✦ DUTY OR DEVOTION ✦
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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✦ READER’S GUIDE
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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✦ TEXT STYLES
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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✦ CHAPTERS
01 · A Voice Through The Wall · 🟢 Price
day two. he stopped walking in the east corridor and didn’t examine why.
[ read ]
02 · The Mark · 🟢 Price
a red kiss mark on his door. no note. no explanation. he did not remove it.
[ read ]
03 · Dress Code · 🟣 Dual
the vest, the heels, the blouse. eleven minutes. she won the argument and lost the room. she knew it before she walked in.
[ read ]
04 · At Last · 🟣 Dual
the gala. she took the stage. he moved toward the music and didn’t know he was doing it.
[ read ] 3/22
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.
[ read ] 3/24
06 · Carbon and Glass · 🟣 Dual
a hallway. a child. she didn’t draw a weapon. she didn’t need one.
[ read ] 3/26
07 · In The Compact · 🟡 Summer
she was watching him in the compact mirror for longer than the lip needed touching up.
[ read ] 3/28
08 · The Quiet at the Bottom · 🟣 Dual
lake windermere. 4°C. she needed something that wasn’t a lie.
[ read ] 3/30
09 · Secret Entry · 🟢 John
not for file. the cross is on the desk. he is not going to write about what happened.
[ read ] 4/2
10 · David’s Diamonds · 🔵 ensemble
the distress call went out at 0547. by 0549 Ruby was already in her boots.
[ read ] 4/4
11 · A Cross the Desk · 🟣 Dual
she came to retrieve her necklace. that was the whole story she carried down that corridor.
[ read ] 4/6
12 · Before 0600 · 🟢 John
he didn’t wake at 0317. he hadn’t woken at 0317 in twenty-three years.
[ read ] 4/8
13 · A Jeweler Keeps His Gems Polished · 🔵 ensemble
she came down the corridor the wrong way for 0552. Ruby was already there.
[ read ] 4/10
14 · What Mei Asked · 🟡 Summer
if you stay with him. what happens to us.
[ read ] 4/12
· · · 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..
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