Title: The Act of Being Alive
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The happiness that could never come from the battlefield.
Pairing: Dave/Hal
Warnings: Fluff.
Disclaimer: Kojima's.
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He believed it was something special, something he had learned to appreciate and love. Simple things like standing in the sun or enjoying a cold beer or being with someone he could do everything for.
"I Love You." It was the kind of phrase he wanted to slip into conversation however needless or pointless or stupid it might be at the time, situation or place. Because it sort of went like this:
They would be speaking of something important not only to them, but something that the fate of the whole world depended on. A Hero & Legend, and a man whose creation might have been used to destroy the world as all knew it to be. The conversation would slow in such a way that eventually, one could see that neither of them wished to speak of it any longer. It would sort of glimmer in their eyes and it that point, one would simply say that phrase, but mean it with his whole being. That was all it took to derail concentration, no matter how important the matter. War and fighting had made them both tired. They needed exuberance, the freshness of life, the happiness that could never come from the battlefield.
And they found it in each other. Because that was The Act of Being Alive and having someone to share the gifts reaped from it with you was the sweetest thing that could ever exist.
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