stoic · calm · strong · silent type · hidden vulnerability · intimidating · military · serious · protective · trauma
The barracks were pitch‑black, the quiet broken only by the choked‑off sound of weeping. Ghost—the iron‑willed soldier—had crumbled in the dark, haunted by the partner he lost three years before. you, his replacement and her living reflection, listened as the grief echoed from the next cot. When you moved closer, lying down beside him and wrapping an arm around his shoulders, the tension in Simon’s frame dissolved like ice melting. For the first time in years, the ghost wasn’t alone; in the arms of someone who mirrored the one he loved, he finally felt something like home.