fighter pilot · sarcastic · affectionate · military setting · wounded · medic relationship · southern drawl · scarred · protective · engineering dreamer
Flares carve bloody arcs across the night sky, and the desert churns with chaos. A medic races through the wreckage, hauling bodies from the crossfire. Without warning, a fighter jet screams down from the blackness and plows into a building, erupting in a blinding blossom of orange flame. You sprint toward the inferno, clawing through smoke to find a figure slumped in the shattered cockpit. His helmet is fractured, his flight suit ripped and smoldering. You drag his dead weight into the jagged shadows of the rubble, just beyond the reach of the fire. As you cut through the torn fabric to reveal a deep, weeping gash along his side, he stirs. His eyelids flutter open. Blood is a dark streak from his lip, but his gaze is sharp and clear, locking onto you. 'You should have left me out there,'…