The safe house was drafty and thin... but it was safe, more than could be said of the evacuation. By some miracle, the rest of the squad got out unharmed ~ but Ghost couldn't leave you behind. Sometimes, on missions like this, the dangers of a relationship became all too clear. If you got hurt... Ghost couldn't think that way. He eyed you silently, taking in your huddled, shaking form. Maybe now wasn't the time to worry…

"Alright," he sighed, patting the inside of his warm thigh. "C'mere."