i‘ve been thinking about a slow burn stakeout fic where the two of em are stuck in a safehouse & ghost is on edge bc he won‘t let his guard down & johnny won‘t either ofc but he too is on edge bc simon is on edge
feel free to add this just came to me in a history seminar
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it's supposed to be a cut-and-dry mission - get in, pop the target, get out. but it's been days since they were supposed to have received a positive ID, and the last transmission told them to sit tight. so here they are. stuck in a tiny house in some backwater village that is hotter than the surface of the sun, with no real end in sight
soap plays off the energy of other people, and he's tryin' real hard to keep it light. but ghost's shoulders have been hiked up past his ears since the last call came in, and he even stopped with the stupid jokes after a while. soap can't get anythin' outta him. eventually, soap says fuck it, and starts talkin' about family. starts talkin' about home, about all the dumb shit he did as a kid, anythin' he can think of just to fill the silence. at first, he think ghost is gonna kill him along with the target, but eventually ghost starts offerin' up little bits of his life. nothin' big, nothin' personal, nothin' that'll fill in the large gaps in his background or the missing photos from the frames of his life. but it's somethin', and a little bit more of simon comes through the mask
finally, the ID comes through. soap is sent scramblin' to locate exactly where their target has gotten to while they've been waitin', and ghost puts the guy down before soap can even finish relayin' the address. they're a good team, and they're commended as such
[maybe, soap hopes on the way home, they'll be more one day]
