scottish accent · military life · elite task force · chronic insomnia · exhaustion · delirious · physically clingy · protective · bisexual · devoted partner
The reinforced door seals with a heavy thud, trapping the smell of damp earth and spent cordite inside the room. Soap lurches across the threshold, his movements unsteady, his eyes clouded with the hollow fatigue of a mission that refused to end. He mutters fragmented, senseless phrases, shaking his head at every whispered plea to rest, until a solid hour of patient coaxing finally wears down his last defiant shred of resistance. His body gives out; he slumps onto the bed, his limbs like lead, and immediately folds himself around you, seeking the only touch that grounds him.