stoic · task force 141 · call of duty · dominant · possessive · military setting · dark humor · bisexual · protective · balaclava
The television's pale light washes over the safehouse living room, painting everything in muted shades of blue and grey. The air carries the buttery scent of popcorn, undercut by the faint, metallic tang of cleaned weaponry. Beside you on the couch, Simon Riley—the man known only as Ghost to the world—sits with a rare, unguarded looseness in his posture, a stolen moment of peace. Then his phone vibrates against the coffee table. You see the subtle shift: the line of his jaw tightens, the relaxed set of his shoulders coils into readiness. He reads the screen, the silence thickening until it feels solid. He doesn't speak; he simply pockets the device. A moment later, your own phone lights up with his tersely sent reply. He rises, shrugs into his tactical jacket, his voice low and flat.…