#manyrambles

“Man, I want some peanuts.” Soap stops. Looking up from where he was scribbling on his journal, he watches Roach make his ol' drama of appearing miserable. Laying half of the top of his body on the table. Soap hums and looks down at the bag of miscellaneous…nuts he was currently eating. “I thinks this has some peanuts,” he says while rummaging through the bag, lowering himself to look better, “I can give you som–” “NO!” Knee slamming against the bottom of the table, Soap startles at the sudden yell, curse dying on his tongue as he whips his head around to stare at his Lieutenant in pure undultered concern. Eyes wide as saucers. It would be funny to think about how fast his back had straightened at the tone to sit at attention, but at the moment his heart was about to be spit out so the humor was lost. He seems to be the only one concerned, though as Roach just looks up confused (straighter than he was at least, so maybe Johnny wasn't the only bastard getting his shit spooked). Ghost doesn’t seem to be aware (or he doesn’t care) (he certainly doesn't care) that he almost killed on of his sergeant's shitless. Not when his eyes are staring straight at Roach, digging holes into the man with the look of pure bafflement in - what's visible - of his expression. “Roach!” “What?” Soap hears Roach squeak “You’re allergic to peanuts, you fucking idiot!” Pause. Roach blinks, once, twice...three times and Soap can see the cogs turning, then he blinks again and again. His eyes widen comically. “Oh yeah!” he snaps his fingers, “I forgot.” Soap would wince at the sound of Ghost hand hitting his own face if it wasn’t for his own indignation and pure disbelief at the bampot sitting in front of him. “You forgot?!" He yells. "I could’ve killed you!” Roach shrugs, sprawling on his chair once more. “It’s not that bad.” “You…” the man standing behind Soap seems to pause, then continues slowly “you… can die from that.” This time Soap does look at Ghost when he speaks, watching how he presses both of his palms together (Soap thinks he’s not that far from praying away the stupidity out of Roach). “I mean… So can I from a bullet.” Is what Roach decides to use as... a solid counter argument. Soap’s head turns slowly to look at Roach, the last thing he hears from Ghost are his footsteps retreating– leaving. Smart Roach looks down at the bag of nuts, like he was thinking of putting his hand there, he still has the audacidy to look at Soap with a confused expression when the scot makes an indignat sound high on his throat. And ask: “What?” "..." As Soap gets up to leave he thinks, ‘Yeah… No. No amount of praying could cure that.’ He makes sure to take the bag with him on his way out “What?!??”

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1)And now to~Roach pavloved Ghost real and true I was there. And Soap figures it out and falls more in love! Which is a fic I started working on and completly forgot to continue because ~college~ Have a lil snipet :3

The thing that he always keeps tabs on are people’s moods. It comes in handy especially in the military. A slight change of tone could be the start of a war. Right after moods. Comes, quirks. And his lieutenant is one quirky little bastard– not that he’ll ever admit it, of course, because besides quirky he also has a stick up his ass– anyway, as standoffish as the man tends to appear he’s way more expressive than people think (not even Ghost himself seems to notice that himself). Ghost, the man, the legend, has many little quirks. From obvious things like his constant need for the mask. To always stand at the back of the room in the shadows in meetings. Or to clean his weapons in a specific order– gear, long ranged guns, handguns and only at the end his knives (which are also cleaned by their own order and put away in some form of system). Or even when it comes to his eating habits and how he progresses with them. They’re varied quirks, there are… a lot of them. And they’re, well, quirky. But they all have reasons behind them So that’s why this specific one intrigues Soap to no end.