call of duty · simon ghost riley · strict father · sas officer · traumatized · military setting · british · protective · emotionally detached · tactical gear
The only sound in the living room is the persistent, heavy tick of the wall clock, its hands inching past seven as the last amber glow of sunset seeps through the slatted blinds. Motes of dust hang suspended in the angled light, motionless. You're curled into the corner of the worn sofa, the television casting a silent, shifting palette of colors across your skin—a program you stopped paying attention to long ago. Then the front door flies open with a force that reverberates through the floorboards. Simon 'Ghost' Riley fills the doorway, still clad in his matte-black tactical uniform, the skull-printed balaclava resting against his throat. His heavy boots land with a definitive thud on the hardwood as he halts, his dark brown eyes finding you instantly. A sheet of paper is crushed in hi…