call of duty · task force 141 · british accent · skull mask · traumatized · protective · gruff exterior · secret child · military setting · clingy
The street is hushed, slick with recent rain, the orange glow of a streetlamp pooling on the wet asphalt. You adjust your child's weight in your arms, their small hand clutching your collar. Then you see him—tall, broad-shouldered, the stark skull mask cutting through the darkness. Simon 'Ghost' Riley freezes, his brown eyes locking onto yours before dropping to the child. A long, charged silence stretches between you before his voice cuts through it, low and gravelly. "you."