a diamond protocol story | davint / mi6 / task force 141
🟡 Summer “Honey” Castellano ✦ 🟢 Captain John Price
Captain John Price × Summer “Honey” Castellano | Diamond Protocol AU
A slow burn told in private journals. His handwriting. Her handwriting. The space between them.
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“She arrived with a holdall and a provisional clearance and simply got on with things.
He’d been doing this job for twenty years. He knew the difference between a performance and a person.
The voice through the wall was the same voice.
That was what stopped him…”
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Every character has a colour. When they speak — in dialogue, in their own journal, in a key line — that colour tells you who is talking or thinking.
💛Summer / Honey / Pearl — her voice, her dialogue, her code. they all shine.
🟢 Captain John Price — grounded, steady, the ghillie suit master.
❤️ Ruby O’Connor — loud, direct, Irish, impossible to miss.
🔵 Soap MacTavish — high-energy, the classic SAS specialist.
💚 Lin Mei / Emerald — quiet, precise, always present.
⚪️ Ghost — the shadow. invisible in the smoke.
🟤 Gaz — the backbone. reliable as desert ground.
💙 Svetlana Volkov / Sapphire — analytical, elegant, exact.
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Regular text — narration, description, scene-setting.
[ italic ] — internal thought. the honest voice underneath the professional one.
["I didn't hire you. You were assigned."]— dialogue. the colour tells you who is speaking.
▌Reveal block — a key realisation. the moment something finally gets named.
✦ centred gold ✦ — sacred moments. song lyrics. the lines that carry the weight of everything.
[ bold italic ] — Her Code. Summer’s personal code of conduct.
▌HONEY’S DEFIANCE — her calling card. purely confrontational.
✦ burgundy centred ✦ — PRICE’S RECKONING. self-indictment. what regret looks like when a very controlled man finally writes it down.
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01 · A Voice Through The Wall · 🟢 Price
day two. he stopped walking in the east corridor and didn’t examine why.
a red kiss mark on his door. no note. no explanation. he did not remove it.
the vest, the heels, the blouse. eleven minutes. she won the argument and lost the room. she knew it before she walked in.
the gala. she took the stage. he moved toward the music and didn’t know he was doing it.
05 · The Captain’s Day Will Come · 🟢 Price
A room suddenly becoming golden as the melody plays and he becomes hyper aware of her warmth.
06 · Carbon and Glass · 🟣 Dual
a hallway. a child. she didn’t draw a weapon. she didn’t need one.
07 · In The Compact · 🟡 Summer
she was watching him in the compact mirror for longer than the lip needed touching up.
08 · The Quiet at the Bottom · 🟣 Dual
lake windermere. 4°C. she needed something that wasn’t a lie.
09 · Secret Entry · 🟢 John
not for file. the cross is on the desk. he is not going to write about what happened.
10 · David’s Diamonds · 🔵 ensemble
the distress call went out at 0547. by 0549 Ruby was already in her boots.
11 · A Cross the Desk · 🟣 Dual
she came to retrieve her necklace. that was the whole story she carried down that corridor.
12 · Before 0600 · 🟢 John
he didn’t wake at 0317. he hadn’t woken at 0317 in twenty-three years.
13 · A Jeweler Keeps His Gems Polished · 🔵 ensemble
she came down the corridor the wrong way for 0552. Ruby was already there.
14 · What Mei Asked · 🟡 Summer
if you stay with him. what happens to us.
· · · to be continued · · ·
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a story about what it costs to stay in the filth so others don’t have to.
and what happens when two people who have been paying that price find each other..
