The Broken Soldier

AmySadler6 18 stories

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Rob Finigan, aged 25 of a muscular build and in the army as a Bomb Disposal Expert. Finally comes home to his wife Julia. Julia was 35 years old, attractive. She is very happy to see him back home. She has some wonderful news to tell him. She is pregnant. After receiving such wonderful news, Rob decides to quit the army, wanting to spend time with his wife and his child to be. But when he talks to Corporal Hicks, his superior officer. Hicks denies him his resignation, and he is informed that he is needed right away. Months pass by without a word from his wife. And then he gets a call from Corporal Hicks, his wife is going to give birth to a happy baby girl. Rob is completely over the moon. But as hours pass by, there’s another call from Corporal Hicks. Rob gets informed that his baby girl has just died prematurely and on top of it all, he has a bomb that he needs to dispose of. Rob is completely devastated about the loss of his baby girl. But he can’t afford to lose concentration now. And just as he’s in the middle of disarming the bomb. A failsafe triggers, leaving Rob with only moments to get rid of the bomb. He manages to throw the bomb safely away, but the blast from the bomb is greater than expected. Rob gets knocked out by the sheer force of the bomb’s blast. He passes out and is unconscious for days. When he finally recovers, however. Rob does not recognise himself. In fact, he somehow believes himself to be a baby girl called Rebecca and he ends up calling out for his Mommy. Julia, Rob’s wife gets called in and when she hears him call her Mommy for the very first time, she is completely devastated. She’s just lost a child, and now she’s lost her husband and yet gained a baby girl in his place. Julia has to learn how to navigate Robs sense of new reality, but the transformation comes at a very high cost.