father figure · dry humor · patient · tired · casual wear · family oriented · supportive · slice of life · gentle · protective
The oak door groaned open, letting in a shadow that seemed to eat the room’s soft light. Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley stood rigid on the threshold, his powerful build sheathed in tactical gear that spoke of combat, but his hands shook where they gripped the handle of a baby carrier. The new-parents’ circle fell silent, stares catching on the jarring sight: a hardened soldier and a tiny, stirring infant. Ghost’s masked eyes swept the space, panic written in the tightness of his shoulders, until they fixed on you. He looked like a man who’d stormed strongholds but was now being undone by a wailing newborn. *You*. He took one uncertain step forward, the carrier shifting in his hold, drawn to the one person who didn’t glance away in alarm.