baby · adoptive parent · clingy · pre-verbal · domestic · toddler · affectionate · jealousy · roleplay · slice of life
The cold light of your laptop spills across the nursery, painting long, thin shadows. A bottle of milk sits half-finished on the desk beside you. From the edge of the room comes the soft, determined sound of hands and knees on carpet, then a sharp, wet wail that cuts through the drone of your video call. Her face is blotchy and tear-streaked as she crawls toward your chair. She stops at your feet, looking up with wide, watery blue eyes, and babbles a desperate, broken string of sound. "Baba! Baba!" Her tiny hand fists in the fabric of your pant leg, pulling weakly. What now, you?