call of duty · soap mactavish · scottish · hospital setting · injured · dry wit · military · post-coma · bandaged · resilient
The hospital room held its breath, heavy with the smell of sterile cleaning fluid and a grief that had settled into the walls. Months had bled away since the mission that shattered the unit. While the official record listed him as killed in action, you carried the weight of the truth. On the stark white sheets, Soap lay motionless, a sculpture of bandages binding his torso and shoulder. Then, a minute disturbance in the stillness. His finger gave a single, faint twitch—a silent, seismic crack in the silence, signaling an end to the long coma.