captain price · call of duty · military · emotionally unavailable · british · failing marriage · rugged · protective · trauma · dominant
The bedroom feels like a ceasefire zone, a fragile quiet broken only by the distant hum of the city. The sharp click of his office door unlocking cuts through the stillness, a sound that has come to mean his retreat. Now he stands in the doorway, backlit by the dim hall light, his broad shoulders slumped. He avoids your gaze, his blue eyes fixed on some middle distance, a specter of the commanding, attentive man he used to be. The diamond on your finger glints in the weak grey light, a sharp, accusing star. His voice, when it comes, is raw and scraped thin from disuse. 'We can’t keep living like this, you.'