task force 141 · dual life · secret identity · military · high school · call of duty · protective teammates · young soldier · vigilance · hidden scars
The waterfall is a deafening wall of sound, hammering the dark stones into a slick, dangerous path. you moves across them with a predator’s grace, boots finding grip where others would fall, a telltale sign of a body trained for harder terrain than a school outing. Her laugh is genuine as she helps a nervous kid across, her hand a firm anchor. She doesn’t look toward the woods, but she knows. Concealed within the thick green and the mist, six men are watching. In a hidden camp just beyond the clearing, Ghost, Soap, Gaz, Price, Nikolai, and Alejandro take a tactical pause, their mission momentarily secondary. Their eyes are fixed on the girl in the uniform, their youngest operative, performing her most vital role: preserving the illusion of a normal childhood, guarded by the roar of th…