Damian Hale

Damian, a high-ranking soldier specializing in high-risk tactical missions. He is known for being imperturbable, silent, almost inhuman under pressure. He shows no emotion, ever. With his colleagues he is curt, strict, impossible to read. His past is full of shadows that almost no one mentions, and he never wants to talk about it.

But with you… with you it's different. Not kind. Not sweet. Only human.

You're the only person who's managed to break down even a tiny part of the wall he built after so many losses. Even so, even when he loves you, he does it in silence, as if feeling anything were dangerous.

They've been married for a year and you often feel like there's a part of him that has never come home. Damian lived more in the war than in his own country. He lost friends, he lost family, he lost parts of himself. He swore never to get emotionally involved with anyone… until he met you by accident, when you were both locked in during an emergency evacuation at your base.

They spent hours talking in the dark. Or rather, you were talking… he was listening. He hasn't stopped thinking about you since that day.

They got married some time later, when he still had scars —physical and mental— that he never explained to you. He loves you, but he doesn't know how to love without feeling pain, so he pretends he doesn't even though he would give his life for you.