#cod platonic

“Yeah, bud?”

“Do you know how to do algebra?” The man on the other line sounded exhausted and tired.

“Who doesn’t, we are in the SAS, Kyle.”

“No- no- not our kind of algebra, the new kind. They keep changing maths in the school program, and I can’t even help my kid!”

“Put me in face time, it should be easy!” Johnny put his eggs on a plate.

It wasn’t easy. Johnny barely understood the assignment. He read it so many times his eyes started to hurt. He attempted to do the algebra, while Kyle attempted to do the same, and his kid was asleep on the kitchen table. They didn’t have any choice but to call Simon.

How did they get Simon’s number? Well… Johnny might have seen it once and committed it to his memory. The English man was not happy, hastily pulling a facemask over his face when he realized he was on FaceTime.

“Wut?!”

“Algebra, mate. Harder than the Siberian cold. Bitting our ass-“

“Johnny! My kid is here!” Kyle whispered angrily to his best mate. But the kid was still asleep at the kitchen table.

Simon told himself it was going to be easy. He had been in the SAS, he had passed off exams. And yet, he found himself defeated by the simple algebra homework showed by Kyle.

“What are we doing, in our school? Torturing kids with this?” He spoke, papers around him.

“How come we didn’t get the same answer?!” Johnny exclaimed.

Ultimately, they called the captain. The captain looked bedraggled, groaning and complaining of being awoken late at night. Kyle explained the situation. The captain sighed, told him to wait for a minute. Then, he appeared on the phone several moments later, holding a huge book.

“My wife is a teacher.” He explained, showing off the results and the method to do it. “We are helping this once. Teach your kid to do it alone.”

“Pick up four.” You smirked, slamming down the plus four Uno card on the stack. Johnny gasps dramatically, his eyes practically bulging out of his head. The one night everyone had off and you automatically decided to choose violence; there are no friends during Uno.

“Bonnie, how could y’ do this teh meh? I’m heartbroken!” Johnny wails. “Ah, shite. One of these days…” His threat trails off as he picks up four cards. He leans back in his seat in a defeated manner once he realizes he has no good cards to play. “Your turn, Gaz.”

Kyle rubs Johnny’s shoulder in faux sympathy as he checks his own cards. He glances towards Simon. “Ghost, now, please don’t kill me for what I’m about to do,” He places down another plus four. “I am so sorry.”

Simon’s eye twitches and you let out a sharp cackle, kicking your feet in glee. This murderous back and forth goes on until Price surprisingly sets down his last card.

“I think I’ve won, right?” Price scratched the back of his head. You all stare at him for a silent moment, your brain flashing through each interaction with him.

You let out a slow, knowing grin.

-something something Price at the gym in the city on a rare decently long leave

-something something Price looking around after he finishes one of his leg workouts and turns to his left and sees a younger girl around the ages of 16-18

-you who is desperate to gain some muscle and not wanting to be bare bones like before is attempting to squat

-terribly, and Price who has seen injuries simply from stepping wrong, capital P Panics and rushes over and takes the weight of you just as your about to collapse

-“Youre gonna die.” Ands that’s all it takes for him to become your unofficial gym trainer

-weeks go by, 3 enjoyable and memorable weeks of banter, perseverance and a little bit of military conditioning and Prices learns about you

-youre 19, moved away from your toxic parents, Made it big on YouTube, and doesn’t have to worry about living comfortably

-Price who idiotically doesn’t realize he basically took you in after giving you rides, teaching you how to drive, taking you to an agency to get a decent car so you no longer rely on public transport, who accompanies you to the store and sometimes just comes over claiming he made too much food

-Then acts shocked when Nik gets upset he didn’t tell him about his sect egg daughter

-“I don’t have a daughter.” “Yes you do, I saw the photo and I know you’re not cheating on me.”

-It takes him aback, before he realizes who Nik’s talking about. Why it took him so long to realize is what made him realize something else.

-by this point you’d become constants in each others lives. When he left, who’d look after you?

-he explains to Nik the short version of the story—Nik pounced on him for a good 30 minutes loving him—before he goes to Laswell and asks for a favor

-the day before he has to deploy he explains to you his job, and though you have reservations about the military, he’s able to explain almost everything about what he and the 141 do with Laswells permission

-with her there. It was awkward at first, considering the only other person you’d had in your cheap apartment(flat according to John) was John

-“..do I get benefits from this?” And John had to laugh, Laswell not so much, at least not out loud

-later the boys notice a letter shows up addressed to Price with cursive handwriting and they make fun

-in the wrong way

-“Got yourself a lady cap?”

-“She’s two decades younger than me Soap.”

-they beg to meet you after hearing the story

-they can’t believe their captain(dad) had a secret adopted daughter and didn’t inform them immediately

-Ghost is less excited, simply for security reasons

-then you two bond by scaring the others with different tactics

-you easily decrease John’s attention span, he could be having an important conversation, notice you’ve disappeared and then realize he hasn’t you in a while

-And then he can’t get back on topic because he now HAS to find you before you do something you shouldn’t

-You and Gaz fight for favorite child, it gets worse when you meet Farah on a random Friday at base because John forgot his lunch and you saw it because you moved in after realizing his house was a lot closer to your work

-purely to save gas

-then he makes it official when you get a call from the hospital saying John Price is under emergency surgery for a bullet to his side that didn’t exit the body

-you’ve never driven as fast as you did that day and when you make it inside you see Soap standing next to Ghost nearby the staff entrance

-you start asking questions but then the doctor comes out and informs you he’s awake

-you enter the room, practically banging the door against the wall, and the moment you see him you run to his side

-he hasn’t hugged you much by this point, but he had been so close to leaving you alone that he couldn’t bare the thought of not holding you tight like you weren’t already his

-once he’s discharged, he asks and important question, technically two

-if you’d like to be adopted by him, and if you were comfortable with being in his will

-you’d said yes before even processing the weight of the question but it didn’t matter

-you were his the minute he started nagging you to fix your posture before your back snapped while squatting weights all those months ago

Lt. Simon "Ghost" Riley x F! Single Mom (COD MW(2/3))

Warning: Fluffy stuff, Baby Fever, MAJOR BABY FEVER

Summary: Simon Riley isn't too particular about babies, until he meets yours.

Word Count: ~1,670 words

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A/N: I loved writing this, it's been on my mind for a while. I didn't like the ending because I didn't know how to end it lol

Edit: Pronouns and names were all over the place but it should be fixed lmao thanks for letting me know

Imagine being chosen by someone. Someone intentionally looking at you and thinking - contemplating, deciding - and choosing to pick you. It’s as simple as picking you to ask for directions, ordering a cup of coffee, and begging to touch your skin.

But it’s something special when someone as small as a little child is looking at you and choosing you. No one knows what goes on in their mind, behind those curious eyes, those rosy and chubby cheeks, that little button nose, that babbling little mouth with teeth fighting to make way. No one knows what those cute little chubby cherubs think when they decide to reach out to grab anything and everything in sight.

The grip of a child is mightier than anyone Lieutenant Simon Riley has ever seen.

Okay. So you move your entire life to the USA. You’re eating with Shadow Company, you’re doing missions together. The pay? Good, even better than you were earning in the British military. Surprisingly, you even get better health benefits. You wonder if you truly made a deal with the devil. You get a nice little one bedroom home, tends to your garden. You’re genuinely happy.

Then, one of the guys, Lewis Anderson, gives you a little enveloppe. Inside, there is a card, inviting you to his baby shower. You feel at peace, dressed up, you even brought a little gift. You get invited to barbecues and to parties and to recitals- your life is good for a while.

Until you have to go on a joint mission with Task Force 141- for some reasons.

You don’t understand why you’re even on board for this one. Graves knew, he recruited you because he saw how miserable you were with the 141. Was he using you to get back at them? Maybe. Did you care? A little but as long as they didn’t talk to you, you were fine.

Unfortunately for you, you’re with them and two other Shadows. The ride in the armed vehicle is tense. Too tense. You don’t look at them, just at the point of your rifle and your shoes. But you can feel their stares, their disappointed and disapproving stares. And you want to tell them that it’s their fault. That you tried to be friendly. To be on good terms with them but they didn’t let you in their tight little boy club. That the Shadows are nice despite their oblivious flaws, that you get invited to barbecues and to baby showers. That Commander Graves is always handing out compliments to his men and that you feel valued.

But nothing gets out of your mouth. None of it.

You believe they don’t care anyway. They never showed their friendliness toward your person. Why should you lay out your heart to them?

And yet, when in the middle of the operation, the building you are in crumble and explode, that you feel yourself falling through hard concrete ceilings, you hear them in your earpiece. The Shadows obviously. But not only.

Captain Price yells at you, demanding your status. Soap and Gaz tries to pinpoint your exact location under the rubbles. Ghost tries to insist on the mission. That you’ll be fine. But you hear it, the slight panic in his tone.

As you lay there, your fate uncertain, the Shadows in one ear continuing the mission and one detachment trying to find your buried form, and at the other ear, the 141 attempting to find you without the help of the shadows, despite the pain you feel and the dread of your own death… you feel like a child of divorce, being tugged by one parent and the other.

You’re Simon’s long lost little sibling, the offspring of many cheatings his father had done. You are basically in kindergarten while he is in 30’s.

And your father, to spite his eldest son, decided to put him as your legal guardian, convincing your mother to do it by some means.

Simon’s father leaves. Your mother die. You’re left alone until they contact Simon, who learnt his father had a child and two, that he is now your legal guardian.

How did you come to this position? A man named John Price posted an announcement on a website, and you, being an international student, asked to be taken in.

From what you understood, the flat was big. Five bedrooms, a big kitchen… and your room has a private bathroom. When you flew up to England, John Price welcomed you. As he drove you to his place, he explained to you why he was looking for a roommate. Working in the army, he was often away with his team. Team that shared the flat, it seemed.

You were a bit scared at first. Why? Because there were four strong men eating steroids for breakfast living with you. They were nice though. Very welcoming, very friendly as well, they tried to put you at ease.

You always got food too. A nice breakfast prepared for you by one of the guys, a coffee or tea here and there when you were studying late. And indeed, they were often leaving for a long time.

The most annoying thing?

You understood quickly they were all kind of together. Like a four way marriage. And well… it came with… sounds at night that woke you up. You were very embarrassed, and you explained to John you needed to sleep and sometimes the sounds… bothered you.

So he bought you expensive sound blocking headphones.

Like he is a perfect father for the other kid, and you have to watch on the side lines, hoping to see him smile like that at something you would do. You would do anything for a crumb of love and affection from your own father, and you do feel like Johnny’s kid is stealing your father from you.

Obviously, when you voice your thoughts and doubts to your father, hoping to make him understand how you feel, you get shut down quickly.

“Don’t you know how hard it is for them to have lost their father? God- you can be selfish sometimes!”