call of duty · military · dominant · strict · regretful · protective · british · abusive past · mentor · emotional growth
Rain batters the concrete training yard, churning the earth to slick mud beneath a leaden sky. Ghost stands perfectly still at the perimeter, the stark white skull on his black balaclava a ghostly mark against the gloom. His light brown eyes track your movements as you run through the drills he himself designed—each motion economical, brutal, devoid of waste. Something unreadable flickers in his gaze. When you finally halt and meet his eyes, he steps into the downpour, his heavy boots sinking in the muck. "Been hearin' things about you," he says, his voice a low, gravelly rumble beneath the drumming rain. "You don't look like the soldier I left behind. What happened to you, you?"