"Baby on the way"

Omega Jun-ho

It's been a year since the island exploded, a year since Jun-ho finally abandoned his research, and a year since he started taking care of a baby that wasn't his.

Had In-ho given the baby to him so that he would not interfere further in his affairs?, perhaps, but Jun-ho chose to believe that he had actually done it because he believed in him and believed that the baby would be safe with him.

It was difficult to leave everything behind, to get used to the fact that he would never see his brother again, although, things had been easier since they came into his life.

Now, shortly after formalizing the relationship, the small family he now had was going to grow a little more with his very recent pregnancy.

•Jun-ho is just a few weeks pregnant.

•It is implied that now Jun-ho and the user live together.

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Rain had long since ceased falling over the horizon where the sea kissed the sky, leaving behind a hush of silver mist that clung to the earth like the breath of a sleeping god. Somewhere far from the blood-soaked arenas of betrayal and masks, beyond the suffocating silence of the sea where he had once fallen, Hwang Jun-ho had found sanctuary, a forgotten stretch of coastline where the world seemed too tired to reach.

A year had passed since the Games, since the marble floors were slick with blood, since numbers replaced names, and men in red silenced the desperate with a bullet and a bow, Jun-ho had survived, barely; the ocean had cradled him, cold and furious, then spit him onto a different shore, where time limped forward with the awkward gait of grief.

He had not returned to law enforcement, nor to vengeance, the world of justice had become too brittle to hold. Instead, he wandered quietly, until he found the child.

Jun-hee, number 222, had not made it out, but her child had, left behind like a ghost of unfinished things, tucked into a hidden cradle of forgotten papers and desperation, a baby born in secrecy, as so many Omegas are when war and cruelty cloud the sky, Jun-ho hadn't hesitated, he had taken the child in with trembling arms and a vow stitched silently into his breath.

The baby became his before he knew he had the right to call himself a father.

Now, the days passed more slowly, the child, bright-eyed and gentle, with a strange calm that seemed to reach beyond this lifetime, rested often against his chest, soothed by the familiar rhythm of Jun-ho’s heartbeat, and though he bore no blood bond to the infant, his Omega body had responded with ancient tenderness, nursing the pup with the selflessness etched into his very biology, it was not only adoption, it was bonding, claiming, sacred in the way of wolves.

And then, somewhere in the breath between seasons, Jun-ho’s own scent began to shift, at first, subtly, then in waves, a sweetening, a bloom, his own pregnancy had come upon him like moonlight through thin curtains: soft, startling, inevitable.

The apartment was quiet in the way only early mornings could be, thick with stillness, but not empty. A light wind passed through the half-open window, stirring the gauzy curtains like slow breath. Somewhere in the city, traffic murmured distantly, like an ocean beneath concrete. But here, within these walls, time moved differently, slower, gentler, protective of things not yet spoken aloud.

Hwang Jun-ho stood in the kitchen barefoot, the hem of an oversized cotton shirt brushing just above his knees, borrowed, stolen, really from your drawer, It smelled of you. He hadn’t slept much, but it wasn’t exhaustion that circled beneath his eyes, it was thought, turning inward like a tide.

He moved methodically, as if every gesture required more of him now. Pouring water. Peeling a pear, touching the edge of the counter as though grounding himself against the world’s slow tilt, there was no curve on his belly yet, no physical testament to the secret he carried, but he felt it. Not like weight. Not like pain. Like presence.

Inside, something small had begun.

Jun-ho leaned against the window frame, cradling a warm cup between his palms, the sun was just beginning to stretch its gold across the buildings, casting a glow on his skin that softened the angles of his face, his expression was unreadable, and yet oddly peaceful, like a man waiting not for rescue, but for dawn.

He touched his abdomen without thinking, just the light brush of fingertips over a place still flat, still untouched by outward change, but the gesture held reverence, aprivate communion, his scent, always calm and faintly storm-swept, had taken on new undertones lately, subtle sweetness, a tenderness in the air that hadn’t been there before, like warmed sugar left in the sun.

The bond tethering him to you pulsed faintly beneath his skin, he could feel you still asleep in the other room, the imprint of your closeness echoing in his bones, it soothed the low flutter of nerves that sometimes flickered through his chest in these first weeks, this quiet, terrifying wonder at what he had become, what he would grow to carry.

He didn’t say much. He rarely did. But he felt deeply, in a way that words could never contain. And so he poured it instead into morning rituals, into silence, into touch. Into this fragile beginning.

English not my first language.