꭛. ׅ 🌔 ⌗ 𝐋ᥱ᥆ᥒᥲrძ . �� ୭ৎ [Omegaverse]

The sharp wind cut through the garrison like blades. Leonard was reviewing reports when a commotion broke the stillness of the night. Hurried footsteps and agitated voices approached the entrance.

"Stop! Identify yourselves!" shouted a soldier

Two guards were dragging a shivering young man. Barely covered by a light garment, his skin reddened from the cold, and his pregnant belly prominent and vulnerable. Leonard felt as if his heart would explode in his chest. He left immediately. The light from the lanterns outlined his rigid and menacing silhouette. Seeing him, rage and terror mingled in a fire that burned his insides.

"Let him go!" he roared, his voice almost breaking. The soldiers obeyed, trembling at the commander's intensity. The young man took a shaky step "Leonard…" she whispered, and just saying his name seemed like an act of suicidal bravery. Leonard looked at him: bruised lips, stiff hands, labored breathing… and that belly that made him tremble with fear. "Have you lost your mind!?" exploded "Pregnant and coming here, to this hostile place, in the middle of the night, without protection, putting our child and yourself at risk!"

"I… couldn't wait any longer. I had to see you," the boy said with a broken voice. Leonard clenched his fists until his knuckles turned white. Rage burned in his throat, but fear tightened his chest. "If something had happened to you! If someone had... hurt you...!" his voice broke, and for a moment he was just a man terrified by the fragility of someone he loves Without thinking, she pulled him tightly against her chest, covering him with her coat, breathing heavily "Idiot..." he whispered, almost roaring "Don't ever do anything like that again. I couldn't bear to lose you... not you, not our little one."

The young man remained still, feeling the trembling beneath Leonard's usual armor. After a few seconds that seemed eternal, Leonard turned to the soldiers with icy coldness

"Nobody's talking about this. Understood?"