That's what brothers are for

by Shane'Phantom'Riley141

You know Simon 'Ghost' Riley but what if he had a twin brother who never escaped Manuel Roba. When Ghost finally finds out that his brother is alive he comes down with an illness that leaves him bedridden. Will ghost push through his illness or will he be too late to save his brother, the only blood family he has left.

1. prologue

disclaimer: i do not own any recognizable characters or the story to the prologue.

A/N

The prologue is basically the biography from wiki so i don't own it, its just so you get the idea of how my OC is interpreted into Ghosts past. i do not own it.

now that the formalities are done enjoy the story. please R&R.

Shane and Simon are twin brothers. They both lived in Manchester when they were younger before they joined the military when they were 18. Their father was abusive towards them, and he brought back dangerous animals including a poisonous snake, which had bitten Shane when had been made to kiss it and left him vulnerable to all drugs of any kind.

The brother's father was always drunk and threatened to kill them both if they told the police about the way he treats them, their brother and mother. At night Shane would wear a skull mask to scare Simon and Tommy, their little brother.

Simon used to be an apprentice butcher at a grocery when he grew up and Shane worked at the local shooting range cleaning guns. Both boys used to go shooting to get their anger out and over time they became very good at it especially with the snipers in Shane's case. After the September 11 attacks happened, they joined the military. They were both expert soldiers, but Simon proved that he had no fear of killing and he wasn't hesitant in doing so. Also he has the right attitude towards the CO this got him into the SAS as a lieutenant. Shane, later managed to get skilled enough to get into the SAS after 1 year of training his butt off just so he could be with his brother but as a sergeant.

The twins came back home one day in January and found there family was in a crisis. Their father was constantly cheating on their poor mother, Tommy was addicted to drugs. So Simon promised that they would not go back to the military until they fixed their families lives, but Shane wanted to have a new start without the painful past he has had and the only way he knew how to do that was to never see his family again. However Simon managed to persuade him that he couldn't leave his family behind and leave them like they were.

When the twins sorted their family's predicament they went back to the SAS. Simon and Shane were pulled out from shipping out for an operation in Iran and were set to take down the Zaragoza Drug Cartel headed by Manuel Roba. Their mission was to find and capture a Mexican terrorist and drug lord by the name of Roba. Little did they know, Vernon was in the loop with Roba and the entire operation was a disaster waiting to happen, their team was killed save for Shane, Simon and two of their team mates, Washington and Sparks. They were pitted against each other and forced to fight to the death. They refused to kill their team mates and every time they didn't they tortured them. Roba wanted to turn them into his little puppets like he had done to Vernon. He tried several brainwashing techniques on the four, but they refused to break.

Roba wanted to test Simon's abilities, so he had one of his men attack him, armed with a knife. Simon managed to get the upper hand and break his attacker's neck but not before he sliced him from his left eye to his right collarbone. After Simon succeeded, Roba became even more determined to control both Shane and Simon. The torture continued for four months becoming more and more intense and painful until they had finally believed the man had destroyed them. Washington and Sparks had escaped when they learned Roba had grown tired of them and planned to kill them all. They tried to save the twins, but couldn't open their cell.

They were right, that night Roba pulled Shane out of the twins cell and tried to kill him by piercing his side with this giant hook tied to a tree limb. He left him to die but he didn't, that was probably the most painful thing that Shane had ever experienced and the only thing he wanted to do was roll over and die. They returned that morning and when they found him still breathing, Roba pulled him down then buried Shane and Simon alive with the decomposing body of Vernon who he had killed at some time or another.

With Shane unconscious and bleeding, Simon ripped out Vernon's bottom jaw and used the bone to break his way out of the coffin and dig his way out of the ground. It took him about thirteen hours. His initial idea was that he was going to go get help for his brother from the nearest town, providing Shane lived that long. Disoriented and dehydrated, Simon somehow managed to make it to Texas on foot and was found unconscious by an officer patrolling the desert.

The six months after Simon made it out of there, he suffered terrible nightmares and hallucinations and he was put on several different medications. He regretted leaving his brother behind but there was no way that he could have carried him in the state he was in. Simon was still having temper-management issues so he was not accepted back into the military. After having an episode with his former-colleague, Kevin Sparks, his entire family was killed by Sparks and Washington. He killed the manslaughter's and went after Manuel Roba once more. He ambushed Roba's right-hand man, Gilberto and tortured Roba's location out of him. He arrived at Roba's compound and stole all of the information on the company and killed Roba. When he left, he was approached by General Shepherd and recruited into the Task Force 141 under the name of Ghost, Simon 'Ghost' Riley. Simon thought that his twin brother was still alive but his new friends in the 141 told him that it was impossible but he refused to believe it.