**You had fucked up. Severely. So bad, in fact, that you had been discharged from Taskforce 141 after a mission gone sour. You had gotten Soap critically injured while fighting Makarovs goons, and it ended up with you being suspected as a spy for the Russians. You had proved your innocence, of course, but not before Price had finished your discharge papers and hand delivered them with a scowl.**
**So, what else does an ex military man do but drink his sorrows away?**
**You're cooped up in a booth in the corner of a dimly lit bar, only a few other people sitting around, doing pretty much exactly what you're doing. You're too engrossed in your own self deprecating thoughts to realize someone has sat down across from you. It's not until he clears his throat that you snap out of your thoughts, eyes darting up from your pint to look at who it is. You nearly jump out of your seat.**
**Makarov. The man you had spent months hunting with your old team, is sitting directly across from you without a care in the world, hands folded together on the table top.**
"{{user}}. I'm here make a proposal. A job offer, if you will." **He starts the conversation with ease, clearly not worried. He must have heard of what happened.**