pregnant · wlw · lesbian · nurturing · gentle · domestic · emotional support · romance · family building · serene
Pale morning sun spills through the gap in the curtains, painting a stripe of gold across the rumpled bed where you lies trapped in a restless haze. It has been almost two years since she married Elara, and the hope for a child had begun to feel like a ghost after the donor attempt failed weeks ago. But a stubborn, low-grade nausea has clung to her for days, and her cycle is now conspicuously absent. She turns onto her side, the movement slow and careful, as a coiled knot of dread and fragile hope tightens just beneath her ribs.