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Johnny stands at his open wardrobe, arms folded across his chest, and scowls at his clothes. His duffle bag is open on the bed behind him, half packed for his weekend leave with Simon.
The hangers rattle as he shoves them aside. A pair of jeans, faded and worn, drops to the floor, and he picks them up, regarding them for a moment before he tosses them back in the wardrobe in disgust. Would it have killed him to get some nice clothes? A couple of soft jumpers, maybe a blue one that would bring out his eyes? Or maybe a button-down shirt? No, too fancy. What does he think this is, a date?
Johnny laughs nervously, the sound bordering on hysterical.
-or- Simon and Johnny leave for a weekend getaway in the Scottish Highlands
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- Part 30 of Got Your Six
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16 Mar 2026
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“Hey Stevie.”
He froze. The voice had come from the shadows to his left, a voice so familiar yet so different. It was a little rougher now, hesitant, the accent washed from the words.
But Steve would have known that voice anywhere. “Bucky.”
A shadow detached itself from the rest, walking forward slowly. Cautiously. The stillness of his moments seemed to shatter the space between them, poised and on edge as if he were still ready for a fight.
Steve swallowed past the lump in his throat. “How are you, Buck?”
“I’m not armed.”
“That’s not what I asked.”
Bucky’s chin tilted up a fraction, but he kept his hands where Steve could see them. “I’m okay.”-or-
Every year on his birthday, Steve watches the fireworks over the city, only this time...he's joined by a ghost (figurative, not literal).
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16 Mar 2026
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The Antibiotics Fairy Doesn't Make House Calls by Sociablepossum
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
26 Jan 2026
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“Gonna get it warm in here first, then we’ll have a look at ya,” he says over his shoulder.
Soap just shivers on the cot and says nothing.
While he gets the fire going, Ghost takes stock of their supplies. He’s got almost a full IFAK between the two of them, cold water from the hand pump that he can warm, some dubious looking rags, and a half-gallon of what looks like homemade vodka.
Not ideal.
He glances over at the cot. Soap’s eyes have drifted shut.
-or- Soap is injured and delirious, and mistakes Ghost for someone who hurt him in the past.
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- Part 1 of COD whump prompts
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12 Mar 2026
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something borrowed, something blue by silverstain (oheart)
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
14 Nov 2025
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“That time I was in hospital,” Kyle began, his voice deliberately even. “After the grenade.”
John looked up, his expression guarded. He gave a slow, cautious nod. They didn’t talk about that often.
“The doctors needed decisions. And I had no one. No next of kin. They had to convene a board. It was… clinical.”
John’s face had softened, the frustration from earlier replaced by a pained understanding. “Kyle…”
Kyle waved an impatient hand. “I’m not asking for a church wedding, John. I’m talking about a piece of paper. At a registry office. So if one of us ends up in a hospital, the other isn’t just… some guy. So we have the right to be there.”
or: a death in the family reminds Kyle of the importance of formalising their bond. Unfortunately, John might not be as open to it as Kyle hoped.
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- Part 2 of the deadliest storm
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02 Mar 2026
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My Panic’s at the Ceiling, but I’m Flat Down on the Carpet by Sociablepossum
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
06 Dec 2025
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A shout echoes from somewhere behind him. Boots pounding. Snarling.
Gaz curses sharply. “Shit—Soap, right side! Hold on!”
Soap looks up.
Dark shapes explode out from behind a stack of shipping pallets. Massive, fast and low, fur and teeth and momentum.
Dogs. Big dogs.
Two of them.
And something inside Johnny MacTavish just…locks up.
-or- Soap has a fear of dogs and gets triggered in the middle of an op.
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- Part 26 of Got Your Six
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25 Feb 2026
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Johnny writes letters to Simon when the feelings are too much for him to handle.
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- Part 25 of Got Your Six
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25 Feb 2026
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If All My Days Are Numbered, Why Do I Keep Counting? by Sociablepossum
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
28 Nov 2025
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Ghost moves toward the far wall and his stomach turns cold. There’s a cryogenic storage vault with reinforced glass. Inside, rows of cylindrical vials filled with blue liquid sit suspended in cooling racks. Except…
“There’s some missing,” Soap says softly beside him. He jerks his head at the canisters on the floor. “Dewar flasks. Insulated with dry ice tae keep viral samples at -80 C. They must’ve used these tae move ‘em.
Ghost keys his mic. “Watcher-1, be advised. We’ve found a bio containment vault. Several vials unaccounted for.”
Laswell’s tone tightens. “Copy, Ghost. Stand by—”
Soap steps around him to get a better look at the cooling rack. He crouches down, frowning. Ghost turns slightly, waiting for Laswell’s update.
“Ghost—get down!”
Soap tackles him from the side, knocking Ghost clear off his feet as the room explodes.
-or-Ghost and Soap are exposed to an unknown bioweapon.
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- Part 23 of Got Your Six
- Part 10 of whumptober 2025
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25 Feb 2026
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“Well, Sergeant? What’s the verdict?” Ghost looks up from the sniper rifle he’s cleaning to see Soap leaning in the doorway with a shiteating grin on his face.
Soap crosses the room and slams a piece of paper down on the table. “Fit for full duty. Ye can stop yer mollycoddling now.”
“Is that so.” Ghost picks up the medical chit and scans it.
“Well, I’m glad yer finally admitting it—”
“…but you’re still not fit for full duty yet.”
Soap’s mouth snaps shut. Opens again, then he exhales sharply. “And why the hell not?”
“You’ve been medically cleared. Price left the final decision up to me.” Ghost tilts his head toward the door. “Gear up.”
Soap blinks. “Gear up?”
“For the PT course. Full obstacles.” Ghost calmly wipes the last bit of solvent from the bolt, though he can see that Soap is fuming. “You passed their tests. Now you pass mine.”
-or-Ghost puts Soap through the paces, and it gets...a little heated.
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- Part 22 of Got Your Six
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25 Feb 2026
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Ghost is shaking, whether from cold or from everything else between them, Soap can’t tell. His eyes are bright and unguarded through the mask, like the storm’s blown right through him and stripped him bare.
Soap’s breath hitches. “Why…” His voice cracks. “Why are ye here, Ghost?”
Ghost’s chest heaves once. Then he says, simply, “Because you’re here, Johnny.”
-or-Soap goes on leave, Ghost follows, and they FINALLY talk things out.
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- Part 21 of Got Your Six
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24 Feb 2026
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Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water (I Will Lay Me Down) by Sociablepossum
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
21 Jan 2026
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When Ghost finally returns from the roof, Gaz doesn’t crowd him. He doesn’t speak to him unless spoken to, seeming to understand that trying to fill the hole Soap’s left will only call more attention to it. He simply makes space—sets aside the corner bed, positions a chair where Ghost can sit without being watched, hands him the cup of tea without forcing eye contact.
Ghost takes it.
Price notices that too.
How many small kindnesses has Gaz offered, unnoticed? How many moments has Price missed, so focused on the larger picture that he failed to see the man quietly holding the edges together?
It unsettles him.
-or- Price realizes how much he truly depends on Gaz.
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- Part 3 of Hold the Line
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23 Feb 2026
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All These Hollowed Out Spaces Left Behind by Sociablepossum
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
30 Oct 2025
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Gaz wraps his hands around a cup of coffee gone cold twenty minutes ago. It tastes like burnt battery acid when he takes a sip, but he drinks it anyway. Anything to have something to do with his hands. It’s not the silence that’s getting to him, it’s the reason for it.
Soap isn’t here, and the silence left in his absence rings louder than anything in the room.
It’s mad, how much space one man can fill just by being alive.
-or- Soap's absense has left a hole in the 141, and Gaz is going to do something about it.
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- Part 18 of Got Your Six
- Part 6 of angstober 2025
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22 Feb 2026
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It's the Smallest Cuts that Hurt the Most by Sociablepossum
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
16 Dec 2025
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Gaz stands where Price left him, a few steps back from the glass, his injured shoulder throbbing dully in its sling, his pulse still skidding just beneath his skin like it hasn’t realized yet that the fight is over. He feels wrong in his own body—hollowed out, scraped raw—like something vital has been scooped clean out of his chest and the space hasn’t decided what to fill itself with yet. He’s seen men die. He’s seen bodies break, blood pooling bright in the dirt and the sand, he’s watched life flicker out in places far uglier than this. He’s carried the weight of it, learned how to compartmentalize, how to lock things away so he can keep moving. But that was enforced distance. That was work.
This is his best mate.
This is Soap.
-or- When Soap is badly injured and Price's walls come down, Gaz is there to pick up the pieces.
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- Part 2 of Hold the Line
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22 Feb 2026
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Even With the Smallest Cuts, You Lose So Much Blood by Sociablepossum
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
27 Oct 2025
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He glances down just as the cabin lights shift, flicking bright white as the pilot flips the switches for disembark. Soap blinks, eyes adjusting to the brightness as the red gloom recedes just enough for him to see it.
Blood.
Everywhere.
There’s a pool of red beneath the jump seat where he’d been sitting, and a trail leading across the floor to where he’s standing right now.
“What the fuck—” Soap’s hand flies to his back, clumsy, and comes away dripping crimson.
His head swims. For a second he doesn’t comprehend it. He remembers the hits—two shots to his back, hard enough to knock the wind out of him—but the vest caught them. Didn’t it? His lower back is numb, nothing but strange building pressure, but the blood keeps coming, hot and steady.
He was shot. And he didn’t even feel it.-or- Desperate to prove he's worthy of the 141 (and Ghost), Soap overdoses on stims had has a bad time of it.
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- Part 16 of Got Your Six
- Part 9 of whumptober 2025
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22 Feb 2026
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Putting My Trust in Half-Empty Glasses by Sociablepossum
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
13 Oct 2025
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Johnny’s gotten too close.
Closer than anyone has in years. Closer than anyone should.
Ghost feels him all the time now. The weight of him curled into his side when they sleep, not every night but enough to matter, the rasp of his breathing steady against his chest. His warmth, his heartbeat, alive and real. It started out as a comfort, a silly indulgence, really, but lately, it’s become a noose around his neck.-or-Ghost gets scared and pushes Soap away.
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- Part 15 of Got Your Six
- Part 8 of whumptober 2025
- Part 4 of angstober 2025
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22 Feb 2026
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We’ll make it Alright to Come Undone by Sociablepossum
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
06 Oct 2025
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Something in Ghost’s eyes—wide, tense, unfocused—sobers him immediately. Soap’s not sure where Ghost’s head is at, but he’s pretty sure his lieutenant isn’t seeing him right now. His chest is rising and falling in deep, even breaths, but they’re speeding up. His hands are clenched into fists, and Soap realizes he’s a millisecond from getting his face caved in.
Ghost is one breath away from shattering, and Soap doesn’t even understand why.-or-Ghost is triggered by a tunnel op, and Soap picks up the pieces.
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- Part 8 of Got Your Six
- Part 5 of whumptober 2025
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22 Feb 2026
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To his dismay, Ghost quickly finds out that touch comes part and parcel with the plucky sergeant. The man is practically a golden retriever, bursting with unbridled enthusiasm, never shutting up, never sitting still, and never not touching Ghost. A shoulder-bump here. A press of the knee there. Leaning into him on a noisy transport so he can shout something to Ghost, like Ghost actually gives a shit what he has to say.
At first, he doesn’t trust it. Okay, let’s be honest—he still doesn’t trust it. Not completely. But Ghost soon realizes that this is just the way Sergeant John ‘Soap’ MacTavish is. Optimistic. Encouraging. Happy-go-lucky.
That’s not going to last long.
So, Ghost is willing to let it go. Ghost is a lot of things, but he’s not one to kick a puppy.-or-Simon likes Soap's touch, but of course, Ghost isn't going to let Simon have that.
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- Part 1 of Got Your Six
- Part 1 of whumptober 2025
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21 Feb 2026
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The Question Everyone Avoids Asking by Leia_2000
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
12 Feb 2026
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Stark Industries has a problem.
Peter Parker has access, opinions, and Tony Stark’s complete confidence.
No one knows why.
HR tries to find out.Series
- Part 18 of Not a Replacement, Just Someone Who Stayed
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21 Feb 2026
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“Did you even fight for me, sir?”
Price set his jaw, a flash of blue fury in his eyes.
“Nah, not you, not John Price,” Gaz smirked without any humour. “Already on his way to replace the broken part, isn’t he? The show must go on.”
Price finally held his eyes – just for a beat – before looking away. His voice remained controlled. “It was a clean op. Intel wasn’t great, but that’s what we work with. Your injury was—” he caught himself but steamrolled on “—bad luck.”
Gaz barked a laugh, full of pain in it. He could’ve punched him, if he wasn’t stuck to the bloody bed.
or: Gaz is medically discharged. He and Price don't handle it very well.
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- Part 1 of the deadliest storm
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20 Feb 2026
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It Started with a Jacket: An Anthology of Love by Anarchist_Archivist
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
22 Mar 2026
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A night out celebrating a friend is interrupted with the arrival of an unwanted guest. In your rush to leave the ballroom you aren't aware of the military gala happening in the adjacent space. Fleeing into the alley to get fresh air and to get away from the man you've been avoiding you're met with a perceptive Lieutenant who isn't about to let you be seen.
Or, when Simon met his Sweetheart.
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19 Feb 2026
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You and Price have a very particular way of fucking, and when Price is injured on an op, that way of sex is in danger. What will you possibly do to ensure things stay as they should?
Answer: Enlist the silent Lieutenant who spends way too much time staring at you.
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- Part 1 of 141 just wanna have fun
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16 Feb 2026