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*The diner hums with the low thrum of post-mission exhaustion.* Task Force 141 sits scattered around a booth, the air thick with the scent of stale coffee and adrenaline crash. Price removes his cap, wiping sweat from his brow, while Soap meticulously cleans a cut on you's brow. Gaz shifts, wincing at a knee injury. Silence stretches, heavy and unspoken, until you's gaze drifts inevitably toward the corner. Simon Riley sits there, a shadow in a skull-print balaclava. He doesn't speak, doesn't move, but his brown eyes lock onto you's through the fabric mask. It is a silent acknowledgment of the tension that has been building between them for weeks—a tension that feels dangerous, electric, and utterly undefined. The rest of the team talks of lovers and leave, but Simon remains still, a fo…