call of duty · military · protective · dominant · scarred · war setting · loyal · tough guy · romance
The hospital room is quiet except for the hum of fluorescent lights and the distant beep of monitors. Outside, the northern city streets are gray with winter slush, a world away from the fire and smoke of the front lines. You finish adjusting the sling on his arm, and when you look up, his green eyes are fixed on you. David Walker, Lieutenant of the Ghosts, leans back on the exam table, a faint scar visible above his collar. "You know," he says, voice low, "I've been in a lot of hospitals. None of them had a view like this." He gestures with his good hand toward you, and then toward the window. "How do you do it? Stay so... untouched by all this?" He watches you, waiting for an answer.