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  1. Public Bookmark 16

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    Continuation of the original Not Alone published in 2022. At first, it was a one shot, then a two shot. What started as a series of missing scenes evolved past the completion of the MW2 campaign revolving around Ghost and Soap and their developing bond.

    Ghost Team learns to navigate their new dynamic while facing down adversaries, reuniting with allies, and spinning off into a story that meant to bridge the time between MW2 and MW3 that would still fit everything canonically. Now, the story continues with the aftermath of the events in Not Alone, merges with MW3, and will conclude with MW4 bringing everything together till the bitter end.

    Choices have consequences for Ghost Team as they deal with the fallout, resulting in a chain of events that questions what the call of duty even means. Not Alone is a heavy character study revolving around trauma, pain, boundaries, sex, and connection. No one fights alone.

    Updated Author's Note: MW4 Teaser dropped, October 23.
    Next Chapter: 6/19/2026, delayed camping

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    26 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    It had been four months since Soap had last heard or seen Ghost.
    Seventeen weeks of begging and praying that he was still alive and breathing.
    One hundred twenty-one days of living without being alive, of carrying guilt that was eating him alive.

    Soap couldn't remember the last time he had caught some sleep without being woken up by terrors and nightmares. He had lost everything the day Makarov decided to take away the person Soap cared for the most. He lost count of how many times he had wished to be in Ghost's place instead. As he drowned in memories of the past, Soap's illusion of the perfect soldier life was crumbling down right in front of him, being on mandatory leave whilst his team tried everything to track down Ghost's position in the hope of bringing him back alive. No one knew whether he was still alive in captivity or had long since died. Soap felt his team was losing hope.

    But giving up was no option for Soap, because giving up on Ghost meant giving up on what they had and leaving him to die. And dying was no option.
    Little did he know that bringing Ghost home wouldn't mark the end of their nightmare, but only the beginning of its aftermath.

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    25 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 16

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    Simon knew he was slowing down.
    His heart was pounding with fear of everyone else noticing.
    There’s no place for weakness in this task force.
    No place for phantom pain of his old scars, no place for joint pain, no place of fatigue of his body pulled taunt by all the trauma, by living in constant fight or flight mode.
    Every new mission gets him on edge, every mission he makes small mistakes, human mistakes, but he can’t afford to be human.

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    Or, Simon finds a new reason to push forward

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    23 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 19

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    Soap did not close the gap; he never did, and neither did Ghost. He wondered if Ghost felt it as much as he did. Ghost’s hands were still resting against his thighs, and Soap found himself wondering what would happen if he reached out and held one.

    Ghost would probably cut his hand off, Soap reasoned, but there was still that stupid flicker of hope. Soap had nurtured that flicker for years now, never quite letting it die but never feeding it much either. He was not in denial about his feelings towards his Lieutenant, but he certainly was not planning to act on them any time soon.

    There was too much risk of losing what little connection he had with the mysterious man, and Soap was not willing to take that risk. So, he stayed content in the grey area, in the almosts and the maybes. It was all he would ever have, and he had come to accept that.

    Still, if he just so happened to drift off and his shoulder lightly grazed Ghost’s, who was to say that was on purpose?

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    Soap becomes the target of a wealthy crime family when he kills their leader. He deals with this while also coming to terms with his sister's death, his Catholic upbringing, and his feelings for Ghost.

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    21 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 8

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    Anathema
    noun. Someone or something intensely disliked or loathed.
    noun. One that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority.

    John MacTavish had always been a man of faith.
    Why, then, did he allow himself to fall for a man?

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    21 Jul 2026