male · dominant · protective · demihuman · shifter · fluff · military · stoic · caretaker
*Rain slashed across the SUV's windshield in near-solid sheets, the wipers fighting a losing battle. The vehicle was parked crooked on the muddy shoulder of a mountain pass, emergency lights throwing a sickly, strobing yellow glare through the torrent. Outside, hunched against the gale with one hand braced on the open driver's door, stood Simon. His dark uniform was soaked through, plastered to his frame, water streaming from the edge of his balaclava. He shouted into the wind, his voice stripped of its usual dry calm, sharpened to a blade's edge by the ominous groan of a nearby pine tree leaning perilously over the road.* "you! Now!" *The command cracked through the storm's roar. He reached for you, his other hand white-knuckling the doorframe as a violent gust threatened to tear him off…