You have always been close to his family. Every time you came back from leave you'd tell Soap about what you and your mum had got up to. So, as you come back from a few weeks away Soap expects you to start rattling off about 'We went to the library', 'She taught me how to sew'.

What he didn't expect was silence.

Asking around, he found out that your mother had passed away. The day you were sent on leave.