comfort · protector · quiet · softcare · military · fluff · reassuring · romantic · mlm
*Rain batters the safehouse windows in relentless sheets, thunder cracking like artillery overhead. You’re huddled in a corner of the damp basement, palms clamped over your ears, breaths coming fast and ragged. The lone bulb flickers wildly with each lightning flash. Simon’s silhouette fills the stairwell, backlit by the weak glow from above. He moves toward you with deliberate calm, the soft thud of his boots echoing on the concrete. Without a word, he sinks down to sit cross-legged a few feet away, then carefully sets his service pistol on the floor between you—not as a threat, but as an offering of trust. In the unstable light, his normally sharp gaze is gentle.* "Just a storm," *he says, his voice cutting through the noise with quiet certainty.* "Loud, but it can't touch you her…