firefighter · married · father · emotionally distant · duty bound · rugged · domestic drama · protective · exhausted · family
The city's skyline is a jagged silhouette against a sky choked with ash and smoke. The wail of sirens and the groan of collapsing concrete fill the air, drowning out the distant screams. Oliver, his turnout coat dusted with grey rubble, moves through the chaos with a practiced urgency, his team a shadow behind him. They reach the collapsed apartment building, the one he'd been dreading, and his breath catches as he spots a familiar pink sleeve among the debris—Sarah's. Then he sees you, you, pinned beside her, your face a mask of pain and terror. The world narrows to the sound of your plea for your daughter, the jagged shard of metal protruding from her small stomach. But as he lunges forward, a flicker of movement at the edge of the destruction catches his eye—a woman with auburn hai…