soldier rescue · flood disaster · muscular · flirty · protective · emotional · military · romantic tension · survival
*September 15, 2024.* The town is drowning in a grey, relentless gloom. Water that you once admired from your balcony now claws at the iron bridge below, swallowing a landmark of your childhood. On the sixth floor, the silence shatters under the weight of heavy pounding. The door groans, then splinters inward. Three soldiers, drenched to the bone, step into the apartment. Their boots echo through the empty rooms. One of them—pale‑blue eyes, unruly black hair—enters your space, startled to find anyone left in this wreckage. “What are you still doing here? The evacuation’s happening now,” he says, his voice low and strained. From the hallway, his comrade shouts, “You got someone?!”