//itsu no ma ni ka bokura nanigenaku deatta

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

Who: Hal Emmerich, Liquid Snake
Where: Azalea Town
When: Midday, October 10th
Summary: Hello, I am a crack pairing between two socially awkward people.
Rating: idfk, T or something
Log:
What had he been thinking? What had possessed him to offer to find a restaurant with Liquid? Sure, his cooking was a nightmare (and Otacon planned to bring back something nice for Heather to make up for it), but this was Liquid.

...as he got ready to leave, he idly wondered if Snake was alright wherever he was. Otacon was worried sick, though he hid it the best he could. His first and closest friend was in pain, possibly even dying and there wasn't a damn thing Otacon could do. To say it upset him was an understatement.

But this wasn't the time for that. He'd promised some food that was actually edible, and that's what he'd get them. If there was nothing he could do to help Snake...then he'd just wait and worry in silence.

"Ready, Liquid?" he asked with a smile, recalling the angrily hissing Kotai and slipping her Pokeball into the sleeve of his kimono--what her problem was with him, Otacon wasn't entirely sure.

Comments

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

It was actually sort of cute how badly he was screwing up.

"..."

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

It was just that these sushi things were hard to hold on to, that's all.

Click.

...Fuck it.

Stab.

Nom.

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

...

Well, that was one way to do it.

Snerrrrrk.

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

Don't knock it if it worked.

He was going to go back to the rice balls, though. Those, at least, he didn't have to fight for-- he fought for so much that he'd really rather not have to have a battle for his food, too.

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

"Do you at least like it? I'd hate to see you go through all that effort for nothing." Otacon remarked, calmly taking a drink of tea.

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

"It's all right."

Better than camel spiders.

When drank with all of the rice and fish, green tea wasn't too bad. It wasn't as sweet as the tea he usually drank, but that worked with the meal.

"I prefer the oni-- ...these things."

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

"Onigiri." Otacon replied. "Funny--I remember hearing you spoke seven languages, right? Japanese isn't one of them?"

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

"I do speak seven languages, and no, Japanese isn't one of them. The only Asian language I can speak is Malay, and it's nothing like Japanese."

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

"Huh. Weird to think I know something you don't." He laughed awkwardly, a little embarrassed for some reason.

"So, um..." Otacon's hands were fidgeting--a sure sign that he was either nervous, thinking of what to say, or both. He had wanted to ask since Liquid came back, but something had stopped him; what, he wasn't sure. "What...uh...wh-what happened with Snake?"

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

The whole episode, on the whole, hadn't bothered him overmuch. It was obvious that FOXDIE wasn't enough to take him out, so what did he have to worry about? It had been annoying, but that was all.

"I yelled at him, he yelled at me, we fought a bit, and then I had a heart attack."

He said it casually, as though there was nothing unusual about this conversation.

"The rest you already know."

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

Liquid nearly dropped his oni-thing at that outburst.

"Jesus, Hal, what?"

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

"You had a heart attack?! Why didn't you tell me?!"

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

"I got better."

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

"I noticed, but--w-we should get you to a hospital and get you checked out or something!"

Wait a second.

"...you're not dead. You mean FOXDIE didn't-?"

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

"I feel fine, there's no need."

Liquid wasn't very fond of hospitals, anyway.

"Obviously FOXDIE isn't enough to kill me."

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

"But--"

...but it is. What's going on here?!

"..I was there, five years ago. I saw it work myself."

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

"Then it obviously isn't working properly. All it did was give me a few chest pains, assuming that those were even caused by your little virus at all."

INDESTRUCTIBLE LIQUID IS INDESTRUCTIBLE

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

This is what Otacon looks like when he has a headache, Liquid. Either that or he's incredibly confused--or both.

"Snake made it sound like it was going haywire, but this doesn't make sense..."

Oh, screw it. He'll just be ordering a particularly large bottle of sake to forget he ever heard that.

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

"He said that he thought it was going to start killing everyone around him, though I'm not sure what made him think that."

Why hello there, alcohol. Liquid has been waiting a long time to see you.

"...Is that booze?"

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. I haven't been through a lot of the things he has yet." A fact that seemed to upset him, with good reasons.

"Huh--oh, yeah. Lot better than the stuff you and Heather charged into the Center after drinking, too."

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

"...hn."

Not for the first time, Liquid was wondering why Otacon had even started traveling with him at all. He obviously wanted to go with Snake, but... for some reason, he hung around with Liquid even when Liquid had insisted that he stop.

"And here I thought the whole world was teetotaling."

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

"Guess not," he remarked absently, pouring both of them a glass. "I have to wonder where they get the fish for sushi, though."

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

"I choose to believe that somewhere there are normal, non-Pokemon fish."

He'll just happily live in that delusion, thank you. Because otherwise they had to start questioning where all of the meat came from.

[philanthrotaku.livejournal.com]

Otacon simply made a vague sound of acknowledgment in response, staring out the nearest window. The engineer really couldn't help but wonder what Snake might have been doing right about then.