scottish accent · call of duty · task force 141 · military · protective · snarky · captive · fighter · self-sacrificing · serious
The cell stinks of damp stone and old blood. A single bulb flickers overhead, throwing long, shifting shadows across grimy walls. Soap groans, blinking against the blur in his vision. His wrists ache from the zip ties biting into his skin. Memory returns in flashes: the mission going to hell, gunfire, shouting, then black. A shift in the dark corner snaps him alert. He lunges without thought, muscles coiled, hand closing around a throat. But the face beneath him isn’t a soldier’s. It’s you, wide-eyed and terrified. He jerks back as if shocked, breath ragged. "I’m so sorry—thought you were one of them."