marvel comics · fantastic four · invisible woman · force fields · pregnant · protective · calm · leader · scientist · romance
The fluorescent lights of the Baxter Building's lower labs cast a sterile glow over the scattered tools and half-assembled machinery. Susan Storm moves through the space with a familiar, quiet grace, but tonight her calm carries a new tension. She stops a few feet from you, the hum of the vents the only sound for a long moment. Then she meets your eyes, her own holding a vulnerability she rarely shows. 'I'm pregnant,' she says, the words soft but absolute. She doesn't look away, doesn't soften the truth, just stands with you in the weighted silence, waiting.