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Freediver John “Soap” MacTavish has trained for years to break the world diving record—pushing his body beyond limits, mastering the silence of the deep. But as the record attempt nears, something begins to stir beneath the surface.
Something watching him.
Something waiting.It starts as a feeling, a presence just out of reach, one that fills him with unease... and a strange sense of longing. The deeper he dives, the more he feels it, a pull that’s not just in his mind, but in his bones.
Like he’s not alone down there. Like whatever is waiting for him in the dark has always been meant for him, and him alone.- Language:
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13 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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10 Aug 2025
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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 Aug 2025
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Fall Into Your Eyes Like A Grave by unravelledorfrayed
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
11 Apr 2025
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Ghost gripped Soap’s face, turning it towards the light. His pupils were blown, glassy eyes flicking to Ghost’s face, his neck, the hands holding him in place. His lips were tinted blue, cracked from the cold. He looked awful.
He looked half-dead already.
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On a mission gone wrong, Soap falls through the ice. How do they cope in the aftermath?
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27 May 2025
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With Kinder, Gentler Eyes by HigherMagic for karriggi
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
09 May 2025
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Soap has endured many hardships in his relatively short life. A deep loneliness as an unmated male, without a pod or family to hunt and play with, no children to raise and dote on, no attentive lover to warm his bed.
Until him. His husband.
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- Part 1 of The Selkie's Second Husband
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23 May 2025
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Or: John "Soap" MacTavish's extremely case-specific guide to wooing an idiot dragon.
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- Part 1 of Incompatible Mating Practices
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09 Dec 2024
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It’s easy enough to keep himself still when Johnny begins to touch him. He drags warm, firm hands across Simon’s back, his palms sliding effortlessly against skin and scars alike with the oil slicking the way. It’s as familiar as it is alien. Johnny’s hands, callused and strong. Reliable and sturdy; clever and quick. They’re the same hands that clap him on the shoulder and pat him on the arm and hand him a mug of tea.
He’s rarely had them on his bare skin. Simon runs hot; knows it because of how he’s had to act as the human furnace on missions with subzero temperatures and snow banks taller than his head. But Johnny’s hands mark their path across the plane of his back with a pleasant warmth, one that lingers even as his touch moves on.
Johnny’s palms dig into the meat at his shoulders, then push down, across his back and his ribs and his waist. By the time his hands catch at his waistband, Simon has arched into the sensation like a cat, muscles trembling. Johnny’s hands lift away and, strings cut, he collapses into the bed, breath shaking.
or: Ghost has been tense lately; Soap helps him with that.
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04 Dec 2024
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"A little presumptuous, aren't you?" Simon is glancing at him with a look in his eyes, something close to amusement probably.
"I'd call it optimistic." Johnny gives his best smile as Simon scoffs lightly.
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or a different first meeting, second meeting, and Johnny is smitten. Ghost is too, obviously.
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08 Jul 2024
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Ghost has been M.I.A. for almost two days, and Soap is not freaking out about it, thank you very much. He happens to always work the punching bag so hard the seam splits and it crashes from its hook with a too-loud clatter, and he must jump back so that it doesn’t flatten him to the floor. After a mission he is always too wired to sleep, always pacing a hole in the floor of his room, always frantically searching out Price for any update, any word, anything.
Yeah, Ghost goes M.I.A. all the time. Soap has to listen to him get ambushed, hear his grunt of surprise and pain, get damn near deafened by the crackle-screech of his comms going dead and has to listen to the terrible, chasmic silence of Ghost refusing to answer him, after.
This happens all the time and Soap is completely fine about it.
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- Part 1 of Hivemind
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13 Jun 2024
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If you told Soap the second time he’d see Ghost’s face was in a shitty bar on a shittier block of Chicago… Well, he might have asked for a little more pomp and circumstance. At least then he’d have an excuse for the way he could hear his blood pumping faster in his ears and why he could feel it, hot and burning behind his eyes.
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- Part 1 of Punch Bowl
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- 6/6
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10 Jun 2024
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"But the worst—or the best, because obedience feels so good, it feels indulgent, like a reward—is when the words are already out of Ghost’s mouth before he can stop them, when he realizes halfway through that he’s said something irreversible."
Ghost is sure everyone can tell how he feels, and he's stopped trying to hide it.
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08 Jun 2024
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The best of us can find happiness in misery by miamfleurs
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
14 Mar 2024
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Soap's failures drive him all the way to Radiator Springs. Following a hunch and the indications of a Reddit post, he tries to find six-time Piston Cup winner Simon 'Ghost' Riley and promises himself he won't beg for help. His hard earned reputation as best rookie driver of the season should help anyway - until he actually meets the guy.
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03 Jun 2024
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Ghost has been able to read minds for as long as he can remember. At 15 he finally learns to control his power, he turns it off mostly, tired of the vicious, unkind truth of humanity being hurled at him every moment of the day. At 16 Simon shuts off his power completely.
The first and only time Ghost loses that control starts in the Humvee (and ends in Soap's bed).
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23 May 2024
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Ghost lets himself be pulled up slightly, his hand just as steady on Soap's thigh. "That what you need, Johnny?" he asks, licking his lips behind the balaclava. Soap’s eyes drop to his mouth, flick back up. "You wanna draw blood? Be in control?"
"Lt–" Soap starts, lips parted on a rough exhale. A plea or a warning, Ghost can't tell. He's too focused on the way Soap's pupils dilate, and the way the edge of the knife digs into the fabric at his throat.
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When Graves rears his head not ten days after Las Almas Ghost starts questioning Soap's loyalty, and with it whatever's left of his own sanity.
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19 May 2024
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Soulmate AU: In a world where having a soulmark is a rare and forgotten phenomenon, finding your other half can be more a curse than a blessing.
Soap joined the military intent on escaping the stigma of the mark, adamant he'd never find his soulmate.
When Soap’s lies begin to unravel, he must contend with his awakened soulmark, and a sicaria drug lord hell-bent on watching him burn.
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16 May 2024
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“You’re goin’ down fast.”
“No shit,” Soap starts working his vest off, the weight of it too much on his overstimulated skin. “Reactionary heat’s are a bitch. Gonna be droolin’ and beggin’ for cock in about an hour, I reckon.”
“Christ, Johnny.” The truck doesn’t swerve but there’s a definite jerk and Ghost glares over at him. “Kiss your mum with that mouth?”
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12 Feb 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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30 Dec 2023
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Ghost has a history, he has to, right? And Soap doesn't know nearly as much as he'd like, but that's alright with him. Man's entitled to some secrets, isn't he?
That's fine, right up until Soap decides to bust out his sweet red skull mask for a mission and oops! He's not the only one! Mace has a red mask, too, and a history with Ghost, and he isn't shy about letting Soap know about it.
Don't be fooled though, this is actually a story of how Ghost ended up with a red skull mask.
When the season five trailer that included cowboy Ghost in a red mask dropped, I initially thought it was Mace. And I took that to an angsty conclusion, as I often do.
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04 Dec 2023
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Ghost didn't trust Soap, couldn't know for certain what a year and a half of forced fighting in the pits did to something as volatile as a Wolf. But Price insisted that the man may have valuable intel, might be enough to finally bring down the Fighting Ring where they'd found him.
So Ghost watched and waited as the others let themselves be fooled by the charming stranger.
Ghost wouldn't be so easily swayed.
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12 Nov 2023
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It still took his breath away. The beauty of Simon Riley. The way the light played across his cheekbones like it had traveled all this way just to touch his face. Lightyears of travel, worth it just for a fleeting moment in his presence.
Soap had once thought of Simon as a sculpture, beauty immortalized in stone by passionate hands. But he was wrong.
Simon was the artist. Painting everything around him into pure beauty just by being in his presence. Ever changing, ever growing, lighting up all that came within his radius. Pulled in by the same gravity that had Soap in orbit.
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The one where soulmates leave marks on each other at their first skin on skin contact. Soap joins the 141 hoping to find a home in the form of a team. He finds it in the form of a man instead.
The soulmate story that is about choosing who you love.- Language:
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29 Oct 2023