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Simon Riley, known as “The Ghost of Manchester,” has spent fifteen years as the most feared hitman in Britain’s underworld, until one last job grants him a chance at a new life. He escapes to Wynndale, a picture-perfect Yorkshire village decked in Christmas cheer, determined to live in the shadows and forget his violent past. Which proves impossible when Johnny MacTavish, a cheerful ex-soldier turned coffee shop owner of The Sneaky Kilt, and relentless spreader of holiday spirit, crashes through Simon’s defenses like nothing he's ever experienced before.
As Wynndale celebrates the season, Simon is drawn into Johnny’s world of found family, sparkly kilts, the true joy that comes with Christmas, and after-hours decorating. Before long, he finds his dark grey world slowly transformed into golds, greens, and reds, though none as vibrant as the blue eyes of Johnny.
However, when Simon discovers Johnny's in danger from more than just the local thugs threatening his coffee shop, Simon must confront the darkness he can’t outrun, a lifetime of cold and calculation, and what it truly means to love and live with another.
Or as I like to call it: "Hallmark Presents : A Hitman For Christmas"
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
16 Dec 2025
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Soap doesn’t even like reading.
But apparently he does like emotionally tortured war poetry disguised as fanfiction that accidentally reveals his deepest fears and unspoken desires...
So that’s new.
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
15 Dec 2025
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Most people run away when they see a man that shoots lasers from his eyes try to rob a bank. They rather not be cut up like half the place is.
But Soap isn't most people. He's a journalist, and his job is to document exactly what's wrong with this city, even if it endangers him.
Well… It's not his job yet. As it stands right now, his actual job involves editing the lifestyle section of a local newspaper firm, "Manchester Mail", which… Does not entail running straight into an ongoing crime scene, but he digresses.
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Soap's dream is to become an investigative journalist, uncover the injustice that lurks in the streets of Manchester. He gets himself into dangerous situations, trying to get a glimpse of the truth, when he stumbles upon Ghost, the city's mysterious shadow-wielding super.
Every day, he comes to a local café called "Roast & Toast", chatting with its only worker, Simon, who, for his part, is furious to find the reporter that has been pestering him while he's working as Ghost, reach his day job by sheer luck.- Language:
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Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
14 Dec 2025
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“You’re excited?”
Rubbing his eye, he looked over his shoulder back to Kyle. The man sat on their small table, playing with his teaspoon. “What for?” Ghost asked, finally grabbing his black mug.
“New sergeant’s comin’ today.”
“What new sergeant?”~
"Supernatural beings were always assets on the battlefield, until they weren't. Ghost grew up with stories about mages and shifters, great battles, crumbling kingdoms, and defeated enemy armies. He himself became one of the most skilled and feared soldiers, a living nightmare. His name alone was enough to make enemy forces flee. But a life like that was destined to be lived alone. Or so he thought."
FINISHED since March 2024 - newest chapter is just an author's note <3
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Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
13 Dec 2025
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Ghost lifts his hand and grabs Soap by the back of the neck. The omega wants to push him away because he's an alpha touching his neck. Ghost squeezes his fingers around his mating gland and over his collar, just an open area that will have Soap docile.
The omega's grip on Ghost's wrist slackens. He feels his eyelids become heavy, all the anger he had towards the alpha vanishes. His mind is open without emotions overwhelming him. He feels calm, when he looks at Ghost the alpha is still glaring at Soap.
"Ye fuckin' cunt," Soap slurs, his tongue is lax in his mouth, his limbs like jelly.
Ghost had scruffed him.
or Soap joins Task Force 141, it changes his entire life. He gets a pack, maybe learns a bit about himself, falls in love and tries to stop a sinister plot along the way
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Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
10 Dec 2025
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OMEGA
Soap’s eyes zeroed in on the word – God, he felt like a thirsting man who had just seen water. He hadn’t met an omega since he moved to SAS from basic; it was uncommon for an omega to make it to the special forces, not because of some inherent inferiority but because of the prejudices of the alphas in charge at the top levels. Soap watched as Ghost pulled the mag from his rifle and checked it before reloading it, all the while the word that represented all of Soap’s hopes and dreams stretched across his shoulders.
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
09 Dec 2025
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When John “Soap” MacTavish leaves the city behind for a neglected farm he inherited from his late grandfather in Pelican Town, he expects soil, sweat, and a quiet life. What he doesn’t expect is to meet Simon “Ghost” Riley, a gruff, masked recluse living in the mountains. Between tending to his animals, the changing seasons, and dangerous dives into the mines, Soap’s path keeps crossing with Ghost’s. Soap came to the valley to start over, but he never imagined Ghost would be the one to take root in his heart.
[Or: The Stardew Valley AU nobody asked for, but I wrote anyway]
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
03 Dec 2025
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What Is a Scientist’s Favorite Flavour of Gum? by LawfulSlab
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
05 Jul 2025
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“Let me be clear: it would require a huge sacrifice,” Price said, and Soap got the feeling Price was now addressing him and only him. “A lot of things would still change. But, if we do it, we wouldn’t have to add anyone new to the team, and we’d fulfill the requirements of the mandate.”
Price looked around the room slowly, finally landing back on Soap.
“Sergeant MacTavish, you’re the one we’re asking to make this sacrifice.”
This time he was sure everyone was looking at him. He squared his shoulders, tried to shrug off the apprehension Price’s words inspired, and faced Price head-on.
“You know I’ll do it if I can, Captain. Tell me what you want me to do.”
Price took a breath, hesitated, then cleared his throat. The air was still and thick. No one else moved a muscle.
“Soap, there’s no delicate way to say this. We want to bitch you.”
Soap’s ears started ringing. He felt his face go hot.
“Come again?”
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Consensual Bitching AU
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Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
21 Nov 2025
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Honourably discharged, shamelessly rebranded.
A filthy mind, thighs that could crush a man, and a mouth made for sin—welcome to the JohnnySuds experience.
New content every week: solo, toys, filthy talk, maybe a lil’ gunplay (who’s judging?).
Just keep it between us, yeah? Don’t go tattling to Johnny's old squad. They’d never let him live it down.
or; Soap gets bored in forced retirement and decides to occupy himself with... a new hobby.
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
21 Nov 2025
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Morning coffee with Price. Evening food runs with Gaz. Ghost at night. Like clockwork. Like… they’d planned it.
“You’re takin’ shifts,” Soap said, staring.
Price didn’t look up. “Aye.”
“You—what?”
“Making sure you’re following orders.” He flicked the paper to a new page, as if this was the most mundane admission in the world. “And that you’ve got what you need.”
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Post-mission downtime turns into a slow unravelling of boundaries, as Soap recovers from a busted knee, and fails to keep his mouth shut. Or: the Poly141 fic I've been promising (re: threatening)Series
- Part 5 of Lines of Fire
- Part 1 of Orbit
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
20 Nov 2025
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After a mission gone wrong leaves Simon “Ghost” Riley deaf in one ear and Johnny “Soap” MacTavish with a permanent leg injury, both men are forced into early retirement. Soap uses his pension to buy a crumbling house on the edge of a quiet town, determined to make something of it, even if the place looks like it should’ve come with a tetanus shot.
Ghost shows up with a duffel bag and his usual scowl, moving into the guest room to help with renovations. Between faulty wiring, leaking pipes, and a fridge that seems to growl at two a.m., the two of them fall into a new rhythm of grocery runs, hardware store trips, and late-night fixes. The banter is sharp, the silences softer than either expected, and somewhere between the broken walls and peeling paint, they begin to rebuild more than just the house.
It’s a story about finding purpose when the battlefield is gone, about healing old wounds in the comfort of shared domestic chaos, and about realizing that sometimes “home” isn’t a place, it’s each other.
(My project for my friend KettMason's Inktober 2025 Challenge, "Build a Room")
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Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
04 Nov 2025
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Thought I would die a lonely man (in endless night) by GreyHaven
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
06 Sep 2025
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Soap didn't die in the tunnel that day. Eight years since he last saw Soap, Ghost's life is in ruins. All he has is a piece of paper with an address on it. He knows where he's going, he just isn't sure of the welcome when he gets there.
A fix it fic for the ending of MWIII (2023) but I hurt Ghost some more to do it. Sorry, buddy, but it was worth it. A tale of healing, growth, acceptance and love.
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
06 Sep 2025
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John “Soap” MacTavish is frozen under the weight of a singular glowing golden eye. Its vertical pupil dilates and contracts and Soap swears he can feel the physical weight of a touch skimming over his body as it trails up and down him, assessing. The touch feels as if a singular sharp claw is being dragged over his skin, holding him in place with the silent threat of evisceration should he so much as breathe.
So he doesn’t breathe, he doesn’t move, he can’t even bring himself to look away from that eye as he’s studied; as his fate is decided by the sleek, inky black creature standing just a few feet in front of him.
Soap’s skin feels as if it’s burning under the weight of that stare, but he’s finally able to take a breath in. He lets it out through his nose slowly, quietly, and is careful not to move as he tries to convince his body he isn’t in danger.
But he isn’t convinced. . . isn’t even close, and as he’s able to finally tear his gaze away from the one eye that he can see, he becomes almost sure that he is in danger.
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Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
25 Aug 2025
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The mission was meant to be simple. A dead base. Nothing waiting inside. Yet one rookie’s mistake unleashed chaos-green smoke flooding the air, dragging something out of Soap and Ghost that had been buried too long. Something feral. Something hungry.
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
16 Aug 2025
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“Ye gotta give me something, LT,” Soap joked as he scanned the Shadow’s lifeless form for anything useful, “Is it a unique mark?"
"All marks are unique, Soap,” Ghost’s sigh was crackly in his ear.
“I mean, would ye know if ye met them?” Soap continued, pulling a knife from a holster on the Shadow’s waist.
There was a pause over the comms.
“I’d know. Might take me a few minutes, but I’d know,” Ghost’s voice had dipped to a low rumble and Soap was pretty sure he’d been able to hear his own heart break over the words.
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Soap spends his life chasing after death and pining for skeletons.
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
18 Jul 2025
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Since the day he nearly lost him for good, Ghost is determined not to have any more regrets when it comes to his Johnny.
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12 Jul 2025
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Simon Riley is a renowned monster hunter, a lone expert forged by years in the wilds. He knows monsters, how they move, how they kill, and how they think.
But when the beasts begin behaving unnaturally, John Price, the leader of Simon's small guild, intervenes, assigning Simon a partner whether he likes it or not.
Enter John MacTavish, talented, sharp-eyed, and infuriatingly talkative. Simon can’t deny the man’s skill, but his cocky mouth and inability to stay quiet ignite tension that threatens to boil over.
Yet with the change these monsters are going through, a change happens between Simon and John, both of them having no choice but to work closely together, unveiling secrets about the other and the pasts that haunt them.Slowburn, enemies to lovers. <3 <3
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Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
22 Jun 2025
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There’s a ghost haunting the 141 common room. At least, Soap is about 80% sure there is, which is, in fairness, realistically about as sure as anyone could reasonably be about spooks haunting their workplace. He’s not stupid, he knows no one else is going to believe him if he brings it up. The scorn if he suddenly starts harping on about ghosties and ghoulies.
None of that negates the fact that there definitely is one though. Probably.
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- 10/10
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Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
19 Jun 2025
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Ghost, under threat of another psychological evaluation from both his CO and therapist, has been forced to partake in a penpal programme with another soldier in order to "practise empathy" and "re-establish human connection." He hates it until he doesn't.
MacTavish willingly volunteers for the SAS's new penpal programme because what the hell, it could be fun. And when his penpal ends up being adorably emotionally constipated, well, that certainly doesn't hurt.
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
10 Jun 2025
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Just one bite; to taste, and let go.
Or, the on-field flirting is getting a little ridiculous.
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Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
10 Jun 2025