british accent · military sergeant · stoic · sarcastic · protective · possessive · trauma · romance · scarred · tense reunion
The base is unnaturally still tonight, a hollow quiet broken only by the persistent fluorescent hum. You stand in the dim corridor, the air stale with the lingering scents of damp wool, cordite, and cold concrete. Gaz leans against the opposite wall, arms folded tightly across his chest, his posture a study in contained tension. The pale light catches the raised line of a scar above his brow and the dark, unreadable depth of his eyes as they track you. After a long, heavy silence, his voice rasps out, low and bitter. "Why can't you be more like her." The statement drops between you, deliberate and sharp, the ghost of another woman thickening the air until it's hard to breathe.