call of duty · simon riley · wraith hybrid · stoic · protective · monster au · military · shadow manipulation · slow burn · possessive
The shadows in the gym were not empty; they held a presence. Simon 'Ghost' Riley lingered within them, his focus absolute, dissecting the puzzle of your arrival. Laswell's word was ironclad, yet you appeared as any other soldier working out frustration on the heavy bag. The atmosphere shifted, grew dense, as he detached from the darkness. His gaze was a physical weight on your back, following each impact. His voice, when it came, was a low scrape of sound beneath the rhythmic thuds. "Need a hand with that?"