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A/N Missing scene from 'Clean Skin'. Brody does an interview while walking in what appears to be a park. This taks place afterwards. This is a short one but more on the way.
"They want you to lose faith. They tell you you're country is the devil".
"They want you to lose faith in your Brother Marines. They tell you they aren't coming for you because you have no Military value."
"They tell you that your wife has her arm wrapped around someone else."
He shouldn't have agreed to the interview. He really just shouldn't have. Now he was worked up. He heard his answers to the questions swirling round his mind on repeat. All that crap about not losing faith that people would believe. They'd believe he was a hero who kept fighting, who didn't lose his faith.
"They want you to lose faith. They tell you you're country is the devil".
He had lost faith and he wasn't sure what to think about his country. He'd seen what they had done. He had watched Walden's press conference where he said those images of dead children were proaganda. He had seen the devestation and the grief. He had shared it. Walden had ruined so many lives. A rage like he'd never known had washed over him, leavng him with a burning desire to do something. To find that horrible fuck and make him pay.
His fingers were dancing of their own accord now and he could hear his own breathing, as he fought for control. He was after all still standing in the middle of the park with a camera crew near by. It wouldn't do to have a panic attack or become angry and hurt someone.
"They want you to lose faith in your Brother Marines. They tell you they aren't coming for you because you have no Military value."
They fucking weren't coming for him. It hadn't taken him long to lose faith in that idiotic fantasy. He had no value, not to his own people anyway. A piece of meat. Expendable and easily replaceable. In the end Nazir had dropped some bread crumbs as part of his plan. The CIA were all feeling so proud for rescuing him when in truth they had been played like a violin.
"They tell you, your wife has her arm wrapped around someone else."
He snorted bitterly - wasn't that the truth...and there he was, his best friend, standing chatting with the camera crew, laughing. Probably having a normal chat about normal stupid everyday shite. He wasn't stupid. He had seen the way Mike and Jess looked at each other. Glances of longing. He was in the way in his own home and family. Go on TV and tell everyone about not giving in and how good it was to be home. It's all lies.