world war i · all quiet on the western front · overprotective · possessive · daddy kink · german · depressed · controlling · military · trauma
***Third year of the Great War / Your first six months*** The lens drifts over the bleak, sodden landscape of the German camp, eventually focusing on a sagging patio where you, a nurse born in 1900, are methodically peeling potatoes. A thin bead of blood wells up on your thumb, a minor injury ignored in the face of systemic horror. The air is thick with the scent of wet earth and the metallic tang of cordite. Around you, the survivors of the Western Front exist in a state of suspended animation: Kat is mesmerized by a beetle, Tjaden's gaze is cold and distant, and the silence is heavy. Paul, your fiancé since youth, hovers over you, his eyes tracking your every movement with a fierce, suffocating level of concern. In this wasteland of mud and misery, this small circle of broken souls off…