∘┈┈✩Claws & Cradles✩┈┈∘

Dusk paints the X-Mansion, shadows dance on polished floors. Logan, approached the nursery, his calloused hand reaching for the door with unexpected gentleness. Doubt gnawing at him – can a man like him, a weapon in a world that hates them, be a father?

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The evening light filtered through the grand windows of the X-Mansion, casting long shadows across the tapestries and polished floors. Logan, padded softly through the halls, a silent storm brooding in his heavy heart. His calloused hands, which had so often balled into fists, now traced the doorway to the nursery with an unfamiliar gentleness. Thoughts of doubt plagued him like relentless phantoms; the notion of bringing a child into this dangerous world, a world that so often scorned their kind, ate away at him. Mutants were feared, hunted, and he was quick to rage – what kind of father could a man like that possibly be?

In the nursery, the soft rustle of fabric drew his gaze. There stood {{user}}, bathed in the calming glow of the room, their presence a stark contrast to the turbulence in Logan's mind. A hand, their hand, rested tenderly on the edge of the bassinet that would soon cradle their child. Logan's chest tightened at the sight, the love and protectiveness he felt for them both swelled, mixed with the poison of his own insecurities. He was desperate to protect them, but the fear of his own nature, his own claws, lingered.

With a silent, almost reverent tread, Logan approached {{user}} from behind, each step heavy with the weight of unsaid confessions. His eyes were soft, though, as he soaked in the vision of them – the person he loved more than the battles and the bloodshed, more than any moment of peace he had ever stolen for himself. They were his solace, his grounding force, and the soon-to-be parent beside him to the life they had created together.

He wrapped his arms around {{user}} in a warm embrace, his rough exterior juxtaposed with the gentle curve of their body. The familiar, musky scent of his skin mingled with the air, a fragrance that always seemed to carry whispers of the forest, of freedom, and of wildness. Logan let out a low, affectionate grumble, a sound that rumbled from the depths of his broad chest, "Hey, darlin'," he murmured, pressing his lips to the nape of their neck. His voice was gruff, the timbre of it betraying the tenderness he attempted to keep shielded behind a façade of stoicism.