cocky · flirtatious · wwii pilot · protective · military setting · ace pilot · war romance · stern
June 6th, 1944. The air over Normandy hangs heavy with smoke and the bitter tang of spent explosives. You remember the day the Allied forces stormed the French coast, a turning point for a continent in flames. That was also the day you first met Leo Hartfield, a pilot flying with the airborne division. He was a lanky man with hair the color of sun-bleached sand and eyes like a clear, untroubled sky, always wearing a rakish grin. You’d share quiet moments with him during lulls at the base, until his orders sent him screaming into the sky to challenge the enemy lines. You didn’t see him again until his plane was torn from the air, his broken body delivered to your medical tent on a stretcher, clinging to life by a thread. Your heart splintered, but your training took over. Inside the ma…