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  1. Public Bookmark 49

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    Simon escapes, the data saved, but he is not unscaved. He is forever changed, but the only outward showing is the loss of his left arm. Back on the tow ship, he is put in quarantine, making sure he didn't change, that he was still human. He resents it, reminding Ava that she promised him freedom.

    Next door lies Jack, still sick from the radiation but recovering well. The walls are thin, allowing Jack and Simon to pass the time by talking. At first, they clearly resent each other, but eventually begin to grow closer, bonding over their joint trauma and both of their parts in each other’s. That and boredom.

    But does the data show the hope Ava thought it did? Will it hold the truth? Will the COI believe what Simon saw down there? Will he ever get his freedom? Or did he die in the Blood Ocean?

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    23 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 43

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    He was never given the privilege of an explanation. He was barely awake, his brain lagging and muddled with fog when the metal door of his cell slid open, and people in sealed suits took his arms, and he was transported to another, albeit slightly larger, room.

    They left him there without saying a thing and ignored him when he asked what was going on.

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    What if Jack was there from the beginning to help give Simon hope before being put into the Iron Lung?

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    22 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 42

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    "Nothing was normal anymore. Not that normal meant anything in the quiet rapture, but the thing wearing the skin of normalcy no longer existed for Simon."

    Simon escaped the Iron Lung, but he fears he left more than his arm behind in the sub. In hope of finding his humanity, he begins the only way he knows how. With an apology.

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    22 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    In late 2011, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sold 6.5 million copies on its first day in stores.

    One copy went to Johnny MacTavish, who was looking for something to fill the time between babysitting his kid siblings and flying around Europe for his job as a pyrotechnic.

    One went to Simon Riley. Angry at the world and confronted by the past more often than he’d like, he’s not really looking to make friends right now- or ever.

    They don’t know each other yet. But they will.

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    17 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 94

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    Ghost fucks up and hurts Soap's feelings, and then has to contend with his own after a mission takes a turn for the worst.

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    17 Feb 2026