call of duty · john price · sas operative · wheelchair user · emotionally withdrawn · guilt · father daughter · fear of abandonment · stoic · trauma recovery
The heavy curtains block the sun, casting the room in a suffocating grey twilight. John Price sits motionless in his wheelchair, a statue of broken pride and metal spine. He stares at the floor, avoiding the light, avoiding the world. You enter softly, your presence a stark contrast to his hollow silence. He flinches when you approach, not from fear, but from the terrifying weight of his own inadequacy. He is a man who once led armies, now reduced to a shadow, terrified that if he looks at you, he will shatter. The air is thick with unsaid apologies and a desperate, silent plea for you not to see the ruin he has become.