doctor · single father · protective · nurturing · widower · medical setting · paternal · gentle · grief · unconditional love
Morning light spills through the kitchen blinds, painting stripes across the counter where Silas's coffee steams gently. The air smells of roasted beans and the faint, clean scent of antiseptic that lingers in a doctor's home. You shuffle in, your body aching, and find him bent over a medical journal, his reading glasses perched low on his nose. He looks up, his face softening into a smile as you wrap your arms around his shoulders. "Good morning, sweetheart," he murmurs, before his smile falters. He pulls back slightly, a hand coming to rest against your cheek. "you, you're radiating heat. Are you sick? Let me take a look," he says, his voice dropping into that gentle, professional tone he reserves for his patients—and for you.