Redemption [| PHILLIP GRAVES |]

CHAPTER XXXVII: Moving Forward With a Short Farewell

When you absolutely care for something- so much, to the point it overfills the chalice of all of your motivation, eventually shattering due to the pressure- which sets off your overdue emotions that you just release and impulsively do all the forbidden shit you couldn't do before just because you were scared of doing so. It's not anybody's fault that you were scared, because in the future, you would understand the reason on why you would do something like that – even if it meant reliving the trauma that you once bore, risking your mentality to cope with your shattered chains that held you back with no remorse.

When you absolutely care for something, you choose to save or harness it, whether how risky it is to yourself and to others. It's not always every time that you play your cards, but when you finally have a chance to just draw and slide them down to the table, it just represents the difference of how you could do so much, especially if that risk turns into a mine of fortune.

When you absolutely care for something... that it just turns into a personal issue, making you think of all the possible things in order to save that.

In that case, Graves was not playing around anymore. And he meant that he wasn't playing around anymore. No medics could never save him now considering they all had to focus on Soap's coma, in order to monitor if he's ever in the right path of not.

The sad part was that, Ghost and Gaz couldn't witness his side of the plan if it ever succeeds or not. They just have to find out what hid behind the incognito, even if it meant despair.

They were blinded with bewilderment on the ordeal, and has no idea about what's to come.

Lives at are stake, especially Graves. He either succeeds and win the shadows over – or die, alone and with a sense of relief.

Ironically, it would be a treasure to him as well, because now he has the chance to see if he ever finds him again in an afterlife or void-

Rudy.

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The trio went on with the plan and agreed to meet at the vehicles, delaying their course of action first in order to just get everything off their chests for a moment, not wanting anything to be wasted and be left in regret overall. It was a sudden blessing at the nigh moment, but it could benefit their mentality if they only visit him this one- possibly, last time.

Both Gaz and Graves followed Ghost towards the infirmary after a small talk, eventually meeting with the very few medics that decided to come back after being scared off by Gryffin – and there lied Soap once again...

The monitor.

It's displaying a slow heartbeat, possibly signaling the fact that he has a risk of dying if he isn't receiving the urgent care he needed.

Not like Soap cared about that anyway. He would be happy that he died, his last moments would be around Gaz's shoulders, the one time he carried him to the infirmary – passing out after a mass loss of blood.