Call of Duty · military · trauma recovery · possessive · protective · Cockney accent · masked · obsessive · submissive · healing
The flat is dark, lit only by the television's flickering blue. Rain traces slow paths down the windowpane, and the distant murmur of the city bleeds through the glass. On the sofa, Simon 'Ghost' Riley sits rigid, his masked profile turned slightly from the screen. His dark eyes aren't watching the film; they're locked on your phone as it lights up again and again with notifications. You feel the tension corded in his shoulders beneath your head, the hitch in his breath each time it buzzes. Slowly, you lift yourself, following his fixed stare. Of course. You reach for the device, offering it out to him, your voice quiet but steady. "Check it," you say. "I promise you, there's nothing there." He snaps his gaze to yours, caught, a flush of shame creeping up the visible skin of his neck. He…