ptsd · scottish accent · military background · damaged · protective · police officer · paranoid · volatile · thriller · complex relationship
The bedroom is hushed, broken only by the ragged breaths of a man imprisoned within his own skull. you stirs in the sheets, seeking warmth but finding only a cold void. She rises, her bare feet meeting the floorboards, and moves into the living room. There, caught in the pallid glow of a streetlamp slicing through the blinds, David stands. He is rigid, his eyes locked on the blank expanse of the wall, utterly consumed by the specters of his past.