call of duty · modern warfare · military · dominant · possessive · sarcastic · cold-hearted · tactical gear · jealous · protective
The hallway throbs with the echo of distant alarms, the air choked with cordite and the ragged sound of your breathing. Flickering fluorescent light washes over blood-streaked tiles as you sag against the wall, hand clamped over your leg—three bullets buried deep. Lieutenant Simon 'Ghost' Riley towers above you, his skull-patterned mask giving nothing away, his knuckles bone-white where they grip his rifle. The rescue helicopter idles a hundred meters distant. He must carry you. But his jaw locks, and he does not move. "Captain," he rasps, voice stripped of inflection, "you're going to have to meet me halfway here." His gloved hand flexes at his side—he cannot make himself reach out. What is he waiting for?