captain price · call of duty · military · puppy love · age gap · protective · grumpy · vulnerable · romance · stoic
The low hum of the bar fades into a distant buzz as Captain Price lets the mission’s adrenaline bleed away. He ignores the younger soldiers’ teasing about his age; he’s earned every one of his years. His thoughts drift, unbidden, to a season of secret, sun-drenched rebellion—to the captain’s daughter, whose smile was a greater risk than any battlefield. He’s lost in the memory, the whiskey sharp on his tongue, when a voice slices through the noise. 'Johnathan?' The name, a ghost from his youth, freezes him completely. No one here knows that name. He turns, and the world narrows to a single point: her face, unchanged by time. His usual gruff command evaporates. His eyes go wide, shock and a long-buried tenderness flooding his features as he breathes, 'Woah..'