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Soap doesn’t know what the fuck they are but one thing’s for sure: he won’t let Ghost scare him away. Even if that means he’ll be treated like shit. But that doesn’t matter because Soap doesn’t feel anything for the man anyway. Just teammates with benefits. Right??
Or: Ghost is a psychopath asshole who seems keen on making Soap’s life a (horny) mess.
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As Johnny and Simon close in quickly on the end of their first year as parents, they seriously pursue adding to their family. Less than a month, and the twins will officially be adopted by Simon. The pair rise to meet the challenges of military life, deployments, kids, school, therapies and football together.
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Simon wants enough kids to fill a football team. And Johnny's all in.. in Simon that is.
Or... It's another holiday day in the life of our favorite couple!
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- Part 14 of COD Holiday Specials
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As Valentine's Day rolls around Simon and Johnny decide it's time to begin working on expanding their family. Shocked by the reality of the cost, Simon takes some drastic steps to ensure they can move forward with their plans.
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The weekend Soap decides to kill his husband.
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- Part 13 of COD Holiday Specials
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An ongoing series where two touch-starved men figure out how to take care of each other in ways that no military field guide ever covered. Thankfully, when you already trust a person with your life, letting them see you at your most vulnerable isn't nearly as hard as it sounds.
Non-sexual intimacy, physical touch, a little angst, and a lot of comfort.
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Broken Bones and Shattered Hearts by Starlight_VLD for kibagib
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
20 Mar 2025
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John MacTavish hasn't seen Simon Riley since the day Simon rushed him to a London trauma center... and then walked away. The absence made John's road to recovery all the more agonizing, but luckily, the rest of the 141 along with other friends and family filled the hole left by a ghost.
Now, three and a half years later, John finally has his life together. He works for the MOD (and the CIA... ahem) as a civilian demolitions consultant. He's got a house, a (mostly) clear head, and most importantly, a date with someone new to his best mate's wedding.
John's ecstatic to be standing up as Kyle's best man. Unfortunately, it also means standing in the same room as a certain Lieutenant. It's okay, though. For Kyle's sake, John can keep all the anger and hurt festering inside of him in check. All he has to do is avoid Simon for the next few hours, and they'll go their separate ways.
Too bad Simon has other plans that, unbeknownst to either of them, will change their lives forever.
For better or for worse.
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- Part 2 of COD Fics
- Part 1 of Broken Hearts
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Yearn, white boy, yearn
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In those last split seconds before it ends, there is intimacy.
In that shuddering gasp between stability and unimaginable force, a glance shared with another man - all those conversations you wanted to have but didn’t, all that useless yearning directed at nothing - his hand instinctively presses to the front of your kit in a pale echo of wish, of a boy’s last cry for his mother. Or a pat for a job well done; an impotent display of brotherhood at the edge of reality.
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Simon and John struggle to lean on each other after their mutual discharge, navigating their trauma, feelings, and what it means to be intimate with another man.
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The Many Masks of Simon Riley by slightlysmilingface, yaboytayto
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Reboot)
19 Jan 2025
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Ghost is not Simon. Ghost is not Simon. Ghost is not Simon.
or, Simon Riley has DID.
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- Part 1 of masks, memories and other impossibilities
- Part 1 of many masks and its au's
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"There’s a popular, unspoken feeling in the team. Ghost is loyal to MacTavish. He’ll back him up all the way and play the role of second, but a lone wolf is still a lone wolf when you take the lead away."
Perspectives across Task Force 141 over the years on Ghost, Soap, Ghost-and-Soap, command, trust, and accidentally building a family when you were supposed to build a Task Force.
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Soap was a young rookie with quirks, but he was coping. Captain John MacTavish has the world on his shoulders, and he is not coping. The lives of everyone he cares about depend on him being able to do things Just Right, all the time. All his little rituals block out the thoughts of causing their deaths. They protect the 141. But nobody is perfect. When he slips, Ghost is there to catch him.
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And there’s a pattern to his exhales that Johnny knows well enough to read as: I don’t deserve you. I don’t deserve to say it too.
But he lets Simon hold him like that, his face pressed against the side of his temple, breathing in the scent of his hair, arms cradling and tightening simultaneously, as if Johnny is both the most precious and most dangerous thing in the living room.Fools in love, family, and finding a way... The complimentary bonus epilogue of 'all that's said in the low light'
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- Part 2 of silver and gold
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“And so, like I said,” continued Alejandro, eyes still sparkling with mirth. “Look after those two.”
“I’m not gonna play matchmaker.”
The very idea almost made him laugh out loud. Alejandro did bark a laugh, however, loud enough to earn curious glances from the other three men, who thankfully stood out of earshot of their conversation.
“Por favor no! Though that would be a sight, captain. I simply ask you to make sure they don’t accidentally break their necks on this,”
Price smiled as the rest of the team approached.
“I’ll do my best.”
Glimpses of Ghost and Soap’s relationship, from Price’s perspective, as everyone else clocks they're in love long before they do.
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Ghost hadn’t celebrated Christmas in… well, ever really. The day wasn’t ever a joyful affair when he was a boy, and so he never felt any nostalgia for the holiday, never mourned its absence in his life. He wasn’t actively hostile against Christmas, despite Soap occasionally calling him the Grinch in playful jabs; he simply didn’t care.
And so, once again, Ghost tried to remember how exactly he’d been convinced to join John MacTavish for a Christmas with his entire family in Scotland. The thought alone was enough to send his pulse into near frenzy.
When Soap somehow convinces Ghost to join him in Scotland on the 24th of December, Simon Riley has to grapple with some of his worst fears: jolly traditions and social gatherings.
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He wades in it now, eyes still open, fixed on the speckled ceiling, begging himself not to crave bomb blasts and artillery fire in his childhood bedroom. Although…there might be something beautiful about it all, Johnny supposes, those noises in the thick. The gasps in between discharge that say: I’m here, I’m a part of this song too.
After a near-fatal injury, John MacTavish finds himself back in his hometown in Scotland. Fresh off an untimely discharge, he's forced to cope with disability, his dysfunctional family, and the lingering knowledge that there are some things he's just not ready to leave behind...
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- Part 1 of silver and gold
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soooo good. Best I’ve read.
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Warmth filled his chest at the prospect of the future. Once he had thought the job was his life; probably because it actually had been. He had resigned himself to an early, violent death on a battlefield. Recently, he had started accepting the chance at the opposite.
Like the fresh buds on the trees rushing past the car window, Price felt a new start coming with spring.
Soap and Ghost are forced out of retirement when Price goes MIA.
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It should have been a no-brainer, really. Ghost should have balked at the thought of spending time in close proximity to any of his colleagues, let alone the one man that he actually had the potential to disappoint. That was his rule — distance meant safety.
It should have been an easy answer.
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When the news of three weeks’ forced leave reaches Ghost, he’s resigned himself to loneliness in an empty base. That is, until a certain Sergeant offers him an invitation he just can’t seem to refuse.
Or: the sheep farming fic nobody asked for
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“Ghost?”
“Soap.” Ghost’s voice was a low buzz, gravelly with static. In the absolute silence of the snow-covered forest, it sounded both deafeningly loud and intimately quiet.
“What’s your favourite season?” Soap asked.
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Four seasons, five countries, six months.
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Soap is physically affectionate by nature.
Ghost is not.
Johnny might just be rubbing off on him though.
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This… this was becoming dangerous. It was right there in front of him, encapsulated in that one single word. The need of it. Their terrible symbiosis.
They were sewn together by breakable thread. Surgeon’s sutures, harsh knots over bloody wounds, not made to last, just willing to hold them together long enough to keep their blood in. They’d learned to avoid sharp objects, their conversations carefully side-stepping the knife-edges of words that threatened to sever each stitch.
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When a routine mission goes haywire, Soap and Ghost are left stranded deep in the mountains of Eastern Europe. Left alone, injured and reeling with the aftermath, honesty seems come to the surface between them a lot more easily than usual.
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