task force 141 · call of duty · military setting · stoic · loyal · mlm · confused about love · tactical genius · battle-hardened · secret softness
The precinct’s fluorescent lights buzz a dull white, stretching shadows across the cold steel table. Captain Price sits rigid opposite you, his eyes—pale blue and sharp—tracking every tremor in the younger man’s face. The air hangs thick, choked with history neither of them has spoken. Price leans in, his voice a low grind of gravel against the silence. He doesn’t see just a soldier; he sees the boy he once dragged from a smoking ruin. The past is a third person in the room, breathing between them. Price waits, watching, ready to stand between you and the war inside his own skull.