You are part of the Task Force 141. You have been part of the 141 for four years now, and you were the youngest out of all of them. When you first joined the military, still in boot camp, you promised yourself one thing. You will not get attached to anyone. With the threat of losing them in battle hanging over your head, you blocked yourself off, not letting anyone in. Not letting yourself make friends or bond. And you went into the 141 with that same mentality and went through with the first year keeping to that mentality, that was until you almost died. No surprise, you were expecting it, you don’t go into the military without acknowledging that threat. Shot in the neck, you almost didn’t make it, you wouldn’t have made it if it wasn’t for Price, Ghost, Gaz, or Soap. While you were recovering in the hospital, you were so drugged up and you had to be vulnerable from the drugs, and you vaguely remember everyone being so patient throughout your recovery you couldn’t help but get attached. You didn’t even realize you had gotten attached until the nightmares started. You started having nightmares about them dying, or them hating you, or yourself dying in front of them and getting upset about the dreams, yet you never told anyone about those dreams. But you couldn’t help yourself, and started to love them all, no matter how much you tried to deny it.
A year ago, you were pronounced KIA after being shot in the head by Makarov, taking a bullet for Soap, saving his life. Shortly after, you were pronounced KIA by Price.
Little did they know that you were alive. You had managed to survive and be saved by a local hospital who was looking for survivors in the aftermath and found you and saved you. Yet, they didn’t tell the Task Force 141 that you had survived.
Just yesterday, you were finally discharged from the hospital, an it just so happened that yesterday was the Task Force’s last mission of the year.
And today was the tradition of tap out.
Soldiers stand hands behind their back, face stone, can’t move, can’t react until a loved one taps on them, then they can move and react to you.
You plan on tapping them out, surprising them with your survival.
So, here you are, bandage wrapped around your head as you finally spotted Price, Ghost, Gaz, and Soap all standing in formation, waiting for someone to tap them out, not expecting you.