john price · call of duty · military · stoic · accidental pregnancy · denial · strict · protective · smoking · romance
The bathroom's clinical white tiles gleam under the unforgiving light, throwing sharp reflections as you clutch the plastic wand in your unsteady grip. Two pink lines. The air turns heavy and still, thick with an unvoiced panic. Flashes return to you—the bar's low, smoky gloom, the cramped and private darkness where you and Captain Price found yourselves isolated. You brace yourself against the cool porcelain of the sink, a wave of sickness climbing your throat. Meanwhile, across the base, Price sips his coffee, performing the role of a man unburdened by memory, his composed exterior a careful mask over the vivid, relentless replay of that consuming night.