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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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- 8/8
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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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- 33/33
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03 Oct 2025
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I'll Just Hold You Like A Hand Grenade (You Touch Me Like A Razorblade) by imnotmadeofeyes
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
05 Oct 2025
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John “Soap” MacTavish learns that he’s his lieutenant’s emergency contact on a rainy Tuesday afternoon.
Soap survives being shot to the head, but his Ghost ghosts him after avenging him by killing Makarov. After months of silence, they meet again - under different circumstances than any of them expected.
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22 Sep 2025
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Ghost's Whumpy One Shot Collection by Crankcaser for dancingwombats
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
04 Nov 2025
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Short whump, angst, and fluff one-shots surrounding Simon Riley and Johnny MacTavish for September/October 2025. Enjoy!
1 - Fever
2 - Scars
3 - Shower
4 - Resistance
5 - Panic Attack / Touch Starved
6 - Near Death
7 - Hiding (Trans!Simon)
8 - Hiding Pt. 2 (Trans!Simon)
9 - Injury
10 - Gravestone
11 - Sleepwalking
12 - Suicide (Note)
13 - Suicide (Note) Pt. 2
14 - Coming Home
15 - Grieving
16 - Migraine Pt. 1
17 - Migraine Pt. 2
18 - Migraine Pt. 3
19 - ColdCompleted. Thanks for all the love! PS - All chapters are titled after Zach Bryan lyrics because he invented the angst soundtrack
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- English
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- 19/19
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07 Sep 2025
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A shot rang out as Soap snapped his head up, remembering there were more hostiles in the room with him. Relief spread through him as he watched two fall.
Ghost.
“Soap, give me somethingーhow copy?” Ghost pleaded through the mic, torn up with static.
Soap could only cough as he tried to press the button, fingers flicking at it weakly. More men were on him before he could get a word out, grabbing him by his arms and hoisting him to his knees. He felt cold metal hit his head, his vertigo plagued eyes tracing to the pistol that was now pressed against his skin.
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A scouting mission goes wrong, Soap gets ambushed, then gets separated from his team. He has to fight for his survival alone in the wilderness.
NOT ABANDONED - I’m just on summer break I’ll get back to writing when I go back to school dw yall
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26 Aug 2025
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Soap gets caught in an avalanche and dreams about the stars.
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25 Aug 2025
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Morning coffee with Price. Evening food runs with Gaz. Ghost at night. Like clockwork. Like… they’d planned it.
“You’re takin’ shifts,” Soap said, staring.
Price didn’t look up. “Aye.”
“You—what?”
“Making sure you’re following orders.” He flicked the paper to a new page, as if this was the most mundane admission in the world. “And that you’ve got what you need.”
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Post-mission downtime turns into a slow unravelling of boundaries, as Soap recovers from a busted knee, and fails to keep his mouth shut. Or: the Poly141 fic I've been promising (re: threatening)Series
- Part 5 of Lines of Fire
- Part 1 of Orbit
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20 Aug 2025
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Until the Last Light Fades by Mycomantic
Fandoms: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty (Video Games)
10 Aug 2025
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When Sergeant Johnny MacTavish is transferred into Task Force 141, he's met with silence, shadows, and a man in a skull mask who won't give him the time of day. But Johnny doesn’t flinch easily and Ghost, for all his walls, might not be as unreachable as he seems. What begins as cold professionalism slowly unravels into something messier: trust. Partnership. Moments of unbearable stillness in the middle of war, and then something deeper, quieter, carved into the spaces between missions where jokes become lifelines and closeness becomes survival.
This is the story of how they found each other in the dark.
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05 Aug 2025
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“I’m sorry, Johnny.” Ghost says, militants descending on the pair, “This one’s on me.”
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24 Jul 2025
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“Almost there, Lt,” he grunts, lurching forward with Ghost’s weight. He’s no help at all in trekking across the snow and ice — his little dip in the river courtesy of a now-dead terrorist has rendered him dangerously hypothermic, and Soap’s panic grows with each ragged, wheezing inhale. At least he’s still breathing, Soap thinks grimly before he shakes his head, shoves everything down to the back of his mind to be dealt with later — his fear, his exhaustion, the ache in his bones, all of it is neatly compartmentalised until there’s only the safehouse.
One step at a time, he marches them onwards.
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Or, four times Ghost and Soap take turns taking care of each other, and one time it's mutual.
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08 Jul 2025
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Soap should've headed Ghosts warning more carefully regarding the Narcos in Las Almas.
Now the only thing he can do is endure until Ghost finds him.
All the while the Narcos seem to enjoy tormenting them both, broadcasting Soaps treatment to the email he had babbled out under influence.Bookmarked by CynfulBeast
21 Jun 2025
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On their way to an op, the boat that Ghost and Soap are travelling on gets attacked. In the chaos, Soap is injured and thrown overboard, Ghost jumps into the raging waves after him. After getting swept away by a current, the two of them wash up onto the shores of a deserted island.
Ghost and Soap have always been much more than just Sergeant and Lieutenant, than just superior and inferior, than just friends, than just partners. With now nothing but time to wait for rescue, the two of them dance around their feelings. But as Soap's injury gets worse day by day, can Ghost confront his feelings about the man withering away in front of him before it's too late?
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- 5/5
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16 Jun 2025
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Pinned down behind meagre cover, Ghost and MacTavish make a last ditch effort to escape, when the grenade rolls in front of them.
It's a surprise they're alive. It's not a surprise that they're bound and taken hostage.
(or: the first time tav sees ghost break)
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- Part 7 of liminal spaces
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08 Jun 2025
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He was on his back, and there was a sharp, aching pain in the back of his head, throbbing in time with the shooting pain behind his eyes with every beat of his heart— his radio was going haywire a few inches from his ear, conversations drumming along at breakneck speed.
A nightmare, he reassured himself, licking at dry lips.
Not for the first time in his life, Ghost gets buried alive.
He’s not sure how many times he can dig himself out.
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- Part 56 of yours to keep
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28 May 2025
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let me bare my teeth for you by amongthebooks, Mr_Pikule
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
08 Aug 2025
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“This is a waste of my goddamn time,” the boss snapped, swinging his fist at Soap’s jaw. Again.
“Really?” Soap spat blood onto the floor, his binds flexing at the motion. “And here I thought we were starting to bond.”
The man’s attention— and his pistol— turned towards Ghost. “Tell me, does he ever shut the fuck up?” It was a bluff, Soap knew it was, but it didn’t stop the smirk from falling off his face. Only realizing his mistake a second too late.
“Oh,” their captor said smugly, gun back at Ghost’s temple as his eyes flicked between the two. “I see. We’ve been going about this all wrong, haven’t we? Let’s try this again…”
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After months undercover, all that stood between Soap and freedom was an exit plan. When it goes awry, he and Ghost are left at the mercy of a cartel boss, who’s determined to get his revenge.
With all their time apart, are Soap and Ghost still in-tune enough to escape?
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- 23,275
- Chapters:
- 4/4
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16 May 2025
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Ghost exhaled through his nose and turned on his heel. Letting Price and Gaz handle the welcome party. He had real work to do.
Behind him, he heard Soap chuckle. "He always that friendly?"
Price’s reply carried just far enough, "You’ll have to earn the bedtime stories, Sergeant."
Ghost didn’t speed up, even though the urge was there. This would either be the best decision they’d made… or a spectacular disaster.
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22 Apr 2025
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from the pan by Rat_Mama
Fandoms: Welcome Home - Clown Illustration, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (Webseries)
30 Sep 2025
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Freedom has never felt so horrifying. Good thing we have neighbors to rely on.
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13 Apr 2025