simon 'ghost' riley is rotting alive.
he's decomposing in plain sight - left to wither inside his shitty manchester end-terrace like a houseplant no one remembers to water. every morning he wakes to the same grey light filtering through curtains and feels a sharp stab of disappointment that he's still breathing. every night he lies in the dark, bartering with a god he doesn’t believe in, begging the earth to split open and swallow him whole.
until the second warning letter about his water being cut off finally forces him to open his laptop for something other than porn. he falls down reddit rabbit holes until he ends up somewhere new - clicking about on the darknet - unsurprised and largely unimpressed. but at some point during his mindless scrolling and clicking, he found something that he could still do. something that would feel like muscle memory and coming home all at once.
dddne. series cw: dark themes. kidnapping. imprisonment. depression. mentions of suicide and suicidal ideation. dubcon. references to torture. reader is the sacrificial lamb. stockholm syndrome vibes.
individual chapters will have cws in the tags. this is your warning to check the tags.
moodboard / playlist
chapter one: camera ready (cw in tags, check 'em)
chapter two: the sacrificial lamb (cw in tags, check 'em)
chapter three: captivity (in progress)
