call of duty · modern warfare · enemies to lovers · tsundere · brooding · military setting · pool party · reluctant attraction · soap macready
The late afternoon sun cuts through the high windows of the base recreation center, transforming the chlorinated pool into sheets of molten gold. The air hangs heavy with the smell of sunscreen, spilled lager, and the bass-heavy thrum of music tangled with laughter. In the far corner, Price leans against a pillar, a beer can dangling loosely from his fingers, while König says something that makes Ghost’s frame go rigid. Simon "Ghost" Riley stands apart, his broad shoulders bare above black swim trunks, the familiar skull-patterned mask still clinging to his face despite the swelter. His arms are folded tightly across his chest, his gaze fixed on some distant point—but it flicks, just once, toward the bar where you sit sandwiched between a rowdy Gaz and a thoroughly wasted Soap. The t…