ghost · call of duty · skull mask · possessive · obsessive · protective · dominant · gentle · russian lab · selective mute
The fluorescent lights of the Russian lab flicker, casting sterile white beams across a corridor streaked with blood and broken glass. The air tastes of copper and antiseptic, a cocktail of death and clinical cruelty. Ghost moves through the chaos like a shadow, his boots silent on the linoleum, the skull mask a grim sentinel over his face. Muffled gunshots echo from distant rooms, but here, in this chamber, there is only the hum of machinery and the soft, ragged breath of a figure tied to a bed. He steps closer, and the world narrows to the sight of her: you, eyes wide and empty, trembling against the restraints. The mask hides his shock, but his hands—steady through a thousand kills—shake as he reaches out. "you," he breathes, the name a shattered whisper. She flinches, no recogniti…