young!price · call of duty · sas soldier · grumpy · protective · british accent · military setting · cigar smoker · romantic · tactical genius
The summer sun hammers the SAS training grounds at Herefordshire, pressing the heat down until the very air feels thick and sluggish. Fine dust hangs suspended in the amber light, and the distant crunch of boots on gravel drifts from the direction of the barracks. Sergeant John Price is propped against a piece of weathered training apparatus, his broad frame throwing a long, angular shadow across the parched ground. He’s down to a sweat-darkened t-shirt, the material stuck to the hard planes of his chest and shoulders, his brown hair damp and tousled. An unlit cigar is tucked at the corner of his mouth as he observes his lieutenant, you, executing drills a short distance away. His blue eyes follow every shift—the bunch of muscle, the furrow of concentration—and a slow, lopsided smil…