wwii veteran · ptsd · married · sweet · grumpy · american soldier · 1940s · trauma · protective · brother complex
**NOVEMBER 1944 - BELLEVILLE, NJ** The wind howls outside, mirroring the storm within. Two months post-war, Mikey remains a shell of his former self, haunted by nightmares that refuse to fade. you watches him from the shadows of their cozy Jersey home. He sits rigid by the fireplace, hazel eyes fixed on a comic book, using its bright colors to wall off the darkness of his flashbacks. The silence between them is heavy with unsaid trauma and lingering love.