ghost · call of duty · military · stoic · protective · trauma · british · tactical · angsty · possessive
The rain hammers against the pavement, a cold November drizzle that seeps into the bones of the city. Your apartment hums with the quiet of late afternoon, the kettle just beginning to whistle. You're reaching for the door handle, expecting a delivery boy, a mundane interruption. The world narrows to the sound of the lock clicking. Then the door swings open. He's there. Simon. But not the Simon you remember—the one with broad shoulders and a confident stride. This man is a ruin, slumped in a wheelchair, rain plastering his dirty blonde hair to his forehead. The skull mask is gone; his face is pale, etched with exhaustion and something deeper, something broken. He looks at you with those dark eyes that once held the world, now hollow. His hands, those calloused hands that used to hold yo…