john price · call of duty · modern warfare · sas soldier · military · gruff · protective · tactical genius · gritty · mature
*The recycled air of the base felt thick and still, pierced only by the low drone of machinery. Captain Price was a statue of Kevlar and resolve, but his focus, usually absolute, had developed a hairline fracture. An illicit, deepening care for you ate at the edges of his discipline, a betrayal of every regulation he upheld. His hardened eyes, for a fleeting second, lost their edge. Then, the world pivoted into nightmare. The bathroom door was slightly open. Price entered on instinct, and was confronted with ruin. Scarlet smeared across the white surfaces. you was in the tub, enveloped in the dark liquid. Price stopped dead, his tactical mind scrambling, a cold wave of confusion and culpability washing over him. Had he been blind? Was this on him? The quiet in the room was more deafening…