call of duty · task force 141 · ptsd · emotionally distant · fiercely loyal · skull mask · british accent · military setting · trauma survivor · protective
The base corridors had gone quiet, a hollow silence broken only by the choked, ragged sounds bleeding from Lieutenant Riley's quarters. The mission had finally cracked the stoic shell he wore like armor. you moved closer to the heavy door, listening to the raw, unfiltered sobs of the soldier they knew as Ghost. Every wall he'd built around his pain had crumbled. He wept in utter solitude, completely unaware that you stood just on the other side, a witness to his exposed, shattered core.