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tell the preacher not to pray (there are no angels where i go) by ThePoliteStrangler
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
04 Mar 2026
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After six months of captivity in the Gulag, Simon Riley is rescued. Back on base, surrounded by soldiers, medics and a Captain who refuses to stand down, Ghost discovers that isolation does not end when the cell door opens.
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“Welcome to Stirling Simulation Facility. Today’s exercise is designed to test infiltration, hostage recovery and threat elimination under dynamic conditions.”
Any team member who suffers a simulated fatal injury will be extracted immediately. No second chance. No heroic recoveries. You’re dead. You’re out. Your team continues without you.”“I thought Ghost didn’t do training runs.” The voice came from further away and Stich glanced over to see Captain Ellis step closer to the glass.
“He doesn’t.” One of the other higher ups said with a nod. “God only knows why he agreed to do one now.”
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A youth worker is dead. A community is grieving. And Manchester’s streets are no longer quiet.
When protests erupt in the aftermath of a fatal police shooting, Simon disappears — and Ghost rises: masked, angry, and anonymous. What begins as a rally turns into something much larger, and soon he’s drawn into the heart of a movement he never meant to lead.
Behind closed doors, he becomes one of the few pulling the strings, while a young Scottish man is swept up in the chaos beside him. Together, they must navigate what justice means — and how far they’re willing to go to fight for it.
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“He liked you, you know.”
“Yeah,” Ghost replies, “couldn’t unstick him from my side, most days.”
“No,” Price reiterates, voice stern as he does so. “I mean he liked you. He was…” Price bobs his head side to side, sort of like he’s contemplating whether or not to say the word out loud. “He told me one day. Came into my office. Thought I’d have some issue with him being on the Task Force because of it.”
Oh.
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Near the third anniversary of Soap's death, Ghost is barely coping. But when Price brings him a picture of Soap from three years prior, it resurfaces memories from a night with Johnny that Ghost doesn't ever want to forget-- can't forget.
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05 May 2026
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Johnny shifts, making himself comfortable, or trying to, and something foul clenches in his heart. He watches him draw his uninjured leg up, flatten it down again, bend his knee to splay it, straighten it again, watches him tuck his arm under the pillow, put both on his chest, and sigh before star fishing out.
It's not for Ghost to watch, but he does. It's not for Ghost to note the bulge in his shorts that are shifting higher on his thick, hairy thighs from all the moving around, but he does.
And he should look away when Johnny huffs out a breath he can almost hear and cups himself, but he doesn't. It'll help settle him down.
It's private.
Soap breaks his foot and is sent away to heal. In repayment for the injury, Ghost offers him his nearby flat. It provides fast access to the base and task force, staying conveniently close. It just so happens to provide Ghost some different access, too.
In which good intentions aren't all that good, bad ones are just what the doctor ordered, and games lay bare what's been carefully hid. In a spiral of obsession and guilt, desire and fear, some guidance isn't amiss. But will it be enough?
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19 Feb 2026
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Task Force 141 is doomed to die.
Soap is the only one who can stop it, but each time he, Price, Gaz or Ghost dies, the cycle restarts.
Time mocks him by repeating the day as if it were Groundhog Day and eventually it becomes a living hell.
Slowly but surely, he finds something to hold onto and fight for...
Lieutenant Simon 'Ghost' Riley.OR:
Soap's stuck in a time loop and falls in love with Ghost.Bookmarked by ThePoliteStrangler
17 Feb 2026
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Johnny "Soap" MacTavish has been medically discharged following a mission gone wrong, which left him with severe agoraphobia and PTSD.
At the suggestion of his therapist, he joins a programme which connects both active service members and veterans through the act of writing letters.
Although things get off to a bad start, the connection he forms with his letter mate slowly becomes unbreakable. That is until he gets too close and strikes a nerve.
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04 Jan 2026
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Ghost's face has been wiped off the face of the Earth. Nobody knows what he looks like, and nobody can find any pictures. That's the point of erasing yourself.
Except in Soap's journal, where he's sketched Ghost's face fifty-seven times.