3 Works by aviblythe
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“What did you do?” Ghost barely hears his own voice. His mind fills with static as the horrifying realization of what’s happened washes over him. “Soap, what the fuck did you do?”
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Makarov’s forces target a nuclear research plant in the south of England. Soap is the only one who might be able to stop a total meltdown from killing thousands. He makes a choice, and the 141 may never be quite the same.
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“So I can what? Move on?” He barks a humorless laugh. “Tha’s rich comin’ from you. As if ye’d do it if ye were me?”
“Johnny—“
“No, fuck this. You aren’t the only one with nothin’ else to live for. I did what I’m good for—I deserved to die from tha’ fuckin’ bullet. It’s not my responsibility to fix ma whole life jus’ because I didn’t.”
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Soap makes it out of that tunnel alive. Grappling with a newly impaired body and mind unfit for military service, he’s forced to grieve life as he knew it. Ghost is determined to help him figure out how to do that.
Only it seems that Soap’s old life isn’t quite finished with him yet.
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There’s grief now in Soap’s eyes, only it isn’t for his own life. “Not had an easy go of it, have you, Simon?”
The gentle use of his name twists like a knife in his chest. It’s ironic, that though Soap didn’t know him back then, he ought to be the first person ever to mourn Simon Riley.
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After surviving a harrowing betrayal in Las Almas, Soap and Ghost spend a night tending to open wounds. Literally and figuratively.