BornFirst087
Fandoms
- Hawaii Five-0 (2010) (2)
- 9-1-1 (TV) (2)
- Call of Duty (Video Games) (1)
- Pacific Rim (Movies) (1)
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The mission fails. Time breaks.
A mission gone wrong sends Soap back in time—into a body that hasn’t earned its scars yet. He comes back far too young to carry the weight of the life he’s already lived, stubborn enough to resent every second of it, and with his memories scattered years behind him. Task Force 141 is left holding the pieces of a person who no longer remembers earning them. As time rewinds and Soap grows up again, 141 becomes something between a unit and a family. Through every stage, through scraped knees, half-remembered instincts, comes the slow realization that some bonds survive time itself.
As the years are lived over again—this time surrounded by people who know exactly who he’s meant to become—the line between fate, choice, and identity begins to blur.
Turns out growing up once was hard enough. Doing it twice might be harder.
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Raleigh shifted next to her, his hands on his hips as he bit his lip. He sucked his teeth, “Um…yeah. How did you get in this mess again?”
The baby gave a little gurgle in her carrier. “I might have just been agreeing to get the conversation over with…” Mako let the silence carry.
The blonde pilot hummed, and the two of them continued to stare.
The little girl smiled at them, gummy and drooling as she played with her sock-covered foot. Mako unbuckled her, grumbling at the many latches containing the child, and picked her up. She held her out, stiff-armed, as she had never been around many babies before. Never actually. She was much better with....older individuals.
“Raleigh,” she paused, “What do we do with a baby?”
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Kono knew her team was special, government allowance aside. What they had together was special, a family in the making. Steve and Danny were new to her, but at the same time, men cut from the same cloth as she was. She observed them, how they talked, how they gave orders, how they worked to make their task force a home.
But she notices some habits that struck her as odd - like how deftly Danny knows to throw a knife or how easily Steve can stitch a wound.
Not totally abnormal skills, but not so common that every police officer or military man would know.
She observes harder and compares them with other men and still finds them coming up short. They’re both capable, but they are also…more
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...It wasn’t until after Shannon left him and abandoned her child, until a night where he drank himself stupid and the ringing wouldn’t stop. It was just there, a screeching tea kettle explosion that wouldn’t go away. It felt like his brain was going to melt out of his skull. He fell asleep that night with his hands clasped over his ears and tear tracks down his face.
Or Eddie Diaz and the battle for the silence in his head.
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He couldn’t drop it this time. Not anymore. The well of hurt inside him, like the brim of an overfilled cup, was about to spill and for once, he wanted his dad to see.
“Yeah, a real sweet one,” He gestured at his father, gazing at his mother to understand, “Except he just-” He sighed, ”He’s missing the whole part where he tore me a new one for ruining his truck.”
His father looked at him, disapproval in his eyes.
Eddie didn’t care. Rationally a part of him said to stop it, just keep it in. It’s been so long, why bring it up now?No, he thought. Just no. Let him see.
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They all have bad days sometimes. But eventually, the Leverage crew have all learned to rely on one another to help get through them.
Except Eliot.
Bookmarked by BornFirst087
25 May 2026
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Parker's Presents (The Reverse Pickpocket Jobs) by vorpalsword
Fandoms: Leverage (US TV 2008)
06 Oct 2025
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Parker’s love language is reverse pickpocketing.
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Bookmarked by BornFirst087
12 Mar 2026
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I've No More Kept My Warmth Than Blood Upon the Snow by softer_sin
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
04 Aug 2025
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Ghost pulls the damp keffiyeh down and tips his chin back until his glazed eyes meet his. “Clothes, Sergeant,” he presses, tapping a bracing smack to his cheek and even through his glove, he can feel the chill clinging to his skin. “I need you to focus. Copy?”
Johnny’s jaw chatters in his hand and he almost shakes him as his eyes close a long blink. “C-copy,” he slurs out, voice weak and thready.
It locks Ghost in place for a heartbeat, maybe less; this reduction of the brightest man he knows to this meek, shivering thing. A pup wearing his father’s boots and his mother’s rosary; waterlogged and tangled, dragging him down to the bottom of a fucking lake on Ghost’s watch-
His lip kicks up, baring a snarl at himself, and he strangles it; burying it back in the useless dirt where it belongs.
Series
- Part 1 of You Must Know Life to See Decay
Bookmarked by BornFirst087
08 Mar 2026
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On the 21st November 2023, Sergeant John "Soap" MacTavish was killed in action in the Eurotunnel, 7km off the coast of Folkestone.
Except the heavily redacted report is all a lie and the emotional scattering of his ashes is all an act.
This is the story of how he survives, how the 141 fake his death, and how he recovers - with Ghost right by his side.
A realistic fic about Soap recovering from a traumatic brain injury and discovering which parts of himself are left, and which parts Makarov stole from him. Full of hurt and comfort, angst and humour, this is a slow burn Ghost/Soap getting together fic with a happy ending.
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Bookmarked by BornFirst087
06 Mar 2026
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Spoilers for Leverage: Redemption in the canonical death of an integral character from the original, but takes place before show picks up. This is how they cope. And don't.
“I need to be alone,” she says, opening the door behind her, taking a slow step back. “I just need to be by myself. I can’t. I can’t. You can’t look at me like that, Alec, I can’t stand it."
Hardison’s shoulders raise. “Look at you how?”
“Like I’m gonna break,” she yells, blinking again as her eyes burn. “I’m not going to break Hardison! I’ve been alone my whole goddamn life! People die, it’s fine!”
Bookmarked by BornFirst087
28 Feb 2026