PT.2 - How some of the COD characters handle you being injured during a mission.
CW: Blood, injuries, medical treatment, possessive behavior, threats toward enemies, and mildly suggestive romantic tension.
John Price
Price’s voice becomes frighteningly calm the moment he sees the blood soaking through your uniform. He personally gets you out of the field, one arm locked around your waist while he orders everyone else aside. Once you are stable, the captain in him gives way to the man who nearly lost you. He sits beside your bed, thumb brushing slowly over your wrist, and reminds you that reckless heroics are his job. His lecture loses some authority when he leans close enough for his beard to graze your cheek and murmurs, “You’re going to be the death of me, love.”
Simon “Ghost” Riley
Ghost does not panic. He becomes silent. Efficient. Terrifying. He presses his hand over the wound, keeps you focused on his voice, and refuses to let anyone separate you until the medic proves you will survive. Afterward, he stays in the darkest corner of your room as though standing guard. When you wake, his gloved hand is resting beside yours. He claims he was never worried, but the way his mask touches your forehead tells another story. “Pull a stunt like that again,” he murmurs, voice low against your ear, “and I’ll keep you at base. In my quarters, under my watch, where I know exactly where you are.”
Johnny “Soap” MacTavish
Soap talks constantly while treating you because silence would mean admitting he is scared. He jokes about your terrible timing, complains that you ruined his favorite shirt with your blood, and keeps asking you questions so you remain conscious. Once the danger passes, the humor disappears. He cups your face, checks your pupils, then rests his forehead against yours with a shaky breath. Later, he insists on helping you change your bandages...and becomes noticeably less talkative when your shirt has to come off.
Kyle “Gaz” Garrick
Gaz is calm enough for both of you. He tells you exactly what he is doing before touching you, keeps his voice gentle, and never lets you see how badly his hands are trembling. During recovery, he remembers every medication time and brings you food without hovering. He sits on the edge of your bed while checking your bandages, his fingers warm and careful against your skin. When you tease him for staring, his eyes lift to yours. “Just making sure everything still looks right,” he says, far too innocently.
König
Seeing you injured awakens something deeply protective in König. He lifts you as though you weigh nothing, holds you against his chest, and refuses to put you down until the medics physically demand it. He apologizes every time his hands touch near the wound, despite being more careful than anyone else. During recovery, he brings you blankets, tea, medication, and enough food for an entire squad. When you catch him lingering beside your bed, he admits quietly, “I need to see you breathing.” If you pull him closer, he becomes completely flustered...but he still does not let go.
Alejandro Vargas
Alejandro starts issuing orders in rapid Spanish the moment you are hit. His hands remain steady while treating you, but his expression promises violence to whoever caused it. Once you are safe, he sits close enough that his thigh presses against yours and tells you exactly how furious he is. He calls you reckless, stubborn, and impossible while checking every inch of visible skin for additional injuries. Then his hand settles at the back of your neck. “Next time you want my attention, cariño, there are easier ways.”
Rodolfo “Rudy” Parra
Rudy becomes your quiet anchor. He keeps pressure on the wound, counts your breaths with you, and never allows fear into his voice. While you recover, he makes everything easier without making you feel helpless. He helps you sit, brings clean clothes, and gently washes dried blood from your skin. His touch remains professional until you notice how long his fingers linger at your waist. When you thank him, he smiles softly. “You can repay me by staying alive. We can discuss the rest when you’re healed.”
Farah Karim
Farah refuses to treat you as fragile, even when she is deeply worried. She gives you firm instructions, holds your gaze through the pain, and reminds you that surviving is also an act of resistance. During recovery, she makes certain you follow the medic’s orders and quietly takes over any duty that might endanger you. Her affection appears in brief touches: fingers brushing your hair back, her palm resting against your cheek, a kiss pressed to your temple when no one is watching. Anyone who mocks your injury receives a look that ends the conversation immediately.
Alex Keller
Alex keeps you laughing while getting you to safety, even when the strain in his voice betrays him. He stays beside you through treatment and volunteers to help during recovery before anyone can ask. He is annoyingly good at making you rest, usually by sitting beside you and blocking every attempt to leave the bed. When you accuse him of enjoying the authority, he leans closer with a grin. “Maybe a little. You’re much easier to manage when you can’t run away from me.”
Kate Laswell
Laswell takes control before anyone else understands what happened. Evacuation, medical clearance, altered reports. Everything is handled. She does not visibly react until she is alone with you. Then her hand closes around yours and her carefully maintained composure softens. She tells you that you did well, but also that she will personally remove you from the field if you ever hide an injury again. Her affection is restrained, but unmistakable when she straightens your blanket and murmurs, “You scared me. Don’t make a habit of it.”
Helen Park
Park assesses the injury with clinical precision, asking sharp questions while watching your reactions more closely than the wound itself. She knows when you are minimizing the pain and refuses to let you charm your way out of treatment. During recovery, she sits beside you with reports she never actually reads. When you point this out, she calmly checks your pulse, her fingers resting against your wrist longer than necessary. “Elevated,” she observes. The faint curve of her lips suggests she knows exactly why.
Mara
Mara is immediately at your side, one hand keeping pressure on the wound and the other gripping yours. She talks to you like nothing is wrong, but everyone around her knows better than to interfere. During recovery, she sneaks you better food, steals extra pillows, and climbs onto the edge of your bed despite the medic’s objections. She traces the uninjured skin beside your bandage and tells you the scar will look good. When you ask whether she likes scars, she smiles. “Only when I get to inspect them personally.”
Roze
Roze reacts with cold, focused aggression. She gets you out, neutralizes the threat, and returns before anyone realizes she disappeared. She does not offer comforting words. Instead, she cleans your weapon, places it within reach, and stations herself outside your room. When you finally ask her to come closer, she checks your injury with surprisingly gentle hands. “You’re not dying,” she says. After a pause, her fingers tighten around yours. “Because I said so.”
Frank Woods
Woods curses enough for the entire squad while dragging you to safety. He keeps you conscious through a combination of insults, threats, and increasingly ridiculous promises about what he will do if you die. Once you recover, he becomes unbearably protective while insisting he is doing nothing of the sort. He brings coffee, complains about hospital chairs, and falls asleep beside your bed with his hand wrapped around yours. Mention it later and he denies everything.
Alex Mason
Mason understands the disorientation that can follow a serious injury. He keeps his voice steady, reminds you where you are, and grounds you whenever the pain or medication makes reality feel uncertain. During recovery, he sits close without crowding you and lets you decide when you want to be touched. When you reach for him, his entire expression softens. He carefully pulls you against his chest and murmurs, “I’ve got you. You’re here. Stay with me.”
Russell Adler
Adler is controlled until the mission is over. Then he begins asking questions no one wants to answer: who fired, who authorized the operation, and why he was not informed sooner. With you, however, his voice stays unusually gentle. He checks your bandages himself, claiming he does not trust anyone else’s assessment. When you accuse him of using the injury as an excuse to hover, he leans close, one hand braced beside your hip. “I don’t need an excuse.”
Phillip Graves
Graves is furious when you are injured, though he disguises it beneath swagger and sarcastic remarks. He carries you out while calling you sweetheart and threatening anyone who gets in his way. During recovery, he treats your room like his private command center, lounging beside your bed and criticizing the medical staff. When he helps adjust your bandages, his hands are much gentler than expected. “Careful,” he murmurs when you tense beneath his touch. “Keep looking at me like that and I’ll think you enjoy the attention.”
Valeria Garza
Valeria’s reaction is quiet enough to be alarming. She makes sure you survive first. Revenge comes afterward. During your recovery, she takes possession of the room, dismisses guards, and personally checks everything brought near you. She sits beside you with one hand resting possessively on your thigh, daring anyone to question it. When you ask what happened to the person who injured you, she smiles and brushes her thumb across your skin. “You should focus on healing, corazón. Let me handle the unpleasant details.”
The Team Dynamic:
No one agrees on who should be allowed to look after you.
Price wants silence. Soap keeps sneaking into your room. Gaz creates an actual medication schedule. König brings enough supplies to survive a siege. Alejandro and Rudy argue over who makes better recovery food. Ghost simply appears beside your bed every night without explanation.
Graves claims he has priority because he carried you out.
Valeria claims she has priority because no one is brave enough to challenge her.
Laswell eventually bans half the team from the medical wing.
It does not work.
You wake one morning to find every available chair occupied, several weapons leaning against the wall, and a handwritten sign above your bed:
THE ASSET IS RESTING. DISTURB AT YOUR OWN RISK. Operation Black Veil by Livi | Read more on Freeroam