Safer With A Ghost | Simon "Ghost" Riley

Chapter 4

Ivy's POV

She woke up to the sun shining on her face. She sat up and stretched, looking next to her. Valeria's bed was empty and made neatly. Flipping the covers off of her, she got up and went to the bathroom. After finishing her business, she brushed her teeth. Walking out of the bathroom she heard voices downstairs. She walked down the stairs and saw Rudy alone in the kitchen, and everyone else but Ghost in the living room. She smelled coffee in the air and made her way to the kitchen. "Good morning Rudy." Ivy smiled as she spoke to him. "Morning Ivy." He returned a smile. She saw he was holding a paper coffee cup with a lid. Pointing towards the cup in his hand, "is there more?" "Yeah there is," he said gesturing to the coffee pot, "you're gonna need it to deal with the team. They have loads of energy today." He turned around, reaching into the cabinet, grabbing her a cup and lid and handed it to her. "Thank you. Are they always like this?" she asked with a smile. "No, Valeria and Alejandro don't get as much sleep as they got last night, and I think Soap and Gaz had too much coffee. Might be a little loopy from no sleep." He joked. Ivy poured herself some coffee and went to the fridge for some creamer and added it to her coffee. Ivy turned towards Rudy, "What are the plans for today?" After taking a drink, Rudy licked the coffee off his upper lip, "Uh I don't think Ghost has anything for us except day watch. Why, what's up?" Ivy sighed, "Just don't know what to do, not much around here." Rudy nodded, "Yeah we don't use this safe house much, so we don't have a lot." "Can we get stuff to do?" Rudy raised his brows, "I'm sure we could, I can talk to Ghost. What did you have in mind?" Ivy thought for a minute, "Like a pool table or darts, something to do outside?" he smiled, "A pool table would be damn fun. Ghost is a hard ass, but I'll talk to him." "Thank you Rudy." She returned a big smile.

Ghost's POV

A voice came over the radio, "Ghost this is Rudy, what's your position?" he pushed the button to speak, "Front of house." "On my way." Ghost let go of the radio, resting his hand on his gun again. He heard quick footsteps behind him and turned to look. He saw Rodolfo jogging towards him. "Morning, Rudy." Stopping in front of Ghost, "Morning, Ghost. Ivy has a request. Or a few actually." Ghost furrowed his brow, "What is it?" "Uh, she's pretty bored, she wants to know if we can get her some stuff to keep her busy?" Ghost sighed, "Like what?" Rodolfo rubbed the back of his neck nervously, "She wants a pool table or something to do outside." Ghost dropped his arms, keeping his weapon in one hand, "A pool table? Fuckin Christ." He said frustrated and sighed again. "Let me talk to Price." Rudy slapped Ghost's back playfully, "Thanks Ghost." Then jogged back into the house. Ghost pulled his phone out of his pocket and dialed Price. "Price." "Ay Sir, Ivy is requesting a pool table and something to do outside." Price laughed, "Is she now?" "Yes sir." Ghost laughed back. "Jesus, alright I'll have Daniel's bring a load, the base has an old one somewhere. Should be there this evening. As for outside, some ATVs are in the shed, figured we need them for searching the area but I guess they can use them for fun too." "Any word on the dog?." "Not yet, it wasn't with any of her family members. I'll keep looking." "Thank you, sir." Ghost hung up and checked his watch. Night watch was over.

Ivy's POV

Ivy sat with the team, all impatiently waiting and watching the door for Ghost. When he finally walked in, all eyes were on him. "Fuck you guys staring at?" he said, attitude in his voice. "Come on Lt. We saw you talking to Price. What'd he say?" Soap shouted impatiently at him. The team was quiet with anticipation, waiting for an answer. Ghost rolled his eyes as he shut the door and walked towards the kitchen. "Daniel's is bringing a truck tonight." He shouted over his shoulder. The team and Ivy were thrilled hearing the okay for some fun as they all had been extremely bored. As the team clapped and spoke to each other quietly but excited, Ghost peaked his head back in the living room, "I'm not unloading a damn thing, and neither is she." Pointing at Ivy. "We already knew that!" Valeria shouted back sarcastically, as she strolled over to Ivy. "Ghost must like you; he'd never ask Price for something like this for us." Ivy blushed.