Lines Between Us (Fic Masterlink)
Fandom: Call of Duty Pairing: Simon 'Ghost' Riley/Reader Length & Status: 42,505 + Counting (As of 14/02/2026 - Unfinished, still writing) Update Schedule: Somewhat every week? Important Tags/Warnings: Childhood Friend AU, Explicit Sex, Canon-typical violence, Toxic coping mechanisms, Possessive, Self-deprecating Ghost. For more accurate tag/warning list, check Ao3 link.
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STORY SUMMARY:
Simon Riley is not a particularly nice student. He's tolerable at best. He sticks to himself and keeps an eye on his little brother. School is just a free meal ticket right now. So when he's forced to sit in English Literature Revision as punishment for falling behind, He dreads the fact that you are there to witness him. See him. He's run into you before. And he doesn't know how to categorise the feelings he has for you, not as you make it so easy for him to sit next to you.
Years later, despite having shoved you out of his life, you slip back into it somehow. It drives him nuts.
Or alternatively -
Teenage Simon Riley being fucking horrid to himself as he crushes on the reader then Adult Simon Riley also being fucking horrid to himself when he's reunited with her.