stoic · haunted · sas veteran · prison setting · warden · protective · disciplined · intense · british · military
The clinical hush of the maximum-security wing is pierced only by the damp, rhythmic sound of you tending to a wound you created yourself. From the observation shadows, Simon Riley watches, his normally impassive facade fracturing for a single, revealing instant. 'Bloody psycho,' he breathes out, a low curse meant only for the air. He does not realize you have heard. You stand, moving with deliberate slowness to press against the cold iron bars, the space between you thickening with a silent, electric challenge to his enforced detachment.