The thing about Ghosts is they are alone…but they aren't at the same time. They have each other. Before they were just remnants of Special Forces teams and other areas of the military, but when they thought they had nothing left…they were proved wrong. With their skills, dedication, and loyalty…they were brought onto the Ghosts. Together they complete clandestine missions behind enemy lines and were given a second chance of things. Thomas Merrick, Keegan Russ, Elias Walker, Ajax Johnson…they were all Ghosts. But there is always more to a person than what meets the eye…especially when it came to Merrick. He was only seventeen when he completed his Navy Seal training and always comes across as cold and harsh, but that's when happens when you are raised my a military father and grandfather who had expectations you were expected to meet.

But that's not the only reason he was cold and harsh. What a lot of people didn't know was that he was the oldest brother of five siblings. There was him and three other brothers as well as one sister. The order of births was Thomas Merrick, Ian Merrick, James Merrick, Stephan Merrick, and Alexandra Merrick. Thomas was never close to any of his siblings, especially Alexandra. He was twelve years older than her and he left her to be taken care of her three other brothers since he couldn't be there. Ian was six years older than her, James was four, and Stephan two. All five of the sibling had expectations to be military, so they received training from their father until the day he died in Iraq.

When Merrick was thirty, the ODIN strikes began and they lost Stephan right away since he was home on leave in Sacramento when the strikes began. Ian was the second to die after he and James were recruited onto the Ghosts and was later killed covering the team's exit. Last to die was James. He was just too close to a grenade when it went off… Three of Merrick's siblings were killed in a span less than ten years and now all he had left in this world was the sister he never really knew. She was only seventeen when the ODIN strikes began and enlisted in the military the second after. Her whole life she was trained alongside of her brothers and met her father's expectations in the end and proved to be a very capable and well-equipped soldier in the United States Delta Force. She was only twenty-four when she completed her tests to get onto the Ghosts. To her, it was a huge surprise as well as an honor.

Today she was twenty-seven years old and Merrick was forty. They have fought alongside each other for three years and it has done nothing but bring them closer. Not only were her and her brother as close as siblings could be, but she and Keegan were good friends and Elias treated her like a daughter…something Alexandra's father never did. In her world her father was her captain and she was his sergeant. Ajax and her didn't get a long, but they were team mates and they had each other's backs no matter what. Kick and Neptune treated her well and were the guys she played card games with often, but she wasn't as close as them as she was with Keegan.

For a while things for the Ghosts were normal. They completed their missions and always got out in one piece…barely. It wasn't until Ajax was captured by the enemy that the Ghosts' world slowly began to crumple beneath their feet. And it wasn't until Alexandra met Elias Walker's sons, David and Logan, would she discover what she could feel for a person. When she first met David Walker, she wanted nothing to do with him, but it wasn't long until she found herself slowly falling for him. This is her story of how her life went after the ODIN strikes and the United States of America fell. And this is how she ended up doing something she never thought she could do…fall in love…under the worst possible circumstances.

All the information I got for this chapter was from Call of Duty Wiki, but I made up Merrick's siblings (obviously). This is my second Call of Duty story and I have a good feeling about it so please stay tuned. This is only the prologue… which is barely the beginning.

~Backstroker98