Fics like A Punishment Well Earned

The posters showing off the dual sides of the service. Polished, regimented, proud on one side. Deadly, brave, iconic on the other. Propaganda. Neither showing what it’s really like. The pain and suffering. Endured. Created. Dead bodies everywhere. People you’ve killed. Friends of yours who have been killed. Sure, not every MOS will have that experience. Boot the worst they might encounter. But it doesn’t make her feel any less disgusted about where she is. What happens in this office. Young men and women signing up based on a lie and a dream. Maybe it will go well for them. They’ll find financial stability. Leave once their first contract ends. Transition into civilian life. But maybe it won’t. Maybe they’ll die serving, or do and see such terrible things that they come back broken. Drink themselves to death. Or maybe they’ll thrive for years only to piss off the worst person possible. Find themselves exiled. Out of the game. Stuck in a hell of their own making. Hating that game. Disgusted by it. Yet longing for it. Craving it. Going absolutely fucking mad because they are so goddamn close to it, but are unable to play. OR Cruz pays the price for her choices in New York and Mallorca.

Fics like A Punishment Well Earned

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