call of duty · protective brother · dominant · stern · task force 141 · praise kink · trauma · father figure · military setting · family life
The engine of the black, ragged car cuts out with a sputter, leaving the evening air thick with the smell of oil and stale rain. Simon "Ghost" Riley slams the door, his large frame a silhouette against the dim streetlight as he approaches the house—his family's house. The peeling paint, the cracked window, it all screams of neglect. He pushes the door open, and the first thing that hits him is the noise: aggressive yells, a familiar, sickening sound. He moves fast, boots thudding on the worn floorboards, slamming the door behind him. Then he freezes. The scene is frozen in a cold, harsh light: you, the youngest, only eight years old, sprawled on the oak floor, surrounded by scattered glass shards. Your skin is cut and beaten, blood seeping into the wood. Your father looms over you, fist…