- Macabre - König vs Ghost x Male Reader

13 - Pretentious

~Your POV~ 

     I opened my eyes slowly, the steady beeping of a heart monitor filled my ears and a despondent vibe filled the air. It was bright in the room, the bright white lights burned my eyes, my vision blurry. I groaned and turned my head, closing my eyes. Immediately i heard the rush of footsteps and someone touch me and i jerked away and my eyes shot open, a large figure in front of me, due to the blurry vision i couldn't quite make out who. 

     "Easy, easy, it's just me..." the gruff British accent rang through my ears. I sighed and leaned into his chest "Ghost...". He wrapped his arms around me, stroking my head gently "We almost lost you...we were all worried, you've been out for three days.." he said barely above a whisper. "Where is everyone..?" I asked, hugging him back. "Well, me and König have been taking turns watching you..and we did talk it out and we are on better terms now...but we still have some squabbles. He's asleep on the couch, Johnny and Gaz are in the cafeteria and Price is down the hall talking to the doc.." He explained in a calm tone. I sighed and nodded, "I'm glad...you and König made up..." I murmured. 

     After a moment of silence Ghost broke the silence, "How are you feeling? Not in too much pain, nothing wrong with you that wasn't wrong before..? That gas took a number on you.. I've seen a lot of things in my line of work but.. i couldn't watch the doctors when they were...." He trailed off, seemingly having trouble, the memory paining. I rubbed his back "I'm fine, my body is just a bit sore, my vision is a bit blurry and i can't take deep breaths but....i'm okay...don't worry.." I said in reassurance, trying to downplay the severity of it. Ghost chuckled solemnly, "You say that like i can just flip a switch to turn off my worry...when i found you, you were unconscious... your heartbeat was barely noticeable and you were limp.... I thought i was going to lose you..." his grip around me tightened slightly "I couldn't lose you...not like that...not at all.." he said, his voice gruff and low. 

     I sighed, hugging him a bit tighter, "Well i'm okay now, i'm here, i'm awake, i'm with you and i'm safe.... the worst of it is over.." I murmured and Ghost planted a kiss atop my head. Just then i heard a pair of footsteps after the door opened and then the sound of two cheers, "Ye're finally awake aye lad?" the sound of Soaps voice echoed in the room and then I felt his hand clap my shoulder, I could see his and Gaz' blurry figure in front of me. I chuckled "yeah..hope i didn't worry you lot too much." Soap chuckled and shook his head "Worry? ye haed us on our hands and knees beggin god tae let ye live" He said in his scottish accent with a wide grin and ruffled my hair, making a chuckle escape my lips. ~End of POV~ 

~König's POV~

     The commotion in the room had woken me up, I sat up and rubbed my eyes, upon opening them I saw Macabre sitting up right and awake, my despondent attitude, completely dissipated, I jumped up and walked over. "Mein Schatz! You're awake!" I hugged him tightly. He tapped my back "Can't breathe, König." He said in a strained tone. I chuckled softly "Bitte, Bitte, I just missed you so. I was so worried about you Mein Schatz, I thought I lost you.." I said in a low tone, still holding onto his upper arms. "I'm okay now König don't worry." He said softly with a smile, his hand over one of mine. I nodded "Ja, that mustard gas must have been bad.." I said lowly, my eyes widened when I saw everyone looking at me. Ghost spoke up, "The doctors never told us what the gas was, König." He said gruffly with narrowed eyes. "Oh. Nein, It was a guess." I chuckled. "Must have been a lucky guess then because that's what the doctor just told me it was in the hall." Price chimed in, he was standing in the door way, his arms crossed over his chest, his rugged gaze set on me. ~End of POV~ 

     Later on in the day there was an unspoken tension in the room, like everyone was glaring at König with suspicion. You didn't understand why it was a big deal, the symptoms were a reasonable example of why he would've said mustard gas. A week later you were finally dispatched from the hospital and went back to the Task Force 141's base. König had left the day before because he needed to go back to Kortac and said he would come back when you were fully healed to take you back to KorTac base. That night after lights out you sluggishly walked to the common room for a drink of water when you saw a dim light on in the common room and hushed voices. 

     You got down on your hands and knees and crawled to the door way, peeking into the room from behind the wall slightly, Soap, Ghost, Price and Gaz were all there sitting at a table talking quietly. You strained your ears to listen in on their hushed and private conversation. 

"There's no way that was just a guess, he had to know that it was mustard gas." Ghost said gruffly, Soap nodding. "Aye, I agree with Ghost." Gaz leaned back in his chair, "Me and him got separated on our floor when fighting some enemies but I didn't see any dead bodies when he ran after the guy, and when I found him he was coming down the stairs off the floor that Macabre was on when he had been hit with that gas," he explains. Ghost clenched his jaw and ran a hand through his messy ash-blonde hair, "I never should've trusted that behemoth. I knew he was up to something, dammit." Price finally chimed in, "So what are we thinking. It was a double-cross and König panicked after one of his men hit Macabre..?" He asked, taking a drag on his cigar. "Or he was aiming for Macabre like the unfeeling behemoth he is." Ghost retorted gruffly. "I mean seriously, this guy, this fucking giant." ghost slammed his fist on the table, "He has to have a motive behind it, I mean honestly, a creature like him has no chance of really being in love with someone as...amazing as Macabre, He's using him, König knows something about him that is making him either use him or manipulate him to get close to him and kill him. When König would take watch over Macabre, all he would bloody do is stare, stare like he was hoping he wouldn't wake up, glance at his IV's all the time...it just didn't sit right with me." He explained, his disgust growing by the second.

     You sat behind the wall, listening, everything Ghost said about him was true. Was he really just using me for his gain? Is he trying to kill me? Does he even truly love me?  You thought to yourself. You brought yourself to your feet and stumbled blindly down the hall back to your room, the floor board creaked under you before you quietly picked up your pace into a light run. Price glanced at the door way to to the common room, hearing the creak of the floor board before looking back at the three men coming up with reasons why König would double-cross them.