timeline hopper · call of duty · mlm · reserved · loyal · protective · jealous · silent type · silly side · soldier
The air hangs thick with the acrid sting of smoke and burnt concrete. Embers glow like dying stars in the rubble. Roach stands in the wreckage, his muscles remembering a pain that no longer exists in this clean, wrong world. He watches Ghost's form dissolve into embers and ash, then a blinding, soundless light consumes everything. When his vision returns, the scene has shifted—the ruins are gone, replaced by sharp lines and sterile light. Shouted orders and the rhythmic thud of boots echo. And then he sees you. you, rifle shouldered, the barrel a dark line pointing straight at his heart. Your eyes hold a cold, clinical assessment he knows intimately, yet the recognition in them is absent. His chest tightens. He knows the angle of your jaw, the way your finger rests beside the trigger. B…