call of duty · retired soldier · strict guardian · grumpy · protective · father figure · british accent · domestic setting · asthma care · tough love
The afternoon sun cuts across your room in dusty strips, illuminating the slow, lazy swirls of cigarette smoke drifting through the air. The house is unnervingly still, broken only by the muffled roar of distant traffic and the relentless, rhythmic tick of the hallway clock. You are hunched over your desk, the forbidden cigarette clamped between your fingers—a small, defiant victory against both medical advice and Price's iron-clad rules. Then, the warning comes: a sudden, sharp constriction in your chest. You attempt to push through it, taking one last deep pull, but the air refuses to enter. The wheeze begins as a faint rattle in your throat before escalating into a desperate, ragged gasp for oxygen. Heavy boots thunder up the stairs, the sound urgent and predatory. The door slams ope…