This is a slash story so if you don't like that sort of thing then don't read it. However, if this is your thing then I hope you enjoy it. It is a Soap/Roach story but with major Roach/Ghost Bromance.

Disclaimer: Modern Warfare doesn't belong to me. It belongs to Infinity Ward.

Dying to be saved, part 1

"Don't worry mate... they'll come for us... just...just stay with me, ok"

The soldier drew his friend closer towards him. He didn't even know if the other soldier was alive for he hadn't stirred since their captives last threw him back into the cell. He just hoped that the limp body in his arms had merely fallen into a deep sleep and could no longer feel the pain from the numerous wounds that littered his body.

The soldier buried his face in his friend's hair before placing a small kiss to his temple.

"They're coming. MacTavish is on his way...he won't leave us...come on mate just live ok."

"Just don't die" Ghost continuously whispered to Roach.

4 days earlier

Shepherd's potholed face was on the screen as he continued to brief the 141 on their next mission. It would be in Latvia and they would have to infiltrate a compound that housed Russian Ultranationalist supporters and extract some important information from the leader known as Eduard Polis. Roach and Ghost had stopped listening to Shepherd and instead had begun to giggle about what Shepherd did in his spare time.

"I bet he wears dresses and heels" whispered Roach.

"NO, he wanks off to a picture of himself" Ghost giggled.

MacTavish nudged Roach to pay attention and watched as the two soldiers turned the attention back to the screen. Soap shook his head and wondered why on earth he had fallen for one of those idiots but Roach seemed to have crawled under the Captains skin and had taken home inside the Captains heart. He wasn't much of a romantic and had never been a hit with the ladies yet Roach never seemed to care. He would take the punches that Soap would dish out after a particularly horrible mission before punching Soap in the gut and telling him to calm the fuck down because his little tantrum would not help the situation. He always understood what the Captain was feeling. Roach may be an arrogant little prick but he was MacTavish's little prick.

He felt a hand slide onto his leg and turned to look at the hands owner. Roach continued to look at the screen, his face bland and his eyes bored yet Soap could tell from the way Roach sat that he was smirking inwardly.

"Ok you leave at 1900 and have an hour to complete the mission before the transport leaves. Got it, I want that information gentlemen and I will have it."

The screen went blank. The soldiers filed out the conference room while Toad made a perfect impression of the General which brought on a ripple of laughter from the 141. Soap felt a presence behind him; he knew who it was before he even turned. Roach's smirking face filled his vision before leaning towards him "so Captain your place or mine" Roach whispered seductively in his ear. Soap shivered as Roach's breath fluttered against his ear. He looked around and saw only Ghost leaning against a wall waiting for his best friend to emerge. Soap turned back and quickly pecked Roach on the lips, as he pulled away he noticed that Roach looked far from impressed. "Well if that is your idea of foreplay old man. I think I still need to teach you a few things." Soap sighed even after 2 years of being with Roach he wasn't comfortable with showing any affection in public. The whole 141 team and Nicholai knew about the two of them but he still didn't like PDA.

He moved closer to Roach so that he was flush against the shorter male. One hand slide down Roach's back and held him while the other hand was placed on his cheek; Soap leaned in and felt his lips connect with Roach's chapped ones. As always it felt amazing with little fireworks going off in his head. Even after 2 years Roach's kisses could still make him weak at the knees and with the kisses like that; Soap wondered how he survived the sex, it was amazing and left him breathless for hours.

The two broke apart both their cheeks red and lips swollen when a small cough had come from behind Soap. "If you two love birds have finished, I would like to go to the mess hall to get food 'cos I could eat an elephant" Roach rolled his eyes at his best friend. Quickly placing a peck on Soap's cheek he ran off to join his best friend in eating copious amounts of grub and annoying the hell out of the senior officers.

0700 hrs. Latvia

The Chopper landed on the patch of ground that was the acting LZ. Eighteen soldiers clad in black ducked low to exit the chopper and grouped where MacTavish stood 4 metres away by the tree line.

"Alright men team Alpha with me and team Beta with Ghost. Snipers get high 'cos we're gonna need you to rain bullets if the shit hits the fan, understood"

The men all nodded.

"Good then let's move out"

Soap took one last look at Roach before he disappeared into the thick forest with Ghost, Ozone and Meat.

The enemy surrounded them from all sides and where getting closer, the Alpha team where beginning to run out of Ammo and with no signs of escape their morale was beginning to slip. MacTavish was in a state of panic as Meat, Ozone and Ghost had meet up with them at the rendezvous point but Roach had been cut off from his team and had told Ghost he would get to them as soon as possible. But that didn't mean that Soap wasn't worried because he was.

Soap let off another shot and then another until his ACR clicked signalling that he was empty and with no more magazines he would have to resort to his hand gun which he knew wouldn't help much.

"Stand up and put your weapons down" came a heavily accented voice.

Soap looked up over the barrier he was behind and noticed that the enemy circled them and that all his men were standing up and placing their guns on the floor. Soap stood too and dropped his gun; from the corner of his eye he saw ghost do the same. The man then instructed the team to place the hands behind their heads and slowly make their way towards the open tarmac where they could see a truck coming to pick them up. Soap couldn't believe how easily they were giving up but what choice did they have; they were outnumbered and outgunned. He sighed in defeat.

Suddenly the truck that had being driving towards them exploded as if hit by an RPG. The pop of an AK-47 could be heard and the numerous shouts as the Latvian baddies looked around for the source of the shots. Soap squinted as he saw a small figure weaving in and out of the debris left from the previous fight mowing down all who stood in his way.

Roach!

Roach could hear his blood pumping in his ears and could feel the bullets flying past him but he needed to save his friends and needed to prove to them that he wasn't the clumsy FNG that everyone thought he was so he kept running and shooting. He leapt over a burning barrel and prayed that he wouldn't blow, landing awkwardly, he missed a bullet from one of the enemy so instead of hitting his head and it instead buried itself deep into his shoulder. The pain was excruciating but he had been shot before and kept running while swinging his gun and shooting the bastards. He rolled when his AK clicked to tell him to reload. He did so quickly and jumped up.

"Run, Run towards the cliff"

MacTavish was the first to break out of the shocked atmosphere that had descended on the 141 team and shouted to the others to start running. They did while Ghost picked up a firearm whose owner now lay dead with a pool of blood under his head and laid down suppressing fire so that Roach could get to safety.

Nickolai's chopper sounded in the distance and the team made off in that direction of the sound, the heli was hovering by the cliffside and Soap could see that already some of his men were jumping aboard, he ran and landed on the solid surface of the helicopter's floor. He looked up to see where Roach and Ghost were. He could see the two of them running towards the transport.

"We must leave we don't have much fuel" said Nickolai from the cockpit.

"Just wait for Ghost and Roach"

"Shit" Meat said as he spotted twelve tangos moving towards the two remaining members. Soap leaned forward and screamed at them to hurry; some of the tangos turned their attention to the chopper and began shooting. The helicopter banked to the left as it began to move away. The enemy had surrounded Roach and Ghost and had the on their knees while the rest continued to rain down bullets on the retreating helicopter. "Turn back, we can't leave. I won't leave them. Turn back now"

"I am sorry but we cannot go back, we will all be killed. We will come back for them. I promise"

Soap could do nothing but watch as his lover and his second in command where dragged away.