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How do you tell a dog from an SAS sergeant?
Soap's been trying to think of a punchline, but so far, all he's got is a dog’s gotta shit in the woods and bury it slightly more often than an SAS Sergeant.
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31 Dec 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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07 Jul 2025
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Nicolò looks sheepish. "I killed you yesterday, and you awoke at the same time, the same place. But when I die, I wake at different times, different places. This bolt," he tosses it to Yusuf and it lands in the dirt by his knee, "it killed me yesterday, but I woke up many years from now. I lived several lifetimes in those places before returning here and pulling it from my neck."
Nicky's lives and deaths are different. He is unstuck from time - at every death he revives into a different point in his life. Each time he is struck down he wonders, will he awaken to deserts and swords? Will it be gunshots in cities? Joe and Nicky build a fractured life together, falling in love across two different sets of centuries, then patiently waiting for the other to fall in love too. He meets the rest of their little family out of order, but they still build a family around Nicky's involuntary time-traveling.
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09 Feb 2025
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Ghost wants to be responsible. Usually. Almost always, he wants to think things through, to be rational. But on nights like tonight, if he really wanted to be rational he wouldn’t be trying to hook up with a stranger in a bar. Looking at this man, he knows: this is what he wanted, this is the goal he came here to meet. Still, he doesn’t say anything.
The man sticks out his hand, a little awkwardly. “Name’s Johnny.”
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31 Jul 2024
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For a moment, Soap let the silence sink in. Let himself shift his gaze slightly to the side and rest on Ghost’s thick thigh, fat with the softness of his relaxed muscle, lightly dusted with fine blond hairs. He wanted to sweep the tips of his fingers delicately over those hairs, see if they were as downy as they looked. Wanted to see the way Ghost’s muscles would twitch at the sensation, wanted to see if he’d shy away or press into the touch. Wanted to know if he’d like it.
Would probably end up with a knife in his gut, but at this point, Soap thought it was probably worth it. For one touch, it might be worth it.
It's 3:30 in the morning, and Soap and Ghost can't sleep. How will they pass the time.
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17 Jun 2024
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A soapghost vaguely turn-of-the-century AU, posted here for easier reading as requested
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28 Apr 2024
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Four years after Hassan, Ghost and Soap have become the most effective duo in the 141, completing missions with brutal efficiency and a higher rate of success than any other special ops team (bad jokes and nonregulation banter included). Despite Ghost's insistence on maintaining professional distance, their closeness on the battlefield has gradually led to true friendship, and if Johnny sometimes wishes for more, that's nothing compared to knowing he's Simon's favorite person. Everything is as perfect as it can be when doing the kind of work that leaves them with ragged scars - mental and physical - and blood on their hands.
But nothing lasts forever, and when military politics threaten to break up their team, Simon and Johnny must decide if they want to stick with the comfort of their status quo... or risk losing what they have for the possibility of more.
A series of connected, slice-of-life stories set to the background of the various couches Simon and Johnny encounter in their line of work.
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- Part 1 of COD Fics
- Part 1 of Retiree Vigilante AU
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22 Apr 2024
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Yearning, Ghost realizes, aches even deeper than a bullet wound.
He’s trained himself not to desire, the same way he’s trained his body to sprint while in full tactical gear, the same way he’s trained his eyes to focus through a sniper scope for hours on end.
But he’s never wanted someone—anything—like he wants Soap.
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31 Dec 2023
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Orthopedic surgeon Luke Anderson thought that escaping the big city for a small mountain hospital would mean the end of his burnout. Unfortunately, all he finds in his new start is new stress. Until he meets a charming EMT who has some fun ideas on how to relax.
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- Part 6 of Sassysnowperson's Original Works
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03 Nov 2023
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Soap thinks about getting his hands on Ghost just about every minute of the day.
He might be a little unprepared for when it finally happens.
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11 Oct 2023
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It started after the krayt dragon.
Well, that is to say—it started when Cobb put together that personal contract listing, after a long, long day and maybe a little too much spotchka.
But he wasn't in trouble, not really, not so's it counted, until after the krayt dragon.
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09 May 2023
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COMPOSURE (Challenging: Success) - You meet his eyes with yours.
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written in the style of the game Disco Elysium. you don't need to have played the game to read this! the format just changes the nature of Ghost's introspective dialogue by introducing different sentient "skills" that guide his experience through.
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08 May 2023
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They keep talking. It’s soothing, in a way Ghost didn’t expect. Johnny chatters sort of incessantly, in a way that, coming from anyone else, would usually make Ghost want to blow their brains out. Or his own. But now, the quiet conversation reminds him that Johnny is still breathing, that he’s still moving. Even if the conversation is mostly one-sided.
Except for the fact that it… isn’t. Ghost finds himself responding. Every time Johnny tells him that he’s found more rope, found a bottle, found oil, anything and everything he can get his hands on to throw together some makeshift weapon, Ghost murmurs a reward.
“Good, Johnny,” he says quietly, and he can hear the grin on the sergeant’s face without even seeing him. It’s… something. He isn’t quite sure what, yet. Isn’t quite sure if he should be trying to work out why Johnny seems so desperate for Ghost’s approval when he’s bleeding through the streets of Las Almas in the middle of the night, anyway. Besides, even if it’s nothing (he is sure that it isn’t nothing, at this point) who is he to deny the whims of a man on death’s doorstep? It’s no hardship. Not even slightly.
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06 May 2023
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The Best Man in New York by KannaOphelia for PerfectlySteadfast
Fandoms: Nero Wolfe - Rex Stout
06 Aug 2022
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Saul Panzer might not be a regular guy's idea of an angel, but nothing in the world could be more like all the blessed cherubim in person to me when he walked into that damned cellar, unpressed trousers and all.
There's no man I'd rather be handcuffed to.
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20 Mar 2023
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Soap is physically affectionate by nature.
Ghost is not.
Johnny might just be rubbing off on him though.
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08 Mar 2023
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Watchman Nick Wright did not expect to be drawn into courtly politics, nor ever thought that he would marry a duke, and he didn't really ask for either. People like him know you don't always get to choose in life, though, and you should make the best of what you're given regardless. Now if only his husband would see it that way...
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24 Jan 2023
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A month has passed since Esca traveled north to Novantae to trade for some horses. Marcus tries to keep busy while he's gone.
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23 Jan 2023
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“Hi, hi, sorry, excuse me,” the guy says. “Weird question, but would you mind doing me a massive favor?”
Eddie squints at him. It’s not exactly well-lit in here, but he’s still about ninety percent sure that this guy was not with Emilio’s bachelor party when they came in. “Do I know you?”
“Um. No,” the guy says. He’s got wide blue eyes and a nervous smile and a salt-rimmed margarita glass clutched in one large hand. As Eddie watches, he glances over his shoulder, then hunches down like he’s trying to hide. Given the size of him, it’s more ridiculous than effective. “So this is going to sound completely nuts, and I promise I’ll explain, but can I throw this frozen margarita in your face and call you a jerk?”
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- Part 1 of 9-1-1 Prompt Fills and Ficlets
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25 Jul 2022
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You want him to keep you, shame whispered when it reached his ear, making Thomas purse his lips and suppress a shudder as his fingers curled around the tea canister he had stored up top earlier that morning. You want him to keep you, and that is a far more terrible thing.
It is shameful fantasy and nothing but to desire Edward Little the way he does. Thomas, more fool him, will take that secret to his grave.
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05 Jul 2022
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The storm did not come upon the Majestic without warning.
It couldn't; the morning sky had been clear, but even then there had been a certain feeling in the wind, and a general spirit of unease upon the deck. And then the clouds had begun to pile themselves up, slow and dark and undeniably ominous, and the glass already plunging low.
And now, with the sky gone black and terrible, the wind high and the sails straining, and the captain's brow having taken on a cast near as grim as the dark seething water, James could not shake free of a suspicion that he had somehow drawn it to them.
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03 Jul 2022