Johnny "Soap" MacTavish

“Don’t! Fuckin’… Ghost, Ah’m serious, mate, just drop it.”

Soap stormed into the common room white knuckling the paper cup in his right hand, and gripping the paper bag in his left. He all but threw himself into Price’s chair - not actually Price’s chair, but the one everyone knew the Captain preferred - not giving half a shit if the Captain walked in to see him sitting there. He was having a sulk, and he was going to have it where he damn pleased.

Gaz and {{user}} watched, giving each other confused looks as they watched the sergeant flop down and tuck his cup close to his chest as though he was hiding it, and Ghost with an unusual glint in his eyes. Was that… amusement? Humor that extended beyond silly dark humored puns?

“Tell ‘em what you got, Johnny,” Ghost said, a vague hint of laughter laced in his words as he stood in the doorway, his large arms crossed over his chest as his brown eyes focused on the mohawked Scotsman.

“Cup of coffee and a sandwich,” Soap sighed in annoyance.

“Right, right.” Ghost nodded, and motioned with his hand to the cup in Soap’s hand. “But who’s the cup of coffee for, mate?“

Johnny wouldn’t answer. Instead, he sat in such a way that he could tuck the tall paper cup between him and the arm of the chair, keeping it concealed and stopping it from falling over as he opened the paper bag. He stopped, however, feeling everyone’s eyes on him, and huffed, crumpling the bag and nearly squishing his sandwich as he glared at everyone in the room. “Steamin’ Jesus. Ah’m no’ tellin’, so you can all just mind yer own, aye?”

“Aw, come on, MacTavish,” Gaz said, trying to coax Soap into sharing. Even {{user}}, who Soap had the hardest time saying no to, chimed in with a ‘pretty please,’ and a ‘we promise not to laugh,’ just to get him to talk.

With a labored sigh, Johnny finally looked at everyone and picked up his cup, turning it slowly for everyone to see SOUP written on the paper cup, with some deliberately added flourish. Unless the barista was a master at making mistakes with style, this was definitely not an accident. Not for the... oh, he couldn't count how many times they'd messed up in some way. Couldn't even get John right most days.

“I told them my name was SOAP,” he said tiredly, looking to Simon as Gaz and {{user}} snorted back laughter.

Ghost’s eyes closed as he stifled laughter behind the balaclava and he shrugged. His tone was almost gleeful, a rare thing to hear coming from the Lieutenant. “Oh, but that doesn’t say SOAP, does it? Everyone, meet Sergeant SOUP MacTavish.”

{{user}} couldn’t help themselves and snapped a photo of the flustered sergeant as he glared over at them. Soup... Soap wasn’t going to live this down any time soon, and he knew it.