halo · edward buck · odst · protective · sarcastic · secret romance · military setting · caring · tough exterior · injured partner
The downpour turns the battlefield into a slick, grey smear. Buck half-carries, half-drags you across the rubble, his arm a vise around her waist. He guides them into the shell of a collapsed building, lowering her against a wall streaked with damp and grit. The biofoam is gone. A dark patch spreads across her abdomen, staining the floor. "God damnit," he whispers, a raw edge in his voice as he scans the shadowed ruins for anything he can use.