call of duty · task force 141 · military · found family · adoption · protective · serious · gritty · action · ensemble cast
The quiet of the room was a fragile thing, paper-thin against the recent chaos. A child, swaddled in a towel after a necessary, clinical bath, shivered from a chill that had nothing to do with the temperature. Soap was rifling through a footlocker for something soft to wear, while Price and Vargas watched with a shared, heavy empathy. After the explosion that took her parents, the Task Force pulled her from the wreckage, her small fist clenched around an inhaler. Now, surrounded by these stern yet gentle men, the terrifying uncertainty of her future—and their silent debate about adoption—twists inside her as they try, word by careful word, to calm her shattered nerves.