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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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11 Jul 2026
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Soap was tired. Hungry. Exhausted. Always so fucking exhausted, even though he did little but sleep and rest and wander around aimlessly. He hadn’t seen a single trace of a living human since the world had ended. Hadn’t managed to build a nest in equally as long.
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The world has ended, and Soap is all alone, until he isn't.
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01 Jul 2026
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Soap’s first meeting with Formula 1 was at Silverstone at the sweet age of twelve years old. Watching the Formula 1 cars whizz passed them was something Soap would never forget.
But the thing that had been ingrained in his young mind was not the race itself, not the driver’s whizzing past or the car's designs, no, it was from a big screen along the track for when the cars were driving in a different sector. His eyes were glued to the image as the image changed to a pit stop, showing the synchronised team ripping off the tyres and sticking on new ones, how the team’s flowed like water around the car in a matter of seconds before it shot out of Pit Lane again.
Soap had turned to his father, massive blue eyes crinkling with determination as he said “I am going to be a Formula 1 mechanic!”
Dreams became reality as he stepped into the garage during F1 2023 season years later, throwing him into the whirlwind of motorsports in the Red Bull pit crew. Not knowing this season wouldn’t only bring him his desire to be a mechanic but also bring him closer to the lead driver of the team, Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley, who was competing for the 2023 championship.
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The F1 COD AU no one asked for SoapGhost style.
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- Part 1 of COD F1AU
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12 Jun 2026
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If Not in the Crimson Dawn, Then by Pale Night by CedarDove for toomanybats
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
05 Feb 2025
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But, Simon isn't pulled under. He's pressed against Soap's front, an arm around his waist to hold him close. Fingers tangle into Soap's matted chest hair, clinging to him with both a healthy amount of apprehension, and exhilaration. The softest vibration of a purr tickles through his body when Soap stoops down, and captures Simon's lips in a deep, languid kiss. Eyes a mile wide, Simon can't find it in himself to struggle as his fingers creep up, framing Soap's throat as he melts.
Years… It's been years since he's tasted the touch of another man's lips against his.
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A love story between Ghost, once a lieutenant of the Royal Navy - turned pirate captain, and Soap, a merfolk, who Ghost saves from a fisherman's net.
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07 Jun 2026
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Soap’s been running his ranch on his own just fine up until now. Uses the occasional ranch hand when needs must but mostly just puts in the work so he doesn’t have to bother with them. Except now the most beautiful beta he’s ever seen has waltzed into his life and asked for a job, and God help him Soap’s given him one.
Ghost needs somewhere to lie low for a while, somewhere out of town where it’s unlikely anyone will recognise him from the wanted posters springing up all over town. Just his luck that the ranch owner is the kind of alpha dreams are made of, especially when he really can’t afford to be getting tangled up with anyone.
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19 Apr 2026
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Ghost huffs, a small glint of what Soap dares to call amusement in the golden light of his eyes. “Are you so afraid to die?” Ghost asks. He sounds curious, inasmuch as his flat voice can show emotion. Soap has heard him exasperated and annoyed and even fond when he’s speaking to his mount, but the curiosity is new.
“I’m no’ afraid of death,” Soap spits, baring his teeth. “I’m just no’ done livin’ yet.”
“Oh? What is there in life you’re not done with?”
And isn’t that the question. Ghost must take Soap’s silence for hesitance, as he adds, “You wake up. You fight. You bleed. You eat. You sleep. What else is there?” He’s asking like he’s desperate to know, challenging Soap and everything that he is, and Soap has no serious answer to give him.
I live because I want to live, he senses, would not satisfy Ghost as an answer.Bookmarked by MerleToDeath
29 Jan 2026
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There’s a ghost haunting the 141 common room. At least, Soap is about 80% sure there is, which is, in fairness, realistically about as sure as anyone could reasonably be about spooks haunting their workplace. He’s not stupid, he knows no one else is going to believe him if he brings it up. The scorn if he suddenly starts harping on about ghosties and ghoulies.
None of that negates the fact that there definitely is one though. Probably.
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22 Jan 2026
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If one asked any of the former clans of the North, the story of King MacTavish and the North Star, they might say that the sorcerer fell into a trap laid by clever King MacTavish. That he bound the White Wolf’s wrists and feet and put him in a collar of cold iron to suppress his magic, brought him to his stronghold and tortured him into obedience. Others might say that the White Wolf came of his own accord.
Others, those who look over their shoulders and know they speak of treason, might hint that it was North Star who found the King first, that he lured King MacTavish into his lair and put him under a spell, seduced him and made the King fall in love with him, to whatever end he might have.
Still others claim that their union was ordained by the gods, that they gave the King a vision when he was a boy, tied the red string of fate to both their hands, and that it is a blessing indeed, to unite magic and might under one banner and keep their people safe.
Naturally, none of these stories are true.
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07 Jan 2026
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Ghost is haunted by visions of the fated omega he’d rejected years ago whilst on leave, intent to live his life without ever seeing him again.
When Soap joins the 141, Ghost is hellbent on suppressing his inescapable attraction to his omega, and the unstoppable mating instincts overcoming his senses.
That is, until he very much isn’t.
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07 Nov 2025
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Ghost never joined the military. He had other problems to worry about, trying to live in human society as a vampire.
He never liked what he was, and always dreaded the time when he’d have to find food.On one of these fateful nights, he meets Soap, a handsome stranger he takes a liking to.
He never thought he’d see him again after that, and he never thought Soap would like what he is so much….
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04 Nov 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Can't believe it took me so long to come across this fic, I love it