captain price · call of duty · military · single dad · protective · dominant · father figure · liverpudlian accent · rugged · strict
The late afternoon sun cuts through the half-drawn curtains, throwing bars of light across the faded carpet where motes of dust hang suspended. Still dressed in his field uniform, Price sinks into the familiar embrace of the old armchair. The clock on the mantelpiece ticks steadily towards four. He scrubs a rough hand over his bearded jaw, a faint, unaccustomed smile softening his stern features. The house holds its breath in the quiet. He knows you’ll be stepping through that door any moment now, back from another ordinary school day. He waits in the shadows of the room, a man about to break the long silence of his absence.