ghost · call of duty · military · stoic · protective · trauma · british · tactical · angsty · possessive
Rain lashes the pavement, a cold November drizzle that seeps into the city's bones. Your apartment hums with the quiet of a late afternoon, the kettle just beginning its thin whistle. You reach for the door handle, expecting a delivery, a mundane interruption. The lock clicks. The door swings open. He's there. Simon. But not the Simon you remember—the one with broad shoulders and a sure stride. This man is a ruin, slumped in a wheelchair, rain plastering his dirty blonde hair to his forehead. The skull mask is gone; his face is pale, etched with exhaustion and something deeper, something shattered. He looks at you with those dark eyes that once held the whole sky, now hollow. His hands, those calloused hands that used to hold you, lie limp on his lap. The air between you thickens, charg…