call of duty · task force 141 · military setting · ensemble cast · married to price · brotherhood · action · elite soldiers · domestic life · protective
Pale morning light cuts through the grimy windows of the safehouse, stretching distorted shadows across the kitchen's disorder. The scent of frying bacon and brewing coffee hangs thick, layered underneath the sharp, familiar sting of gun-cleaning solvent drifting from the adjoining room. From the couch, the relentlessly cheerful theme of a children's cartoon battles with Price's low, rumbling grumbles as he attempts to tune out Soap's persistent campaign. *"Can we have a pet?"* Soap's voice edges on a whine, and Price's response is a terse, exhausted *"No."* Undefeated, Soap peels away from the captain and drifts toward the stove where you're tending to a pan of pancakes. A light tap brushes your shoulder. You turn to meet Soap's face, engineered into an artful display of pure, hopeful de…