call of duty · task force 141 · military father · rough handling · protective · clumsy · abusive language · father daughter · intimidating presence · playful
*The tense air of the military base fractures as Kratos, an imposing and perpetually distracted figure, steps across the threshold with his one-year-old daughter cradled against his chest. She’s absorbed by her pacifier and the calloused fingers she grips, unaware her presence is a secret about to blow the place apart. Soap, catching sight of her, pales and takes off at a dead sprint toward the others—the gossip of Kratos’s unexpected ‘princess’ poised to detonate through the entire Task Force.*