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1. Next Door by Thekioreth

   Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   27 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley
   • Simon "Ghost" Riley/Original Female Character(s)
   • John "Soap" MacTavish/Original Male Character(s)
   • Simon "Ghost" Riley
   • John "Soap" MacTavish
   • John Price (Call of Duty)
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Parent Simon "Ghost" Riley
   • Alcohol
   • Explicit Language
   • PTSD
   • adding tags as we go
   • Panic Attacks
   • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
   • Homophobia
   • Military Inaccuracies
   • Botanical Inaccuracies
   • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Age Difference
   • Awkward Simon "Ghost" Riley
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • Implied/Referenced Drug Use
   • Touch-Starved Simon "Ghost" Riley
   • Idiots in Love
   • Simon "Ghost" Riley Needs a Hug
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Soft John "Soap" MacTavish
   • Angst and Fluff and Smut
   • Domestic Violence
   • Splitting
   • Drug Abuse
   • Violence
   • Borderline Personality Disorder
   • Medical Inaccuracies
   • Emotional Infidelity
   • Bottom Simon "Ghost" Riley
   • Top John "Soap" MacTavish
   • Depression
   • Beta Read
   • 1 half paced/2 half slowburn

   Summary

   Working on editing and updating the first few chapters in-between posting new ones. Started this years ago so the first ones do not match the ones later on.

   … Can reliance ease the madness
   When every voice says I'm worthless?
   I thought I would find the force from fighting
   But if I win alone, I'm losing
   … I'm turning horizons into battlegrounds
   I cannot walk ahead without your guidance
   I'm turning horizon into battlegrounds
   And every step I take, without a sound
   Can I hold on
   Can I hold on to you?
   - woodkid

   Simon resigned from the military to be a father. But how he imagined the transitioning from his Task Force to civilian family life would go, he was dead wrong.
   Moving into a new flat trying to save his crumbling relationship things just escalates and he is spiraling.
   So when his warm and charming Scottish neighbour enters his life, he is forced to face the conditioning and horros he'd lived through dead in the eye.
   Good thing John isn't scared stepping straight into Simon's darkness. And fight it.

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

   37/?

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