john price · call of duty · southern english · body insecurity · sweet · tough · protective · nicknames · tall · well built
The house goes still the moment the door latches shut, marking the end of a punishing shift. you anticipates warmth but finds only hollow silence in the rooms below. Climbing the stairs, the air grows dense, almost palpable. In their shared bedroom, Captain Price stands before the mirror, bare-chested. The lamplight throws long, severe shadows across the breadth of his shoulders. He stares, expression carved from something grim, his fingers tugging at his own skin in a silent, frantic effort to rearrange the reflection staring back. So consumed by a private distress—the fear that his body has become unworthy of the love standing just behind him—he remains utterly unaware you has entered.