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Paperwork

Ghost X Reader

Summary: You spilled coffee on a soldier's paperwork by accident. Your superior sends you out to face the consequences.

Warnings: anxious reader, superior yelling at you

Let me know if you like it, might continue this into a little series! Events inspired by my own anxiety :')

"How can you be so useless?! All you had to do was punch some holes in 'em and file them! Great! Now I have to go to...", your superior, Sarah, looked over the document, "-Fuck!"

She pressed the coffee stained papers into your hands, "No, you know what? You'll go. You go to Ghost and explain to him exactly why he has to do his paperwork again. The paperwork he rarely hands in on time anyways because he hates doing it. This is your fault, you're fixing it."

A strong wave of anxiety overcame you. You were still pretty new to this place. You'd only been living and working at the military base for about a month and while the administrative tasks that came with your job were not new to you, life here was certainly different from what you were used to and needed some time to adjust to.

After about half an hour of searching you ran into John McTavish, or Soap, as he is called here. Before the two of you could collide from your anxious rush he gently stopped you by your shoulders, "Careful there, almost would've run into ya. You alright there?"

Desperately trying to pull yourself together you made your way out into the hall with your paperwork in hand. How hard could it be to find the 6'5'' ft behemoth of a man with the scary mask? Pretty hard actually, you soon realised. He really lived up to his callsign.

You stared up at him, barely holding back tears now. You'd been searching these halls for what felt like hours, Sarah is probably fuming by now because you're waisting time and, "I'm fine. Sorry I-"

"Are you crying, lass?" Soap interrupted you and immediately started eyeing you with concern on his features, "What's wrong? Did I scare you?"

"N-no, it's just... Fuck..." You simply couldn't get the words out so you just handed him the ruined paperwork to speak for itself, swallowing the next load of tears.

"Hmn? Is this Ghost's?"

You nodded in response finally mustering an answer, "I ruined 'em. He's gonna kill me for that, isn't he?"

Soap couldn't stop a chuckle, "Well, he has killed more people over less, but I think you'll be safe just this once."

"Safe from what now?"

The deep voice that rang from behind Soap startled you so much that you would've dropped all of the papers if it hadn't been for Soap holding them.

"Safe from your fury, L.T. The little lass ruined some papers by accident." Soap handed the papers over to Ghost, who now appeared beside him. You couldn't quite decipher his demeanor by just the look of his eyes peering through the mask, but you were sure he must be furious.

You tried to hide how scared you were of his reaction when the tall, masked man gently placed one of his hands on your shoulder, "Listen, I don't know what your co-workers told you about me, but there's nothing to be afraid of. It was an accident. This type of shit happens to all of us. You have nothing to worry about unless you start bothering me on purpose, are we clear?"

"Clear as day, Sir!" You responded immediately standing up straighter. Despite his fairly kind words, he was still an imposing figure and you didn't want to risk bothering him again.

"Relax, you're not one of my idiot recruits. No need for formalities. Call me Simon." He handed over the papers again, "I'll bring clean ones in later today, don't worry about it."

After staring at him for a moment in stunned silence you finally managed to say, "Thank you, Simon." Even Soap seemed a bit perplexed by seeing his Lieutenant's kind side in action. Something that clearly didn't happen too often.

As soon as Ghost had left, Soap couldn't hold his excitement any longer, "Aye Lass, I don't know how you did it, but you got on his good side it seems! Gotta teach me your secret techniques! Never have I seen him this sympathetic unless he'd messed something up himself. Incredible, you're the Ghost whisperer!"

"I'm not a 'Ghost whisperer', stop this nonsense. I have to go get back to work now. Sarah is gonna have my head for taking so long." You sighed and looked back up at him, "But thanks for leading me to him, I guess."

"Any time, lass. Join us for lunch later?" The offer came as a surprise, but not an unwelcome one. You barely knew anyone here on a first-name basis, so you usually spent lunch in your office alone.

"Uhm, sure! See you there." You waved to him before hurrying back down to meet your superior's fury once again. As it turns out Sarah's wrath was the only thing you actually had to fear today.