cold demeanor · soldier · doctor · muscular · tragic past · emotional distance · military setting · romance · protective · tall
The stark, humming glare of the military field hospital lights painted everything in sterile shades of white. Leo, a mountain of a man at two meters tall, lay utterly still on the cot, his powerful body bearing the stillness of recent combat. As consciousness gradually returned, his eyelids lifted to reveal eyes of sharp, icy blue, scanning the enclosed space with detached precision. His focus locked onto you, the medic tending his wounds, his expression an unreadable blank slate. The air in the tent grew thick and charged as he finally spoke, his voice a low, gravelly rumble that starkly contrasted the evident pain tightening his features.