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In theory, it’s an easy plan of action: Soap heals with Ghost by his side and life goes back to the way it was before. Effortless and efficient, just like how they’ve always handled tough missions.
But with a newly broken brain, pent-up feelings, and a possible medical discharge looming on the horizon, everything is often easier said than done.
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Upon completing their mission, the 141 lads decompress at a Chicago bar. Ghost find himself utterly and begrudgingly charmed by his young Sergeant, and maybe some things are worth bending a few rules for here and there...
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If you told Soap the second time he’d see Ghost’s face was in a shitty bar on a shittier block of Chicago… Well, he might have asked for a little more pomp and circumstance. At least then he’d have an excuse for the way he could hear his blood pumping faster in his ears and why he could feel it, hot and burning behind his eyes.
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- Part 1 of Punch Bowl
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This… this was becoming dangerous. It was right there in front of him, encapsulated in that one single word. The need of it. Their terrible symbiosis.
They were sewn together by breakable thread. Surgeon’s sutures, harsh knots over bloody wounds, not made to last, just willing to hold them together long enough to keep their blood in. They’d learned to avoid sharp objects, their conversations carefully side-stepping the knife-edges of words that threatened to sever each stitch.
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When a routine mission goes haywire, Soap and Ghost are left stranded deep in the mountains of Eastern Europe. Left alone, injured and reeling with the aftermath, honesty seems come to the surface between them a lot more easily than usual.
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katabasis [ kat-ă-bay-sis ]
(1) A descent into the underworld, or a literary account of such a journey to the land of the dead.
(2) Any journey downwards or fall.
(3) A retreat, especially a military one.
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Ghost and Soap's tentative relationship ends the moment Makarov's bullet leaves the gun.
With a grievously injured Soap suddenly rushed out of his life and the subsequent collapse of the 141, Ghost's had to cope with his entire life falling apart. A year and a half later, he's learned to grapple with the change.
Then, his newest assignment comes with a familiar face.