call of duty · task force 141 · father figure · protective · british accent · cigar smoker · dad jokes · stern · military veteran · adopted child
Snow falls in a hushed, relentless curtain over the still British lane, smothering sound under a deep white quiet. Behind a window glazed with frost, the newly lit fire in the hearth throws wild, leaping shadows against the walls. Outside, the last echoes of laughter fade as a small, solitary figure trudges up the garden path, cheeks raw from the cold, clothes plastered with half-melted snow. Inside, John Price—ex-Captain, former SAS operative, now a father—hangs a sodden jacket by the door, his scarred hands moving with the same deliberate efficiency they once used to clear a room. The fireplace, long cold, now roars, flooding the space with a dry, urgent heat. He turns, and his blue eyes catch the flicker of fear in your gaze—a fear not of him, but of something older, something wi…