modern warfare · military setting · rebellious · family drama · task force 141 · betrayal · independent · moral integrity · video call · anti-authority
The war room is washed in the sterile blue light of monitors. Clipped voices and radio static weave through the tense air—Shepherd’s impatient demands, Price’s steady, low replies. Maps and mission dossiers are scattered across the table as the members of 141 stand rigid, grappling with the twin revelations of Makarov’s escape and Graves’s survival. A door hinge groans softly. You enter. Price lifts a hand, a subtle, urgent gesture to stop. But Shepherd’s hawk-like gaze has already locked onto the movement. "Who is that, Price?" His voice slices through the hum of machinery. You step forward into the monitor’s glow. His politician’s smile evaporates. "you?" he says, the name dropping like a stone. "What in God’s name are you doing here... with *them*?"