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“Gillion Tidestrider would certainly claim that he was used to the cold. He was from the Undersea, after all. Cold had always been comfortable. This cold was not.”
Maybe being wet in the snow isn’t such a good idea. It’s too bad Gillion can’t quite help it.
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Ghost’s been retired for 5 years, and alone for a majority of that. Soap’s been recently discharged and conveniently moves to Ghost’s last known location.
Oh yeah, and they’re both in love.
Ghost is 46, Soap is 41.
Titles are from If I Saw Him I'd Still Kiss Him by McCaffertyBookmarked by CynfulBeast
30 Oct 2025
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If I Was Human by Part_of_the_cat_propaganda_machine
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
10 Nov 2025
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When Simon Riley dug his way out of the grave Roba buried him in the man was still there waiting for him. Two months later Simon Riley was dead and Ghost was all that remained. Roba's attack dog, highly skilled, and damn near perfectly trained too. NEAR, perfectly trained.
When Ghost decides to disobey an order to take out a soldier for reasons he can't explain he expects Roba's retribution. He doesn't expect the rescue that follows though. Nor does he expect that rescue to actually be a rescue rather than a weapons acquisition.
Slowly Ghost begins to find a place in the 141. And he finds that Simon Riley might not be as dead as he thought.Bookmarked by CynfulBeast
17 Oct 2025
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Soap doesn’t remember the ambush outside Prague. He doesn’t remember the medevac, the surgery, or the two weeks he spent in a coma. What he does remember is Ghost’s face when he wakes, sitting at his bedside like he hasn’t moved in days.
Turns out, Ghost’s been listed as his “next of kin.” Which is strange, because Soap doesn’t remember marrying his lieutenant, either. However, hospitals only allow family to stay overnight, and Ghost wasn’t about to leave.
Now, as Soap learns to walk again, Ghost helps him eat, move, and stay awake. It’s supposed to be just for practicality and convenience.
But there’s nothing practical about the way Ghost looks at him or the way Soap looks back.
Recovery is messy. So is pretending not to care.
Or: Soap survives the gunshot, and Ghost pretends to be his husband so he can take care of him
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16 Oct 2025
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When Ghost is on forced leave he senses a tail, and rightfully so. Just as he manages to inform Price of his discomfort, he gets taken.
By whom? Or why? He doesn't know.
All he knows is that they want him to hurt until the end.
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07 Oct 2025
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After a mission gone wrong leaves Simon “Ghost” Riley deaf in one ear and Johnny “Soap” MacTavish with a permanent leg injury, both men are forced into early retirement. Soap uses his pension to buy a crumbling house on the edge of a quiet town, determined to make something of it, even if the place looks like it should’ve come with a tetanus shot.
Ghost shows up with a duffel bag and his usual scowl, moving into the guest room to help with renovations. Between faulty wiring, leaking pipes, and a fridge that seems to growl at two a.m., the two of them fall into a new rhythm of grocery runs, hardware store trips, and late-night fixes. The banter is sharp, the silences softer than either expected, and somewhere between the broken walls and peeling paint, they begin to rebuild more than just the house.
It’s a story about finding purpose when the battlefield is gone, about healing old wounds in the comfort of shared domestic chaos, and about realizing that sometimes “home” isn’t a place, it’s each other.
(My project for my friend KettMason's Inktober 2025 Challenge, "Build a Room")
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