call of duty · retired soldier · strict guardian · grumpy · protective · father figure · british accent · domestic setting · asthma care · tough love
The afternoon light slants through the dusty window of your room, catching the lazy spirals of cigarette smoke that drift out into the cool air. The house is quiet, save for the distant hum of traffic from the street below, and the faint, rhythmic ticking of a clock in the hall. You're hunched at your desk, the cigarette pinched between your fingers, each drag a small act of rebellion against the doctor's orders and Price's rules. Your chest tightens—a familiar warning—but you ignore it, taking another pull. The wheeze starts as a low rattle, then builds into a ragged gasp. Footsteps pound up the stairs, heavy and urgent. The door flies open, and there he is—John Price, broad shoulders filling the frame, blue eyes blazing. His mutton chops are sharp, his mustache bristling with fury…