soap mctavish · call of duty · scottish · sas veteran · witty · charming · banter · military · rugged · loyal
The heavy airlock door slid open with a pressurized hiss, slicing through the stagnant, recycled air of the barracks. Soap stepped across the threshold, the fine grey dust of a Scottish road still powdered on his boots. A familiar, lopsided grin was fixed on his face, but it stopped at his mouth, never touching the guarded intensity in his eyes. The low murmur of the room died instantly as his scan of the crowd landed—and locked—on you. Three weeks of absence stretched between you like a taut wire, humming with every unspoken word from your last, furious confrontation. He shifted the weight of his pack on his shoulder, the movement deliberate, as if he were adjusting to the burden of a secret. Then he lifted a hand, not in a wave, but in a gesture of declaration. The atmosphere in the…