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In the middle of a village in Mexico lies a giant, inky black spot. Beneath it likes a shadow mage, and a pool of blood. Price finds him and brings him back home.
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- Part 5 of Modern Military Mage Tact(ics)
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In the tunnel, Soap survives the bullet to his head but falls into a coma that he will only wake up from after almost three months have passed, while Ghost struggles with his own resurfacing issues leading to a mandatory medical leave being forced on him.
Now Soap has to adapt to a changed body and a new reality that he has yet to accept, leading him back to a place he had long left behind. Meanwhile, Ghost finds himself spiraling after Soap’s near-death experience brings back bitter memories that he believed he had buried once and for all, and finds himself confronted with his past.
Even off the battlefield, the two men ultimately gravitate towards each other, becoming closer than ever in unanticipated ways.
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Ghost had been sure, many times in his life, that he had the worst luck in the world. Now, he could make that the worst luck in the fucking universe. Getting captured by aliens wasn't his idea of a nice Sunday, yet here he was.
The 141 knows very little about humans. They're fearsome, dangerous creatures from an even worse planet. The few expeditions foolish enough to get close disappeared entirely. The one report salvaged from a lucky ship, a long time ago, isn't really helping.
They have to figure out what to do with the one in front of them.Or, humans are space orcs but make it COD.
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Heat Lamp by BargainBinBard
Fandoms: Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse), Call of Duty (Video Games)
05 Jul 2025
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Ghost hasn't felt the sun since climbing out of Simon Riley's grave. When he finally finds it again, it's housed in the body of a man that he can't have. Whatever it was that Roba did to him back in Coahuila is from the same vein of whatever happened in Raccoon City back in 1998. The world can never go back to being what it was, and neither can Ghost.
Cold blooded creatures can't keep each other warm. But at least they can keep each other company.
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Soap was sure Ghost hated him when they met but after a little persistence, they were great friends! Until things fell apart...
But John wasn't going to let what they had slip through his fingers. And as luck would have it, Fate wasn't going to keep them apart either.
In fact, Fate wants this to happen.
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"And above all, avoid hunters. Humans that are aware that vampires exist and have been tasked with hunting them down. Their weapons are laced with silver and they have restraints that can hold a vampire down. If you get caught, you’ll be experimented on, tortured, or killed."
John MacTavish died in 2015, at the hands of AQ terrorists while on a deployment to Urzikstan. Posthumously awarded the Gallantry Medal, the Victoria Cross, and the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for his heroic actions, his family and the army, along with the entire world, moved on. But what's not dead doesn't stay dead. Seven years later, John is adjusting to his new life as a vampire and finally makes the trip back to Europe, looking for someplace familiar to call home. But a simple walk in the woods leads to an encounter with the Ghost, a legendary vampire hunter only whispered about by others of his kind. Little do they both know, the experience will shatter their viewpoints on the world.
And drive Captain Price to drinking.
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**NEW CHAPTER**
Two goldfish are in a tank…they might kill eachother. Or kiss. The goldfish aren’t sure yet.Ghost is a royal guard, when his Captain asks him to take up a new position he agrees. The problem is: Prince John MacTavish, who just returned from exile. He makes things difficult for Simon, in more ways than one.
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John MacTavish, the exiled prince has been summoned to court, he doesn’t know why.
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After Johnny's death, Simon ends up getting discharged due to an injury and moves back to Manchester. There, he gets a new job at a plant shop, meets the neighbors, vibes with his emotional support dog, Riley, and begins stitching himself back together. Obviously, there's gonna be bumps, but Simon "Ghost" Riley will survive.
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Johnny had looked at Simon and not seen the lone wolf everyone thought him to be, but rather the lonely coyote. A scavenger. But Johnny had been wrong too- Simon wasn’t a wolf or a coyote, he was a mutt bred for his lockjaw and he’d never been any good at letting go. It’d saved him- too many times to count. It would kill him, too.
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Simon makes a deal with Death to live another day with his mother and brother. Or 5 times Simon encounters Death, and the 1 time he chooses Johnny instead.
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Spotless by insomniamemoirs, RandomWordsAndStormyDays
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
24 Jun 2025
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Keegan and Simon are soulmates, but something feels wrong. They love each other, they share the same cuts and bullet wounds as the other, but neither of them feel whole.
There’s a scar on their chins neither of them can claim as their own.
Then one day a new Sergeant arrives. A Sergeant with the barest hint of tattoos on tanned skin, life in his eyes, and a Glasgow smile carved into his cheeks.
Soulmate AU, shared scars. Title from Zach Bryan.
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他感觉到脸上缝线的牵扯，但并不疼，脸上有种压迫感。他感觉自己与这一切都脱节了，就像那种快要睡着的一刻，悬在一个他并不在意是否会坠落的边缘；所以他过了好一会儿才意识到，房间里还有另一个人，那人在自言自语地低声说着什么。他想张口说话，但嘴唇干裂，那种压迫感——他几乎可以确定是氧气面罩——妨碍了他；他有些恼火，伸手去摸——
从法律意义上说，西蒙·莱利已经死了。剩下的是幽灵，英军的一个“资产”；他的身份使他成为秘密任务的首选，那些不该有人活着完成的任务。
他能完成任务。
但不总是能安然无恙地回来。
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Johnny had given up on his dream of going to art school early on — with his conservative parents and non-existent support system, he’d settled for doing whatever his family wanted him to.
His best friend, Simon, had other plans.
“You can come live with me.”
“Yeah, right, sneakin’ into yer military home is such a smart idea.”
Simon paused, having the sort of brilliant idea that would make Johnny scoff. Sure that they could pull it off.
“Marry me. The army gives free housing to serving soldiers and their families.”
Their fake marriage was a gateway for very real feelings to blossom, though, even through the difficulties that life put in their way.
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“The Riley family house…” Gaz said quietly, shuffling in his spot in the backseat. “It can’t be much different from our usual cases, can it?”
“Well, everyone so far has left running from that place. Even the shadows couldn’t handle it.”
“Graves?” Soap said, leaning as far forward as the seatbelt allowed him to, much more interested.
“Let’s just say his American spirit left him temporarily.”
“He died?” Soap’s mouth fell to the floor as a raw chill shook his body.
“… For a short period.”
Soap tried to swallow, his throat dry. Graves and his team were just as good as them with the paranormal, both of them specialised teams that worked with ghosts and all that came with them on the regular.
Death was normal in their line of work, it was a risk that came red underlined with the position. Sometimes spirits got rough and most of the time they wouldn’t hesitate to throw you around like a rag doll, possess you, terrify you, all to gain back some part of themselves. What was murder to the dead anyway?
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And just like that, after months of dancing around each other, shit communication and jealousy so intense it had taken a toll on Ghost’s dental health, all they got was half a day before their jobs caught up with them immediately. Fucking figures.
It's been four weeks since Soap and Ghost stumbled into bed with each other. After getting to stew in their feelings and insecurities for a month they finally get make good on the promise of spending time together in Glasgow there's just one question left to answer. Or maybe like a dozen. Or a hundred?
Probably a good thing Ghost insisted on taking his car and they have six hours to figure it out.Series
- Part 2 of STAB - Simply The Armies Best
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The crushing reality of hindsight, really, is that when it hits there’s nothing left but a front row seat to every second of every failure, speckled with the dust of what might have been. It’s painful, it’s meant to be. It’s the consequence of holding something so beautiful and precious, and not caring enough to stop its fall.
In this moment, sitting alone in his room surrounded by scrap memories drawn out in cheap pencils and charcoal, crooked smiles and warm eyes and the leaden weight of regret in his chest, it feels like an explosion he didn’t move far enough away from. It feels like his own ruin rushing up to meet him, his own hand on the trigger. Everything he could have ever wanted offered up to him on a silver platter and he tipped the whole damn thing into the dirt.
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Or, the Soap groveling fanfic
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- Part 5 of Noc’s Military Propaganda
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A wave of young and promising alphas threatens the stability of the system and its organization. Relocation and restructuring have been elected as the solution. This affects many soldiers across the country, including you.
Once relocated to a base on the other side of the country and assigned to a unit to work with, you begin to wonder why one of the soldiers smells strangely familiar. His distant and closed-off personality only makes you more interested in how your pasts intertwine.
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With the flu finally out of the way, Ghost and Soap could finally travel to Glasgow for their shared leave. Only, it's not that easy, as everything goes upside down before they have even managed to leave the base. They end up leaving, but to different directions; one packed for a mission and one packed for a leave.
One day, sooner or later, Ghost will finally accept that he's just a dog of the military and nothing else. He'll never be anything else.
And Soap will learn that too.
Title from Take On Me - A-ha
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- Part 2 of When I'm Small
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Like A Stone by insomniamemoirs, RandomWordsAndStormyDays
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
27 May 2025
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Captain John “Soap” MacTavish isn’t doing okay. Sure, he gets the job done, he leads his men, and from the outside he looks like the Alpha everyone knows him to be. But on the inside he’s decaying, falling to pieces.
Lieutenant Simon “Ghost” Riley is living a lie, hiding his Omega gender all while standing right by MacTavish’s side.
But when Soap fails his most recent psych eval he gets assigned a support Omega. This leads to a complicated double life as Ghost, the 141 member, and Riley, the support, have to find the balance between being the support the Alpha needs to be and the soldier who his Captain needs instead.
Based off the Support Omega System in this wonderful fic: https://archiveofourown.info/works/16457597?view_full_work=true
Title from Audioslave
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Stuck under a collapse, Ghost only has Soap to keep him tethered to this reality.
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“长官，”幽灵开口了，不过他的语气已不再是之前那种质问，而是低沉柔和了许多，“你到底怎么了？”
他终于在一堆新任务报告下面找到了那份未完成的报告，连第一栏都还没填。他的手指慢慢握紧成拳，头痛跳动得更加剧烈，仿佛要炸开。
“莱利，滚开。”
当你肩上背负着他人的性命时，想要从工作中抽身是件很难的事。
所幸，困难有人分担，就已经轻了一半 :)