I’m half scared to go to her house lately,” Brody said helplessly. “Yesterday, I show up with all the ingredients ready to make her dinner. She asked for mashed potatoes and Salisbury steak. So I start cooking, and then halfway through she changes her mind and says that the smell is making her sick and she couldn’t possibly eat what I was making. Then, she is crying and I go to see why, afraid it is somehow my fault again, but she’s sitting in front of the TV, crying at a fabric softener commercial. Why? Because the baby on the commercial put its finger in its mother’s mouth and she thought it was cute.” Brody looked at Rafe. “Then, wasting all the food that was half made, she ended up wanting cheese pizza. So I order pizza. Then, when the pizza arrives, she tops it with catsup and pickles.” They were sitting in the office they shared. Since Rafe took over command of the new elite unit out of Quantico, the commute was brutal but well worth it for all of them. Ivy and Marie loved their jobs at Walter Reed while Rafe and Brody loved their careers in the Marines.
