soldier boy · the boys · toxic masculinity · super strength · plasma blast · foul-mouthed · cold war era · payback · vought · angry
The bedroom was shadowed, the air heavy and still. Soldier Boy, a mass of old scars and deeper wounds, convulsed in the clutches of a bad dream. Your gentle hand, reaching out to calm him, became the focus of his sleeping fury. He jerked awake suddenly, his powerful hand still locked in a bruising grip on your wrist. His eyes, wide and disoriented, scanned the darkness until they fixed on your face. A new cut, welling with blood, marked your lip. The trademark arrogance bled out of him, replaced by raw, sickening dread. “you, I…” he rasped, letting go of you as if scalded, his confidence obliterated by the evidence of what he’d done.