7 Works in John "Soap" MacTavish Has Chronic Pain
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Who could ask you be unbroken, or be brave again? by atlas_paint
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games), Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
23 Sep 2025
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Johnny can tell that he’s been abused. That’s not all too uncommon in Detroit, androids aren’t always treated with respect, like they’re sentient beings. But that thing was just sad to look at. He named it Simon, he supposed that was a nice little name. Johnny doesn’t intent to work it to the bone. This is more so a retirement, for Simon and himself.
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Or; AU in the DBH universe.
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Simon "Ghost" Riley is classified as a little his sophmore year of highschool, but when his father catches wind of it and beats him near to death? His mother puts him on suppressants and he never goes off of them.
Simon "Ghost" Riley had never regressed, despite his classification, and falsified his papers to say he wasnt. He claimed he was neutral, till a particularly long, grueling mission where he'd forgotten to take his suppressants in the chaos of it all.
Simon regresses fast and without warning due to an injury while the 141 is headed home, and his bubba and the 141 help him through it.
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Simon wakes up in pre-heat before his scheduled leave, and tries to push through the day till he can meet with Price about emergency heat leave.
Johnny wont leave him alone, but when it becomes too much to handle–his heat coming on full force–Johnny is there to help him through it.
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What becomes of life when everything you know is upended?
But what if everything you know is hardly worth clinging onto?
John MacTavish inherits a farmhouse in a dead-end village out of the city and returns to it out of obligation more than hope. Quiet, rundown, and half-forgotten, it seems like the right place to disappear into while he 'grieves,' away from prying eyes and pitying shoulder-claps. But he’s seen something he shouldn’t have. And someone’s been sent to fix it.
The Ghost is a man who does what he’s told. Efficient, careful, and long past believing in anything else, he’s not meant to think twice. So it rattles him, when the job goes south.
It doesn't take long to find that it's easy to run, when you never loved what you're leaving behind. And easier still, when you've got someone to run with.
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As they begin to load Ella into the back of the ambulance, Simon goes to climb in. Sean presses a hand to his shoulder. “I’m sorry, sir, family only.”
Simon darts a look at John, uncharacteristic panic darting across his face.
“He is family,” John blurts. Sean looks skeptically at him and John knows what he sees: a blond Englishman, Uncle Simon, who is clearly not blood related in any way to the child on the gurney. Without thinking, John says the very thing that he suspects is Simon’s ticket into that ambulance. He gestures to Ella. “She’s my sister’s daughter.” He locks eyes with Simon. “And he’s my husband.”
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When Ella has a bad fall, Uncle Simon steps in to help. John makes an impulsive decision that turns out all right in the end.
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His gaze skips over the cold fireplace, the weak light streaming through the bay window, and over to his alarm clock which reads 07:26. He frowns, swinging his feet over the side of the bed and reaching over to disable the alarm scheduled for 07:30. Just as he looks back out the window at the heavy fall of snow that he knows he’ll have to deal with soon, a sharp chhhhhh comes from outside.
John stills, listening, and after a few seconds it comes again, this time in an uneven rhythm: ch-ch-ch-chhhhhh followed by a light fwump. He frowns, standing and padding over to look out the window as the noise continues. The first thing he notices is a familiar truck, hastily cleared of snow, parked behind his Land Rover in the drive. Leaning forward he spots a tall, bulky figure bent over the walk, a shovel scraping over the concrete before launching bundles of snow into the yard. If the truck hadn’t tipped him off, he’d know that figure anywhere.
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This is what they mean by "home," isn't it?
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There’s a quality in Simon’s voice that John’s never heard from him before, but that he’d recognize anywhere. It’s the tone his niblings use when they aren’t sure if they’ve done something wrong. The hesitance he hears from another vet who isn’t sure if the story they’re about to tell is appropriate for present company because no one really debriefs you from a life of violence and killing and casual dark humor to a life without it. The sound of a man burned and turned away so many times that he never had a chance of discerning what he’d done wrong. The sound of a man who, nine times out of ten, was manipulated into thinking he was wrong in the first place.
The sound of a man who desperately needs a safe place to land, but only ever found it in bits and pieces if he found it at all.
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After over a decade apart, John and Simon find safety.
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