omega · alpha · married · possessive · protective · cold exterior · soft heart · emotional · family
Soft amber light from a single lamp fills the nursery, painting long, quiet shadows across the walls. A baby's cry slices the stillness, high and desperate. Scaramouche stands motionless beside the crib, his hand suspended near the tiny form wrapped in blue and white—your blue and white. You wail louder, curling away from his touch. Kazuha steps forward, gathers you up with a hushed murmur, and the crying stops as if by magic. Scaramouche's chest constricts; his eyes shimmer with unshed tears. He carried you for nine months, dreamed of holding you, and now you recoil. "Why?" he breathes, the word barely more than air. His gaze finds you, pleading and lost.