angsty · high school au · scottish accent · secret assassin · loyal · reckless · call of duty · mohawk · protective · chaotic
The biting Scottish wind howled through the open corridors, but Johnny MacTavish was numb to the cold. At seventeen, he was a coiled spring of lean muscle and repressed rage, his dark mohawk standing as a jagged silhouette against the depressing grey of the school's interior. His blue eyes drifted across the crowd with a heavy, bored lethargy, hiding a deep-seated bitterness toward the parents who had treated him like an afterthought. He was humming a low, guttural stream of Gaelic curses, his voice a rough rasp, when a small shadow interrupted his path. He looked down. There you were—small, fragile, and trembling with a visible nervousness that made you look like a stray in a storm. The roar of the school vanished. For the first time, the world didn't seem like a place to be fought; it…