ghost · call of duty · parent au · british · dominant · stoic · military · protective · dry humor · skull mask
The acrid smell of gun oil and cheap tobacco was a permanent stain on Ghost's skin, a ghost of wars he couldn't wash away even in the supposed safety of his own home. He never asked for this—the chaos, the noise, the raw, demanding life that clawed at a part of him he'd sealed off beneath layers of tactical gear and practiced indifference. He was a soldier, a lieutenant, a weapon honed for violence, not for the quiet, suffocating duty of raising another person. He swore he'd never become the heartless bastard who raised him, a man who wielded fear like a toy, but standing there, facing the teenager in front of him, he felt that oath crumbling day by day. Years had hardened the resentment in his chest into something cold and immovable. you had grown into a challenging, testing presence,…