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1. Counting the Stitches, Pulling the Thread by MountainRew

   Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)  

   • Mature
   • Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   26 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley
   • Simon "Ghost" Riley
   • John "Soap" MacTavish
   • John Price (Call of Duty)
   • John "Soap" MacTavish's Sister
   • Kyle "Gaz" Garrick (mentioned)
   • Kate Laswell (mentioned)
   • Nikolai (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare) (mentioned)
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Metaphorical drowing
   • Panic Attacks
   • but Simon doesn't realise he has one???
   • Suicidal Intentions
   • he doesn't hurt himself but he thinks it's better if he wasnt alive anymore
   • Simon "Ghost" Riley Loves John "Soap" MacTavish
   • John "Soap" MacTavish Loves Simon "Ghost" Riley
   • Simon and the terrible horrible no good very bad day
   • Alcohol
   • Angst
   • Bittersweet Ending
   • Post-Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023)

   Summary

   Soap is dead.

   And Ghost loved him.

   Killed by a bullet through the head, bleeding out on unforgiving concrete. Not a single mercy given in the last moments he drew breath.

   An idea, a little electrical impulse, a twitch of a finger, a small piece of metal, taking with it everything. Unmooring Ghost from the safety of land after he just made it out of the stormy waters of his life

   -

   John "Soap" MacTavish is killed in the tunnel, his body is buried under rubble.

   Ghost has lost so many people in his life, so many having been taken from him. Yet it never gets easier, grief never easier to bear and he loses himself in it.

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