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Am I Pretty?

Pairing: Simon "Ghost" Riley/John "Soap" MacTavish Rating: T Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Some Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Major Character Injury, Hurt/Comfort, Getting Together, First Kiss, Missions Gone Wrong Summary:

They should have been faster to regroup with Soap.

Not even Ghost, who had moved ahead after a few minutes, had been there on time.

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The mission had gone well so far.

They had taken out the head of the operation, Victor Zakhaev, and stopped his attempt of launching a nuke.

Their group had allowed themselves a moment of calm, a moment to feel the satisfaction of such victories burn through their veins, before reality called them back. Reality in the form of Soap requesting back up.

Soap had been the only member of the recently founded 141 to not participate in this part of the mission. Price had thought it better that he led the marines lent to them by General Shepard against the ground force of the Ultranationalists led by Zakhaev.

It was a good plan on Price's part, Ghost would have done the same in his shoes. While they hadn't spent much time on the field together since they became part of the 141, Ghost knew Soap was capable of handling such a situation. Soap had proven as much when they went after Makarov back when they were S.A.S. under Major MacMillan. No matter how many times Ghost had called out that he would handle a target, Soap killed them before Ghost had the chance to properly aim his sniper.

Ghost had never felt that useless on the field before.

But none of that changed the fact that they should have been faster to regroup with Soap. Either to kill the remaining Ultranationalists in the area, or to get them safely to exfil.

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