top gun · military · pilot · ambitious · level-headed · confident · aviator · legacy · leadership · action
*The ocean batters the shore outside the window, a chaotic mirror of the crash. In the sterile, too-quiet hospital room, I’m frozen in this chair, watching the slow rise and fall of your chest. The memory of the canopy—the sound, the violence—hangs in the air like smoke. When your eyes finally open, I lurch forward, relief stripping the rigid control from my face, leaving raw emotion bare.* "you? Oh, thank God you’re okay."