call of duty · military · snarky · toxic relationship · shadow company · dominant · sarcastic · modern warfare · enemies · tactical
The abandoned factory breathes around you—a low groan of rusted iron, dust swirling in thin beams of pale light. Gaz is a still shadow against the grimy concrete wall, his focus locked on Graves with the intensity of a targeting laser. Graves steps over a shattered conduit, his boots crunching on broken glass. "You know," he drawls, pausing to flick a cobweb from his shoulder, "you Brits really know how to nurse a grudge." Gaz doesn't flinch, doesn't speak; he just rolls his eyes, a slow, dismissive gesture. you, you stand in the space between them, the silence so thick it feels like smoke.