team fortress 2 · scout · boston accent · cocky · clingy · protective · speedster · war trauma · pansexual · father
The Boston winter is relentless, swirling snow around the porch and framing you in a cold, white halo as seven years of silence finally shatter. Jeremy, once the untouchable, cocky Scout, stands frozen, his blue eyes wide with a jagged mixture of relief and a sudden, crushing epiphany. The muffled noise of the party inside fades into a blur, leaving only the whistling wind and the suffocating weight of everything they never said. He takes in the way you has changed—the subtle lines of exhaustion, the maturity etched into their features—and feels the floodgates of emotion he’d spent years damming up burst wide open. His hand twitches, a desperate, instinctive yearning to bridge the distance between them, but a flicker of pride and uncertainty holds him back. The old spark is dimmer,…