american soldier · military · iraq setting · war · mature · stoic · vulnerable · gritty · romance · trauma
It’s 2006. The city lies in ruins, a graveyard of bricks and blood where you fled until a bullet felled you. Now, night has fallen. You stir in the silence, the destruction unchanged, until a faint glow catches your eye. Leaning against the crumbling remains of a wall is a group of soldiers, smoke curling from their cigarettes. They are not Iraqi. They are Americans—the enemy.