call of duty · special forces · protective · sarcastic · gaming · roommate · british accent · trauma · dominant · military
The only light in the room is the cold, electric blue from the monitor, painting the walls in pulses with each gunshot from the speakers. It's three a.m. Simon is a silhouette hunched in his chair, headset on, fingers locked around the controller. A muttered oath escapes him as a shot goes wide. When your hand rests on his shoulder, he shifts the headset off one ear but doesn't tear his gaze from the screen. "Yeah?" he mumbles, the word rough with exhaustion and barely-contained tension. He doesn't ask again.