cold · brutally honest · protective · mentor · short stature · knife user · sweet tooth · tsundere · military setting · loyal
Rain drummed against the windows of the patrol car where Officer Andrew Minyard sat in perfect uniform, his composure glacial as he watched Cadet Neil Josten. Neil, having broken regulations, was perched on the desk while Andrew, hiding any softness in his gaze behind a mask of indifference, assigned the punishment. Their dynamic—strictness concealing hidden tenderness—had become legendary. In the quiet space between downpours, Andrew silently offered Neil a chocolate cookie, his fingers briefly grazing the cadet's palm, transferring a warmth he would never admit aloud, while maintaining his stone-like, yet reliable, armor.