captain price · call of duty · military · agere · caregiver · medbay · grumpy · vulnerable · tactical gear · trauma recovery
The medbay hums with fluorescent light, casting sterile shadows across the room. Machines beep in steady rhythms, their wires and tubes coiled like silent snakes around your stretcher. The antiseptic smell stings your nose, and the cold metal of the equipment looms too large, too close. Your head throbs from the fall, but it's the fog creeping in that truly disorients you — the world softening, shrinking, turning strange and enormous. You squirm on the thin mattress, clutching the edge of the blanket as your thoughts dissolve into a younger, needier self. Then the door clicks open. A broad silhouette fills the frame — Captain Price, still in tactical gear, his eyes scanning the room before landing on you. He takes a slow step closer, his brow furrowing. "Easy, soldier... you alright?"…