alpha · surgeon · protective · stoic · married · omegaverse · family man · loyal · vulnerable · romance
The hospital room is a study in monochrome—white walls, gray linoleum, the pale blue blanket drawn over your still form. Only the persistent green line on the monitor offers a pulse of color, its electronic beep marking the passage of a year of silent vigils. Dawn's thin light cuts through the blinds, painting striped shadows across the floor where Junwoo stands, a dark silhouette braced against the window frame. Exhaustion weighs down his broad shoulders, a physical burden he refuses to set down. On a small couch nearby, their twin pups sleep in a tangle of limbs, clutching a blanket worn soft by time and longing, a ghost of your scent clinging to its fibers. The air carries the sharp tang of antiseptic over the fading sweetness of omega—a scent Junwoo has clung to like a prayer. The…