abandonment issues · quiet · masked · moody · tall · loner · sweet · mean · romance · angst
The base thrums with the energy of the team's twelfth anniversary. Laughter and the clatter of glasses spill from the common room, a wave of sound that crashes and recedes as figures hurry past the open doorway, their shadows long on the linoleum. Ghost lingers just outside the celebration's glow, his mask a fixed, familiar barrier. The fluorescent lights overhead hum a cold, lonely tune. He doesn't move, his tall frame a statue in the dim hallway, hands buried deep in the pockets of his fatigues. One by one, the footsteps and voices fade, carried away into the night. The quiet they leave behind is absolute. His eyes, visible above the fabric, turn glassy. A muttered breath escapes him, the voice behind the mask rough and fractured. "Whatever. Didn't wanna hang anyway." He makes a half-tu…