Tough Luck Old Man
So this was a drabble i came up with when i was listening to a podcast;
Price x Younger! Assistant! reader
Price had his wife die over 10 years ago and isn't wanting to remove his wedding ring.
Reader being perfectly fine with it (goes to her grave with Price on her birthday and goes alone during christmas and leaves flowers once a month and updates her about him...) and keeps her old photos looking nice in Prices office.
When Price and reader get more serious with them talking about moving in while she's staying the night, reader finally says she's uncomfortable with him still wearing his wedding ring (people keep assuming they're married and she's having to explain that they're not...) and clearly states that she's more than happy to have him still wear it (like get it resized for a different finger, or put on a necklace, etc..) and Price loses it at her.
They've been seeing each other for almost 3 years at that point, and he cusses reader out to the point where she's crying (which she never does!) and says some awful awful things.
She leaves and ends up staying with Soap (Who she's friends with since she was a teenager) who just happened to be housemates with Simon.
Turns out they were having a game night with Kyle as well, so all three of them got to witness the more severe breakdown they think they've ever seen.
The boys are torn between the two. The end up coming to the consensus that she was completely justified to ask him to not wear the ring on his ring finger and to wear it somewhere else, and that Price was an asshole for how he handled her one request about it when they've seen how she amazing she's treated his wife since she knew about her death after she started.
They also slowly start picking apart the relationship with reader to help her realize he wasn't the greatest guy to begin with. (Despite the fact it was marked in his calendar, Price only remembered her birthday on the actual day once and could never seem to find time to spend with her.)
This turns into reader asking to be reassigned and Ghost ends up taking her on as his personal assistant while the boys are completely indifferent about Price.
Everything is kept cordial with Price for the next six months, with Gaz grabbing all of her things that were left at Price's (not much...Price also may have destroyed some of her things...)
Eventually Price gets fed up when her, Ghost, Gaz, and Soap are all talking after a meeting about doing something together they normally would include Price.
He lets some heated words out about how she's 'stolen' his soldiers and isn't worth anything now that she's not with him.
Soap and Gaz get a few choice words out before Ghost steps up and chews him completely out.
"She's been visting her grave with you the last five fuckin' years! Before you two even became something! She even goes on Christmas! Did you know that? She brings her grave fuckin' flowers once a month to catch her up on YOU! And when she finally asks for something that you can make a compromise on you made her cry! We've only ever seen her cry twice! Once when she hit a deer coming back from a mission and the only other fuckin' time was when you called her worthless! How DARE YOU be upset that we are taking care of her when you obviously weren't!"
They all leave the room, reader leaving last and giving him a cold, dead stare and states "I'll be putting in my two weeks."
Almost a year later
The boys (Soap, Gaz, and Ghost) and her got a really nice house off of base.
Soap had to medically retire due to a severe injury from an op, Gaz and Ghost end up training new recruits and giving up long missions for her. (Well, for all of them really.)
Overall.... it's nice. Really nice, with reader working at a small job (Librarian, or barista or something) and both her and Soap still getting checks (from their time in the Military) and will be probably until they're over 60.
Lots of small group dates and diy home projects, Gaz ends up getting a bucket of paint all over him at one point, Ghost accidently locks himself in the bathroom and resorts to kicking the door open and then having to repair said door, Soap ends up restoring a old car and almost lights himself on fire several times during it, Reader ends up getting a major hair change and they all absolutely love it, and everything is going amazing until...
Price knocks on their door one evening.
He's ringless, visibly distraught, and it's been clear he hasn't really been taking good care of himself recently with how much his hair and beard have grown out.
He's finally ready to admit he fucked up.
He steps into their kitchen to see reader leaning against the counter, holding a mug that used to be Ghost's, wearing one of Gaz's old sweatshirts and a pair of Soap's sweats.
Gaz, Ghost, and Soap are all there, waiting for him to speak.
He doesn't even get to open his mouth as he watches you take a long sip of tea, and more importantly, see the fact that you've clearly got a ring on your finger.
He looks at the boy's hands then, noticing that they all are wearing rings on their ring fingers as well.
He leaves quietly, with Ghost walking him to the door, and as Price glances back, clearly expecting him to try and give him some sort of positive feedback, all Ghost says is,
"Tough luck old man."
And slams the door in his face.
