This Is Amazing I'm Actually Crying - Tumblr Posts
((part 5)) ((X)) ~please read for context for: @8-rae-rae-8 this one is a little shorter but I feel like it hurts a little better. Next one part is gonna be really sad so :( ~~~
"Si? Are you awake?"
"Yeah, Tom"
"Do you want me to give you your shot?"
"No, thanks"
"Why not?"
"Dad already did it"
"...Oh...I'm sorry"
"It's okay, bud. go back to sleep."
~~~
"Ghost... Ghost...Simon--"
Simon blinks, watching as old memories fly by. His shared bunk bed with Tommy, the skull mask, the snake, the needles, his mum, Tommy, Beth, Joseph—his vision finally settles on Major Cowells, towering above him.
“There he is,”
the uneasy, lechrious, predatory feeling is back and he's reminded once again of Roba.
Simon blinks a few more times, trying to settle on blinding lights above him. His vision suddenly blurs again and the white hot pain of a needle in his side makes him let out an unintended gasp. “W-wa…”
“shh, sshh, you’re okay ,mo ghràidh, I’m here…”
“Joh….y…?"
the figure's contours and its face morph once more into a fisherman’s hat, a skull mask, a mohawk, a baseball cap, and sun-tanned skin before Simon completely indulges in sleep.
"It's okay... you're oka...clo...ey...slee..."
~~~
”you said you knew who it was? Sir?”
Johnny’s footsteps are heavy, and loud and demand the attention of his exhausted captain. Price doesn’t say much but after a while of staring off into the void, a small window into the hospital room, he sighs, scratching at his beard out of habit.
“good to see you too, Soap,” The captain sighs again, reaching into his pocket to play with his last cigar ((of a set Simon bought him the previous Christmas)), playing with the bitten edge. “, I do, but we can’t discuss here. Meet me in my office at 10. I need to find Laswell and she’s damn near hard to find when she doesn’t want to be found.” ~~~
"...Uncle Simon? Daddy?"
"Joe!"
Both men turn, the needle hovering over Simon's bare abdomen- to which he quickly puts his shirt down, hiding a gnarly bullet wound from his last tour.
"what-what are you doing?" the six-year-old presses, opening the door wider and then quickly closing.
"What do you need, Joe?" Tommy takes a step towards the youngest, the needle now resting on Simon's bedside table, insulin long forgotten.
"Why--what were you doing, daddy?"
Simon sighs, coming over and gently picking him up, settling the child on his bruised hip. "Your daddy was helpin' me with my insulin."
"...oh...well okay! Uncle Si?"
"Yeah, love?"
"What's insulin?"
~~~
"...so..." Laswell sighs, resting against Price's desk, her arms crossed, and with the light settling in over the horizon, her wedding band sparkles and the light irritates Soap's eyes. ", with all that said, we believe Major Cowells has been working with the remnants of the Zaragoza Drug Cartel."
"..Manuel Roba?" Gaz gawked, moving from his space and leaning against the door to make sure no brass, Cowells, made their way in.
Price solemnly nods, running a weathered, calloused hand against his exhausted face. The Captain looked tired, the bags under his eyes looked more like Ghost's eyeblack than anything that could brought on by stress. "Yes -- and yes. I know, I know. Ghost killed all of them, so we thought."
"So how does Major Cowells factor into this?" Gaz presses, taking a couple steps further so he is more integrated into the conversation.
"We believe Major Vernon and Roba had a network running right under our noses."
"Steamin' Jesus!" Soap suddenly shouts, and the rage Price was hoping for is finally back-- He was more stressed out about the fact that Soap had become subdued, lethargic, and tired after Simon was admitted. A week ago.
"I know," Laswell sighs, taking a step towards the whiteboard. ",I know. Which is why I have contacted Los Vaqueros and am hoping they will assist us."
"Any reason they wouldn't?" Gaz speaks up again, shifting through confidential documents and maps.
"None that we haven't already planned for."
~~~
“Insulin overdose.”
Soap said it over a hundred times, feeling the word on his tongue , trying to make sense of the cluster fuck around him.
“Soap — mate, please.”
“I know! I know! I just…” he flops down on the common room couch beside Kyle, throwing his head back to the wall with a satisfying thump.
“I know,” Gaz smiles, placing a gentle hand on his friends shoulder. “He will pull through, Ghost always does.”
“…but Simon might not.”
~~~
Two weeks of Johnny sitting by the bedside. Two weeks of Johnny sewing and resewing Ghost's masks back together, talking to him even though he wouldn't answer, combing his unruly curls back, coloring in his tattoos, finishing or redoing portraits of Simon, reading his favorite book to him, washing his--
crying at the bedside
--washing his scared face, trying out new lotions that Gaz recommended to try and smooth out his scars.
Anything to block out the empty pit in his stomach.
~~~ “He didn’t tell me.”
“Soap, Bruv—“ “Son—“
“Oooh! Don’! I dinnea wanna hear it!”
“Soap, he couldn’t tell you, he couldn’t tell anyone.” Price tries to reason, placing a fatherly hand to his son— but Soap shrugs him off, moving away from the hospital bed, away from Simon…away
“I’m not everyone. I’m his Johnny and I’m different.”
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