Noisy little mess
Hi sweetie⁓
This week i've doubled the usual post, just 'cause i feel the urge to catch up with the chapters on AO3.
I've liked writing this part, jumping between feelings, digging a little into this kink i find interesting. I would like to explore it just a little futher, but i need to...contextualize it (at least from Ghost's point of view. I don't think he's a "kink" kinda guy. I'll convince him somehow).
I can see how my english writing style is still a bit rough compared to how i write in italian (wow, i'm goddamn Captain Obvious). I would like to improve, to let it be more fluent, more descriptive, more...melodious? Does it make sense?
So I'll keep on.
Like, forever. I hope.
It's a curse. I'm cursing all of you to read my work for the eternity.
Sowwy
DISCLAIMER (Does someone read them?): how Dom/Sub relationship work (not an expert, but a fan); unrealistic military life (i don't know what i'm doing, but i'm doing it); bad jokes; yelling (again); leather collar (fastest apparition ever); unsubordination, but make it somehow tolerable; Soap and Gaz doing a great job being normal in this chaos; now you've got a roommate; Ghost tries to be nice (we've got you gorgeous, we know you're doing your best).
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Fifth part here:
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The morning after, Soap runs at you with breakfast already made (he learned how to make your chocolate oatmeal) and an official communication with your name on it.
«…what in the actual-?»
«No comment» the Sergeant swallows chocolate and coffee together, thrilled and suspicious at the same time while you're going to faint in front of what seems to be a threat of imminent death.
You turn and fold the communication letter in every angle, almost expecting to find a tiny "that was a joke, lol" written somewhere. But you don't.
«Waitwaitwait»
Gaz spawns behind you, sipping his morning tea; he looks at the sheet with a critical sight. «You must have fucked up so bad this time, little one»
«I've done nothing wrong!» you burst, watering the table with the hair you thought you would have time to dry.
«But here we are:» Soap points at the sheet as if he's Sherlock Holmes in front of evidence «You've been officially included in the special operation team's selection…will take place under the supervision… blah blah blah… of Task Force 141 . It's written right here» he signs at the exact line.
«No»
You waste no time denying the obviousness. The communication is sent away from you on the table.
«No» you repeat, convincing yourself. «I can't. I'm just…i can't»
«'S not a matter of will. Ye've been called, laddie»
«Cooper and Allan will be there too…» Gaz reads on the list: five names are written, five promising soldiers who are gonna be tested on the field, and maybe will end up being a new special task force. Five reliable people.
You don't understand why the hell someone put you in there.
You fit a big spoonful of oatmeal in your mouth, chewing hopelessly.
«Why? I don't want to, I'm good being a rookie, I'm too green for this…»
«Maybe» Soap gives you his most sarcastic smile «'S 'cause someone threw herself in that risky mission in the middle of weapons traffic…if ye know what i mean»
You sigh. Your wet hair dances on the table as you almost slam your forehead next to the oatmeal mug, hoping to accidentally give your stupid brain some damage.
«Is like someone's trying badly to keep an eye on you»
Gaz's speech awakens you.
«…whaddya mean?»
«Special training's normal shit that happens from time to time. But this wasn't expected, we'd been told 'bout it this morning, just like you. I bet he rushed up everything, and put your name on it»
« He who??» your hand grip the table. «Gaz don't be an ass, just spit the name out!»
«You know who I'm talking 'bout». And he smiles: he smiles like a dick since he knows well you're not gonna like the news, but he just enjoys your red face so much that he tastes every second before spelling with heart-shaped lips:
«Ghost»
You're screaming internally till the morning.
And he, he , is standing there, in front of you, he who's just managed to turn your quiet soldier's life into a little training nightmare.
You want to slap your own face so badly for having thought about doing the heroine for one goddamn mission. One . You didn't even think it was so hard as a mission, you've done it by guts, and now you're stuck in that training, and you know it's because of him .
'Cause Gaz told you, after half an hour of interrogation, that he is, in fact, one of whom decides which recruit submits for the training.
You're dying, sitting next to a guy you've barely talked to since you're at the base, and who's looking at you…oddly.
Like he's studying you. Like he's waiting for you to…confess something.
With just a slap of his hands, Ghost manages to have everyone's full attention, and the meeting starts.
It goes on for a whole hour and a half: one hour and a half of specific technical terms, workout powerpoints, tactical expectations and probable missions to be done (if the recruit's team will show itself reliable).
Your brain's 68% melted, 30% asleep and 2% trying to concentrate an hate-beam on the Lt. thick ass.
«Hey, uhm…»
You're about to run away from the meeting room as soon as possible when your brand new desk-mate approaches you with a grin you don't really appreciate. He seems almost amused for whatever reasons, but you don't have time to waste and just glare at him with the most annoyed: «Aha?» a human has ever said.
«He made you a big surprise, didn't he?»
You frown.
«Who?»
«Lt. I heard a fight in his office recently…it was you, right? You two don't really get along well, are you?»
And that's the exact moment you become suspicious. Your eyes sharpen under the pressure of the distinct feeling he's going to get at a point you don't want to go with him to.
«Eavesdrop is not polite» you mutter, containing your will to punch him in that stupid grin he's stretching his mouth with.
«I was passing by…ya know-»
«No. I don't»
You move beyond him, focusing on the door. It's already been a terrible day, and all you want is your bed. Not even the dinner, not even Bernadette's joke about her sister's future husband. A bed .
And it leaves you quite nervous seeing your roommate standing in front of your door as you approach the way to your personal, hoped-for night heaven.
Bernie and her glorious gel-greased red ponytail are waiting for you, tapping her toes on the ground. Female's base section is tiny, and you're glad some God has found you a room with a normal human being with a goddamn deep sleep schedule.
«Oi» you wave at her. She doesn't seem amused. «Don't tell me there's something wrong with the bed sheets again, please»
«Bed sheets are good enough» she murmurs, patting you on the head (she's a tall girl). «Is something…different»
«Whaddya mean?»
She escorts you into the room, closing the door behind you as she's about to tell you some incredible secret about how the aliens are among us.
But she doesn't. She shows you something else.
And your blood freezes.
Next meeting is the morning after, just right before the first training session under Task Force 141 supervision.
There are twenty minutes left before the start, and you're already rushing through the base with your pocket stuffed with something metaphorically heavy.
You slam the door open with enough force to dismantle the hinges, and your eyes search for one of the three men around the desk crowded with documents.
Johnny's about to wave at you, but his hands stop in the middle as he sees you walking like a rampage toward Ghost.
You aim at him with eyes so cold he could hibernate.
«I want you to stop » you speak crystal clear under the rage and the exasperation « now, whatever game you're playin' with me»
Soap and Gaz are freezed at the other side of the table, considering themselves lucky to have a solid desk between them and your rusty, piercing voice. Ghost, though…
He falls of a tree.
He can't even manage to keep a stern voice as he says: «…what?» looking at you rummaging in your pocket just to throw something in his hands.
And he finds himself holding a goddamn leather collar, complete with metal chain.
In any other scenario of your life you'd rather jump from a window to check if it was possible to glide on the grass instead of putting together that show. But, oh well, you're neither a flying squirrel, nor a fortune-teller.
And there you are, stone solid against Ghost, who's lost the speaking skills and seems to be in the middle of a math problem resolution with his inner demon.
His eyelids glitch at you a couple of times, but you don't give him time to reply, not this time.
«Do me a big favor -would ya?- and go to hell . Thank you so much»
You don't even care if tomorrow someone will send you to fuck yourself away from the base, since you've yelled to a goddamn Lieutenant as if he is your cat-lady neighbor who complain about noises at four pm.
This is the end of your patience, the end of you being nice, calm and collected; the end of you trying to not be so direct about what it's happening between the two of you.
'Cause it sounds so clear in your head that it was him who left that stupid joke of a collar in front of your room, that you didn't even think about other possible suspects.
And so, the meeting starts with him being completely silent, sat and still as a statue, while Soap and Gaz don't even know what they're speaking about since they should have done just the training part of the day.
Ghost's looking at the recruits, so intensively, so vividly you can feel his eyes scanning all of you, and you don't give a damn about it.
He can just go where you've sent him, and rest in peace.
The walk toward your room is a forced march on disassembled legs. Task force did its best to organize a training to destroy every inch of flesh and bones, but it was so good to unload the stress with physical pain that you can't even complain.
You're about to go for the door knob, ready to disappear in bed, when a known voice reaches you with an embarrassed:
«Hey»
You turn: and the goddamn eavesdropper from the training is behind you, and you're already preparing to yell the hell out of him but…he's evidently uncomfortable. He doesn't even look at you as he almost bows his head saying:
«…I-i came just to…apologize. I'm sorry for having bothered you. It was just a joke, i didn't mean…» He kinda starts to justify something, making a step forward that immediately dies. «Sorry, i…i-i just wanted to have some fun, it was a joke. Sorry» he ends up muttering, mumbling with eyes buried in the ground.
Your jaw drops. You're about to grab him by the neck and give his skim a peeling session on the wall, but you spit an hard and sharp:
«The collar. It was… you ?»
And he left you like this, with no more words, nearly running away from your sight, so embarrassed he could have dug by himself a hole to hide in the pavement.
Next day, he isn't even at the meeting with the Task force.
You can't deny you were about to skipp the daily training too.
You feel slightly, almost imperceptibly, just a tiny bit bad . But it's the "tiny bit" that makes you pretend to be part of the seat in the meeting room, just an innocent piece of plastic, so well hidden in the chair.
The specific, vivid memory of you rushing to your superior, slapping that damn collar in his hands as if the joke was his responsibility, is kinda cursing your mind in a black, noisy cloud of embarrassment. Oh, and that smart little brain of yours is also reminding you how proud you were to send him to hell.
You decide to become a turtle, digging the neck into the shirt collar.
FUCK , it's the only, big, huge sign you're throwing at yourself, so focused on melting on the chair that you don't even feel his presence next to you.
«'Ve told ya we've got a dignity in here»
You jump, raise your eyes and suddenly bury them again on the floor. Ghost is standing on your left, not even looking at you, and you silently thank him for his sensitivity (if that's even a matter of sensitivity).
You're collecting some sensible excuses, trying to look like an adult, a responsible one, but he surprises you with a sudden:
«I'm sorry»
He's the second one in half a day who gives you an apology, but if the first one was unexpected, this is almost incomprehensible; and without getting aware, you're looking at him in surprise.
«Taking into consideration a shithead like that for a new task force project… I wasn't that forward-looking. Should have identified a scumbag from the start»
He speaks so sternly but so…easily, as if he's telling you about how many peanuts he'd eaten at breakfast. Then he sighs, about to go away; and you don't know how , but you find the boldness to shout out a rushed:
«I'm…I apologize. I need to… I'm sorry» you murmur, feeling like a stupid child excusing a broken vase.
«'S ok»
You can hear your heart skipping a couple beats. Your eyes widen as you sense the slightest amount of what you classify as warmness in his words.
It doesn't last that long, as he adds: «But we're not done with this»
«…no, I-I can understand sir-»
«We need to talk». The "need" part is silently underlined, but the "we" is just a replacement for a more impellent "I", since it is him who's burning his neurons, crashing them together to let them cooperate like in the good old days, when he succeeded in avoiding unnecessary emotions from the sunrise to the dawn. And he really thought he would be able to spend his whole life with the "I care for you" part of his brain on strike, as he really used to.
You're ruining his plans. And he can't allow himself to grow softer.
That is what boils in his guts for the whole morning, making him so absent-minded he almost shot Gaz on the training field.
"War's not a place for sentimentalism. There's no place for enjoying love here, we can't get compromised"
He repeats it as a mantra, waiting for you in Price's spare office (since his has got the door to be repaired. It may be that he made a hole in it out of anger).
He doesn't even know why they give him an office. He's not a bloody secretary.
«Sir?»
He jerks at the door, relaxing a bit when he sees it's just you: you, who're avoiding his direct sight; you who're still sweaty and panting from the training; you, with the t-shirt that exposes the bandage on your arm, reminding that stupid infiltration mission you shouldn't even get involved in the first place.
You, who call him sir just when feeling uneasy.
«Come in. Sit»
His voice does his best to modulate a softer tone, failing miserably, with the result of making him more nervous. He goes searching in a drawer, and when he hands you that damn collar, you sigh.
«I-I don't think i want it back, sir»
«Cut out that "sir" thing. It doesn't suit you»
Your cheeks are on fire. You grab the leather things, holding it tight in your fists.
And you feel upset, really upset , as a crescendo of excitement grabs your nerves, making you feel oddly, suspiciously good .
He makes you come back to reality: «Seems like we have to speak more quietly»
You sigh. And he keeps on: «Eavesdropping's a dick move, especially if ya do it outside a superior's office. He's gonna clean the shit out of our toilets for the rest of his stay»
Said so, one topic of the day is considered closed.
He takes a long breath before starting the more important matter:
«Are ya used to this?»
Apparently, half measures are for the weak. He points his sight at the collar you're holding with both hands, almost like you're waiting for someone to take it and put it on you.
You can't help it: it's an old habit.
«I…was» you murmur.
«What 'bout now?»
«Does it matter?»
«Yes»
«Why?»
«It matters to me »
Fists clench around the leather.
«Is an old story, i've drop it»
«Doesn't seem so»
Then, silence.
Dense silence, pudding-consistency silence, and if Ghost had got a spoon he could have eaten the room's atmosphere to get to you. He realizes his self-confidence has been thrown out of the window as he catches his fingers scratching the nose tip through the mask. Digits are immediately moved away and stuck in pockets.
«'M not asking to make fun of you. Neither out of personal curiosity» and almost every synapsis screams " liar " at him.
«You're a…reliable soldier, little one». It costs him a little bit of pride to say it. «We don't wanna waste good soldiers for stupid reasons. I don't want this» his sight spot the collar «to compromise you»
«You can stop worrying about it»
You're a knot curled on yourself on the chair, feeling as if there's a martial court in front of you who's laying you bare, exposing your guts, releasing the skeletons collection hidden in your closet.
That's when he takes the collar from your hand, so gently, pulling it away from you as if he's releasing you from a burning stone that was consuming your hands.
You're impressed. And your sight rises again, and he's ready to catch it.
«Were you forced to do it?»
You're about to ask "what", but as always, you already know what he's referring to. You shake your head.
«No. I've…enjoyed it. I was lucky at first»
«Why?»
«I…» remembering it brings you a little smile «…I found someone I could trust with this…game»
«A friend?»
«No. No, he wasn't a friend. He…»
Voice remains hanging for a moment, as he makes a step back to give you space. He's waiting; he could wait the whole day if it's necessary, and you're so not used to him treating you softly.
Maybe it's just a trick to make you speak.
And it works so perfectly.
«Sub-Dom relationships are not easy. Well, you could build one in no time if you force it, but a real one is based on trust. And it is the most difficult thing to achieve. Is not just a matter of obedience and…and sex play» you blush at the statement. «I trusted my Dom with all my whole heart. That's why I enjoyed the experience»
He mutters a low monosyllabic sound, as a confirmation that he's following your speech. When you get silent again, he makes a step forward:
«Then why did that collar affect you so much?»
And he hits a spot. Of fucking course he does.
«'Cause most of the time, someone who calls himself a "Dom" just wants a body to humiliate»
Your cheeks are burning again, your tongue is trapped between the hold of your teeth. You finish with a whispered: «That's why I went out of that business»
«But you react at the memory of it»
Your head disappears into the collar shirt as you nod, almost imperceptibly.
«Do you feel the urge to be under someone's orders?»
A «No» is rushed out so quickly it surprises him. «I've told you: it's a matter of trust».
And you suddenly fall from your tree, feeling like the "soft-spoken" part of the meeting is totally gone. You freeze on the chair, almost replying as sharply as you can: «I've not chosen to be a soldier 'cause I like being ordered, if that's what you're implying»
«I'm not implying anything.»
«Then why ask?»
«Just wanna make sure your not gonna fall for the first big man who waves a riding crop at you»
He steps on horse shit, and he realizes as fast as the word "riding crop" slips through his own mouth. He can swear to god he was trying his best not to be rude, but somehow that part of him (that he was trying so desperately not to bury under a cozy warm blanket of emotions) had decided to show itself just at the wrong moment.
How lucky he is.
He suddenly jerks the sight at you with the haste of someone worried about having run over an innocent cat on the street, and he really hopes you've not heard his last sentence.
But you have.
And your eyes are tilted toward him, cheeks are red and fists are clenched so hard that knuckles are going to come out.
«Can I ask you» you rush out, in the most professional way, forgetting again you're speaking with a Lieutenant «Why do you always end up being a dick?»
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