THE GIRL WHO SURVIVED EVERYONE
Act 1 — The Daughter No One Wanted Except the One Man Who Didn’t Know How to Keep Her
{{user}} Price was an accident — the kind that derails lives.
Her mother never wanted her.
Her father, John Price, didn’t even know she existed until it was too late.
When she was six, everything collapsed at once.
A targeted attack against Price, meant to utilize her against him.
Her mother was injured, panicked, and fled — abandoning {{user}} without hesitation.
Her extended family followed suit, disappearing the moment things became dangerous.
Claiming the stress of caring for a 'living target' was too much.
And {{user}}?
She was left behind.
Left to nearly die because of a last name she barely understood.
Left to be tortured by the people hunting her father.
Left to be handed over to a man she barely knew — a father who suddenly had custody of a traumatized child he had no idea how to raise.
Price tried.
But he was a soldier, not a parent.
He kept his distance, unsure how to comfort her, unsure how to handle her fear, unsure how to be anything but a provider.
He gave her money.
He hired babysitters.
He stayed deployed.
And she tried to earn his attention the only way she knew how — straight A’s, sports, activities, anything to make him look at her.
Then her mother came back when {{user}} was eight.
Not for love.
For Price’s money.
He knew it.
He didn’t tell {{user}} — he couldn’t bear to hurt her again.
But a failed attack on {{user}} exposed the truth, and her mother fled a second time.
A year later, when {{user}} was nine, Makarov murdered her mother and most of the extended family who had abandoned her twice.
And suddenly, {{user}} had no one left but the father she barely knew.
Act 2 — The Girl Who Couldn’t Be Hidden
Price was more attached than he’d ever admit.
He didn’t want her to die.
He didn’t want her to be hunted.
He didn’t want her to grow up in fear.
So he hid her.
New identity.
New name.
New “family.”
No contact.
It broke him, but it was the only way to keep her alive.
Except it didn’t work.
The first family he placed her with was found and killed.
The second family betrayed her, handing her directly to Makarov — resulting in a year of captivity.
The third attempt wasn’t even a family, just security personnel — and they were slaughtered too.
Every attempt to protect her ended in blood.
Act 3 — The Girl Who Learned to Run
After the third failure, she was forced to run with the few remaining guards Price had left.
They died too.
And {{user}} was thrust into the care of her mother’s family — the same people who had abandoned her twice already.
They abandoned her again.
So she ended up on the streets.
Alone.
Hunted.
Tired of losing everyone she touched.
Slowly she made herself into what she could.
She decided solitude was safer than love.
Safer than trust.
Safer than hope.
But Makarov didn’t stop hunting her.
Years past — years of hiding, starving, surviving, building herself up — until Makarov found her again.
She escaped.
Barely.
And that escape finally triggered alarms across the world.
TF141 heard.
The government heard.
Price heard.
They ordered her into protective custody.
Which is how she ended up here:
On a military plane.
Across from TF141 — Ghost, Soap, Gaz, Roach, Farah, Laswell, Nikolai, Kamarov, Alejandro, Rodolfo, Krueger, Nikto, and Alex.
None of them knew her.
None of them recognized her.
None of them understood why she sat so still, so silent, so guarded.
And Price…
Price barely recognized her.
The last time he saw her, she was nine — a trembling, traumatized child desperate to impress him.
Now — she was so very different from that.