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On the 21st November 2023, Sergeant John "Soap" MacTavish was killed in action in the Eurotunnel, 7km off the coast of Folkestone.
Except the heavily redacted report is all a lie and the emotional scattering of his ashes is all an act.
This is the story of how he survives, how the 141 fake his death, and how he recovers - with Ghost right by his side.
A realistic fic about Soap recovering from a traumatic brain injury and discovering which parts of himself are left, and which parts Makarov stole from him. Full of hurt and comfort, angst and humour, this is a slow burn Ghost/Soap getting together fic with a happy ending.
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Bookmarked by Kittyhawk
22 Nov 2025
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John “Soap” MacTavish never meant to come out as bisexual on national television – it just slipped out during a post-match interview. Overnight, his rugby stats take a backseat to accusations of queerbaiting, invasive questions, and endless speculation.
Enter Kyle “Gaz” Garrick, an old mate from school, now in the military and schemer extraordinaire. His solution? A fake boyfriend. Someone private, unreachable by the press.
Someone like his lieutenant – Simon “Ghost” Riley. Luckily, Ghost owes Gaz a favour. A big one.
It’s just meant to be a few quiet photos, some social media buzz, a bit of smoke to keep the wolves at bay. But as the season wears on and the fake relationship starts bleeding into quiet nights, real texts, and barely-there touches… Soap starts to wish it were real. And Ghost – Ghost stops knowing where the act ends and something real begins.
What starts as a cover story slowly becomes something neither of them know how to fake anymore.
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18 Oct 2025
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When John “Soap” MacTavish leaves the city behind for a neglected farm he inherited from his late grandfather in Pelican Town, he expects soil, sweat, and a quiet life. What he doesn’t expect is to meet Simon “Ghost” Riley, a gruff, masked recluse living in the mountains. Between tending to his animals, the changing seasons, and dangerous dives into the mines, Soap’s path keeps crossing with Ghost’s. Soap came to the valley to start over, but he never imagined Ghost would be the one to take root in his heart.
[Or: The Stardew Valley AU nobody asked for, but I wrote anyway]
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18 Oct 2025
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Step One: Lie. Step Two: Regret Everything. by Neomorise
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
13 Jul 2025
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Simon "Ghost" Riley is adjusting to civilian life after being honourably discharged, recovering from nerve damage, and barely leaving the house. He didn’t mean to lie. He just wanted Price to stop hovering like an overprotective mum. So when asked if he was seeing anyone, Ghost blurts out a lie to shut him up: he has a boyfriend. Problem solved – until Price invites said imaginary boyfriend to Christmas dinner.
When Gaz hears about it, he immediately calls bullshit. And then decides to step in to help.
Enter John "Soap" MacTavish: Gaz’s childhood friend, chaos incarnate, and a civilian working in private security who loves a good disaster. When Gaz asks for help, Soap agrees immediately. Pretending to be someone’s boyfriend for a holiday event? Sign him up.
Ghost expects awkward dinners and limited contact. What he gets is text messages at midnight, inside jokes, Soap knowing exactly how to help without being asked, and a growing problem: this was never supposed to feel real.
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14 Jul 2025
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Soap is good at a lot of things, but one place he's always struggled is in the kitchen. After numerous failures by his family to help him get a handle on things in the kitchen, and a close call involving the fire brigade, he's gifted cooking lessons for his birthday--much to his great embarrassment.
But if there's one thing you can say about Soap, he's not a quitter, and despite his reservations, he makes use of the classes. Enter Kyle: handsome and charming, he's something of a good luck charm for Soap with his gentle encouragement and flirting.
By the end of things, Soap has more than new-found confidence in the kitchen.
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Bookmarked by Kittyhawk
27 Jun 2025
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John “Soap” MacTavish is frozen under the weight of a singular glowing golden eye. Its vertical pupil dilates and contracts and Soap swears he can feel the physical weight of a touch skimming over his body as it trails up and down him, assessing. The touch feels as if a singular sharp claw is being dragged over his skin, holding him in place with the silent threat of evisceration should he so much as breathe.
So he doesn’t breathe, he doesn’t move, he can’t even bring himself to look away from that eye as he’s studied; as his fate is decided by the sleek, inky black creature standing just a few feet in front of him.
Soap’s skin feels as if it’s burning under the weight of that stare, but he’s finally able to take a breath in. He lets it out through his nose slowly, quietly, and is careful not to move as he tries to convince his body he isn’t in danger.
But he isn’t convinced. . . isn’t even close, and as he’s able to finally tear his gaze away from the one eye that he can see, he becomes almost sure that he is in danger.
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- English
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- 9/9
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Bookmarked by Kittyhawk
17 Jun 2025
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Contrary to what his fellow soldiers think, Soap doesn’t, in fact, hate dogs. Soap would have even considered himself a fan of dogs, with many of his memories as a child and teen encompassing the dogs of his past. The problem is, he’s had too many bad experiences since enlisting involving them.
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The one where the 141 gets Riley (the dog) on loan, and Soap falls for both Rileys.Series
- Part 1 of Let Sleeping Dogs Lie Universe
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Bookmarked by Kittyhawk
11 Jun 2025
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Soap paused, picking up the pen. He looked over his list. Three columns, “yes”, “no”, and “maybe”. He pulled the paper close. Hesitating, he underlined a single item, then crossed out the rest of them one by one. When he finished, he looked back at Ghost, as if daring him to say something about it. When Ghost didn’t, Soap pushed the paper over, crossing his arms over his chest.
Underlined was “kneeling” under “yes”, the only thing left on the page. It didn’t matter what the other “yes” items had been, they were very clearly in the “no” column now.
Ghost forced himself not to feel frustrated, had to admit to himself that Soap might be the most challenging sub he had ever had assigned into one of his units.
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- 10/10
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Bookmarked by Kittyhawk
09 Jun 2025
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On a routine op, Ghost disappears. They come after him, of course, but he’s nowhere to be found, with not a shred of evidence to say where he is— only a six year old who looks suspiciously like him, who insists he’s Simon Riley.
taken off anon 16/01/25
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Bookmarked by Kittyhawk
26 Apr 2025
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Fresh out of the SAS Simon is trying to cope with the reality of being a civilian. While spectacularly failing at it so far, as a last-resort solution he reaches out to a hotline run by vets, for vets.
Little does he know that the man on the other side of the line, John, is about to change the outcome of his life.A story about loss, grief and hopelessness. About trust, acceptance and love.
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- Part 1 of Veteran AU-Hotline
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- 16/16
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Bookmarked by Kittyhawk
17 Feb 2025
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Bookmarked by Kittyhawk
16 Feb 2025
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In another life, John and Simon meet when Simon is working in a butcher’s shop and John is two years into his bachelor’s degree.
In another life, Simon still joins the military, but John never follows, instead choosing to further pursue his education.
In another life, John is little more than a civilian mourning his partner when he’s informed Simon was killed in action during a mission in Mexico.
And in another life, after a year of being dead, Simon shows up unexpectedly at John’s door.
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19 Dec 2024
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Ghost, Soap, and a pile of blankets.
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A 5+1 fic of Soap and Ghost's relationship told through their shared love of knives.
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- Part 1 of Handle With Care
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06 Oct 2024
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Cuddling lambs is better than drinking yourself to death. But at what cost?
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18 Sep 2024
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He is not a good man.
Never claimed to be.
Maybe that's why he can tell with such perfect clarity that Cole is a prick: takes one to know one.
Maybe it’s why things happen the way they do (somewhere between lucky and fucked): Ghost deserves it for being a fucking prick, too.
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An old friend of Soap’s causes new problems for Ghost (if covertly watching one’s flirty subordinate get plowed—poorly—over a bathroom sink can be said to be a problem). They work it out in the end.
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Bookmarked by Kittyhawk
22 Aug 2024
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In theory, it’s an easy plan of action: Soap heals with Ghost by his side and life goes back to the way it was before. Effortless and efficient, just like how they’ve always handled tough missions.
But with a newly broken brain, pent-up feelings, and a possible medical discharge looming on the horizon, everything is often easier said than done.
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Bookmarked by Kittyhawk
28 Jul 2024
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Forced to take a leave together, Soap was well aware that he needed to find a better way to exert their energy before it got worse.
Thankfully, he had the right idea - and gift - for that.
Little did he know, his surprise was going to make him realise that he had the sweetest gift within an arm's reach.
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- Part 1 of Bio-BDSM Verse
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06 Jul 2024
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Sergeant John "Soap" MacTavish is declared K.I.A during a failed recon mission in 2017. His commanding officer, Captain John Price, takes the loss personally but has no other choice then to move on. He creates Task Force 141, keeps the bad guys scared of the dark, and hunts Makarov relentlessly - the man who killed his sergeant all those years ago.
Five years later, Price fights an assassin with a familiar face.
Spectre-07 doesn’t remember anything. Maybe he had once, but years of conditioning have stripped his mind bare, save for the instinct to kill. It's all he knows, all he craves; the blood of his target between his fingers, at the end of his scope or along the blade of his knives. He's a cold-blooded, empty headed machine, and he doesn't hesitate.
Until he does.
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- Part 1 of nothing but my aching soul
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- 84,259
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- 17/17
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Bookmarked by Kittyhawk
01 Jul 2024
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“Oh fuck,” Soap croaks.
Ghost lowers his smoking gun, and their eyes meet.
"Hello, Soap."
or; Soap fucked up his entire life trying to save it. Now he's on the run from not one, not two, but three dangerous bastards; two of them he hates, one of them he loves. He's doing a good job of staying gone until he stumbles upon two ladies in need and gets a little too invested in helping them home.
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Bookmarked by Kittyhawk
07 May 2024