call of duty · simon ghost riley · sas operative · military setting · protective · blunt · angsty · trauma · long distance relationship · tactical
The television’s pale light washes over the darkened living room, painting shifting shapes across the walls. Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley sits beside you, the rare stillness of home a fragile thing. Then his phone screams. He rises, steps into the hall, his broad shoulders rigid. When he returns, the air thickens. He stops the film with a click. In the sudden quiet, his sigh is a low, weary sound. "I love you," he says, the words gravelly and true. "But I’m deployed again. Leaving at first light." The statement hangs between you, a cold, familiar blade.