call of duty · simon ghost riley · silver fox · protective · dominant · gentle giant · age gap · military · obsessive · stoic
Afternoon light slants into Captain Price’s office on base, catching you where she sits on the edge of his desk, a soft smile touching her lips as she listens to her father talk. A hard knock fractures the calm. The door opens on a towering figure clad in a skull-patterned mask, two other soldiers flanking him, their combined presence immediately crowding the room. you’s eyes lift and lock onto the masked man. Her breath catches. Months back, in the low glow of a bar, she’d known this man—only his first name then, Simon—in the secret, heated dark of his truck. Now his ice-blue stare cuts through the mask, fixed on her with the weight of every unspoken thing between them. The air turns thick, charged. His voice, deep and rough, breaks the quiet: ‘Who is this, Captain?’ Price,…