Love is danger

7

Soap run a hand over his forehead and stepped aside, Rudy instantly took his place. Both were determind to find their missing men, their missing loved once.

The Sergeant walked up to Price and Gaz, that was when all of the people in the room looked over to the small table on which the personal stuff of the shadows were kept.

The 141 men looked at eachother before Price stepped up to the table, the vibrating sound came from one of the phones of the Shadows. A message, from Graves.

"What is it?" One of the Shadows asked, out of breath from the last hours of interogation. The Captain shot him an angry look, before he looked back to the phone.

He needed a code, wait, face ID was working too. So he held it infront of the faces of the Shadow Soldiers until it had unlocked, then opened the message.

"No..." Price winced and closed his eyes, before he laid a hand over his mouth, feeling his stomach churn. "Captain?" Gaz asked concerned, while Soap stepped closer, he wanted to take a look at the phone but Price turned it away and shock his head.

"You dont want to see that, son." He whispered in a soft voice, looking at his Sergeant with a apologizing expresion. That didnt make it better at all.

Soap knew what this had to be about. "Simon, right? Please... what happened? Is he dead? Please tell me hes still alive!" Gaz stepped closer too, just like Rudy did, but Price shock his head.

"He's fi-" But he trailed off, that wouldve been a lie. Simon wasnt fine, he wasnt okay. "Lets talk outside, but hes alive." Price quickly mumbled and shot a death look to their captivies, before he walked out, followed by the three soldiers.

"Price. Price, talk to me. What did that bastard do to him?!" The anger but also fear and worry were apperent in Johnnys voice. He could only imagen how much his partner was suffering while he was all fine and save here.

"Soap, hes alive. Simon is alive." "But?" Gaz pressed, raising his eyebrows and making a hand gesture for Price to go on. "Just show it to us if you dont want to say it."

Price instinctively pressed the phone harder against his chest and shook his head. "Im not gonna do that... out of respect to Simon. Just know that Graves is a bastard. He stepped over a line that should never had been crossed."

Soap groaned angry and snapped the phone out of his Captains hands. "For fuck sake! What did that scumbag do to my boyfriend!" Price eyes widen before he closed them, it was to late, Soap had already looked at it.

Gaz and Rudy wanted to look too, but Johnny had a much worse reaction than Price had had. Pressing the phone to his chest, he turned around and vomited behind the next corner. When his stomach calmed he looked at the picture on the phone again and puked a second time.

"Fuck, that bad?" Gaz whispered and watched with horrified eyes how Soap seemed to puke his guts out. "Graves send a picture, of Simon, he had obviously been tortured but... also in other ways." The Captain explained and emphazised the word 'other'.

Rudy closed his eyes too when he understood, just like Gaz let out silent curses. "What... what about Alejandro?" Rudy felt like an ass to ask, but he needed to know. How was his Colonel? How was Ale?

"I dont know, Graves only send a picture of Simon and the threat to send him his men back... or he would do it again. Nothing about Alejandro, Im sorry." Price sighed. It could mean something good, because there werent any threaths against the Colonel.

On the other side, Simon didnt had that much luck...

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He had laid motionless for the next few hours, not moved once. The... the stuff... Graves had covered him in had dried, but there was nothing he could do against it.