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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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09 Dec 2025
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A traumatised lieutenant, an oblivious sergeant and an unsuspecting family meet up in a Scottish farmstead… What sounds like the beginning of a bad joke is actually Ghost’s current reality. He has no clue how the fuck Soap managed to drag him into the Highlands to meet his parents– okay, yeah, he does. He’s stupidly in love with his Johnny; there isn’t anything he wouldn’t do for him, including making a complete fool out of himself trying to fit into Soap’s family.
If only he could fit in. If only he knew how to act like a regular human being. If only he wasn’t a monster.
Maybe then, he could figure out a way to keep Soap.
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- Part 2 of Believe
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20 Oct 2025
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“Don’t kill me,” Soap blurts out and, Christ, that was not a good start. Ghost raises a brow, waiting for the bomb to drop. “But, uh, want to be my boyfriend?”
when soap invites ghost back home to scotland for a week, ghost hadn't imagined he would wind up in a fake dating scheme to trick soap's family, of all people. it also doesn't help that he's head over heels in love with soap, of all people.
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08 Aug 2025
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an involuntary exercise in hitting your target heart rate zone by flipthebits
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
15 Jun 2025
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Returning from summer break with a freshly scarred back and a sort-of-adopted student, Iruka resolves to deal with absolutely no nonsense this school year. For an entire morning, he manages to convince himself that it’s even a remotely realistic goal.
And then, of course, the strange, moderately off-putting, and more than a little infuriating new gym teacher has to barge into his life.
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30 Jul 2025
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Brushing debris off of the note, Iruka gently unfolded it, trying not to rip the damp creases.
"Ukki-san enjoys watering three times a week, gentle dusting of his leaves, and daily haiku readings. He tells me the light from your bedroom window is perfect.
He would like to thank you for taking care of him, and tells me I owe you two favors now.
Back in twelve days.
P.S. A perfect mission report is worth at least four favors, sensei, so think of something else."A henohenomoheji stared at Iruka in place of a signature.
(Or, Kakashi doesn't know how to ask someone to care for him, so he'll get Iruka to look after his plant as a proxy.)- Language:
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11 Jul 2025
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No upside down, everyone is alive. Wayne Munson owns a dude ranch in Wyoming and his nephew Eddie helps him run it. When Steve’s parents hear from a nosy neighbor that they spotted Steve kissing a boy goodbye on the front porch one morning, his father sends him away to work on the ranch, hoping to make him a 'real man.' Eddie remembers Steve from freshman year at Hawkins high—before Eddie moved to live with his uncle—and he kind of enjoys watching Steve struggle with the transition to ranch life. Steve is furious about his parents sending him off like a child, and is worried about how his dad will deal with him when he gets back. He's also intrigued by the dark haired boy showing him the ropes on the ranch.
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04 Jul 2025
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“Have you ever tattooed anyone else?”, Steve asks.
Eddie shoots Steve a roguish smile, “Why, are you interested?”.
“Yes”.
Eddie’s playful grin morphs into a look of genuine surprise, “Wait, seriously?”.
Steve doesn’t really know why, but he’s dead serious. Some part of him just knows that this is something he should say yes to. Maybe, after three years of having to act older than he is, of having responsibility that no teenager should have, maybe he’s saved up some youthful impulsiveness. There’s no trepidation or apprehension, no fear of later regrets, “Yeah, why the hell not”.
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Y'all this is so self-indulgent. But, anyway, let me convince you to read it! This baby can fit so much:
-Intimate stick and pokes. Eddie likes the stabbing.
-Hair pulling!!
-Steve being obsessed with Eddie's nipple piercings
-Eddie being a literal rolodex of half-baked innuendos and shameless flirting
-Eddie thinking he's in charge, and like, most of the time he is, but Steve is a little minx
They’re both literally so oblivious *bangs them together like two bricks* C’MON ARE YOU INCAPABLE OF RECOGNIZING MUTUAL ATTRACTION!- Language:
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19 Apr 2025
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Kakashi always figured he’d be unlikely to reach 30. Bleeding out in the remote mountains of Fire country, he can’t help but find a little amusement in dying just a week short of the mark.
And then he awakens, still quite alive, in the home of a man who claims to be a local civilian.
...Iruka might have a little too much sympathy for wounded strays.
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29 Dec 2024
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John MacTavish was 8 years old the first time he woke up with a Message from his soulmate, though he didn’t know what it was at the time. He just woke to find a folded piece of paper, strong and coarse, like the kind you would use to paint watercolors so it wouldn’t tear, in his hand. It was a small strip and folded four times and the message read, “I wish he was dead. I wish my father would just fucking die already” in bold, easily read black print.
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Soap and Ghost are soulmates who communicate over the years, but they don't know each other yet.
Written for the UnFated: Ghoap SoulMay event!
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30 Jul 2024
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Ghost has a type.
Soap isn't it.
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09 Jul 2024
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It's been ten years since Bailey's set foot in the valley and the last thing she expects is to run into an old college friend. It's a pleasant surprise -- for one of them, at least.
To the You I Loved Before is a collection of connected moments, both past and present, about rediscovering and falling in love all over again.
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02 Apr 2024
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Eddie can’t sleep.
He blames it on the uncomfortable bed in Steve’s guest room, all the people coming and going at all hours, the nightmares, the pain, the loneliness and fear.
Most of all, he blames it on Steve Harrington.
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23 Dec 2023
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Steve Harrington's (not so) Secret Advent Calendar by Lihhelsing for idiotslantern
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Dec 2023
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What do you mean friends don’t make friends super elaborated Advent Calendars just for the sake of it?
Or; Eddie and Steve had been fooling around for a year when Steve decided it was time to make a move and make things official in the form of 24 presents right before Christmas.
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23 Dec 2023
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Ever since the summer of '86 Steve and Eddie had become nearly inseparable. Spending almost every day and night with each other, they clicked like puzzle pieces. Steve has been harboring feelings towards Eddie that he didn't quite recognize. In turn, Eddie had accepted the way he saw Steve but said nothing of it. Snowed in at Steve's house they learn of each other's feelings and begin falling for each other all over again.
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14 Nov 2023
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Of course, Ghost wasn't blind to Soap's little crush on him. In fact, he relished in it sometimes. At first, he told himself that it was nothing and he wouldn't let himself get too far into it, afraid of letting the other man get too attached and get too attached himself, but he wasn't expecting how much he enjoyed teasing reactions out of the other man.
He wasn't expecting how much he absolutely loved how he was the only one who could make Soap blush from just a few suggestive words.
In which Soap realizes his feelings for Ghost and Ghost knows about his feelings.
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- Part 2 of Babygirl Soap
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“Simon, please,” he reached out and this time Simon did flinch.
“I’m sorry, Johnny, for whatever I did-if that means anything,” he claws at his hair again dragging over the uneven growth, “you don’t have to pretend for my sake.”
“Pretend?” Johnny’s voice was broken, and the blonde realized with a shock he was crying, “you think that I’m scared of you? That I could ever hate you?”
“It isn’t hard to hate me, Johnny. I’m probably the closest thing to a real-life monster, I made a career out of violence,” a new sick thought took root in his mind twisting his despair into anger, “Was it just some dare? A joke that went too long? See how much you could touch ‘the Ghost’ before he bites?”
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- Part 2 of Ghoap is ruining my life
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Operation: Prove Ghosts Worth. Mission Objective: Destroy Ghosts Insecurities. by Reiss
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
13 Nov 2024
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Ghost has insecurities regarding his size due to past experiences. Soap thinks everything about Ghost is perfect and will do whatever it takes to make sure he knows how amazing he is.
Basically, Soap is on a mission to prove to Simon he is incredible and deserves to love and be loved.
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“I could never be disgusted by you, Simon. Quite the opposite. Every inch of you is perfect to me. You’re loyal. You’re talented. You’re competent in everything you do. And yes, your size, Simon, Perfect.” -
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Simon had years to work through all the shit he had faced under Roba, having grown into a relatively well adjusted man in his mid fourties who loves to spend his time reading good books, enjoying a cup of tea or being entertained by his best friend. Whatever he chooses to do in his free time, the lively Scott is never far, always in his orbit.
His good life comes crumbling down when Soap comes out to him one evening and starts avoiding him afterwards.
It stings, it hurts like a bitch and Ghost has a hard time being patient with his best friend.
Eventual romance.Edit: Now with 15 percent less Scottish slang, for your reading comprehension!
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- Part 1 of And I Will Carry All Your Shame
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He strolled to Gaz, both of them sizing each other up. "Well, Garrick. Want to lay down first?"
Gaz started to open his mouth, surely ready with some kind of biting comment, but Price interrupted. "No. I mean you two are applying the tourniquets first. Ghost and I will play patient. Soap, you're with Ghost."
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Soap gets more than he anticipated out of tourniquet training with his Lieutenant
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Ghost felt the exhaustion pull at his skin, weighing him down as every step caused his arm to jostle. He had just come back from an intel mission; it had been successful but he hadn't escaped unharmed.
Ghost sat in his room, shirt off and a towel in his hand as he tried to stanch the blood that dripped from a wound where a bullet had shot clean through. He hadn’t realized that his door was unlocked so he was startled when the door suddenly opened and in came…
“Soap…” Ghost mutters.