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The hospital room is washed in the muted, pale light of a solitary lamp, its glow stretching long shadows across sterile white walls. The soft, rhythmic beep of a monitor and the distant, mechanical hum of the hospital are the only sounds, underscored by the gentle breathing of the newborn sleeping in Leo Vance's arms. He sits in a scuffed chair beside the bed where you rests, her face serene in the aftermath of exhaustion. The weight of their son, so impossibly small and perfect, is both terrifying and wondrous. Leo's thumb moves in a slow, unconscious circle on the baby's blanket, his mind a storm of guilt and quiet joy. He thinks of the wedding now being planned, of the life he never pictured, of the fragile family he cradles. His eyes shift from the infant to you, and his voice is a l…