Not Your Kind Of People (Raiden x Reader - Metal Gear)

Reunion

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Warnings: Unbetaed work. OoC. English is not my first language. Angst. Some parts may not be accurate in detail to the MGS4 narrative but the most important elements of the story are present.

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Part X: "Reunion"

Snake doesn't take you to Shadow Moses with him, as you expected. Instead, he tells you to stay and look after the crew of the Nomad. It's not an idea you're too keen on, and you feel you're breaking your promise to EVA, but there's not much you can do or say to change his mind. He works alone in the field, he says, and you'd only be getting in the way. As rude as his words sound, you have the feeling he's trying to leave you out of this for your own good.

He convinces you when he plays the 'Raiden needs you' card. Even he has sensed there's something going on between you and the blonde man but is silent on the matter. Snake only focuses on preparing for his mission, dons his muscle suit and readies his weapons. When you finally reach US soil in Alaska, Otacon prepares the helicopter for deployment and before long he and Snake head off to Fox Islands.

You have nothing else to do, other than sitting around with a mug of coffee in hand. Meanwhile, Sunny occupies herself at her work station, absorbed in a project she's developing at the moment. Although you don't understand what she's doing, by the endless lines of coding running on her screen you surmise she's programming. You decide not to disturb her and leave her to her task, but her diligent work and constant effort surely catch your attention. She must be only seven years old and is engaging in such a complicated affair. Now that you think about, she was even supervising Raiden's dialysis on her own.

The girl is something else, with an intellect far ahead compared with that of children her age. That wouldn't be strange, given her past in Area 51 and the fact she grew up connected to the internet ever since she was a little baby. With a sea of information at her disposal, she must have learned a lot of things that were beyond your comprehension.

Not everything is lost for her. She can put her knowledge to good use, to make a difference in the world. The thought of it puts a smile on your face, but it soon disappears as your mind goes back to the events of that evening. The death of EVA still afflicts your heart, and Tifa going MIA doesn't help in the slightest to put you at ease. You don't even know what has become of her. Has she escaped from Liquid? Is she... dead? There's no way for you to tell and the more you think about it the more you doubt things went well for her. She couldn't have survived the attack... or maybe she did? Where is she? She was supposed to protect Big Boss but, in the end, her assignment had gone awry and now Liquid is so close to taking full control of the system.

Heaving a sigh, you make your way to Raiden and sit on the edge of his table again. He still is asleep, his breathing soft and steady. You place a hand on his chest, feeling the smooth surface of his polymer body and the bolts embedded in it against your palm. Every now and then you trace his wounds, which have been sealed, and feel upset and guilty at knowing you hadn't been there to watch his back like you used to. Sunny has told you that some guy called Vamp nearly killed Raiden while he was trying to save Snake and Naomi in South America. All of this... just to discover she was working for Liquid the whole time. You knew he shouldn't have gone alone. If only you had been with him–