Nikolai and Deer shifter!reader based on this:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DS236LbCNSm/?igsh=MWN1OHJlN3N2b2I2Zw==

In the old hangar that Nikolai repairs his birds in, theres an old dogbed tucked into the corner, and some stuffies strewn about.

With his assistant tightening some bolts in the back he tells Price its just for the stray dog that visits sometimes.

Sure, he trusts Price enough to tell him the actual truth, but you, his little assistant, dont know John that well.

And he wants to give you the grace of at least being able to introduce yourself to Price before he reveals your true nature.

Of how he found you wandering around shifted into your little whitetail deer form, stumbling around disoriented after nearly getting wrecked by a car.

Of how he took you in and nursed you back to health and let's you help him with his birds in turn.

Price does eventually find out what you are when Nik sends him a video of an angry little deer trying to jab him with non existent antlers, looking more like you were trying to blow him up with your mind.

He sends a little message alongside the video about how his little assistant was mad that hed be gone with Price on a mission.

When Price drives onto the property to pick Nik up, you dont comment when he hands you a bag of dried corn and Deer crackers as consolation.

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Simon who cries a little bit when he comes back from a mission and finds Mr. Kitty all fixed up.

He feels disgusted that someone even saw this wrinkled loved part of him.

But he cant deny that it makes something warm bloom in his heart.

Something he pishes down because he doesn't even know who to thank and doesn't even know if he wants to thank the mystery fixer.

Theres something so disgustingly vulnerable about someone taking the time to fix Mr. Kitty for him, without any prior notice, without any way for Simon to emotionally prepare for one of his most vulnerable parts to be seen, and much harder, to be changed.

He nearly throws up when he remembers that thats also where he keeps the few photographs he has of his past. Of his unscathed baby face grinning into the camera on a snowy Christmas eve filled with warm sweaters and ratty blankets tucked into Tommys side. His father had forbidden they use the heating even on Christmas because of the cost. So they'd found other ways to keep warm

It holds the singular photo he has of Joseph, the wee thing still a babe. Tiny in ghosts broad arms.

The singed photos are all he has of what was once Simon and someone saw them without him knowing.

He doesn't look anyone in the eye for the next few weeks, too ashamed to see if anyone was looking at him with pity

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Simon who, when he was still too young to understand his father's anger, before Tommy, before he started noticing the bruises on his ma, before he realised what kind of man his father was, loved him.

Loved him with his entire 4 year old heart.

And sometimes he still feels like he does love him. Or at least the few rare good parts.

The time he took Simon to see the New Years fireworks for the first time. The first time he was allowed to watch a movie with him on the old broken telly, even if the signal cut every few seconds.

He feels guilty for it of course. For loving the man who'd left his ma beaten on so many eves. For loving the man who'd used poor innocent Tommy to exploit Simons fears. For loving the man who even in the face of death to an illness still didnt ask for forgiveness for how he treated Ma and Tommy.

Ghost feels so especially, because he remembers the other side of those good moments that Simon doesn't.

How after the Fireworks, his father had dragged him past a broken pigeon on the sidewalk, only kicking the mangled chirping thing out of the way before moving on. How everytime the signal cut on their old shitty telly his father would yell and shove Simon off the couch to 'turn the fucking thing off and on again!'

But Ghost keeps those moments tucked away into the back of his mind, lest he shatter the last remains of Simon with them.

Simon who still has Mr. Kitty in a box under his bed, safe and hidden.

He cant leave base without the fear of someone finding the little thing and tossing it, thinking it trash from the way one button eye is missing and its fur is all wrinkled.

Like his dad once did when he found the ratty thing hidden under little Simons pillow

He had spent hours crying silently, searching for it in every nook and cranny

Only to find it in the bile filled trash.

His ma in one of her kind moments, helps him wash it and dry it before his father can find out the thing was still in the house.

After that night one dark button eye is missing forever.

Ghost who cant bring Mr. Kitty with him on missions. Too terrified of bringing the last pieces of Simon onto a battlefield and loosing him there.

Ghost who cant bring himself to touch Mr. Kitty in fear of tainting the wee thing with the blood staining his hands.

Ghost who also cant sleep without Mr. Kitty tucked securely against his chest, in the hope that keeping Mr. Kitty close will keep Simon close, will keep his Ma and Tommy and all their soft moments together tethered to the tainted wretched thing that is Ghost.

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Capri left n right side!!! >:3