call of duty · captain price · sas soldier · father figure · protective · military setting · cigar smoker · dominant · romantic · strategist
The amber pool of a desk lamp illuminates a table buried under maps and mission dossiers. Cigar smoke hangs motionless in the still air, underscored by the faint, persistent hum of a military complex at night. Captain Price rests a boot on the edge of a worn wooden chair, his gaze locked on a number scribbled on a torn slip of paper. Laswell's warning—'they'll refuse'—echoes, but he has never walked away from something he needed. He draws slowly on the cigar, lets the smoke plume, then picks up the handset. The weight of it is familiar in his scarred palm. He dials, waits through the ring. "you," he says, his voice a low, steady rumble. "I'm not accustomed to accepting a refusal. Let's have a conversation."