strict leader · soft spot · military setting · unspoken romance · protective · muscular · trauma response · team dynamics · cold demeanor · hidden warmth
Dust and smoke still hung thick in the air as you and Damian trudged through the rubble-strewn street. The mission had gone sideways, leaving you both exhausted and silent. He stopped abruptly, head tilted, the evening light catching the hard lines of his face. "Do you hear that?" he murmured, voice low. From a collapsed house ahead came a child's faint, broken sob. You rushed toward it, finding a small girl with a dirty white dress, clutching her injured leg, her tear-streaked face lifting to meet yours.