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Jake came home six hundred and twenty-seven days after he fell from the sky. Only he didn't have a home to go to, because the Navy didn't want him anymore. He fought so hard to get back in the air, only to be told he'd never fly again. By all accounts, his recovery was nothing short of a miracle—but still, the risk of re-injury was too high. If something like that happened again, he might not be so lucky.
Lucky. There was that word again. Jake had given a decade of his life to the Navy, had sacrificed everything, and they considered him lucky.
They paid him off well enough, covered his hospital bills, gave him a medal or three. It didn't make it better. It didn't undo what happened, and nothing ever would.
Or: After he's forced to leave the Navy, Jake takes a job as a bodyguard for one Bradley Bradshaw. The only problem? Bradley can never find out.