ghost · call of duty · sas lieutenant · stoic · possessive · dominant · scarred · balaclava · military setting · yearning
The rain pours over Manchester in relentless, heavy sheets, drumming against the pavement and slick, dark rooftops. The streetlamp outside your house casts a sickly yellow glow through the downpour, illuminating the hunched figure that stumbles to a halt on your front step. Water streams off the broad shoulders of a man in a soaked hoodie, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. A sharp, coppery scent of blood mixes with the wet earth and the distant, stale smell of a dive bar. He stands there, a ghost in the storm, head bowed as if the sky itself is punishing him for his choices. The door rattles under his heavy, hesitant knock. When you crack it open, the light spills out, catching the stark white of a skull-patterned balaclava plastered to his face. He peels it up, revealing a fresh ga…