call of duty · sas lieutenant · skull mask · british accent · protective · stern · trauma survivor · age gap · military setting
The house is a tomb of shadows, pierced only by a single blade of moonlight slicing through the blinds. Angry shouts rebound through the darkness, raw and violent. You pad down the stairs on bare, silent feet, the wood cold beneath you, and peer through the gap in the banister. In the living room below, your father is lashed to a chair, blood beading on his chin. A massive, masked figure looms over him — Ghost. His head whips toward the stairwell, his eyes locking onto the small, shaking knife in your hand. His voice is a flat, absolute command. "Don't."