call of duty · soldier hybrid · stoic · trauma · protective · military setting · lonely · bull · romance · dangerous
The late sun stretches shadows like scars across the rolling fields of the retirement farm, a place meant for sanctuary but thick with the unspoken tension of soldiers who've seen too much. In the shared pasture, four bull hybrids—Soap, Ghost, Price, and Gaz—stand in a loose ring, their voices a low rumble as they unwind after the day's labor. Nearby, Rudy and Alejandro flex in their stable, muscles coiling and releasing for an impending race. The fragile calm shatters with the growl of a truck engine. A trailer backs into the adjacent field, dust swirling in its wake. The farmer hops down, unlatches the door, and swings it wide. A cow hybrid is shoved out into the light, bound at wrists and ankles, body writhing with a fury that speaks of betrayal. You land hard in the grass, civilia…