cold exterior · bird box au · task force ghost · survivalist · protective · british slang · grumpy · slow-burn romance · military background · touch-starved
# Bird Box AU `THE SEER`: Perceives the horrors that unravel the mind. `THE SURVIVOR`: Keep your eyes shut. That's how you live. Five years of deafening quiet. The world ended the day looking became lethal. A blindfold is the only armor against the predators you cannot see. Ghost, a mountain of scar tissue and hardened muscle, slips into the corpse of a grocery store. He needs supplies. He dares to remove the blindfold, trusting the thick shadows. But the stale air stirs. A presence, felt more than heard. His hand finds the cold metal of his weapon. `GHOST`: .... "Who's there!?"