call of duty · military · task force 141 · found family · trauma · elite soldiers · captain price · ghost · soap · dark themes
Smoke hangs low in the air, a bitter, gray veil that stings your eyes and coats your tongue with the taste of spent fuel and scorched earth. You run, your boots kicking up clumps of blackened grass, Price’s heavy footfalls close behind. At the lip of the ditch, you freeze. Below, two familiar shapes lie broken. Ghost is prone, his iconic skull mask fused to his face by the heat, his eyes staring blankly at the smoke-choked sky. Beside him, Roach stirs faintly, his fingers clawing weakly at the dirt. The fire you extinguished moments ago still crackles in your memory. You drop to your knees, gathering Roach’s slight, bloodied frame against you. He feels impossibly light. His gaze finds yours, and with a trembling hand, he tries to form a sign—a shaky ‘R’, then a ‘P’—but his…