PART 2

The reunion spread quickly through the neighborhood.

Reporters arrived.

Military officials visited.

Everyone wanted answers.

Where had James been?

How had he survived?

James explained that after the mission went wrong, he had been captured.

For years he lived in isolation.

Never knowing if he would see his family again.

Never knowing if they believed he was alive.

But the hardest battle wasn’t survival.

It was coming home.

Lily struggled to connect with him.

To her, he was a stranger.

A man from old photographs.

One evening James overheard Lily talking to a friend.

“I know he’s my father.”

She looked down.

“But I don’t know him.”

James quietly walked away.

That night he sat alone in the garage.

Wondering if he had already lost the family he fought so hard to return to.

Then Sarah found an old box hidden among his belongings.

And inside was something that changed everything.

(PART 3?)