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NB: Updated rating to mature due to the nightmare scene and the end of ch3
Chapter 3.5 of (5+1) Who Have We Got, If Not Each Other?
(Can be read as a standalone)A festive spin-off from my hurt/comfort 5+1 where Ghost follows Soap home for his enforced medical leave and they work through their feelings.
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Ghost had been a sentinel. Every time Soap had blinked awake for long enough to grasp something real, something that goes beyond the edges of his body, Simon had been right there, curled into a chair too small for him, too plastic to be comfortable, surviving on snatches of conversation that Soap forgot.
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04 Oct 2025
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Ghost is trapped in the on-base hospital healing after a mission goes south and Soap tries to help him out.
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17 Sep 2025
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Ghost is motionless, staring down at John's outstretched hand like he's trying to recall on which page of How to Behave Like a Real Human in Polite Society he’s previously seen the gesture.
Before things can get awkward, John turns the aborted handshake into a jovial, manly sort of punch to Ghost’s shoulder. It's rather like how he imagines it would be to hit an adult moose, both in the physical sensation and in the frisson of anticipated danger it elicits. Gamely, he says, “Truck’s just about set, sir. Glad to be working with you.”
Ghost’s eyes flick up to John’s face, and then higher, to his hair. He frowns.
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Two idiots are assigned to an ambulance. They fall in love.
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Johnny never expected a delivery route to change his life, but one rainy doorstep leads him to Simon, a quiet mechanic with a guarded past, and Eli, his kid who barely speaks but watches Johnny like he’s stepped straight out of his favorite cartoon.
Johnny learns he looks a lot like Captain Blaze, Eli’s superhero obsession, and somehow, that’s enough to earn him a place at their table. Simon’s trying to hold everything together. Johnny’s not sure where he belongs. But maybe, just maybe, they’re exactly what each other needs.
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“If I die, make sure I get cremated,” Soap said into the comms in a hushed tone. It was supposed to be a joke, but there was a very real possibility that he wouldn’t make it out alive.
A moment of silence stretched on the other end, leaving Soap to wonder if Ghost had heard him. Then the Lieutenant spoke, “You’re not going to die.”
“How would you know?”
“I need you alive.”
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Soap and Ghost have never been close.
Everything changes when Soap has to fight his way back to Ghost—injured, unarmed and with only his lieutenant’s voice to keep him grounded.
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