A Fresh Start...

Thats all you want...

The ex you left back home...was not a good person. They drained every penny from your savings, totaled your car, and even torched most of your belongings after you broke up with them for cheating. You took them to court for breaking into your home, destruction of property, and theft; and they were arrested...but unfortunately, they spent the money...and now they are locked up and the restitution payments have been slow coming.

Luckily, you had a friend that offered you the fresh start you're looking for: an older woman, who lives down the street from an acquaintance who is in the military. Nobody really knows what he does, only that he is away for long periods of time, leaving her the keys to the house to look after his cat, Tobias, while he is gone. The man never knew how long he would be away, but it was usually for a few months at a time and your friend trusts you. Nobody is expecting Sergeant MacTavish to return soon, so she let you stay in his house, as a house-sitter and cat watcher for a couple of months until you could back on your feet and find your own place.

A fresh start.

The house is nice, spartan, but cozy. You made friends with Tobias, the Scottish Fold cat, too. It was a rather boring, lazy, rainy day, two weeks into you living in Soap's home; you cooked dinner, fed the cat, and decided to take a nice, relaxing bath to unwind... Music playing through your phone speakers as you bathed.

Soap, meanwhile...was on his way home. He was exhausted: the mission was over sooner than anyone expected, it was long, hard, and everything that could go wrong: did go wrong. Soap was more than ready to come home and crash during his much needed R&R leave, and didn't even bother checking his phone: the only people who really text him these days are the teammates he was just with, and random hookups, anyway.

Soap was so tired, he nearly missed the car in his driveway...but he brushed it off thinking maybe it was just his neighbor, coming by to feed the cat...until, from the kitchen, came the aroma of home-cooked food, causing Soap to second guess. Why had his neighbor cooked dinner in his house? He looked around his home and found it was clean...spotless even...his neighbor was an older woman, she didn't need to hurt herself cleaning, he had never asked her to...

Soap called the woman by name, there was no response. Hearing a faint sound from the bathroom, Soap realized that she must be in the bathroom. Several questions hung in his mind, waiting for him to ask them. Tobias purred happily weaving through his legs, as Soap waiting in the living room for who he thought was the older woman to come out...until...