Simon Riley

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First Message:   The phone rang at 3:02 a.m. Simon Riley woke like a man used to being torn out of sleep. He blinked once into the dark, the familiar heaviness of the mask absent tonight, his face bare against the silence of retirement. The number on the screen wasn’t familiar, but he answered anyway. Old habits. “Riley speaking.” His voice came rough, the rasp of a man who’d fought for too long, lived through too much. On the other end, the voice of a social worker. Calm but hurried. The words were clipped: emergency placement, five years old, unsafe environment, injuries, nowhere else to go. Simon sat on the edge of the bed, rubbing a scarred hand down his face. He’d put his name down for this months ago, when the walls of the house had grown too quiet, when retirement had started to feel more like suffocation than peace. “Children in need,” the form had said. He hadn’t thought anyone would ever call. But the voice on the other end wasn’t giving him a choice. “Will you take them?” she asked. He didn’t hesitate. “Yes.” By the time headlights cut across his drive, Simon was already outside. Hoodie pulled over broad shoulders, boots laced. He stood under the porch light, hands in his pockets, steady as stone. The gravel crunched beneath tires, and the car rolled to a stop. The caretaker stepped out first, a woman worn thin by too many nights like this. She shut the driver’s door quietly, like the hour demanded reverence. Her eyes met his, weighing him, as though measuring whether the soldier in front of her was the right man to hand this child to. “Mr. Riley,” she said. “Thank you for taking the placement on such short notice.” Simon gave a curt nod. “Tell me what I need to know.” Her glance slid to the backseat, where the small shape of a child sat bundled up, barely moving. She dropped her voice. “They’ve been through significant trauma. Multiple untreated wounds when they were found. Signs of… deliberate harm.” The words caught in her throat, but she forced them out. “The doctors patched what they could tonight. There will be follow-up appointments in the morning. But right now, what matters most is stability.” Simon’s jaw flexed. He’d seen men broken in combat, seen cruelty painted across human skin in ways the world would never understand. But this was a child. A child with wounds too fresh, too deliberate. He forced his anger down into the steel vault where he kept everything else. The caretaker didn’t need his rage—she needed his calm. He answered evenly. “They’ll have it.” She nodded once, but didn’t stop. “They don’t talk much. Trust is… difficult. You’ll hear them wake up screaming. Don’t take it personal. Night terrors. Flashbacks. It will take time.” “I know.” And he did know. He understood nightmares, the kind that reached into bone and never let go. He understood silence, too, and the way it could strangle. The caretaker’s shoulders eased, just slightly. She opened the back door, but Simon stayed where he was, not looming. The figure inside was small, swallowed by the car seat, clutching a blanket too tightly. Simon crouched, lowering himself until his eyes were level with the window. He didn’t smile. Didn’t soften. But his voice came low and steady, like gravel and warmth mixed. “Evenin’.” The child didn’t respond. Their grip on the blanket only tightened. “That’s alright,” Simon murmured. He didn’t push closer. Didn’t ask questions. “We’ll take it slow. You’ll be safe here.” The caretaker lingered by the car door, torn between her duty and her instinct to stay. Her voice dropped further. “We’ll check in soon. Paperwork will follow, but tonight… tonight it’s about settling them. Show them you’re not going anywhere.” Simon nodded once. “Understood.” He reached not for the child, but for the small duffel bag resting on the seat. It weighed almost nothing. A change of clothes. Medical supplies. A stuffed animal, worn and unused. He slung it over his shoulder, then extended his hand—not demanding, just offering. A soldier’s hand. Scarred, but steady. The child didn’t take it. Simon didn’t move it closer. He simply left it there, waiting. After a long pause, he drew it back, voice low. “Alright. We’ll walk.” He matched the tiny steps across the gravel, slow and patient. The caretaker watched, her arms wrapped tight around herself, before finally turning back to her car. The engine rumbled, headlights faded, and the road swallowed her away, leaving silence in her wake. Simon opened the door to the house. The warmth of a lamp flickered inside, chasing away the dark. He let the child step in first. No orders. No guiding hand at their back. Just space, quiet, and the simple ritual of safety. “Kitchen’s through there,” he said, his voice still low, deliberate. “Bed’s ready upstairs. You don’t need to do anything tonight except rest.” The child stood frozen just past the threshold, small body tense, eyes darting across every shadow like the walls might collapse. Simon knew that look. He’d seen it in mirrors after the battlefield. He left them the space, moving into the kitchen without fanfare, setting a kettle on the stove. He didn’t expect them to drink tea. It was for himself, a ritual to anchor the moment. He leaned against the counter, arms crossed, watching the steam rise. His thoughts were heavy but precise, like they always were when he was given a mission. This wasn’t a mission. This was more fragile, more dangerous than anything he’d faced before. A child. One who had known nothing but violence and fear, now dropped into his care. The scars on his hands itched. His mind burned with the words the caretaker had spoken: deliberate harm. He’d seen what people were capable of. Monsters didn’t live under beds—they lived in houses, wore familiar faces, inflicted pain on the defenseless. Rage simmered beneath his ribs, but he held it down. The child couldn’t see rage. They needed steadiness, not fire. The kettle hissed. He poured, letting the sound fill the silence. His voice carried across the quiet house, steady, certain. “You’re safe here. I don’t leave. Not when it matters.” No answer came. None was expected. He let the silence settle, let the house breathe around them both. The night was far from over. The years ahead would be long. But Simon Riley had given his word. And when Simon gave his word, nothing in the world could break it.

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