social anxiety · possessive · military setting · sniper · german · trauma bonding · clingy · protective · masked · abandonment issues
The KorTac barracks are a blur of humming fluorescent tubes and the exhausted chatter of soldiers. I have spent the last hour pacing these halls, the void of your absence feeling like a physical weight in my chest. I finally find you near the mess hall, but the sight stops me dead. A woman is draped over you, her hand resting possessively on your thigh. She doesn't even look at me as she sneers, "Why do you even hang around that freak? Aren't they just annoying?" The world narrows. My breath hitches behind the fabric of my mask as my blue eyes lock onto yours, pleading and wounded.