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My Different Family.

There has been an intense heat-wave for the past four weeks which had practically brought the city to its knees. Stores were running low on any type of water, Air-con units were on full everywhere and the weather had already started claiming victims.

It's the very early hours of the morning and a little six-year-old girl awoke from her sleep. She glanced at the clock on the bedside table and rubbed her eyes. Her room was light and tidy, but over technological for a girl of her age-group, with a large computer system in the corner next to a mountain of stuffed toys. One of the only things that seemed in common with her peers was that the room was painted a light pastel pink.

Sunny climbed out of her bed and stretched after rubbing her eyes again and wondered into the living room and climbed up onto the made-up sofa bed where Snake was sleeping on his side. As she climbed up on top of him and started to shake him.

"Wake Up!" She announced as she pulled at the covers over him.

Snake just mumbled and turned around. Sunny jumped off the bed and walked into the bathroom to get her sink step, picking it up and gingerly placing it in front of the main bedroom door as she climbed up and pulled the handle.

The door creaked as it opened slowly while she listened to the rhythmic breathing of her foster-father, who was laying naked on his side, holding a very light sheet over himself, fast asleep on the large double-bed. Sunny walked into the room and up to the bed where Otacon lay fast asleep. She stared at him affectionately noticing how peaceful he looked, with the soft pillow supporting his neck and his long, dyed warm brown hair sprawled out over the pillow surface.

"Wake Up!" She said excitedly but in a hushed tone, until she noticed that Otacon was still fast asleep.

She quickly pulled the covers off him.

Otacon sleepily felt his naked side and the matrice around him. "…mmm..You know, that's very inconsiderate Dave..." He mumbled half asleep.

"Its time to get up!" Sunny cheerfully announced.

Otacon's eyes snapped open and he grabbed the pillow to cover himself. "Sunny! Good morning…….ahhhh…Y-you shouldn't do that." He said as he reached for his glasses and quickly pulled on his house robe.

"Why?" She asked curiously.

"Well because…..because you shouldn't. H-how did you get in here anyway?" He mumbled as he tried to put his glasses on without poking his eye.

"My step!" She announced with pride and achievement at her ingenuity while pointing at the door before climbing on top of the bed.

Otacon sat up cuddling the pillow in front of himself, with his eyes still shut trying to muster the strength to get out of bed while Sunny wrapped her arms around his waist. "Is it Cuddle-time?!"

"No...no dear it's not cuddle-time..." Otacon mumbled as he pat her on the back gently before getting out of bed.

Sunny looked up at him while she started to make the bed. "Daddy, I guess you want me to help make breakfast!"

"Yes please Sunny, I would like that very much. Ahhh, don't forget to make something nice for Mei-ling when she gets here tomorrow. In fact, I'll go wake up Daddy-Dave before I shower." Hal answered as he grabbed some clothes off a chair.

"Ohh I tried to wake him up, b-but I bet he's gone back to sleep." Sunny said as she jumped off the freshly made bed and run past Hal into the living room shouting "dad—err..Uncle-DAAAAAAVE!"

Otacon smiled back at her. Sunny standing in her little pink nightdress was the cutest, cleverest little girl he had ever seen and he was proud to adopt her. Ever since Jack had hurriedly dropped her off with them (He was en route to a bath-house at the time), Hal had thrown himself into the happy role of a parent. He wanted a child desperately but this caused friction with his partner. They would argue into the early hours over the adoption and the massive changes that a child would bring.

But Hal was unmovable in the fact that Sunny was going to be his daughter that he even faced the heartbreaking decision to move out of their flat and raise her alone, Snake had to finally relent as he then realized just how much Hal loved Sunny and how he was willing to become heartbroken to keep her, and he just couldn't deal with Hal being an teary emotional wreak every night with the inevitable sleeping in different rooms for sometimes days and eventually weeks on end. The stress of the formal adoption couldn't have come at a worse time for them; they had lost the bandage that they used the exceptionally rare times they even argued as Snake had started to show signs of rapid ageing, a topic he just didn't want to talk about and he started to show a strong reluctance to making love with his partner, resulting in more arguments and more hurtful words exchanged.

Otacon felt that it was all his fault and felt that it was because of his 'unreasonable demands' and 'forcing' a child on his partner that caused the problems in their relationship, coupling that with the recent death of Hal's close friend Natasha and the extra financial burden that paying the full rent on the Philanthropy building .

He even offered to continue paying for the flat while he moved into a friends' flat with Sunny, while still coming over to cook, clean and look after his partner who he loved so desperately. Snake snapped back at him that it was a disjointed idea, and if it came to that then he would be the one to leave, not Hal, and if he did would never come back. Which lead to extensive peace-talks between them all of which could only take place if Hal could beg Mei to look after Sunny as long as she could. He wanted a child but desperately wanted his partners support and ultimately wanted to save the relationship he had fought and suffered so long to get.

Sunny ran excitedly into the living room and jumped up onto the bed, she started shaking Snake, who started to stir then pull a slightly irritated expression as he sat up.

"Yaaay!" Sunny shouted as she hugged Snake tightly while he scratched around the bed-table for his cigarettes. "A-are you going to read me a story?"

"Uhhh, Sunny. We adults aren't very good at stories, especially not at keeping up with the amount of books that daddy keeps buying you." Snake mumbled.

"But...I-I want you to r-read me one of these two!" She declared.

"It isn't that programming in C+ thing again is it?" Snake sighed.

"Noo! It's about the moon! Or you can read me this about families..." She said as she held up two children's books.

Snake looked at the thin, large soft-paper square books. He readjusted his cigarette to the side of his mouth and started to flip through the book.

"Daddy-Dave! You're not reading out loud!" Sunny exclaimed with frustration.

"Uhhh...uhh, okay…….And I'm Uncle-Dave." He said as he opened the book at the first page. "My Very Different Family" Snake started.

"...I'm a little girl..." Snake mumbled with discomfort while Sunny lay down next to him with her wide hungry eyes taking in every word.

"-...I have a different family...uhhhh...Some families have only one mummy and some families have only one daddy. Some families have a mummy and a daddy..." Snake sighed as he took afew more drags on his cigarette.

"You need to read it with voices like daddy does!" She exclaimed.

"Uhhh..." Snake sighed trying to make himself sound more cheerful. "Some families have two mummy's and some families have two daddies, and sometimes you are raised and loved by people who are not related to you, but they become your family. I am proud of my different family - Point to the family you have...-"

Sunny points to the picture with two men standing next to the little girl as Snake erupts into a coughing fit.

Meanwhile, Otacon was standing in the kitchen making breakfast for them. He stood there flipping over the mushrooms and sausages in the pan, with his hair pulled back, wearing a large T-shirt bearing an Anime design and loose trousers. He turned and smiled at Sunny who walked into the room and sat at her seat at the table.

"Daddy...what does c-conditioning mean?" She asked as she stared at her Hello Kitty breakfast plate and cup.

"Ahhhh...it's something you do to your hair to make it all nice and soft, why?" Otacon answered as he glanced over to Sunny to see her staring at her book with a screwed up face of total confusion.

Otacon got her little pink sink-step from the bathroom and placed it in front of the cooker. "Okay darling, are you going to make the eggs?"

"YES!! YES!!" She squeaked in her under-developed female voice as she climbed on top of the step while holding Hal's hand. She took from him a spatula he bought especially for her, and some eggs.

Otacon stared lovingly at her work with her little hands, cracking eggs, adding oil, salt and pepper. He loved her and loved buying little girly things for her, from clothes to her own special cutlery, her own toothbrush and paste, hair accessories and clips for her soft platinum silver hair. Snake had pointed out that he thought having those things around the flat was more for Hal then it was for Sunny, but he thought it was best not to dwell too much on it as it was doing wonders for Hal's emotional wellbeing and general psyche.

Snake walked into the kitchen scratching the back of his head. "Hal, where's my black top?" He mumbled.

"Ohh Ahhh, it's in the washer….it's finished but I didn't have time to empty the machine yet." Otacon said as he guided Sunny's hands.

"Uumm…" Snake sighed in mild irritation as he pulled items out of the washing machine until he found his top, which was still damp. Snake walked off to put it on the main living room radiator but much to his dismay, he found the whole radiator covered in Sunny's vests, underwear, leggins, tops, trousers and little over-dresses that she normally wore over leggins.

"HAAAL! Every radiator has Sunny's clothes on it!" Snake called out to the kitchen.

"Well……Hang them on the aerator then next to mine!" Otacon called back.

"But…uhhh…Theres never room on the radiator!!" Snake called back irritated.

Otacon turned to Sunny and forced a smile through his frustration. "Dear, I need to talk to Daddy-Dave…I'll be right back okay?" He said weakly.

Sunny grabbed the side of his T-shirt as he walked around her. "N-no shouting at each other…please…"

What she said stopped Otacon in his tracks and made him turn back to her and run his hand down her back. "Sunny…we don't shout at each other..?"

"You do….but you ttry to mmake it quiet. And you always end up crying….I know because I hear you……when you're trying to hhide it." She said as she looked down.

"Sunny..I-"Otacon started by was cut short by Snake shouting.

"HAAAL! Are you going to come over here and sort this out or shall I!"

Otacon smiled and caressed Sunny's face. "No shouting, I promise!"

"Ccan you tell Daddy-Dave that too? " Sunny asked while smiling back.

"Ohhh don't worry, I'll tell him that!" Otacon said as he turned around to see the clothes from the washer on the floor in front of it. He shoke his head in frustration and turned on the small kitchen radio, turning up the volume slightly as he walked out and closed the kitchen door behind him.

"Hal, all the radiators are taken up and I-"

"LISTEN Dave!" Otacon exclaimed sternly while checking his volume as he marched up to his lover. "- It's NOT rocket science. Why didn't you just check which of her clothes were dry if you're hell-bent on using the radiator and not the aerator! And why did you leave all the washing on the kitchen floor! And don't shout at me! Do you know that she knows we argue?! Little girls need more clothes, in particular underwear, then men do! And don't try to give me the big 'Don't be mad at me' puppy-eyes because it's not going to work!"

Snake stared at his partner with wide 'Don't be mad at me puppy' eyes and a 'what the heck brought this on' expression. "Hal…why are you so uptight about where clothes go?"

"But YOU were the one was uptight about it! " Otacon added.

"Okay, how about I just wear it…It'll dry off soon enough.." Snake mumbled.

"No…no…Dave, don't do that.." Otacon said affectionately.

"Uhh..Okay….fine." Snake quietly snapped back as he sat down on the sofa and turned his back on Hal while he lit his cigarette.

Otacon crossed his arms while putting all his weight on one foot."WHAT does 'Fine' mean then?"

Snake shrugged while he clicked the igniter on his lighter.

"Dave…don't ignore me!"

"What do you want me to say then?" Snake asked calmly.

"Well….nothing…" Otacon said emotionally.

"Uhh…Okay then…." Snake mumbled.

"Right…FINE. You're obviously in 'one of your moods'! And frankly, I'm not going to argue with you over it..." Otacon added in a frustrated manner as he collected Sunny's dry clothes from the radiator in a hurried and fed-up fashion.

"Fine." Snake said as he started to read a magazine.

"Fine!" Otacon replied as stopped next to Snake, while carrying an armful of clothes, on his way back out to the kitchen.

"Fine!" Snake said casually.

"FINE!" Otacon said as he looked back into the room before closing the door behind him.

Snake stared at the closed kitchen door and felt a sharp pang in his chest. He knew his partner was on edge and it seemed like sometimes their lives seemed like an uphill struggle against a variety of reasons.

Sunny had placed the eggs on their plates and sat back at the table while Otacon dished out the rest of breakfast. Snake opened the kitchen door slowly and shuffled in, in a guilty manner, he collected the washed clothes he had left on the floor, that Hal had placed on a chair, and took them out to the living room to arrange them neatly on the aerator.

"Uncle Dave! I made some of your breakfast!" Sunny shouted to the other room.

"Yeah' Uncle Dave', are you going to eat something?" Otacon called out to his partner.

Snake walked back into the room and up to his partner who was still standing at the cooker. "Uhh Hal….I……put the clothes away to dry." He said quietly.

Otacon turned to his partner with a fragile smile "Thank you dear..." he looked over to see Sunny busy eating her food before he leaned over to kiss Dave but he shunned him and walked to the table to sit down.

Snake stared at the burnt eggs on his plate. "Uhhh Hal….want some extra eggs?"

"SHHH.." Otacon replied before he could stop himself.

"Uncle Dave….Are you going to read me a book before you go to work in the shop tonight?" Sunny asked gleefully.

"Ohh yeah, about one of those books Hal…" Snake said nonchalantly as he reached for the salad bowl.

"Ahhh, yes dear?" Otacon said as he carefully took Sunny's fork and knife and started cutting her toast.

"Uhh…. yeah….the….subject matter..." Snake as he tilted his head and stared at his partner.

"Do y-you mean Chemical Matter?" Sunny asked as she looked up at Snake confused as she didn't own any Chemistry books.

"Well….one of those books has a……'Non-polar' theme..." Snake mumbled.

"Huh? She doesn't have any books about bears? Well I can always buy some if you like…" Otacon looked up from his plate and answered totally confused.

"N-non-polar is when two of the ssame type of atom form a bond." Sunny babbled almost to herself.

Otacon choked on his mouthful of food and dropped the fork to his plate. After he recovered he turned to his partner with a measure of shock as soon as he understood. "So……should I complain about all her storybooks that only have 'POLAR' bonds?"

"Uhh its just……sharing atoms is great..but ……uhhh…I don't think the……..Child….electrons…..should know about it!" Snake protested.

"WHAT?!" Otacon replied. "Dave! This is 2008! If two non-metal atoms want to bond, they shouldn't have to worry about bias and discrimination! Society is changing, and anyway….I thought we'd been through all of this."

Sunny screwed up her face while looking totally confused.

"That's not the point I'm making! The issue is that they expose kids to enough Ionic-bonding t as it is! On TV, in those videos they watch and games they play. We don't need a lot of non-polar bonding in children's books!" Snake added.

"Dave…Aren't you forgetting you're behavior is very……-" Otacon looked around as he searched for the words. "-……Bi………..Polar……….…-"Otacon stopped realizing that things were starting to make no sense at all.

Sunny looked shocked and turned to Snake "Daddy-Dave….I didn't k-now you suffered from depression!
?"

"And its uncle-Dave dear" Snake cut in.

"Look, I feel A LOT of electro-magnetism for you, and I know you feel it for me too. We've been together for years and weathered many storms together and you've come to terms with many issues. I know we've been having big problems recently but…….just…..Don't shut me out Dave..." Otacon said while losing the will to encode his speech when he was speaking from his heart.

"No. You know I magnet you too! I'm just saying that we have to be careful what……child……electrons ……see!"Snake babbled.

"Well if your atom wants to keep bonding with mine then WHY are you complaining? Are you trying to be argumentative with me again…..even after all that happened last month?"

"…Magnet?...Child Electrons?..." Sunny looked up to Otacon awaiting an answer.

"Ahhh….It's very advanced stuff Sunny…Ahhh…finish your toast dear.." Otacon lied as he nodded his head and smiled to her.

"I'm not complaining but-"Snake started but was cut off by Otacon.

"Dave, I would be very happy to continue this conversation later…..when the 'child electrons' are playing on their computer." Otacon said indignantly as he stood up from the table and started to clear all the empty plates.

"Uhhh okay." Snake grunted. "But I'm tired as it is, I think I may go have a lay-down cause my joints are achy."

"Why don't you go take a nap in the bedroom?" Otacon asked pensively as he washed the dishes.

"No thanks." Snake replied without even looking at his partner.

Otacon sighed as he turned off the taps and dried his hands, he pulled off his glasses and rubbed his eyes in frustration as he lent against the sink.

"Whats wrong with you?" Snake mumbled.

"Everything Dave…" he replied as he walked behind his partner and placed his hands lovingly on his shoulders, only to be shrugged off.

Otacon stared at his lover with despair. "Why are you doing this?! Okay…" Otacon sighed in exasperation. "What's her name…?"

"WHAT?!"

"Uhh…Whos?!"

"You're……You're having an affair aren't you?" Otacon said angrily as he looked down at his glasses.

"What?!"

"And will you stop repeating me!"

"Oh look, Hal, I don't wanna talk to you when you're like this."

"I haven't done anything! It's this situation which you refuse to acknowledge and its ruining everything!"

"YOU'RE ruining everything Hal!"

"Ohh? How do you figure that? You've hardly come near me for months, every time I try to get close to you, you push me away. You insist on turning out the lights the rare times we're even together, you force me to face away from you the whole time! The last time we even 'made love', you seemed totally BORED then complained you were too tired from working and wanted to sleep! Why didn't you just save time and tell me to finish myself off. You're becoming neglectful! You're neglectful of me and sometimes you seem to be mean to me for the sake of it!"

"That's bullshit Hal and you know it!" He countered while pointing into his partner's face. "I work very hard to supplement our living. How am I supposed to keep up with your demands?"

"Demands? Since when were they 'Demands'? You USED to love me Dave…"

"Ohh Don't start that!"

"You're having an affair! I know it!" Otacon started to raise his voice while becoming alittle hysterical.

"I'm no having an affair! Who the hell would want to with me anyway!"

"LOADS of people Dave! So you've gone grey, it means nothing! You still look the same! Women are all over you……they always have been!"

"Hal, you're giving me such a headache, I don't want to hear you bitch about me then cry…-" Snake started.

" 'Bitch' and 'Cry'?! Is this after I don't get my 'demands' then?!"

"Hal, you're being argumentative..."

"NO, you're being argumentative! And downright rude! You're supposed to love me Dave!!" Otacon said in a panic'd way as he tried to hug his partner before being pushed away.

A while after dinner, Otacon ran a warm bath for Sunny and lovingly placed all his family of Ducks in the water for her before placing clean clothes on the radiator for her. He walked up to her room knocking gently on the door.

"Sunny..?" He said through the door.

"Yes?" He heard her little voice through the door.

"Ahhh are you ready for your bath? You want to be all nice and clean for when Mei gets here tomorrow. "

"Yes! I'll be right out!" She replied eagerly a few moments before she appeared at the door wrapped in a little pink towel. She went into the bath and saw the over-bubbly bath. Otacon came back in to help his little girl into the bath. Sunny picked up the Barbie bubble bath containter and sniffed it as she sat in the bath. "T-this smells like Cherries."

"Does it?!" Otacon asked as she held it up to his nose. "Ohh…well it does!"

"I love Nutmeg, Buttercup, Sushi, and Petal, daddy." She squeaked as she arranged all the colorful ducks on the bath side.

"I'm very glad dear! And they love you too! In fact…I think we need to add to their little family! Want to pick out a new duck tomorrow with Auntie Mei?" He said as he poured some shampoo carefully onto his hand and started to wash Sunny's soft hair.

"YES!!" She squeaked, while trying to dodge the water running onto her face.

"Okay, you can play for awhile while I go check on Daddy-Dave, okay?"

"Okay"

Otacon placed a face-towel close to the bath and walked out into the living room to see his partner asleep on the sofa. He knelt down next to the sofa and shook his partner delicately.

"Dave..."

"Uhh?"

"If you're that tired, do you want to head up to bed. After Sunny's shower, I'll read her a book then tuck her into bed." Otacon whispered.

"Nah, I'm ok. I want to sleep here anyway." Snake added in a low, tired tone.

"What? Here on the sofa?!"

"Uhh ha."

Otacon stood up straight with a frustrated look on his face and spoke coldly. "Fine! I'll get you some pillows and covers."

Snake turned his back on his partner and mumbled. "Thanks Hal."

Otacon walked back into the bathroom to carefully wash his daughter's hair. As she played a game of 'Happy Families' with the ducks, Hal wondered to himself where it all went wrong.

Next Chapter: Twos Company, Threes A Crowd.