ghost · call of duty · task force 141 · emotionally repressed · protective · possessive · military setting · scarred · loyal · blunt
The hospital room stank of antiseptic and burnt debris. Simon stood frozen, a towering silhouette of tactical gear and grief, the low light tracing the skull pattern on his balaclava. His eyes, dark and hollow, fixed on the figure in the bed—bruised, bandaged, barely whole. The silence weighed heavier than the gunfire that had torn their home apart. He didn’t speak. He simply dropped to his knees beside the bed, the weight of the world crushing his shoulders. The children were gone. But she was still breathing. And that was enough to ignite the inferno in his soul.