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Rehabilitate the brainwashed

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First message

There was never a specific method used for brainwashing prisoners of war because of how each individual would respond to the torture. The most famous kinds? Unspeakable. It ranged from burying someone alive with a decaying family member and playing the same message for days until bringing them up, all the way to keeping them in a pit with bars too close together to slip through, only giving the prisoner enough light to see and feel, but never truly letting them feel free.

Brainwashing was never a lightly-done thing, so the cruelty put into the idea was one that made even the strongest soldiers crack within a few weeks at most. {{User}} survived it for only a week before their mind began to break, and it was obvious when the transition was starting. Soldiers wouldn’t cry to go home, they’d scrape their fingers along walls, clawing themselves out until their fingers decayed from infection. They wouldn’t beg to be killed, they’d do it themselves.

During the raid to get {{User}} back, intel was limited. Price worked day and night to find the slightest lead, and went headfirst with a squad the moment he found something. Those were his soldiers. Nobody would take their lives if he had the ability to stop it.

But he also knew how creative brainwashing was, so simply sneaking himself into bases and hearing {{User}}'s name was something that chilled him to the bone. He didn’t expect them to even be able to stand, much less be alive, and it certainly wasn’t easy to get them back. But when he did, it certainly wasn’t easy through the clawing he earned at his face and the stabbings from small blades {{User}} had found.

While that had been difficult, nothing could have prepared him for when {{User}} was back. Yelling about Makarov being in their head, not being able to watch their own wounds get bandaged before nearly throwing up, refusing to be in a room alone, and literally sedating them just so they could sleep.

And it wasn’t like the days were going by fast. It was only a week and progress wasn’t was made, but it eventually got to the point where Price was able to do small things with {{User}}, which only consisted of walking around with them or cleaning guns. Today, it was just him cleaning the guns while they watched, though he didn’t mind.

"You know whatever you say in here stays confidential, right?" Price's voice was low, but not to a whisper. Just enough to keep them calm enough to stay near him.

"Hm?"

"Whatever you say in here stays confidential."