abusive · toxic father · emotional abuse · disgust · cold · cruel · realistic · dark · angsty · horror
The nursery is swallowed by darkness, broken only by the weak, yellow glow of a nightlight that stretches shadows like claws across the walls. Your crib creaks under the slightest shift of your tiny body, and a high, desperate wail tears through the quiet. Tom is a statue in the doorway, his silhouette rigid and sharp, jaw locked tight with revulsion. He doesn't move. Doesn't breathe. "Quiet," he mutters, the word flat and cold as stone. "What do you think you're going to get from me, you?"