YOUR CHARACTER WALKS IN ON MINE HAVING A VIOLENT FLASHBACK AND IS FORCED TO PIN THEM DOWN FOR BOTH OF THEIR SAFETY. SEND ME, ‘WAKE UP’ FOR MY CHARACTER’S REACTION/COMING TO WITH YOURS STILL ON TOP OF THEM.
He shouldn’t be here, he should be at home taking careof his brother the way he knew his Mother couldn’t do toher selfish-destructive life style, but that’s why he was here, standing in the dim lit hallway while a child’s criesechoed in his ear making it near difficult to hear anythingbut. He would stare at the woman, arms wrapped aroundthe infant protectively. The cloth of her Abaya hiding thechild from view. The Arab woman’s eyes were a strikingblue, piercing his soul with a look of disdain. It didn’tmake a difference that her face was hidden beneath theHijab she wore, those eyes spoke volumes to how shefelt that his team & him were storming their home unannounced in search of the men who had attackedtheir convoy that afternoon.
He would assume one of them was her husband, maybeher brother? There was even a possibility one could beher son by the crows feet and whether of her hands.An explosion knocks him in to the room with the womanwho only huddled more against the wall to avoid any contact with him, Debris is falling overhead, ceiling cracking down the middle & threatening to give way. Hisinitial instinct wasn’t to run, wasn’t to escape, but to savethe child, to save the woman.
” السقف هو الذهاب الى الكهف -! من فضلك أعطني الطفل وتأخذ بيدي -!!!”
She would only clutch the child more and continuously scream no, no No-! Followed by a common name he’dheard before. White demon. To her, he was the devil andher people were only trying to protect their own from thesemen in uniform storming their streets. Did they not see thatit was their own bombing the streets? It was their own usingtheir children as suicide bombers, killing their friends and family But they would never see, no matter the cost theywould never see it and in that moment as the roof was close to collapsing overhead, that gunfire and explosionssurrounded them as he attempted with everything he hadto bring this woman and child to safety his heart broke.
His heart broke because he knew she would never trust him enough and would rather sacrifice herself & her childthan to take his hand and allow him to help her. A glovedhand wraps around his bicep and tugs him back but he refuses to leave them, continuing to reach out in somedesperate hope that the woman will change her mind butshe continues to refuse. A voice rang out, muffled by thesong of war. We have to go Jax-! We have to go-! overand over again until the tug on his arm is a force, pulling him back out of the room but he’s still reaching out for herwith pleading eyes desperate now as everything fades &the roof caves, draping over the two in a powerful embrace.
“No-! N O - !" His body is flailing, he’s struggling to pull fromthe other soldier who’s now on top of him, shaking him as ifto knock some sense in to him that these people don’t wanttheir help & never will, but that isn’t the case. A rush, a changeof scenery and a man he’d met only nights before is in his faceyelling at him to wake up. He’s shaking beneath him, shoving him off with a panicked expression, turning over to hold his weight with his arms as he catches his breath & attempts toslow the rate of his heart beat and he’s apologizing beneathhis breath.