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    “You’re doing good, Simon,” Soap says idly, switching out the cotton and disinfectant for bandages.

    Ghost grunts, shuffling against the hard floor. “By the time you’re done, our exfil will have had time to stop for drinks.”

    He raises an exploratory hand to touch the marred skin, but Soap swats it away. He captures the hand in his own offhand, lacing his fingers with his lieutenant’s and squeezing in apology. After a moment, Ghost squeezes back.

    “Round of bourbon on you, tonight?” Ghost asks, a sly smile playing at his full lips. His voice is strained from trying to jostle his injury as little as possible, but the familiarity of his deep teasing tone makes Soap’s head cloudy.

    “You propositioning me, Ghost?” Soap asks, incredulous laughter bubbling out of his chest.

    Ghost gets injured on a mission, so Soap patches him up.

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    23 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 76

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    Ghost has been hard at work tackling his aversion to touch since the 141 came together. He’d been irate the first time Soap and Gaz tried casually throwing an arm around him. He had felt repulsed, nauseous, scared…

    Warm. Comforted.

    It took him a few weeks to admit to himself and his therapist that physical touch was a love language he has been severely starved of.

    Thankfully it’s a language that his squad is annoyingly fluent in. More often than not he loves being close to his team now.

    Only Soap has this strange ability to make him crave more, though.

     
     Featuring Ghost with a PTSD induced temperature regulation issue and Soap, who wants nothing more than to be used as a personal heater.

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    13 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 77

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    Tomorrow, Soap would force himself to be awake at six. He’d be ready, sitting on the stoop, a cup of coffee in one hand and his rifle in the other.

    And when he shot Ghost dead, he’d plant thistle in the viscera he left behind.

    Ten years after surviving a gunshot wound to the head, Soap is struggling with the reality of retirement and the abrupt, seemingly unprompted reappearance of his ex-lover and former lieutenant. But healing isn't linear, and sometimes things need to shatter and break before they can be built back up anew.

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    09 Jul 2026

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    The break-up didn’t come out of nowhere. It was a storm circling the Riley/MacTavish relationship for months now. But Simon was still surprised when John actually called it quits. Laying in bed alone now, he could remember what John yelled just a few hours earlier. Things about how he drank to much, smoked too much. Wasn't changing for shit. Simon knew, after only a few weeks without Johnny, he needed him back. That's where Operation: Win Johnny Back came into play.

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    Johnny breaks up with Simon due to Simon's alcohol addiction. Simon decides he needs to win the love of his life back, even if it means losing all of his vices.

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    09 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 99

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    “Missed me,” Ghost crackles in his ear. Warm, teasing. A tone that Soap is almost certain is reserved for him.

    Soap scoffs. "Prove it."

    “Aw,” Ghost tuts. “Don’t trust me?”

    No one I trust more, Sir. He doesn’t say it. Not that he isn’t sure Ghost already knows; if he’s even half as inhumanly perceptive as everyone gives him credit for, then he has to know, has to feel that tangible presence orbiting between them. (The direct acknowledgement of this entity feels too unshakably taboo. A point of no return that takes the shape of something gnarly; a feral elephant in the room that threatens to maul one or both of them down if addressed.)

    “Bastard,” he grumbles instead. Wonders if his voice is as thick with affection over the com as it sounds spoken aloud. Would it matter, if it was?

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    [smut all the way down with a healthy dose of yearning]

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    12 Jun 2026