep it down,' he says, voice low and frayed. 'What do we do now?'