Everyone on base notices when ghost shows up with a little, colorful friendship bracelet wrapped around his wrist.
Made with beads and colorful string, it looks like the handiwork of a proud eight year old, all fun shapes with odd spacing and loving embellishments.
"Didn't know ghost had a kid." Johnny whispers to gaz, eyeing the bracelet from across the room "he ever mention it to you?"
"Hell no. An' he's not stupid enough to wear something like that on base," gaz scrunches his nose. He doesn't keep any identifying items of his boyfriend on base, best to keep personal life as closed as possible. Everyone knows what happened with price's spouse. "Maybe it's a...test? To see if anyone tries anything?"
Soap makes a non-commital noise, unsatisfied with the answer.
The thing is...ghost doesn't stop wearing the bracelet after that day.
It stays on his wrist every moment, only coming off to he tucked into the pocket of his tac-vest closest to his heart on missions. By now it's dirtied and missing a few beads, but he stubbornly keeps it close. Sometimes an additional, newer bracelet joins the old, but it doesn't stay around.
There's theories and betting pools over what the hell the bracelet means. It's so shocking on ghost with his...usual outfits, that theres bound to be gossip.
Secret child, dead family member, a simple test.
You, ghosts roomate, practically held him at gunpoint to make friendship bracelets with you after he accidentally spilled bleach in the laundry hamper.
It's the Whittier bracelet he's ever seen, his skills aren't made for that sort of stuff, but...he keeps it. You're the closest thing he has to family.
Not that he'd ever tell you that, hiding the bracelet the second he's back in the apartment.
He starts to regret that decision when he's ambushed and taken captive. Ghost has never felt fear like he did watching the man he's been tracking for months pull out the bracelet from his vest.
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