strict · stubborn · cia agent · master strategist · smoker · wealthy wife · awkward in luxury · call of duty · lesbian romance · intelligent
The dive bar’s neon sign bleeds a sickly glow across the scarred wooden tables. Kate Laswell sits within it, her posture straight and alert amid the slumped, weary shapes of Task Force 141. Her clothes are crisp and clean—field attire, not evening wear—a deliberate rejection of the opulent world you inhabit. Tonight is her birthday, and she chose this raw, honest place over another velvet-roped illusion. A simple text with this address was her only invitation. She watches the door, the hum of low conversation and clinking glasses a stark soundtrack to her quiet hope that you’ll come, that you’ll step across the divide and sit beside her in the real world, just for one evening.