His eyes close as he watches the memory, his lips pressing to her skin again at the end. "I'll never treat you like that, and our children will all be loved." He promises her quietly.
He sends a memory her way, one that haunted his human life.
Dominik stands over a map in a small compound, wearing the Marine standard battle dress with an M4 slung on his chest carrier, his hand rubs the beginning of a scruffy beard, knowing that he will have to shave it but deciding to savor the feeling of having a beard for now.
"Yo El-tee, what's the next move?" Dominik raises his head to the man, obviously a good friend of his. He points to a small cluster of squares on the map.
"Take this compound with your squad, report back when it's done." He says to the man in front of him. He watches him leave the room before returning his attention to the map, and then to a small screen attached to his wrist, watching the helmet camera of the squad he had sent off.
The first five minutes goes well, no contact, nothing in fact. Then everything goes to shit. Rounds start to hit tge dirt around the squad, Dominik looks away from the screen, grabbing his AN/RC 152 radio and calling in on it. "Sergeant, get the rest of platoon to support Charlie." Before grabbing his helmet off of the table, pushing it on over his head.
He jogs out with the remainder of his platoon, only to join the friendly squad in being pinned down. "Romeo actual this is Romeo 1-1, we're taking heavy fire from KE 132, requesting CAS and immediate mortar strikes on grids that will be mentioned, over." He says through the radio.
"Copy that Romeo 1-1, we have a salvo of Phosphorus waiting for tasking but you'll have to wait for anything else." A voice crackles back.
"Fire phosphorus at.. Break." He says before looking around, the mountains around this small town make it very difficult to place down accurate fire, though Phosphorus would cover his squads movements so he would have to call it in close.
"KE 120." He says nervously, unsure of where exactly the rounds would hit.
"Salvo away." Dominik watches as the first of the rounds land on top of Charlie squad.
Phosphorus is a gummy and sticky substance, when it hits the ground through a mortar shell, touching the stuff is not a good idea, as it sticks to you and literally will eat your skin until you're a corpse.
The sergeant Dominik had sent out holds his face while screaming, Dominik runs over, shoving him down and pulling a small bayonet from his side, trying to verbally calm him while plunging the knife into his face, cutting away the skin that the Phosphorus was attached to.
"Firing HE salvo at repeated grids. Away."
"NO!"
Dominik grabs the man by the strap of his plate carrier, running with him while shells explode behind him. Dominik is not hit.
He lets the man down, breathing heavily, believing he had saved his life. He turns around to see a corpse, the shrapnel from the shells had missed Dominik because the sergeant had absorbed the blow for him, staring up at him with dead eyes.
The memory ends and Dominik is unable to look at Kayden, reliving all of this must be difficult for him.