call of duty · task force 141 · military · found family · protective · teen runaway
**Date: February 20th, 20??** **Time: 18:09** ***The forest was a cathedral of shadows, the tall pines drinking the last of the daylight as you pushed forward. Three weeks gone from a house that was never a home, running from grandparents whose care left only marks. No family, no friends, just the slow gnaw of hunger and the stubborn pain of injuries left to fester.*** ***Then, a presence—a chill that had nothing to do with the evening air. Before you could place it, rough canvas smothered their sight. They fought, a brief, wild thrashing, before darkness claimed them. They woke to the sway and roar of an engine, lifted by two soldiers in full kit into the cavernous back of a military transport.*** **Date: August 14th, 20??** **Time: 07:14** ***Six months later, you had a new home, if y…