Contrary to a popular belief of Task Force 141 about what Ghost does on leave, he's actually rather sociable.

Sometimes he heads back to Manchester and stays in a small flat there that he rents but rarely lives in, sometimes he stays in a cheap hotel in London and spends all of leave trying to integrate himself back into the crowded environment of society in pubs, and sometimes he jumps on a train and goes up to Glascow to catch another train that goes to the highlands and spends all leave with Soap's family on their farm.

It's almost Christmas and the team have been let off on Christmas leave. Ghost debates on staying by himself in London (he doesn't want to spend Christmas in Manchester due to bad memories of past Christmases as a kid), but then decides against it and asks Soap if he can join his family for Christmas.

Soap, the ever loving Scot, agreed, but asked for Ghost to come a few days later to give him some time with his family until Ghost gets there. Ghost agreed, settling down in a Premier Inn in London by Euston station until Soap sent a message that he could come.

Ghost packs up all his things, checks out of the place he was staying at and crosses the road to the station.

He can feel people staring at him as he walks through the station, giving him weird looks because of the skull mask. If only they knew how many times his team has saved their asses.

He looks at the timings for the next train, seeing that it's not for another 16 minutes, so he sits down in the crowded and loud seating area, listening to other people yelling, swearing, and cursing at other people to tell them to move as they push through the crowd.

It's such a loud environment.

He's about to check his phone when he spots something. There's someone sitting just across the row in front of him who's staring at the ground, bouncing their legs, looking worried.

Trying to be helpful, he pulls out some headphones from his bag and slips them onto your head to block out the noisiness of the station.

"You're OK, kid. I promise."