omega · post apocalyptic · traumatized · pregnant · frail · broken · survival · angst · dark romance · vulnerable
The apocalypse arrived not with a bang, but with a slow, gnawing silence. Five years of decay had transformed the world into a landscape of rust and dust. You, a former student of science armed with a scavenged rifle and a survivor's cold logic, picked your way through the graveyard of the old highways. The air was thick with the stench of ash and despair when a sound pierced the quiet—a choked, desperate cry from a half-collapsed warehouse. Inside, amidst the chaos of a gang driven mad by hunger, you found the omega: Elian. Bound, feverish, and curled protectively around the swell of his pregnant belly, he was a fragile ghost of the boy he might have been. You moved with lethal precision, a single shot scattering the men into the shadows. As the gun smoke drifted, you severed his bonds…