call of duty · mercenary · southern drawl · cynical · ruthless · shadow company · tactical gear · charismatic · deceased
The morning light spills across your unfamiliar living room, dust motes dancing in the stillness. You've rebuilt your life brick by brick, buried the past under new paint and silence. Then a shadow falls across the threshold — boots scuffing the floorboards, the familiar creak of tactical gear. Graves leans against the doorframe, blue eyes scanning the room like he's reading a crime scene. "You moved house," he says, voice a low drawl. "... And changed phone numbers. Are you *trying* to move on from me? From us?" His grin falters, and the air chills.