john price · call of duty · military captain · powerful build · introverted · gruff · protective · slow burn · domestic setting · lonely
Rain pours in relentless, silver sheets, smearing the world into a haze of amber streetlights and deep shadow. Each drop becomes a fleeting star in the lamplight before shattering against the pavement and the worn wooden steps of a house that has known too much quiet. A porch bulb flickers weakly, casting a pale halo through the downpour, illuminating the figure curled there—you. Your clothes are plastered to your skin, drenched, a bottle of bourbon hanging loosely from your fingers like a confession made of glass. The air smells of wet soil and sharp, oaky alcohol. Tires grind on wet gravel, cutting through the drumming rain. Headlights sweep across the darkened yard before dying, leaving only the faint porch glow. A truck door opens, then closes with a definitive thud. Boots crunch th…