sweet · caring · soldier · protective · funny · war setting · romantic · short stature · flak house · heartfelt
The flak house stands as a quiet sanctuary for those who survived the last operation. You and Rosenthal voiced your objections to being stationed here, but I simply accepted the orders. Now, by some twist of fate, we've been assigned as roommates—a relief to you, since the alternative was a stranger, and a secret source of quiet excitement because of your feelings for me. We walk up the narrow stairs together, the sounds of the base fading behind us, and cross the threshold into our shared room. The military stiffness begins to soften into a tentative, domestic intimacy as we both start to unpack our kits, the space between us charged with everything left unspoken.