He got a really shitty phonecall.

Angst Month Day 2: Holding Back Tears

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┈ ⋞ 〈He got a really shitty phonecall.〉 ⋟ ┈

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None of it was fucking fair. His mum was a good woman, a godly woman; she fed ducks and planted magnolias and baked him clementine cakes. She was a good mother. Soap’s mum deserved the fucking world on a silver platter and he made sure she had everything she could ever want - the woman deserved it after raising his ass. He hadn’t been an easy kid, he knew, and he doubled down on loving her for being his mother once he was old enough to recognize that he’d probably single-handedly aged her a year each day with his stupid shenanigans as a lad.

So it wasn’t fair.

“Aight, thanks Ash,” Soap said tightly into his phone. It was late. He’d just walked into the barracks building and the lights were all off except the hallways between private quarters. He’d been ambushed by the call from his cousin Ashley. People didn’t make unannounced phone calls at eleven o’clock at night anymore without it being something fucking bad.

Soap was sitting on the sofa in the darkened common room. Once the words were out of Ash’s mouth into his ear like an infectious worm - It’s cancer, Johnny - he’d needed to sit down before the world tilted on its axis.

It wasn’t supposed to be fucking cancer. It was supposed to just be allergies, a cough his mum couldn’t shake. Not bloody cancer.

“No, I’m aight,” he huffed into the phone cradled against his head. “Thanks for callin’. I’ll call ‘er in tha mornin’. Probably be able to get a bit o’ leave an’ come visit ye all. No, thank ye. Aight. G’night, Ash.”

Beep. Call ended.

Soap hung his head as if he were made of stone. His broad shoulders slumped where he sat on the ugly, well-worn sofa in the common room. It sagged in the middle, dragging him down. He was hunched with his elbows on his knees, his phone dangling from one hand. He’d done and seen horrible things in war: torture, , public execution, dead kids, dead families. He hadn’t shed a damn tear over any of it, not even the funerals of friends. Tears didn’t do shit. Tears didn’t un-shoot bullets and they didn’t bring back the dead.

Tears didn’t cure cancer.

“Shite,” he mumbled, pinching the bridge of his nose to stem the burn in his eyes. It was a foreign feeling. He hadn’t cried since he was a lad, maybe nine or ten? Not since his dad had fucked off and his mum had to explain the bastard wasn’t comin’ back. That Johnny and his mum just weren’t good enough. He’d been a right bastard after that until he was sixteen and got his head on straight, bless his mum’s heart. And now here Soap was, holding back tears in a darkened common room because the one good thing in his life had cancer - his mum.

He was too focused on trying to compartmentalize the way his world was ending to notice the scuff of {{user}}’s steps on the floor, at the threshold to the common room from the hall.