Teen!Horangi, sighing as he looks at his phone: Kyle is so perfect...
Teen!Ghost, standing by the door: *gasps loudly*
Teen!Horangi: W- WHEN DID YOU GET HERE?! YOU HEARD FUCKING NOTHING
Teen!Ghost: Oh I heard everything- KYLE-
(Meanwhile in the back garden of Johnny's house)
Teen!Gaz: I'm getting a bad feeling... are you sure leaving Si and Hong-Jin alone was a good idea?
Teen!Alex: Babe, they're fine. They haven't tried to kill each other
Teen!Soap, reading texts from his sister about what teen!Horangi and teen!Ghost are yelling about: Oh no-
Guys, just, hear me out: YouTubers/Streamers AU for COD. There was a series of posts on @cod-dump 's blog about what games are banned for the boys and I've just been thinking about this but with Ghost, Gaz, Soap, and Alex where one of them is the actual streamer/gamer dude and the others just almost always play with him (maybe Roach if we went on the path that he's not actually mute, just kinda hates talking)
Retired or discharged for whatever reasons, the 141 are actually kinda happy to be living semi-normal lives. Maybe they're not all entirely civilian now, maybe Price has a position that doesn't require him to be on the field but he's still teaching/being a Captain.
But he's constantly telling the boys to find things to do to keep themselves happy. Especially Gaz and Soap, cause the military is kind of all they know, they've never had to be civilians really as adults.
Ghost is transitioning fine, and he's been a huge help for Soap, but Gaz is still kinda struggling. Eventually something happens and Alex is part of his life, but it's still not really what Gaz needs to feel "normal".
So Soap and Alex convince Gaz to start streaming/recording videos of their gaming sessions. It's a slow start, and Gaz is getting frustrated.
Until one time they play something silly but incredibly rage-inducing. It's a trending game because it's designed to pit you against your friends but is still silly nonetheless. There's one clip in particular that starts trending and becomes the reason Gaz's channel starts to take off.
The clip? Gaz yelling at Soap for something and Soap immediately just cursing him out in straight Scots only for Alex, an American, to scream into his mic as loud as humanly possible "WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER?!?!" after having been dead silent for the last 2 minutes. Why did he scream this? Not because of Soap's Scots, but because he had secretly just won the round after having lost the entire time they'd been playing.
People eat that shit up! Suddenly everyone's like "damn there's this hella attractive dude that records gameplay with his friends and they're all really funny." Everyone falls in love with Gaz's appearance first, but then they actually hear him and his friends interact and it's just trading insults and stupid jokes, acting like there's no one watching and they're suddenly kids again.
It eventually comes out that Gaz and his friends are all veterans, and despite the air around military not being the best, there's no denying that caring for veterans is a must. People slowly start to support Gaz's channel/streams, and before he knows it, he's actually got quite the following. His whole thing is about "wanting to do something to distract himself and others from the shitty aspects of life with a few laughs and some good games"
Eventually they convince Ghost to start gaming with them. It makes Gaz's popularity grow because now there's this really deep accent in the mix that's completely clueless as to what he's doing like 90% of the time (I just have this gut feeling that '22 Ghost is so fucking awful at video games) that they refer to simply as "Ghost". Suddenly, the chaos Gaz and his friends are known for increases tenfold. Ghost is flirting with all of them, Soap is arguing with him over literal couple things that come with living together, and there's a new element of really dark humor that wasn't there before (there was dark humor, just not this dark)
They're playing The Backrooms one time. They're not even in the game yet, just in the lobby. Gaz is laughing at Alex's tag for the game "MYLEG!" which is a reference to that one fish in Spongebob always yelling "my leg!" after an incident. Gaz is laughing too hard to actually explain to his viewers that, yes, Alex is an amputee. Soap starts making fun of him, as usual, and that's when it happens.
Alex: "I'll take my leg off and hit you with it, Soap, I swear to god."
Soap: "I forgot you were already missing one for a second there and got real concerned."
Alex: "No, Soap, I planned on removing my other leg. The one that's still attached, yeah. Just like a lil *pop noise*, ya know?"
Gaz: *wheezing so hard he almost throws up*
Then they're playing this silly monster/cryptid hunter game called "A Day Out" and there's skeletons every now and then on the map. Gaz walks up to one and just starts freaking out, saying Ghost's name over and over.
Ghost, freaked out: What??
Gaz, pointing at the skeleton: Look, it's you! *cackling*
Ghost, after a concerning long pause: *quietly* Nah, I'm not gonna say that
Alex: SAY IT COWARD
Ghost: No, that's my brother
*Gaz making the most horrified face as he tries not to laugh*
*Alex and Soap are losing their shit*
Gaz: NAH THAT'S NOT OKAY
That clip posts and the internet looses it. I see this being the actual first video Ghost is in, so for this to be the first thing the viewers get of him, it's safe to say he's a hit. It's also never explained that Ghost does have a deceased brother, so there's just an acceptance of Ghost's skeleton brother.
There's several times where they've all gotten together and played silly games like Mario Kart when there's a bunch of them. There's the sober one and there's the drunk one, where there's so many different languages being hurled as curses at each other, Gaz gives up on captioning ANY of it.
OOOOooooooooohhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! WHAT IF! Roach becomes his editor once he gets popular enough so he can spend more time playing games, solo ones when the others are working.
For a while, everyone's going crazy wanting to see what the others all look like, and sometimes (cause we're assuming the world they live in now during all this is a lot better), they're joined by Rudy or Alejandro, or both in one rare instance. Sometimes, for old times's sake, during the drunk gaming sessions, they'll call Laswell only for her to scold them. There are times they'll bully Roach who always, as the editor, changes their words from the insults to compliments. Or he definitely trolls Gaz a lot with some of the editing, and it's all around just a good time. Hence why everyone wants to know what they look like.
Then it's around the holidays after about 2 and a half years of Gaz's channel being as popular as it is. He posts a single picture on his socials with a group of people and the caption: "Love seeing the boys over the holidays."
It's such a nice photo; Alex with an arm wrapped around Gaz's shoulders, Soap and Ghost on his other side with Roach between Soap and Gaz.
And the internet has once again gone crazy. Why? Cause not only are these dudes fucking hilarious, but they're hot and taken.
Except, as they all end up teasing him about, Roach is very much still single XD
I have been watching too much YouTube lately, can y'all tell?? Haha anyways back to my hole I shall crawl
Farah is in the middle, Gaz and Alex sandwiching her. They do this whenever they find her in the kitchen, and if she has food in her hand, one of them steals a bite from it.
Gaz is in the middle, Farah and Alex sandwiching him. They always lie down somewhere in one big pile. He later finds his wallet missing; it's always in Alex's pocket. Alex is never the one who took it.
Alex is in the middle, Farah and Gaz sandwiching him. He gets his arse grabbed, there are hands all over his body and someone nipping at his neck. He leaves blushing.
This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. They were supposed to get rid of the last remaining members of Konni. But it seemed like someone, something, had different ideas.
Gaz rolled over, eyes snapping open as he heard Alex start pacing again. He gritted his teeth, pressing a pillow over his head, crushing it over his ear as he slowly counted to thirty again, taking deep breaths, as he waited for Alex to settle down, like he’d said he would try to do.
At thirty, he lifted the pillow up again, and still heard Alex pacing in the other room. Gaz pressed the pillow to his face, groaning, before chucking it aside again.
He knew Alex couldn’t help it. He’d come up in a dry rut unexpectedly. It wasn’t his fault. Probably, due to stress, or lack of sleep, or some combination of the two. At least, that’s what Alex had attributed it to, while apologising to Gaz that it had happened. He’d taken it all on his shoulders, insisting that he and Gaz rest in different rooms, while promising that he’d try and keep the disturbances to a minimum.
Gaz sat up in his bed, tossing the covers back. Alex had done a pretty good on his promise, actually. The noise his pacing was making was really very faint. It should have easily mingled with the other sounds of the building around them, something Gaz would have usually tuned out with ease, a habit everyone in the military had.
It had to be something to do with the heat, that was making Gaz so bothered by it. Usually, Gaz was fine being around other alphas in their ruts. Before they’d been a pack, he’d been around the other members of 141 when they’d had their ruts come up at bad times, when they’d gotten caught in the barracks, or a safehouse, and it had been easy enough for Gaz keep his distance, letting them lock themselves in a room and do what they needed to do.
So why was this different? Was it because the heat was unexpected, out of sync? Because it had come on suddenly, with no preparation, the days where, normally, Gaz would have been able to get used to the smell, the sounds, and learned to tune them out?
Gaz closed his eyes as he curled down over his lap, trying to work out what he was supposed to do. Once they’d formed a pack, he and the rest of 141 had been able to help each other with their ruts. When Soap had had his last one, Gaz had been the one there for him, keeping him hydrated and relaxed. He hadn’t been filling in the role of an omega, rather, caring for his pack, like an alpha is bloody meant to.
Was it even possible for an alpha to care for another alpha like that, when they’re not part of the pack? Gaz considered Alex to be close, as close as the members of his pack, but he technically wasn’t. Not that they didn’t want him to be, Price had made that clear, there just hadn’t been the right moment to bring it up yet.
Gaz opened his eyes again, staring at the door in the far corner of the room, his ears pricking when he realised that the pacing had stopped. He frowned, before all of his wondering thoughts vanished from his head as a faint whimper crept under the door.
He had to at least try.
Gaz swung himself up off the bed, scooping a blanket up to drape around himself as he wandered over to the door, opening it and crossing the corridor. He found the door to Alex’s room and opened it, not seeing anything off about the plain, stone brick walls, the bed in the corner, a curtain blowing back from the open window, a patch of moonlight flashing in and out as the curtain fell back, as Gaz’s chest tightened and he saw Alex, lying curled up on the floor.
Gaz pulled the blanket from his around shoulders, tossing it over Alex’s body as he knelt next to him, resting one hand on his head, as his other searched for a pulse.
“I’m not dead.” Alex rolled over onto his back, clutching the blanket in his hands, gazing up at Gaz.
“I know.” Gaz nodded softly. “It’s hard, isn’t it?”
“You have a striking talent for stating the obvious.” Alex groaned, springing to sit up, but immediately curling over, hissing in pain as he clutched his crotch and buried his face in Gaz’s blanket.
Gaz sighed and hopped up, grabbing Alex under his arms and lifting him, dragging him across the floor to the bed, which looked like it hadn’t been touched. “Have you even tried to go to bed?”
“No.” Alex sat on the edge, still hunched over with the blanket bundled over his crotch as Gaz knelt in front of him. He carefully removed Alex’s blade and its sleeve, carrying them away to lay them beside the door, on top of Alex’s pack.
“That’s too far away.” Alex called out, staring at it, gripping the edge of the bed.
“Sorry.” Gaz apologised, picked it back up and moved it closer to the bed, leaning it up against the bedpost closest to the pillows.
Alex nodded and relaxed, dropping onto his back. “Thanks. I should be alright now.”
Gaz shook his head and crawled up next to him. “Not going to cripple you and leave you here. I’m no omega, but I do have a hole you can use, if we can’t get you to calm down.”
“I can’t knot your ass, that’s so dangerous.” Alex tried to sit up again, only for Gaz to grab his shirt and push him down.
“It’s not. I had it done before. Everyone just says that, so alphas don’t just start fucking each other.” And the world would be a lot less fucking complicated if everyone got over that, Gaz left off.
Alex swallowed. “Really?”
“I’m in an all alpha pack, Alex.” Gaz looked at him, watching the realisation dawn in Alex’s eyes. “Do you really think we all just… suffer alone?”
“I’m not pack, though.”
“You can be.”
Alex was silent for a moment.
“If you want to be.” Gaz said, worried he had misread him.
“No! I… I wanna be.” Alex tilted his head to face him. “Wannabe.”
“You will be. You are.” Gaz reached out for his face. “Pack takes care of each other.”
“You expecting me to return the favour, then?” Alex tried to quip, but it didn’t hide the anxiety and pain in his voice.
“Some time, maybe. Let’s get a look at you, now.”
Alex nodded, settling back and letting Gaz gently pull the blanket away from his crotch, laying it over his chest and shoulders as he looked at his tented boxers.
“Fucking ow.” Gaz murmured. His own dick ached from just seeing Alex like this.
“Tell me about it.” Alex groaned as Gaz tugged his boxers down his thighs.
“Nice show.” Gaz swallowed, catching his dick in his hand as it sprung up. “Let’s get you in a hole, shall we?”
“Shall you.” Alex groaned. “I can’t… move.”
“I got it.” Gaz shoved his own boxers off, tossing them to Alex when he held his hand up for them. He tilted his face down into Alex’s neck, pressing his nose to his scent gland, inhaling deeply when he finally caught a whiff of his scent. It would be the dry rut – they work differently to normal ones, Gaz recalled. More akin to burnout, than the regular cycles. Gaz huffed what little he could get, pushing his finger between his own ass cheeks to poke at his hole, nuzzling Alex’s neck as he pulled it open.
“I want you to face me.” Alex murmured, clutching Gaz’s boxers tight, pressing them to his face.
Gaz nodded, wondering what about him was smelling so good as he straddled Alex’s hips, kneeling up as he carefully guided Alex’s throbbing cock into his ass.
Alex groaned, body jerking as he lifted his leg up, bracing his foot on the edge of the bed as he tried to fuck his dick up into Gaz’s ass.
“Hey, hey.” Gaz gently pressed the leg back down, using his fingers to spread his hole wider as he hurried to spear himself on Alex’s cock. “You said, I should take care of it.”
“I did, when it hurt so bad I couldn’t move.” Alex groaned. “Feels a lot better now that I’m in something. Shoulda kept my blade on so I could fuck you.”
“You’ll have plenty of time to fuck me, in every where you want.” Gaz swallowed as he felt his ass hit Alex’s thighs, feeling the swelling base of his cock straining Gaz’s rim. “For now, knot me so you calm down, why don’t you?”
“Already on it.” Alex grabbed Gaz’s hips, clutching tight as the knot swelled and popped in Gaz’s ass. The pair of them groaned, as Alex tugged Gaz to his right, rolling the pair over, kept connected by the burst knot in Gaz’s ass, stretching him wide.
It was bordering on painful, but if they didn’t move too much, he would adapt to it just fine. Gaz tangled his legs with Alex’s, locking both of his legs around Alex’s knee to keep them still.
Gaz gazed at him, watching the pain fade from his face, as he gently rubbed a finger over his moustache. “You look better with this.”
“Yeah?” Alex smiled. “It took a while to grow back after… the factory. Was worried it never would.”
“Good, that it did. Can’t imagine you without it.”
“Rude.” Alex flicked Gaz’s nose, shifting his hips up as much as he could despite Gaz’s grip on him. “How are you going to tell Price about this?”
“He’s asked me if I’ve fucked you every time I get back from seeing you. He’ll say, ‘it’s about time’ and invite you for Christmas.”
“Christmas… that sounds nice.”
Gaz chuckled, warmth swelling in his chest. “I’ll warn you now, we don’t do roast turkey. We barbecue.”
“Even better.” Alex reached out for Gaz’s neck, brushing his fingers over his skin. “Am I blind, or do you not have a bite mark anywhere? Do alphas not need them to bond?”
“Technically, no one needs them.” Gaz reached up to rub his thumb over Alex’s scent gland, sniffing happily when he sensed Alex’s scent beginning to return to normal. “It’s all some hierarchical, ownership bullshit.”
“Huh…” Alex tilted his head towards Gaz’s hand. “No one in your pack has one?”
“Our pack.” Gaz corrected him. “Ghost does. But only because he wanted one. Asked for one from each of us.”
“Damn. Ghost’s a masochist then?”
“Something like that.” Gaz grunted, clutching the side of Alex’s neck when he felt his cock twitch, and something hot filling him.
“Whoops… Sorry.” Alex kissed his nose. “Didn’t realise I hadn’t come when the knot burst.”
“S’alright. Not like I can have pups.” Gaz leant forward and kissed him on the mouth.
“True. Not going to stop me from trying.” Alex whispered, eyes shining from the kiss.
“Keller out here with a breeding kink, huh?” Gaz grinned, breaking the moment.
“Like you don’t have what, a caring kink?” Alex poked his cheek. “Swanning in here to pick me up and look after me.”
“I’ll wear a little nurse hat next time if you want.”
Alex laughed, tucking his forehead against Gaz’s. “That, I’d pay to see.”
“I don’t charge.” Gaz tugged Alex’s chin up. “Not money, at least.”
“Would you consider kisses a currency then?”
“I can work with that.” Gaz kissed him again. “Better keep ‘em coming. We’ll be here a while.”
He experimentally tightened his ass around Alex, making the man groan.
“You keep that up, you’ll get more than you can handle.”
shirt with flower (forget me not. at least i tried-) pattern and hawaiian shirt. was inspired and decided to try and draw in a bit muted colors...
kind of planet au? gaz as the earth, alex as the moon (my love mine all mine by mitski starts playing) and farah as the sun! :D was inspired by tiktok trend with "characters as planets". yea
