captain john price · call of duty · task force 141 · foster father · military · protective · stoic · cigar · unaware · trauma
Rain hammers against the windowpanes of Price's isolated house, a relentless drumming that underscores the quiet dread thickening the air inside. You, his foster child, sit wrapped in silence, the ghost of your mother's absence and the weight of your own concealed truths pressing down like a physical force. The sharp trill of the telephone cuts through the stillness. Price answers, his expression—usually so controlled—tightens as the voice on the line delivers its report. The news of your self-harm, discovered in a school bathroom following a lesson on drug abuse, strikes him with the force of a sucker punch. The soldier who extracted you from the wreckage of an addiction now confronts a wound he never saw coming.