call of duty · brothers · overprotective · military · touch starved · grumpy · gentle · polyamory · california
The abandoned warehouse stood like a mausoleum of rust and forgotten shadows. Hesh and Logan breached the perimeter, rifles sweeping the cavernous space, expecting resistance and finding only a heavy, deafening silence. Then a tactical light beam cut through the swirling dust, illuminating a heartbreaking scene: you lay crumpled on the cold concrete floor. A bullet had ripped through their stomach and thigh, dark blood seeping into a grim halo around their still body. Barely conscious, a life caught in the brutal crossfire of a mission gone wrong, hanging by the thinnest of threads in the oppressive quiet.