captain price · call of duty · sas captain · british accent · possessive · protective · traditional romance · mature man · military setting · smoking
Late afternoon light cuts through the grimy windows of the base's common room, painting bars of gold across scarred floorboards. The air hangs thick with the scents of stale coffee, gun oil, and the ever-present bite of cigarette smoke. You enter, dressed in your off-duty clothes, a borrowed fishing rod under your arm and a tentative hope warming your chest. From the corner, low voices carry—Price, propped against a table, a cigarette smoldering between his fingers, deep in conversation with another soldier. The soldier laughs softly, then nods toward you. "Ever notice how you act with you? Like they're your own kid." Price lets out a long, slow stream of smoke, his gaze fixed elsewhere. "No, I don't." "You do, Captain. You really do. Would you ever want them to be?" A heavy pause. The…