4 years latter in the present
Nick POV
I woke up from a flashback covered in sweat, my heart was pounding very rapidly. I checked the clock, it was 3:00 in the morning, that's way earlier than when I usually wake up. usually I would wake up at 5 am, but now that I'm awake I should probably do some exercises, so I got out of bed and dropped down on the floor and just did some push ups, normally I could do about 97 push ups under 2 minutes, and I could do about 105 sit ups under 3 minutes. after all that I grabbed some shorts, my jacket, my shoes and my old PT belt they made us wear during exercise while I was in the army, that was about 9 years ago when I was in boot camp. so after I got all my stuff on I went out the door and started running.
around 5 minutes into the run I found myself sprinting and I saw a vision of me during my time in the army rangers before I got selected for delta force. I was running carrying my rifle sprinting to a small village in zooraq. after the vision was over I stopped almost tripping over my feet. I put my hands on my legs breathing heavily and sweat running down my face. after the rest I just ran back home. after I got home I just sat down on a chair in my room facing all the medals I earned hanging from the wall. the 2 medals I cannot keep my eyes off of is the purple heart I got from getting shot during that one mission operation POW liberation and the rarest medal of all, the medal of honor, I got the medal of honor for saving many wounded men and my commanding officer before the entire area was struck by artillery from the artillery team around 10 miles away from the location. every time I look at the medal I always see the artillery booming the village controlled by ISIS killing many terrorist. I was about to fall asleep I'm my chair but the alarm clock went of scaring the shit out of me. so I hit the shower, dried off, brushed my teeth and put on my uniform. I got another vision of me putting on my army uniform and my vest, I stopped what I was doing and just stared at the floor for about 1 minute then I just got back to what I was doing. I texted Judy telling her to come pick me up from my house, and about 30 minutes later she came in her car. Judy said hey nick in that soft cute little voice I love hearing, I just said hey carrots in a low tired sounding voice. Judy said "is someone sleepy"
I told her "yeah just had a bad dream and just went out for an exercise". she said "okay just try to keep focused I can't do all the work myself", I just told her "okay" and we drove to the police station.