„Captain! Captain! Hey, wake up!" Soap felt someone shaking him hard but he didn´t mind and tried to turn away.
"John! Come on wake up! Please!" Soap opened his eyes slowly.
First he looked around confused not knowing where he was, till his memory came slowly back. He tried to lift himself up and felt a hand on his shoulder, helping him in his doing.
"What´s wrong?" He asked still tired.
"I hear footsteps. They´re coming closer." Julia told him and he could hear fear in her voice.
He wanted to say something as he heard the clang from a bunch of keys. He turned his attention to the door, which was opened loudly and two men with guns stepping in.
"Get back." One of them yelled and Julia stood up afraid, walking back to the wall. The one man stepped up to her and positioned himself in front of her, pointing his gun on her chest.
The other one stayed next to the still open door and Soap saw one more man coming into the room, Soap recognized it was Andrew. He smirked evil at Soap and made his way up to him, kneeling in front of him, holding a revolver in his hand.
"She really patched you up!" Andrew reached out and checked the back of Soap´s head.
Soap turned his head in anger, which made Andrew laugh crazy. Andrew grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and slid his revolver from Soaps forehead to his temple. He rested the revolver there for a few seconds before he punched Soap with it. Soap´s head flung to the side and he crashed to the floor, ´cause Andrew loosened his grip on Soap´s collar.
Soap felt incredible pain on the side of his head and felt liquid running down his face. He was sure it was blood as a result of the hard punch Andrew had given him. He moaned, if he wouldn´t be bond he would beat the crap out of this psycho. He wanted to show that he wasn´t weak and sat up again, looking angry in Andrew´s eyes.
"Oh do we put on a strongman act? Well then we´ll see how strong you are when I´m done with you." Andrew told Soap and turned around. Soap relaxed his muscles as Andrew turned around again and kicked him powerful in the stomach. As Soap crumpled forward to the floor he could hear Julia scream to Andrew he should stop this.
The addressed just started to laugh insane and gave a sign to his accessory. Only seconds later Julia was dragged next to him, kneeling on the floor and a gun pointed to her head. He shot her a look and as their eyes met he saw incredible fear in hers. He was about to open his mouth and yell at Andrew he should let her go as Andrew stepped up to Julia and put one hand under her chin. Andrew still smirked and turned his look to Soap.
"I´m sure you didn´t expect this." Andrew told him and Soap couldn´t trust his eyes of what he saw next.
Andrew turned his gaze back to Julia and suddenly he kissed her hard on her lips. Soap widened his eyes, he wondered what was going on here? For Soap it seemed like minutes till their lips tore apart again and Andrew once again started to laugh like he was crazy.
"Oh my dear Captain. I forgot she didn´t tell you; my mistake. She told you it was too personal for you. Well let me explain it. Our lovely Julia here is my girlfriend."
Soap looked at him in shock.
"What?" Was all he could say.
"Yes, come on honey tell him the truth." Andrew answered looking at Julia.
She first stayed silent, thinking about something till she opened her mouth.
"Yes, that´s true." She simply said and looked tortured at Soap.
Soap just stared at her. What was going on here? Why did he capture his own girlfriend? To Soap it made no sense. Was she part of his psycho games? Soap had so many questions in his mind right now.
"What? You have nothing to say to this? I thought you´re such a great Captain, one who does everything for his team and now you´re afraid of the fact that she´s my girlfriend?" Andrew asked still laughing.
"Why do you do this?" Soap asked full of anger and curiosity, focusing on Andrew.
"Why? You ask me why?" Andrew got angry and once more he grabbed Soap by his collar.
"You remember Imran Zakhaev? You remember who saved you? You remember they told you you´re the only one who survived? Oh, they were wrong. I survived too that day. I was there to cover your back. I was the one who had a dangerous job to do then you or anybody else. And what was the result? You got rescued from this Russian and I was left behind. You got celebrated as a hero but nobody talked about me. The world doesn´t even know what I have done to stop this madness. So tell me Captain who deserved it more to get promoted. You or me?"
Andrew looked at Soap still angry, his crazy eyes open wide. Soap thought about his words for a while and then shook his head. He didn´t know what to answer this man. Somehow he was right but that was no reason for him to do self-revenge. He looked Andrew intensively in the eyes but kept his mouth shut. He knew no matter what he would say this man was out of his mind and wouldn´t listen to him anyways.
Andrew breathed heavily and let off of Soap, turning his attention back to Julia.
"What about you? Do you have anything to say to this?" He yelled at her in anger but she just shook her head, which made Andrew even angrier and he punched her in her face, sending her roughly to the floor. As she winced Andrew grabbed her hair and pulled her up to her feet. He glanced dangerously at her.
"Of all the people I know I thought at least you would understand how I feel. What happened to you? Where´s the fun-loving woman who always backed me up and agreed with me?" He asked her still pulling on her hairs.
"I´m still that person but you have changed Andrew. You´re not longer the gorgeous man I fell in love with. You became a monster Andrew." She answered him dismissive.
They stood there in silence for a while before Andrew started to laugh again, releasing her from his grip.
"Let me proof you I haven´t change. Come with me out of this room and I show you the real me." He told her calmly and tried to sound trustful but Julia shook her head.
"I´m staying here Andrew. I know that you and Natasha are in love with each other." She stated.
"Did she tell you this?" Andrew asked bewildered and Julia nodded.
"That´s a lie. Sure I kissed her and slept with her a few times but I did this with much more women the last six years. I´m sure you understand that, I mean look at me I´m an extremely attractive man and I also have my needs but none of them compared to you. Well I have to admit they were all more beautifully than you are but let´s be honest it´s not hard to see that you look more like a boy than a woman. But you are special, you´re the only person I know who cares more about others than herself. You´re the only woman who loved me as every other girl told me I was a freak. You were the only one who loved me for who I´m and not for how I look. So would you please come with me?"
Andrew held one of his hands out, waiting for her to take it. Soap looked confused from Andrew to Julia. What was she going to do?
"I´m not coming with you Andrew. I can´t approve what you´re doing." Julia said and as a response she earned another punch from Andrew, sending her to the floor again.
"Stupid girl. Don´t expect me to accept your decision. We will see who got your back when this is getting harder." Andrew said coldly and he and his men left the room again, locking the door.
Soap was still crumpled to the floor, staring on the floor. He wondered if she was now his girlfriend or not. Andrew kissed her and she told him she was his girlfriend but then again she asked if another woman was his girlfriend. This was really weird.
Soap saw from the corner of his eyes Julia standing up slowly, whipping tears of pain out of her eyes, taking some more pads from the table and walking up to Soap. She kneeled in front of him and swept the blood away that was running down his face. He let her finish her work before he began to speak.
"What was that all about? Is he now your boyfriend or not?" Julia looked at him concerned, sighing but answered his question.
"He was my boyfriend till he got "killed" in 2011." She said and tried to smile but failed and tears built up again in her eyes. She wanted to turn away from Soap but he somehow managed to grab one of her hands and pulled her onto his chest. He felt her tears running down her cheeks and heard her sob.
"It must be hard for you to know he was alive and didn´t tell you all the time." Soap whispered to her and she nodded.
"But why are you here and why didn´t you go with him? It would be safer for you."
"I´m here ´cause this Natasha extorted me by telling me she would kill Ghost or Roach if I wouldn´t meet with her and so I did what she told me. I didn´t know I would meet Andrew at the venue and at first I couldn´t trust my eyes. My first impulse was to kiss him and hug him but then I realized that he wasn´t the man anymore I knew. They forced me to come with them without any resistance, telling me they would kill Simon or Gary. I had no other chance." She whispered back.
"And I didn´t go with him ´cause you need me to patch you up. I can´t leave you alone in here, who knows what Andrew´s going to do next. Besides I´m sure Simon and Gary would rip me my head off if I´m leaving you alone and then I can´t proof you that Ghost and I are just friends, no lovers."
Soap had to smile after that comment of her. He was once more amazed of the woman now leaning on his chest. He squeezed her hand lightly and whispered in her ear.
"Thank you."
