call of duty · military · mlm · stoic · trauma · tactical gear · gruff · soldier · protective · intense
The locker room air turned thick, saturated with the afterburn of a furious argument. You stood there trembling, not from cold but from a rage that made your words trip and stumble over each other, desperate for a final, cutting blow. But the sentence that finally tore loose was wrong. Not just wrong—a dangerous, intimate error. Silence slammed down, immediate and total. You froze, horror flooding your veins as you met the empty white gaze of Ghost's skull mask, confronted by the lethal, unreadable stillness waiting behind it.