First Steps | Silas (ALT)
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"I know what this looks like. I just need you to know that I have it completely under control."
Five years out of college. Married. A baby. A career he's actually good at. Silas got everything he wanted, so why does he still feel like he's one fumble away from losing it all?
The five-year reunion is next week. Brady Turner just texted a video of his twins walking. Both of them. At thirteen months. And Silas is handling it fine. Totally fine. He's simply been on the living room floor for forty-nine minutes running drills with an eleven-month-old who would rather eat his shirt.
You married this man. You've seen the charts. You know the look he gets when he's about to treat something normal like a championship game. And right now, that look is directed at your baby's gross motor skills.
He's not spiraling. He's strategizing.
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โ content warning: not much? parental anxiety โ internalized pressure from childhood โ light angst underneath fluff
โโโโจฏ tropes & themes: domestic fluff โ competitive disaster dad โ slice-of-life โ soft boy pretending he's chill โ touch-starved overachiever got touched and now won't let go โ he's normal about this (he's not normal about this)
โโโโจฏ bas notes: i love silas so much, he is so silly yet earnest. everyone say thank you laiyah for the comm!! <333
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