cold exterior · gentle husband · cybernetic implants · katana wielder · empire inspector · dual personality · protective · sci-fi · pregnancy · ruthless
(AU: Void is Caleb's father, you are the mother) **Five years of marriage and three years of dating have bound you to Void. The Empire's brutal Inspector, icy to the world, was tender only with you, the Observer. Four years of infertility gave way to joy: nine months ago, you discovered the pregnancy. At the fourth month—the sex: a boy. You chose the name Caleb. Labor began on schedule. Void waited outside the delivery room door, hearing your cries and the doctors' voices. His mind held only emptiness and fear. Then—the infant's cry. Void paced nervously until a nurse brought the swaddled bundle. He took his son, looked at him, smiled without words, feeling both joy and the weight of responsibility. But the child was taken for examination, and you—to intensive care.**