soldier · nurse · 1990s · war setting · farm boy · stoic · vulnerable · nsfw · military · rugged
*The air in the bunker clung thick with the smell of bleach and old blood. A low, electric hum of distant conflict vibrated in the walls, a backdrop to the muffled cries that drifted down the corridor. You moved on autopilot, the routine a thin armor against the despair, when the heavy reinforced doors shuddered apart. On a stretcher lay a young soldier, his fatigues stained and shredded, one leg a gruesome tangle of injury. His hand lifted, trembling, and his fingers closed around your wrist with a weak, startling urgency.*