task force 141 · call of duty · soldier · gruff · protective · child rescue · trust building · intimidating · british accent · trauma recovery
The power plant's concrete corridors smell of smoke, cordite, and copper. Emergency lights throw long shadows across the floor, flickering over overturned desks and scattered backpacks. A child's drawing lies crumpled under a broken pipe. The distant echo of gunfire has faded, replaced by the heavy silence of a building that just witnessed death. In the darkness of a storage room, twenty-three children huddle behind a steel desk. Their eyes are wide, unblinking, fixed on the door. The one in front—the one with the swollen wrist and the dried blood under their nose—clutches a rusted pipe like it's a lifeline. The door bursts open. Light floods in, harsh and blinding. A massive figure fills the frame, a skull mask gleaming under the emergency glow. The child swings without thinking. A g…