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Chances by tehmichi
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022), Modern Warfare II (2022)
27 Oct 2025
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Simon finds himself in an Al-Anon meeting (for people who were affected by someone's alcohol abuse), and has a chance encounter that sets him on a different course in life where he starts thinking there might be more to him than the job.
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No windows, no natural light, just a metal folding chair; a blindfolded, naked, bound man with equally measured breaths. The sedatives will have worn off by now, but it’s always better when they still pretend to be down. By now, Sokolov will have gathered there’s another presence in the room.
Ghost lets his breathing speak for him.
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Soap's favourite band comes to town and who better to take him than Ghost, who hates loud noises, crowds and physical contact, but loves Johnny's smile. Not that he'd ever tell him that.
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Soap notices that Ghost always smells of lavender, and seems to have an aversion to certain deodorant smells, and he sets out to figure out why. Along the way he changes his own deodorant and finds out that that gesture means a whole lot more to Simon than he could ever have thought it would. He learns more about his Lieutenant in the next few months than he has in the last nearly five years of working with him, finding out why such a small gesture meant so much to him and getting to know every part of Simon, the good, the scared, and the ugly.
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Tags shouldn’t really change, just keep in mind that some of the things in the tags won’t show up in the body of the fic for a good while.
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All Seeing, All Knowing, All Loving by Svanitas, sweetcherryblossomswrites
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
25 Oct 2025
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You go looking for stray cats, and you find more than you bargained for.
Namely, a stalker, in the shape of Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley.
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Heat Lamp by BargainBinBard
Fandoms: Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse), Call of Duty (Video Games)
24 Oct 2025
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“Nice meetin' ye, Ghost.” The man before him grins. “Sergeant MacTavish, most call me Soap.”
Smiles are a funny thing. If an animal greets you by a show of its teeth, you'd best back up if you don't want to chance getting bit. For any animal besides humans, smiles are a warning to pick up your arse and take it elsewhere. Which is to say that MacTavish’s smile taps a nerve that should've been bred out of humans at some early fork of evolutionary divergence.
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 the sergeant he can't have.
Cold blooded creatures can't keep each other warm. But at least they can keep each other company.
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Out of the shadows, and into the pits by Redhoodjsntd
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF, Call of Duty (Video Games)
23 Oct 2025
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"You want the first thing that comes to me, yeah?" John smiled, this was going to be good.
John waited for a second before announcing, "What about racing, Price?"
For a moment, there was not much from the phone, and Johnny took it away from his ear to check if Price had not hung up on him.
"You mean, like drag racing? The hell Soap?" Price's voice had raised considerably in pitch.
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For a year, everything remained unspoken – fleeting encounters, quiet proximity and one single moment that changed everything. Now, a new chapter begins for Lauren Fox and Simon "Ghost" Riley. They still live side by side but what was once mere neighbourliness has shifted into something unnamed – a space charged with silent pull, buried thoughts and tentative closeness. After her exhibition, Lauren finds herself suddenly in the spotlight, while Simon struggles to balance his life as a soldier with the unfamiliar intimacy of home. But closeness has a way of uncovering old patterns and a past that refuses to stay buried.
Two people, divided by a wall — bound by everything that lingers in between.
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- Part 2 of Colour Me In Series
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Come to Me In The Night Hours (I will wait for you) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
21 Oct 2025
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Stuck in a safehouse after a mission gone wrong, Riley and MacTavish have a little heart to heart.
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- Part 1 of Día de los Muertos
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Uhh they figure their shit out and fuck about it? yeah.
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- Part 3 of Wings Twitch
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After an explosion traps Soap and Ghost together beneath the rubble of a collapsed building, Soap learns a few new things about his Lt..
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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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Your life is gray, quiet, forgettable - you work an office job you hate and live in an old, tiny apartment you can barely afford in a shitty neighborhood.
Your neighbor, Mr. Riley, is cold, quiet and impossible to read. He helps out a few times - carrying heavy boxes, fixing things - but never sticks around long enough for a thank you that he doesn't even seem to want. Every conversation ends in silence, every interaction feels wrong.
Then his face appears on the news. He's not just unfriendly - he's a wanted fugitive, linked to multiple murders and armed robberies for which he wore a skull mask to hide his identity.
Shaken but relieved he's gone, you try to move on. Until the news breaks that he has escaped.
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Simon Riley has done terrible things to survive; Ghost has done even worse. Between the two, he’s taken dozens of lives and caused dozens more unforgivable amounts of pain.
Why does he get to be here with a husband that loves him and a home he feels safe in, bringing a whole new life into the world? Why does he get to be happy when he’s made sure so many people won’t be happy ever again?
Johnny must know what he’s thinking because he raises his head forward just far enough to press a kiss to his growing bump and says, “Ye deserve this. Ye deserve ta be happy.”
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Simon jolts awake. He pulls in a shaky breath and runs comforting hand over his bump- only to find his stomach is flat, no bump to be found.or
Simon keeps having dreams of having a baby with Johnny, and they devastate him every time
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You believe me like a God (I'll destroy you like I am) by T0asty_bug
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
03 Oct 2025
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A simple task, an easy task. Infiltrate the castle of Old Scotland, get close to the King. Kill him. One simple job Ghost had performed dozens of times before on plenty of innocent nobles. Dangerous given the rank, but a worthy risk for the reward of freedom. Instead, he became the personal guard of the man he was supposed to kill. It put more eyes on him than before, and made his job infinitely more difficult. As if trying not to fall for the man he was being hired to kill wasn't enough to deal with.
Soap knew ruling Old Scotland in his parent's stead was going to be difficult, but he was not prepared for the looming threat of a neighbouring Kingdom proposing war. Discovering the truth of his parent's deaths, and the real identity of his new personal guard was going to become far more difficult.
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Bandage Up the Trenches, Wash Away the Blood on my Hands by ilostmygenderalongwithmydignity
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games), Modern Warfare 2: Ghost (Comic), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
03 Oct 2025
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Ghost is a machine, a glorified automaton for the military to use to clean up messes around the world. He is supposed to complete missions and immediately move on to the next one– and he does.
Simon Riley is supposed to be dead. He is a burned body under a headstone from almost a decade ago.
His heart still beats.
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Ghost gets stabbed, and realizes he’s a little bit in love about it
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Who Is She? by Cheyll
Fandoms: The Many Masks of Simon Riley - Fandom, Call of Duty (Video Games)
27 Sep 2025
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A misty memory...
Alice.
Aka a theory about a certain alter's emergence and the ManyMasks timeline explored in a fic.
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- Part 5 of Lee's Delulu ManyMasks AU
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Simon Riley died with his family. What crawled out of the ashes was Ghost. He was scarred, he was lethal, he was entropy in it's purest form.
He never expected Price to see through him. Never expected Gaz to trust him. And he sure as hell never expected Soap to keep showing up with a grin sharp enough to cut through his armour.
Four years of missions, bars, late-night jokes, and shoulder-to-shoulder survival later… and Ghost can’t remember when he stopped wanting to run.
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- Part 2 of I Am Yours, In Every Silence
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You had a plan, but never could have anticipated... this.
Ghost/Soap/female reader
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not like before (when I was empty) by Starlight_VLD for DisasterFrog
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
20 Sep 2025
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Five times Soap found different ways to
torturefall asleep on Ghost, and one time Ghost relaxed enough to return the favor.Series
- Part 12 of COD Fics