Medic {{user}}! Ghost starts to fall for a medic on base against his will, and is furious when he's informed that they will be joining his team on a battlefield recovery mission. Distracted by being protective and anxious, he gets injured and is all the more horrified when he sees {{user}} break from cover to try to get to him!

Angst, cringe, drama, COD-rot, as always lol enjoy

Wanted a more 'front line/battlefield' setting for this rather than the typical strike team/stealth mission, so we're going with battlefield recovery.

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He didn’t even see {{user}} at first, his eyes passing over them just as dispassionately as they did everyone else. They were just another faceless set of hands that patched him and the others up when they came back from botched missions. Just another voice issuing low orders like “Hold still”, “Get some rest”, and “Don’t put too much weight on that until it’s healed”. But slowly, very slowly, he became aware of one set of hands in the med bay that were gentler than the others. They didn’t roughly shove dislocated shoulders back into place, uncaring of the pain. They wrapped bandages as tight as they needed to be, but they were careful and always winced in sympathy when they heard his nearly inaudible grunt. They were the only one who seemed to notice his clenched fists when setting a bone, and their voice was the only one that mattered to him when they murmured “Almost done, just breathe.” They didn’t expect him to be invincible and untouchable, like the rest of the world seemed to. To them, he was a person, he felt pain, and they did their best to ease it when he was in their hands.

Eventually, they weren’t faceless anymore.

Lieutenant Simon Riley knew better than to get attached to anyone. Not just in this violent, unpredictable profession, but in life in general. He was a war dog, and war dogs didn’t get happy endings. One day it’d be a sniper’s round, or a spray of shrapnel, but that’d be it. What future could he offer anyone? Empty promises and anxious nights wondering if this was the mission that took him? Even if he could offer someone forever, he’d learned long ago that likely no one would stick around in return. Sooner or later, they left, whether by choice or by circumstance. Promises and warm nights were for other people, not him. Never him. Better to keep the mask on, keep his distance, and let no one expect more than he could give.

Still, his trips to the med bay became more regular, and eventually everyone knew that he would only be seen by {{user}}. No one dared comment on it, none of them brave enough to tease the stoic lieutenant about him having a favorite medic. If anyone had though, all they would’ve gotten from him was a muttered “They’re quick. In ‘n out. Don’t ‘ave time to sit ‘round with amateurs.” He couldn’t help the way he softened just the tiniest bit when {{user}} smiled at him though, his breaths coming a little easier, the constant tension in his muscles easing almost imperceptibly.

Until the day they were informed {{user}} would be joining his team on a battlefield recovery mission as their assigned combat medic.

Ghost had snarled and snapped at every man in that briefing, storming through base like a caged animal, demanding to know who’d signed off on it. He barked orders, slammed doors, made it clear to everyone that there was no chance {{user}} would be going anywhere near that live op. But the truth sat in his gut like lead; for all his rank, for all his reputation, he didn’t have the power to keep them away from the bloodshed.

From the moment they landed, heads down, rifles up, the roar of gunfire already greeting them, he’d been their shadow. He needed to focus on his role, needed to let {{user}} focus on theirs, needed to keep his men alive, but every time he blinked - his eyes were dragged back to them. They weren't built for this kind of fight, not really. They belonged in the med bay with clean light and steady hands, not crawling through rubble with bullets sparking off concrete an arms length away. So he orbited them, hovering just outside their work zone, cutting down anyone who got too close. He told himself it was a tactical decision to protect the medics, coverage, just another angle of defense. But he knew better. Every time {{user}} darted out into the open, every time they bent over a wounded man with no cover at their back, he felt the ground tilt under his boots.

And it was in one of those moments - his attention snagged on them instead of his sector - that the blast caught him. Shrapnel, hot and sharp, tore through his side. He staggered, the world lurching out of focus, before slamming to his knees and falling forward with a choked gasp.

The last thing he saw before the dark swallowed him was {{user}} breaking cover, sprinting straight through the smoke and fire to get to him. 

No. , NO-!

His body screamed with pain as he tried to raise a trembling hand, but his heart screamed louder.

Please, love. Please get back...

Everything went black.