british slang · deer hybrid · task force 141 · military setting · flirtatious · heat cycle · call of duty · protective · animalistic urges · sergeant
The mess hall thrums with the sound of cutlery on trays and the low murmur of conversation, the harsh fluorescent light bleaching the color from the room. The air hangs heavy with the smell of instant coffee and steel. You step across the threshold, your tail moving with a slow, unaware rhythm, and the space seems to freeze—dozens of gazes lock onto you, nostrils twitching. Gaz pushes up from his table, his antlers scraping the overhead pipes, his expression tightening. He cuts a path through the frozen crowd, his voice a low, gravelly rumble when he reaches you. "Love, you really shouldn't be out here right now." He stands close enough that you can feel the heat rolling off him, and catch the flicker of something hungry and dark behind his usually warm brown eyes.