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01 Mar 2026
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23 Jan 2026
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Rode Hard, Put Away Wet by Draconian_Dream for Tempest_Death
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
10 Nov 2025
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But the last day was what everyone was looking forward to. It was the day of the first calving. A day that would make a new generation. The day that the whole festival was about. The fight.
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Bulls compete to win the chance to breed the towns heifers and cows!
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13 Dec 2025
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141 weren't supposed to take in a child. Not on a black-bag op. Not in a shattered outbuilding two hundred miles from anywhere safe.
But a little girl crawls out of the ruined village, terrified and alone-
And suddenly Soap is the one she gravitates to,
And Ghost is the one she listens for in the dark.Half soldiers, half guardians, accidental co-parenting... orbiting each other through her.
It's unspoken.
It's dangerous.
It's starting to crack.What follows is a slow unravelling. Of loyalty, of command, of the careful distance Ghost uses to keep himself alive. There are blacksites and broken bodies, rescues that come too late and confessions that come even later. There is anger sharp enough to wound, tenderness dangerous enough to stay. And beneath it all, the question neither of them knows how to answer:
What do you do when the person you love keeps choosing survival over being held?
A quiet, aching slow-burn about trust, control, and the terrifying act of letting someone lead you home.
**All chapters are being updated. Not beta read yet
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09 Dec 2025
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Simon Riley, known as “The Ghost of Manchester,” has spent fifteen years as the most feared hitman in Britain’s underworld, until one last job grants him a chance at a new life. He escapes to Wynndale, a picture-perfect Yorkshire village decked in Christmas cheer, determined to live in the shadows and forget his violent past. Which proves impossible when Johnny MacTavish, a cheerful ex-soldier turned coffee shop owner of The Sneaky Kilt, and relentless spreader of holiday spirit, crashes through Simon’s defenses like nothing he's ever experienced before.
As Wynndale celebrates the season, Simon is drawn into Johnny’s world of found family, sparkly kilts, the true joy that comes with Christmas, and after-hours decorating. Before long, he finds his dark grey world slowly transformed into golds, greens, and reds, though none as vibrant as the blue eyes of Johnny.
However, when Simon discovers Johnny's in danger from more than just the local thugs threatening his coffee shop, Simon must confront the darkness he can’t outrun, a lifetime of cold and calculation, and what it truly means to love and live with another.
Or as I like to call it: "Hallmark Presents : A Hitman For Christmas"
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07 Dec 2025
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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 Rubytrudy
05 Dec 2025
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Soap’s been running his ranch on his own just fine up until now. Uses the occasional ranch hand when needs must but mostly just puts in the work so he doesn’t have to bother with them. Except now the most beautiful beta he’s ever seen has waltzed into his life and asked for a job, and God help him Soap’s given him one.
Ghost needs somewhere to lie low for a while, somewhere out of town where it’s unlikely anyone will recognise him from the wanted posters springing up all over town. Just his luck that the ranch owner is the kind of alpha dreams are made of, especially when he really can’t afford to be getting tangled up with anyone.
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28 Nov 2025
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The team's world is turned upside down when Soap and Ghost's shared heat results in a very unexpected surprise
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19 Nov 2025
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Biologist Kyle Garrick is in charge of the team taking care of Toun Foindle, the guarded nature reserve no. 141 in Scotland. It was set up to protect a nesting forest of Scottish crossbill and a very rare grey seal mer colony. All is going well, except the never-ending influx of nosy tourists overstepping boundaries and poachers trying to steal the mers for private collectors, until his husband, journalist and mer rights activist Gary Garrick, gets a target on their back by messing with a wealthy private collector.
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Orca mer Ghost has had a horrible life filled with abuse from humans and the deaths of his entire pod. After getting captured and being neglected by a private collector for a year he is suddenly dumped in a very specific Scottish Loch in Toun Foindle.Series
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01 Nov 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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30 Oct 2025
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Five years after the world was ravaged by a zombie outbreak, what remains of humanity has learned how to survive in their new apocalypse. In their new normal, the dead wander the earth with insatiable appetites, families have been ripped apart, citizens have been abandoned, and the Reds thrive amongst the chaos.
When an unfortunate run-in with some Reds and an inconveniently-timed thunderstorm forces Soap to separate from Price and Gaz during their hunting session, he finds himself washed up on the doorstep of a wooden cabin. Only he's not alone.
Soap should probably be more worried about the masked stranger with a furrowed brow pointing an arrow at his chest, but there's something intriguing about him, secrets hidden deep within his heart and walls impenetrably built up. And even more shocking is the fact that the stranger allows him inside to take refuge.
What starts at that moment which neither realize is the beautiful unfolding of a love story between two people who were meant to find each other. It's about learning to trust again, the power of forgiveness, finding hope in the world that has ripped everything from you already, and falling into the arms of someone who will love you unconditionally.
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21 Oct 2025
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Soap, who hates himself for being an Omega, gets lost in the snow after a failed mission and almost freezes to death. On top of that, his first heat in a decade is suddenly approaching, and he knows it's over for him.
But somehow, Ghost finds him.
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- Part 1 of You'll never be cold again
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16 Oct 2025
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After a night of drinking in a Scottish tavern, James Riley takes a challenge for his daughter's hand in marriage. The catch is, he's never had a daughter. Where some see a problem, others see opportunity. James forces his eighteen year old son into a dress and tells him to murder the Scot for money. He never counted on his "daughter"'s eventual response.
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John MacTavish is a young clansman of twenty. He's never been interested in the lasses. It's not natural, and he knows it. Drunk and happy to shut up a mouthy Sassenach, he challenges the old timer for the hand of his daughter. He never expected to win. His ma will be so so happy. Fuck. What's he gonna do now?
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- Part 3 of Bottom Ghost Week 2025
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19 Sep 2025
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The 141 are forced to acquire a big and deadly babysitter.
[You are just happy to be here.]
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02 Sep 2025
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31 Aug 2025
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Simon “Ghost” Riley is considered by many the most dangerous man in the 141 if not the whole British Army. Known to strike terror in his enemies. Yet, there’s one thing that only John Price knows. Ghost is in fact an Omega. Outside of Price, his fellow teammates believe he is an Alpha. Ghost does nothing to discourage these beliefs.
John “Soap” MacTavish joins the 141 and as the youngest Alpha on the team, he looks up to both Price and Ghost. The longer he’s on the team, he and Ghost grow closer. Soap is thrilled with this, and with time, finds his feelings for his Lieutenant shifting from friendship to something more. Yet, Soap can’t help but notice there’s something different about the other Alpha.
After a rough mission which leads to Simon being ousted by members of the small group he and Johnny are after. Johnny’s Alpha breaks free and protects Simon while getting them out of the situation. Simon, thrown into an almost catatonic state, stays with Roach while Johnny reports everything to Price.
Will discovering the secret that Simon had kept since they met tear their relationship apart or will it be the best thing to have ever happened to either man?
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25 Aug 2025
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But Ghost didn’t seem to mind, quietly filling the kettle before setting it to boil, those dark eyes watching as John paced the kitchen, one arm flailing about in the air, the other locked tight around his half-melted pint of rocky road.
He told Ghost he was stressed. That the entire MacTavish clan was coming into town, which meant awkward hugs, judgmental stares, and nosy questions from people he hadn’t seen in years. John could handle all of that, he really could.
But what he couldn’t handle was the questions. Why he hadn’t settled down yet, why he didn’t have a nice Scottish girl on his arm.
Why he wasn’t married with a child on the way, because Ethel and James weren’t getting younger, and John was already too old. For fuck’s sake.
“Maybe I don’t want to bring home a wee lass,” John had snapped, voice cracking as he dug his spoon in harder than necessary, a brown, congealed clump of freezer-burned rocky road flying onto the floor. “Maybe I don’t even like women, has anyone considered that?”
And there, in less than twenty words, John had completely outed himself.
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25 Jul 2025
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29 Jun 2025
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Unmated and Unbonded Soap, searching for a purpose in life, begins to bake sweets and goodies for all his neighbors in the apartment complex where he lives.
When a strange new alpha moves in to the apartment across from him, Soap wonders how best to approach the only man in the world who has such an irresistible scent, when he can't even figure out the man's schedule.
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Soap is this cute little fluffy omega who uses his baking to dote upon everyone, and falls in love with the brooding next-door alpha.
FLUFF - DOMESTIC BLISS - HAPPY ENDINGS - FEEL GOODS - AND SMUT. LOTS AND LOTS OF SMUT.
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Bookmarked by Rubytrudy
27 Jun 2025
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Simon barely had time to process what just happened before a man came running after the dog, panting and clearly out of breath.
“Oi, bloody hell, Fergus! Get outta the water, ya daft mutt! Leave the ducks alone—come on, lad!” The man stopped at the edge of the riverbank, hands on his knees as he tried to catch his breath.
"He just can't listen..." He sighed.
"Too bad when he's your dog." Simon smirked.
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“Haven’t even got time to make this up to ye…” He hesitated for a second, then his eyes brightened again. “How about a coffee tomorrow?”“I drink tea.”
“Fucking Brits…” John rolled his eyes but grinned anyway. “Alright, number then?” Without waiting for a response, he unlocked his phone and shoved it toward Simon.
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Or a veteran Simon returns to civilian life working at a café and meets a loud scot when feeding ducks. They heal together and fall in love. Over a lot of chapters.
NOTE: Temporarily inactive (semester is ending and there's so much work, sorry guys :c)
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26 Jun 2025