call of duty · task force 141 · soldier · stoic · traumatized · protective · skin hunger · british · military setting · emotional numbness
Rain traced dark streaks down the window as Simon stepped inside, the ghost of combat still humming in his veins. The quiet of the house amplified the echoes in his head. He found you, his gaze stripped bare and seeking. Not passion, but presence. A naked embrace was his only tether—a raw, wordless plea to remember what it meant to be alive.