baby-blue morning

it's no fun 'til someone dies

Chapters: 9/11 Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley Characters: Simon "Ghost" Riley, John "Soap" MacTavish, John Price (Call of Duty), Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, John "Soap" MacTavish's Sister, Alejandro Vargas, Rodolfo "Rudy" Parra, Phillip Graves (Call of Duty), Kate Laswell Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alternate Universe - Assassins & Hitmen, Minor Original Character(s), Hurt Simon "Ghost" Riley, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Smut

All very dramatic. All very perfect for Soap, if he's being honest, because Soap is a relentless social butterfly with an alarming fixation on men with chaotic backgrounds. Lethal men especially.

But with some distance and the familiar sound of the helo's blades surrounding him, the uneasy twinge at the back of Gaz's mind is stinging sharper. Warning.

It feels like they've missed something. Something important.

it's no fun 'til someone dies Chapters: 8/11 Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley Characters: Simon "Ghost" Riley, John "Soap" MacTavish, John Price (Call of Duty), Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, John "Soap" MacTavish's Sister, Alejandro Vargas, Rodolfo "Rudy" Parra, Phillip Graves (Call of Duty), Kate Laswell Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alternate Universe - Assassins & Hitmen, Minor Original Character(s), Hurt Simon "Ghost" Riley, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Smut

"You trust them?" Soap leans into the sink, gathers water in his hands, splashes it across his face. It doesn't do much to make him feel better but it works to bring him to the present, unreal haze forcibly flushed by the hot droplets. "Who?" "Price. Gaz."

it's no fun 'til someone dies Chapters: 7/9 Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley Characters: Simon "Ghost" Riley, John "Soap" MacTavish, John Price (Call of Duty), Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, John "Soap" MacTavish's Sister, Alejandro Vargas, Rodolfo "Rudy" Parra, Phillip Graves (Call of Duty), Kate Laswell Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alternate Universe - Assassins & Hitmen, Minor Original Character(s), Hurt Simon "Ghost" Riley, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Smut

"How much do you think you're worth?"

"Then? Not much." Ghost turns back to the window, dread heavy in his voice. "Now? A hell of a lot more. Especially to the wrong people."

it's no fun 'til someone dies Chapters: 6/9 Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley Characters: Simon "Ghost" Riley, John "Soap" MacTavish, John Price (Call of Duty), Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, John "Soap" MacTavish's Sister Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alternate Universe - Assassins & Hitmen, Minor Original Character(s), Hurt Simon "Ghost" Riley, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Smut

"Simon," Soap repeats, tasting it, devouring the way Simon's pupils react. The tensing of his hand before he shakily withdraws. "We're on a first name basis, now, are we?"

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley Characters: Simon "Ghost" Riley, John "Soap" MacTavish, John Price (Call of Duty), Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, John "Soap" MacTavish's Sister Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alternate Universe - Assassins & Hitmen, Minor Original Character(s), Hurt Simon "Ghost" Riley, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Smut Summary:

It's very, very fancy technology. It's also the kind of technology that is usually not technically legal—the kind that even black ops would tend to shy away from, because it's so advanced it would leave an obvious clue. How Ghost got his hands on it, Soap is dying to know.

it's no fun 'til someone dies Chapters: 4/5 Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley Characters: Simon "Ghost" Riley, John "Soap" MacTavish, John Price (Call of Duty), Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, John "Soap" MacTavish's Sister Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alternate Universe - Assassins & Hitmen, Minor Original Character(s), Hurt Simon "Ghost" Riley, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Smut

Soap enlists Ghost in a bit of extracurricular activity, hoping to get some more time—and perhaps a bit more familiarity—with the man. He's only got a month to use his excuses before he'll have to admit, if Ghost is even still around then, what he really wants.

it's no fun 'til someone dies Chapters: 3/5 Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley Characters: Simon "Ghost" Riley, John "Soap" MacTavish, John Price (Call of Duty), Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, John "Soap" MacTavish's Sister Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alternate Universe - Assassins & Hitmen, Minor Original Character(s), Hurt Simon "Ghost" Riley, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Smut

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Leon S. Kennedy/Chris Redfield Characters: Chris Redfield, Leon S. Kennedy Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Post-Resident Evil: Vendetta, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Eventual Leon S. Kennedy/Chris Redfield, Leon S. Kennedy Needs a Hug, chris is basically team dad, leon is touch-starved

Chapters: 2/5 Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley Characters: Simon "Ghost" Riley, John "Soap" MacTavish, John Price (Call of Duty), Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, John "Soap" MacTavish's Sister Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alternate Universe - Assassins & Hitmen, Minor Original Character(s), Hurt Simon "Ghost" Riley, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Smut Summary:

“Guy invited you to his place and you were ambushed.” “Well—” Soap cuts himself off; there’s no way to spin it. He turns, wincing, and finds Liv with her arms crossed, mouth a grim line. “Yes?”

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley Characters: Simon "Ghost" Riley, John "Soap" MacTavish, John Price (Call of Duty), Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, John "Soap" MacTavish's Sister Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alternate Universe - Assassins & Hitmen, Minor Original Character(s), Hurt Simon "Ghost" Riley, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Smut Summary:

Unfortunately, his kettle is beyond hope after using it to crush a man’s skull, so he has no choice but to walk down the street to one of those ‘modern’ cafes people are so enamored of.

Simon Riley is attempting to live his life away from the rest of the world, barricaded up in his flat. But an unusual barista with far too much of an interest in the skittish former assassin changes things—or rather, changes them even more than the constant influx of intruders Riley is contending with.