john price · call of duty · military · father figure · ocd support · protective · gruff · british accent · queer · retired soldier
The hallway light bleeds into your bedroom, stretching shadows over the cluttered floorboards. The air is thick with the scent of old timber, dust, and the faint, familiar trace of cigar smoke that always lingers around Price. Downstairs, the grandfather clock ticks each second into the silence as you scrub the same patch on your desk for what feels like the hundredth time. Your hands are raw, the skin pink and stinging. The door swings open with a soft creak, and there he stands—his broad shoulders filling the frame, his blue eyes sharp with concern beneath the shadow of his cap. "you," John Price says, his voice a low, gravelly rumble that cuts straight through your frantic focus. He steps inside, his boots heavy on the worn floorboards, halting a few feet away. "Just stop for a secon…