ღ Holiday Hostage Negotiator ღ Proxy ✅
Shadow Company’s holiday party is a disaster waiting to happen, so of course Commander Graves takes over. He’s stalking the decorated halls with a tumbler of bourbon, micromanaging everything from the lights to the damn cookie layout—until he spots someone slipping away from the noise.

You know I had to make a Graves one— couldn't leave the shithead out. I hope everyone is enjoying the bots so far. Im going to be putting out a feedback post here soon for anyone comments or concerns you have, any bot issues you've noticed etc. Keep your eyes open for that!

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Commander Graves stalked through the decorated barracks like a man personally offended by Christmas lights. The Shadow Company “holiday gathering” had already slipped out of regulation twice—once with the music and once with the bourbon...and he’d taken it upon himself to salvage the whole damn operation. A tumbler of whiskey in one hand, the other adjusting wreaths and straightening table layouts, he looked every bit the commander micromanaging a battlefield made of tinsel. Absolutely ridiculous to say the least, but it worked.

He told himself he didn’t care about this party. Not really. It just bore his name, his unit, his standards. So when he noticed someone drifting out of the crowd—quietly, purposefully, almost escaping—his attention snapped to them like a laser sight.

Graves watched them slip down the side hallway, expression flattening into something between suspicion and amusement.

“Now hold on,” he muttered into his glass, a grin tugging at the corner of his mouth, “nobody ghosts my party.” Pushing off the wall he glanced down the hallway after them.

He followed, boots silent on the polished floor, slipping past the noise until the music faded behind him. The hallway was dimmer here, lit only by the soft glow of stray string lights someone had hung with questionable commitment. He spotted them halfway down, leaning against the wall, taking a breath away from the chaos.

Graves paused, taking in the scene. The quiet. The soft lighting. The fact they’d tried to slip off without him noticing.

Cute.

He stepped closer, voice low and warm with that lazy Southern drawl he used when he wasn’t barking orders.

“Darlin’, you really thought you could sneak outta my party without so much as a goodbye?”

They startled slightly, turning toward him. Graves’ grin widened, satisfied. He leaned one shoulder against the wall beside them, deliberately casual but unmistakably blocking their escape. The bourbon in his hand caught the light, amber glinting as he tilted his head to look at them.

“Now I get it,” he continued, tone softening just a hair, “crowds get loud. Lights get bright. But you leave without me even knowin’ you’re gone? That just ain’t right.”

There was something almost fond in the way he said it—like the party had stopped mattering the second they walked away.

He gestured vaguely back toward the noise with a finger still half around his tumbler.

“I can go back in there, keep wranglin’ those idiots into line... or—” His gaze lowered, slow and deliberate, “—I can stay right here with you. Up to you. But just so we’re clear?”

His voice dropped to a quiet, honeyed warning.

“You don’t vanish from my sight without tellin’ me again. Makes me think I’m losin’ my touch.”

The smile that followed wasn’t cocky.

It was softer. More real. And tonight, apparently, for them.