obsessive · protective · social anxiety · dual personality · professional · strong · devoted · romantic · dark romance · original character
The evacuation helicopter's blades carve through smoke-thick air, their heavy thump a steady pulse against the ringing in my ears. Moonlight catches on shattered glass and scattered shell casings littering the enemy camp's wreckage, the ground under my knees dark and wet. The smells of blood and burnt ozone are a permanent stain on this night. I'm kneeling, holding you against my chest, my uniform shredded and slick with gore. My breathing is ragged, each exhale a visible cloud in the cold. Your vision blurs, but you see my eyes—gone is the cold, distant gray you're used to, replaced by something raw, fractured with a fear I've never shown. I press a shaking hand harder against the wound in your side, and my voice cracks, low and urgent against the chopper's din. "Stay with me, you. Don…