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Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water (I Will Lay Me Down) by Sociablepossum
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
21 Jan 2026
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Summary
When Ghost finally returns from the roof, Gaz doesn’t crowd him. He doesn’t speak to him unless spoken to, seeming to understand that trying to fill the hole Soap’s left will only call more attention to it. He simply makes space—sets aside the corner bed, positions a chair where Ghost can sit without being watched, hands him the cup of tea without forcing eye contact.
Ghost takes it.
Price notices that too.
How many small kindnesses has Gaz offered, unnoticed? How many moments has Price missed, so focused on the larger picture that he failed to see the man quietly holding the edges together?
It unsettles him.
-or- Price realizes how much he truly depends on Gaz.
Series
- Part 3 of Hold the Line