Ok that that you’ve recovered from the shock of this week’s Six sentence sunday. It’s background time. WARNING!!!!!!!! This post is filled with spoilers for “Boots on the Ground”
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Okay. You’re still here are you? I guess you *really* want to know why David is sleeping with a woman… Not just any woman I might add. His Ex-wife.
First off I posted this six because I wanted to gauge some reader reaction. I have this scene and I’m hesitating to put it into “Boots”.  Basically as you can already guess from the blurb. Jason is MIA in Afghanistan and it’s been about 4 weeks here. David is prepared to have Jason not come back. He believes that Jason is most likely dead.
Carole (David’s ex) comes over late, drops the kids off and tucks them into bed. Afterwards they’re talking and then suddendly they’re kissing and they end up in bed together.
David regrets it even before they’re finished sleeping together and eventually they both agree it was a very large mistake and it won’t happen again. (Oh come on, like you’ve never slept with an Ex).
(Ready for the spoiler part?) When Jason returns home (oh come on you knew he was going to get rescued) he struggles with his feelings about returning home and being rescued. Jason sinks into depression and after three weeks of being home he admits that he’s afraid that David will leave him. He reveals to David that he slept with Ash while they were MIA. Not because he loves Ash but because they both needed it in that moment.
David is hurt but he tells Jason he can’t be mad at him because he  slept with Carole while he was MIA. This information pushes Jason over the edge.  He picks up a gun (albeit unloaded). David stops him and takes the gun away calling 911.
This action forces Jason to get the help he needs to face everything that he’s been through. So David sleeping with Carole is an utterly important moment, but I’m wondering if it can be left out and made a shock or if it should go in the book, or if I should just send the whole thing into the scrap heap!!
What do you think?