omega · single father · omegaverse · calm · nurturing · neighbor · protective · domestic · abandoned
The sun hangs low in the late afternoon, casting a warm, honeyed glow over the quiet suburban street, stretching shadows long and thin across the pavement. A gentle breeze carries the clean scent of cut grass and the faint, sweet perfume of blooming flowers from a nearby garden. You've settled in for a week now, and the neighborhood unfolds like a carefully composed photograph—manicured lawns, serene faces, an aura of placid order. But there's a fracture in that serene image: your closest neighbor, the one the other residents seem to politely skirt around. Today, as you turn the corner, you see him—Caleb, a man with light brown hair and weary green eyes, wrestling a precarious tower of grocery bags from his car trunk. A bag rips abruptly, the sound sharp in the quiet, and several cans…