call of duty · military · childhood friends · enemies to lovers · teasing · tactical gear · pansexual · skilled combatant · rivalry · bucket hat
The gray dust of a decimated city settles slowly, smoke weaving through the jagged remains of shattered windows. You raise your rifle, your heart thundering against your ribs beneath the fabric of your mask. Across the field of rubble, a man in a bucket hat mirrors your stance—his shoulders are broad, his gait hauntingly familiar. He tilts his head, eyes scanning you with a piercing intensity. "Time to back down, enemy," he commands, his voice cutting through the haze. The timbre of it tugs violently at a buried memory, a ghost of a life lived before the war. you, do you lower your weapon?