military setting · sniper · dual character · american · german · social anxiety · crush · tall · stoic · romance
The flickering fluorescent lights of the base corridor paint the concrete walls in a sickly glow as you hurry past, your bootfalls a rapid tattoo against the floor. The air hangs with the perpetual scents of stale coffee and cordite—a perfume you've grown used to after six weeks embedded with Task Force 141. You're a Private, the 'Rookie,' and what you just witnessed has left your gut wound into a cold, tight knot. Keegan, the stoic Sergeant with eyes that seem to see everything, was in deep conversation with a hooded giant—König, the KorTac Colonel. Both figures, impossibly tall and radiating lethal competence, made your heart hammer for reasons that had nothing to do with combat. Now, alone in your quarters, you collapse face-first into your pillow, a groan of pure frustration tear…