This was the hardest chapter for me to write till now. One reason for it was that I never wrote about any explicit fighting scenes and I don´t know if I did a good job. I would be thankful if you could tell me if the scenes are good or bad or what I could do better. But now enjoy reading this and feel free to leave a Review.


„Team Alpha in Position. "

„Team Charlie in Position. "

„Team Delta ready when you are. "

"Snipers in Position."

"Good, wait for my go!" MacMillian announced to his teams.

After the recon drone had scanned the area around the building and checked the secret tunnel underneath it, the whole Task Force went out to the village, to rescue their Captain. Fortunately the tunnel wasn´t secured by Andrew´s men and outside were only five Soldiers Patrolling around the building. Mac had settled himself in an old, abandoned building, from where he gave his orders to the men.

To calm the presence of Soldiers in the village the Police men were on the spot, explaining the Situation and making sure the villagers didn´t get into struggle. Some of them were also added to the Rescue Team, ´cause the drone detected twenty heat Signatures in the building. Mac also had help from Sergeant Miller, who gave the orders to the Snipers.

"Team Delta and Charlie take the targets down. Snipers get ready to climb up the cot. Go!" Mac and Miller ordered through the radio.

"Good, I count to three." Price told his team, who was hiding in a bush near the building, earning nods from Scarecrow and Royce. Price raised his left hand and counted three fingers down.

Within a second after his last finger was counted down, the targets fell silently on the ground. Price, Scarecrow, Royce, Ghost and Roach sneaked over to the dead bodies and shoved them away, hiding them behind the cot, on which the snipers had taken their position.

"Targets down and out." Price called to Mac over the comms.

"Good, any movement in the building?" Mac asked back, waiting for any response of the snipers.

"No Sir, it´s all quiet." Archer answered after he checked the situation through his scope.

"Nice. Follow the plan. Team Delta head to the back entrance. Team Charlie and Alpha stay in position and wait for Ghost´s advice." Mac ordered again and Ghost and Roach sneaked to the back entrance, checking the door.

Of course it was locked and Ghost gave Roach the order to open the door, while he contacted Mac, telling him they were about to enter the building. Roach took the picklock out of his pocket and started to unlock the door. He tried not long, till he heard a click and the door was unlocked. He nodded to Ghost, to indicate him he unlocked the metal door.

"Mac? We´re going in." Ghost told his superior, grabbing his gun from his back and released the safety.

"Keep your eyes open." Mac replied and Ghost signed Roach to open the door.

Roach put his hand on the door handle, pushed it down and opened it quickly. Ghost stepped in with his gun raised, checked the corners and waved Roach to follow him. The Sergeant took out the weapon he was carrying with him and followed Ghost into the building. Behind the entry was a door on the left side and a corridor leading to a stair. Roach closed the emergency door and watched Ghost as he opened the door on the left side.

"It´s clear." The Lieutenant announced and Roach started to go upstairs.


As he reached the end of the stairs he leered around the corners, seeing two men patrolling the next corridor. He gestured it to Ghost who was right behind him, getting a nod as an answer to take them out. Roach raised his silenced gun, took a deep breath and quickly he shot both men, sending their lifeless bodies to the ground. Roach put his weapon down and he and Ghost sneaked up to the men, checking if they were really dead, before they shoved them behind some boxes, standing near the stairs.

Ghost checked the next corridor and saw one man standing in front of a door, guarding it. He wanted to take him down but realized another corridor on the left side of the door. If he would take the Soldier down and someone was in the other corridor they would lose their cover, he needed to find a way to lure him away from the door. He sat there thinking what to do as he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around and faced Roach, who simply smiled at him.

"Let me take care of it." The Sergeant told him and stretched his back. Ghost looked at his friend and noticed that Roach has changed his clothes.

"Funny." He stated and smirked, Roach had undressed one of the dead bodies and was now wearing the uniform of the man, which was not exactly fitting the Sergeant.

Roach just rolled his eyes and stepped out of the Shadow they were hiding, cleared his throat and walked straight up to the enemy. Ghost watched him silently as he took out his knife and stabbed the soldier straight through the heart, covering the mouth of his target with one hand. As Roach had shoved the enemy out of the way and told Ghost that he saw a stair in the other corridor leading downstairs again, Ghost contacted the others teams, to tell them they cleared the floor and they could infiltrate the building. He also told them they had taken three tangos out and that at least fifteen tangos were left.

"Okay, we´re coming in." Price announced as the other teams got ready to accomplish the plan.

"You think Soap´s behind that door?" Roach asked his friend concerned.

"I don´t know anyway in there must be something important, otherwise they hadn´t secured the door." Ghost answered, looking at the door.

"Ready?" Ghost asked and earned a nod from his teammate.

"Good, let´s go." Ghost said as both sneaked up to the door, placing contiguous to the door.

Ghost looked over to Roach, checking if he had the Sergeant´s full attention. Roach reflected his look and nodded; he was ready to go in. Ghost raised his hand and counted down from three.

The door flung open wide, Ghost and Roach stepped in and took three more men out. They were that much fast, the men didn´t even had time to defend their lives. After they had shot them down Ghost realized someone sitting on the front end of the room, not moving. Ghost gestured to Roach he should go and check out on the person, while he inspected the room and made sure no one was coming in.

Roach swallowed hard and stepped up to the person in the seat. He put one hand on the person´s shoulder and shook it lightly. As the person didn´t react he tried to turn the chair around, completely forgot to cover himself. He pushed on the shoulder and the chair turned around a bit, but before Roach knew what was happening the person on the chair shot up and stabbed him in the arm with a knife. Whining he stumbled back, holding his arm in pain.

Ghost who got alarmed from Roaches whine immediately rushed over to the person and pointed his gun to his head, yelling to drop the knife down. With a mischievous smile the person let the knife slip to the floor, turning his head to face Ghost.

"You´re too late!" The person, which clearly was this Natasha told Ghost as he put her handcuffs on.

"What do you mean?" Ghost asked angry.

"Look!" Natasha said, nodding her head to a screen. Ghost followed her order and froze for a few seconds.

"What the…." Ghost stuttered as he saw the scene on the screen.

"Where are they?" Now it was Roach who yelled at her after he looked to the screen.

"Downstairs." Natasha simply said still smiling.

"Go!" Roach yelled at Ghost, who just looked confused back at him, not moving.

"Go Ghost! I´ll take care of her." Roach repeated.

"But you're injured." Ghost protested.

"I´m fine. Now go." Roach yelled, pushing Ghost to the door.

Ghost shot one more glance at his partner to make sure he could handle the woman, before he started to run. He had to find the room.


10 minutes earlier….

Still tired Julia opened her eyes slowly. First she thought she dreamed about last night but as she recognized the comfortable bed she was lying in she knew it was real. She smiled weakly, closed her eyes again and turned around, inhaling the sweet scent of Andrew. She was sure after the last night Andrew still loved her and to be honest she too has feelings for him and maybe she could love him again. Andrew even promised her he would free Soap, without hurting him anymore. Julia was satisfied, soon she would be out of here and live the life she always wanted; a life outside of the military. Not that she didn´t liked it to be in the military; she loved the experiences she had gained in the past six years, but if she had the chance to go back to a normal life, she would take it. A life without fighting, losing beloved people and always fear for the next day.

She yawned and stretched her arm out to put it around Andrew; but all she felt as she laid her arm down again was the fitted sheet. Irritated she opened her eyes only to see the bedside was empty. She frowned and lifted herself up, looking around confused. She scratched her head and called Andrew a few times but he didn´t response. She scanned the whole room and recognized that all of Andrew´s cloth were gone. She shook her head and wanted to lay down again as an idea crossed her mind. As fast as she could, she got out of bed and dressed herself, having a bad feeling. What if Andrew didn´t keep his promise? What if he was going to kill Soap right now?

She wanted to leave the room as she remembered something she has seen yesterday. She turned around again and walked over to a desk, which was standing in front of one blocked window. On the Seat in front of the desk hung a jacket; she stuck one of her hands in the inside pocket and pulled out a revolver. She put it into her pocket and ran out of the room.


Soap had rested a bit and now he continued to free his hands from the rope. After the cut it really was easier to loosen it and after a few tries he could get his arms free. With his newly resumed freedom he tried to free his legs. He carefully moved his hands down to his legs, the camera, which was watching him always in mind. If they would see what he was doing and that he got his hands free, they sure would come to him and bond his arms again. Luckily the knots on his legs weren´t as powerful tied as the ones on his arms and he was able to loosen the first knot.

He began to smile as he reached for the second knot; ready to open it. When his legs were free he only had to wait till someone unlocked the door and then he would crush down the person; fighting for his life. He only hoped he had the time to complete his plan. After a while the second knot loosened a bit and he was about to open it completely as he heard footsteps fast coming closer to the door. He cursed silently, laid the loosened rope over his hands and waited for the person to step in.

"How have you been Captain? It´s been a while?" Soap heard Andrew ask as he entered the room smiling.

"I can´t say I missed you." Soap answered, staring up at Andrew.

"Oh, you disappoint me. Wasn´t it lonely without any company?" Andrew crouched down in front of Soap, pointing a gun to his forehead.

"I thought you already know I wasn´t alone. You´re girl, what was her name? Natasha? She visit me." Soap answered totally relaxed.

Andrew just laughed weird at the Captains comment. "Did you two have fun?"

"Why don´t you ask her?" Soap stated.

"Why should I? I don´t care about her anymore. I got back what I wanted." Andrew´s smile grew even wider as he recognized the Captain realized what he was talking about.

"What did you do to her?" Soap yelled in anger.

"I didn´t do anything she wouldn´t have enjoyed." Andrew answered and with his free hand he began to choke Soap, making the Captain gasp for air.

"You know Captain, I promised her I would free you but I can´t do that. You were the one who destroyed my entire life and now you have to pay for it. Do you want to know why I kept you captured and didn´t kill you as I had the chance? You know what date is today? It´s the day you got promoted, the day your whole life changed. Would there be a better day to die? I wonder what your family will say if they get the news of your tragic dead. Your dead on a date they all celebrate to honor you? Speaking of your family; I should visit them after all that, maybe I should kill them too." Andrew started to laugh more and crazier, choking the Captain´s throat even harder.

"What? You don´t say anything? Is it hard for you to breathe?" Andrew asked him sarcastic.

Soap couldn´t take the pressure on his throat any longer, if he wouldn´t take his chance now, it would be too late for him. He leered to the gun in Andrew´s hand; he needed to act quickly, to not get shot in the head. He slipped his hands out of the rope and with all his power he could gain from his weak body he grabbed Andrew´s hand with the gun and raised it up in the air. Andrew caught off-guard stopped choking the Captain and tried to push the Captain away from him.

Soap acted quickly and threw himself on Andrew, making them both crush to the floor, sending the gun fly through the air by the collision. Soap watched it land out of reach for him and his foe. Soap cursed and turned his attention back to Andrew, who was about to punch him in the face. Soap reacted fast and caught the fist before it could hit his face. Andrew was less impressed of this action and tried to punch Soap with his other fist, but the Captain caught the second fist too. Full of anger Andrew moved his legs wildly, he wanted to push Soap off him.

Soap knew he had to do something to avoid his fall and the only part of his body he could move freely was his head. He took a deep breath and with all of his power he gave Andrew a head-butt, which made Andrew loosen his press against Soap´s hands. Thereupon Soap managed to punch Andrew in the face two times and as Andrew whined in pain Soap shoved himself off him; he needed to reach the pistol. Soap felt dizzy in fact of the choking and his bonded legs made it difficult for him to crawl away from Andrew. He shook his head, now wasn´t the time to be put off by his immobility. He used his free hands to crawl over to the gun, with his fingertips he even reached it, but before he could hold it safety in his hands the gun was kicked away and he felt an almost unbearable pressure against his throat.

In Reflex Soap touched the object on his throat with both of his hands, only to feel that Andrew had took the rope, with which Soap´s hands were bond, to strangle him. Soap tried to gasp some air but his throat was too constrict to breathe. Soap tried to ease the rope but Andrew pressed it too strong. Fearful Soap tried to at least get a hold on one of Andrew´s legs, to maybe bring him down to the floor but his hands only slipped off Andrew´s pant legs. In agony Soap´s whole body began to shake and he felt the power leave his muscles. He was sure to pass out soon and then die, Andrew´s mad laughing the last thing he would remember.

Soap felt tears running down his cheeks and wondered why he was crying. It wasn´t the first time he was in agony; he should´ve died many times and he never started crying. What was the difference now? Was it because his will to life on was stronger than before? Was it ´cause he had cheated death so often that he was used to be saved? Or did he want to survive to see his teammates again, to tell them how happy he was they all were still together? Maybe it was simply because he hadn´t thanked Julia enough for his rescue.


He didn´t know, the only thing he knew was that he couldn´t pray for himself to be saved once more. His body stopped to shake and Soap welcomed the weakness, waiting to collapse, to feel no more pain. He was about to close his eyes, to find peace in thoughts of better times as he heard a female voice scream Andrew´s name and Andrew switch his weak body to the other side. Soap weakly opened one eye and saw that Julia had come to the room, yelling at Andrew what he was doing. Andrew just laughed at her and told her he was just doing his job; making Julia stare at Soap with eyes wide open.

Julia stood in front of her boyfriend and couldn´t believe what she saw. Hadn´t he promised he would let Soap free? Hadn´t he told her he wanted to live a normal life with her? Why did he lie at her? What should she do now? She did the only thing that crossed her mind to ease the situation. She took the gun out of her pocket and pointed it to Andrew.

"Let him go!" She yelled at him desperately, holding the gun with shaking hands.

"Oh you wouldn´t….." Andrew was cut off as Julia shot missing him a couple of millimeters.

"Let him go!" She yelled once more and Andrew loosened the grip around the rope, so Soap could breathe easier now.

"I ask you one more time. Why are you doing this? You promised me you would let him go!" Julia asked with a shaking voice, staring at Andrew.

"I wanted to. I really did but as I woke up I felt the anger overwhelm me and I knew if I don´t kill him now I would always regret it. Maybe I would blame you someday that I couldn´t get my revenge ´cause of you and I don´t want to hurt you in anger. I just did it for our love."

"Our love?" Julia asked him, lulled by his words.

"Yes, I just do this all for us. Not for Natasha, not for my men, even not for Makarov." Andrew answered, smiling lovely at her.

"Even if they try to hunt me or they kill me, I know that our love will always remain. All I have to do is to kill him finally, all I need is to kill everyone who doesn´t believe in our love." Andrew said, looking down at Soap and tighten the rope around Soap´s throat again. The Captain again began to grasp some air, unable to move a single bone.

"Wait!" Julia told Andrew and raised the gun again, making Andrew smile.

"Want to shoot him? Feel free to!" Andrew said grinning at her.

Julia looked into Andrew´s eyes, swallowed hard and turned her gaze down to Soap, who seemed to try his best to look at her pitiful. Julia shivered, making the gun in her hand labile. She once more looked up at Andrew who still grinned and then back to Soap, starring in his eyes as she braced herself.

"I´m sorry….but I don´t know you."

The next things heard was a single shot and a lifeless body crushing to the floor….