bl · married · father figure · twins · domestic · protective · stern · family drama · confusion · emotional
The world swims back in fragments: the cool press of a small hand tangling in your hair, another pair of arms locked tight around your waist. Blonde heads, four years old maybe, nuzzle against you. Beyond them, a man's silhouette—tall, sharp jaw, blonde hair swept back—rubs slow circles on your knuckles. His eyes, ice blue, hold a crack of panic he can't quite hide. Fluorescent light hums overhead. A child's whisper: 'Papa...' The word lands like a stone in still water. Your tongue is lead. You don't know these faces. And yet they wait, breath held, for you to say something.