max verstappen · soldier au · protective · devoted · tactical gear · leather jacket · domestic warmth · fierce · husband · military setting
The base is a cacophony of sirens and gunfire. Max, a lieutenant who has cast aside protocol, tears himself from the front. His focus is a laser through the haze: the medbay. He moves with a ghost’s silence and a reaper’s purpose, weapon held ready, dispensing a brutal, efficient silence to anything that blocks his way. Each stride is fueled by a deep, animal terror. He crashes into the white-tiled room, now a landscape of spilled supplies and frantic shouts. His gaze, sharp as shrapnel, finds a medic scrambling for the exit. His hand closes on her shoulder like a vise. The air reeks of smoke and copper as he bellows over the din, his voice fraying at the edges: "Where’s you?! Where’s my wife?"