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An ongoing series where two touch-starved men figure out how to take care of each other in ways that no military field guide ever covered. Thankfully, when you already trust a person with your life, letting them see you at your most vulnerable isn't nearly as hard as it sounds.
Non-sexual intimacy, physical touch, a little angst, and a lot of comfort.
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26 Nov 2025
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Simon Riley had one goal in life: retirement. He just wanted to live the rest of his life in peace with his soon to be husband. All that changed, however, during his last ever mission when his plane crashed in the middle of the Atlantic. Now Simon has a new goal: survive.
But something lurks in the deep waters surrounding the island. Someone that calls his name and pulls him towards the depths.
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The first thing they teach you in the military is how to survive. Or rather, how to actively not die.
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25 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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04 Nov 2025
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“That was it, that’s what you’ve been botherin’ me about? My fuckin’ vest? Focus on the bloody mission, Ghost!”
“I am focusing! And it’s a hazard, sir, it’s distracting me.”
“Well, if you stop looking at it,” Decker pointed out very quietly.MacTavish finally finds out what gets Ghost to listen to orders :3 (dialogue practice!)
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- Part 16 of yours to keep
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15 Oct 2025
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Something is wrong with Soap. Perhaps not wrong exactly, but off. It hadn’t taken Ghost long to realize it but it became difficult to ignore after he saw the man pluck an acorn from the ground and crunch it between his molars without so much as a wince. Once he started realizing the things that were off about Johnny it became impossible to stop.
It’s an odd thing, Soap thinks, wanting a human. He’s favored humans in the past, and he’s currently quite fond of his Captain and fellow Sergeant. But he hasn’t, till now, wanted any of them. Though his Ghost is certainly a special case.or Soap is a fae in disguise, Ghost is paranoid but correct.
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- Part 4 of Fae!Soap Superstitious Bastard!Ghost
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30 Sep 2025