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When a mission gone wrong leaves John "Soap" MacTavish in a coma in a foreign hospital, the language barrier turns Simon "Ghost" Riley into Soap's husband instead of his partner.
What begins as a bureaucratic mistake snowballs into a full-blown fake marriage as Ghost is forced keep up the ruse in order to deal with hospital staff, paperwork, and, to his horror, very real in-laws.
By the times Soap wakes up, he has acquired a very devoted husband the nurses swoon over and his parents have accepted into the family.
As Soap recovers, he and Ghost try to navigate their growing feelings as the line between pretend and fake starts to blur. By the time Soap is cleared for active duty again, they must figure out what their relationship really is… and whether the fake marriage everyone believes in might not be so fake after all.
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22 Jun 2026
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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 echoshadow
23 May 2026
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Ch 6
So fucking good i almost cried
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This is what his life has come to. He’s being disrespected by a dumpster rat.
He wishes he had someone to blame his current situation on, someone to direct his anger at, but in all honesty, the shitshow that landed him here was nothing more than an unfortunate series of entirely incidental accidents.
He knocks his head back into the wall behind him and huffs. Next to him, the rat chitters (sounding sympathetic, though Soap is beginning to think he might be projecting… or just losing it).
Or: Soap loses comms on a mission and is presumed dead. Having been left behind, he has no choice but to make his own way back to base. He doesn't expect to have been missed quite so much.
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- Part 1 of and they can't keep johnny down
Bookmarked by echoshadow
19 Jun 2026
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"Ohh, c’mon,” Soap goads. “I thought this was a date. Be a gentleman.”
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17 Jun 2026
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“I have.. a word of advice,” Gaz says, slowing his walk. Oddly careful. Soap squints in suspicion. “Just a small piece. Tiny. Minuscule. Would do you a favor.”
Or: Soap is pining. Gaz believes himself to be a great wingman.
Bookmarked by echoshadow
17 Jun 2026