Title: Lightening Game

Disclaimer: I own none of the original story; it all belongs to some other guy.

Summary: Otacon and Snake are living in New York, looking for any leads on Metal Gear within the internet. While Snake is checking a lead, Otacon makes an interesting new friend. By hitting him with his car. Snake is completely unaware of their new roommate hanging around, till he returns. [And a slight edit], SnakexOtacon[onesided]/OtaconxOC. Male OC.

Warnings: There's gonna be m/m relations later… or sooner… and probably quite a bit of violence, well, not a lot, but some depending on who's around at the time.

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Lightening Game

Chapter 4- Collaboration

In the early morning hours, Otacon could feel himself slowly waking up in his own bed. He was still tired but he knew he had to wake up. It was one of those things that his internal clock would make sure of. It would wake him up early, 6 AM early, just in case he had something to do.

Of course, he didn't really have anything important to do, except maybe try and get the strange boy, Spencer, to go home. Oh, that's right… he's still here. Of course as he turned to look at the clock on his own dresser, it was blinking red numbers that told him lies.

12:45 PM.

What…? That can't be right.

Otacon freaked out a little bit and jumped out of the bed. He quickly moved to his computers to check the time. They were in hibernation; he quickly moved the mouse to wake them up. He stared at the numbers on the bottom of the screen. 5:27 AM. Well that's better. Early, but better.

As he shifted through his luggage bag full of clothes, he pulled out a long sleeved blue sweatshirt and a pair of faded jeans. He walked into the bathroom several feet down the hall and looked in the mirror at the bruises. They looked worse today than they did yesterday. He tried to ignore the awkward pain and got in the shower.

After he took his shower, [and put his clothes on in the bathroom] he made his way out to the kitchen to make some breakfast. As he passed the living room, He looked on the loveseat to see that Spencer was gone.

Otacon's mind went into paranoid panic mode. He glanced around himself several times and backed up against a wall. Looking around the small room, he heard a noise from the kitchen.

He looked over the counter to see Spencer… fixing some small appliance. He was using some of Snake's tools. Oh, he's not gonna be happy about this at all. He thought, thinking about the conversation that they had the night before. He relaxed against the wall, breathing a sigh of relief.

"Mornin' I see you got a good sleep, huh?" Spencer asked him without even looking up at him.

Otacon noticed that he was wearing a pair of black jeans, and his hair was relatively wet. He must have taken a shower too… in Snake's bathroom… Otacon freaked out a little bit at the thought. He was already nervous that Snake would find out, not only that the kid had been hanging around, but also that he was the cause of the damage that was currently causing Otacon more awkward pain today than it had yesterday.

"Uh, I guess you could say that… uh, did you stay on the couch the entire time?" Spencer looked up.

"I think I woke up about 4 , maybe 4:30. And I went to the bed I was in the night before, but you were there. I didn't realize that it was yours before… sorry about that." Otacon didn't respond. He just walked into the kitchen getting ready to make breakfast.

"Uh, you want anything specific? We still have some corned beef hash… and eggs… I got some bacon too." He called out to Spencer from the small area. The boy moved around the kitchen to sit at a stool on the other side of the counter that Otacon was working at. He was obviously finished with whatever he'd been tinkering with.

"Eh, I don't really care either way. Make whatever you want." Spencer sat and watched as Otacon made them some food. He seemed to be intrigued by the way Otacon moved about trying to make sure that nothing actually burned.

Otacon had decided on making bacon, eggs, and toast. As he finished up with the food making, he sorted them onto plates and handed one to Spencer.

"So you have a roommate, huh? Name's Dave, means it's a 'he' right?" Otacon looked at Spencer and realized, this was going to be a ridiculous rendition of twenty questions… maybe.

"Yeah, he's a guy." He said with a sigh. He had never liked telling people about himself, much less about Snake. He wasn't exactly someone who wanted his secrets given freely to people.

"So, your roommate is a guy. Do you two work together, or are you brothers, friends?"

"Kindof, we're partners in the middle of making some kind of business thing work out." Spencer nodded and thought for a few seconds.

"You call your roommate by a different name?" He was being relatively simple with his questions, but they were getting a bit closer to uncomfortable for him to answer about Snake.

"No, not really. And what's with the questions?"

"No real reason. Just wanna make sure I know just how long I can hang around for. I'm sure that if this guy would 'kill' me for bringing you back here, then I should probably skedaddle out of here before he gets back from wherever it is he's gone. Right?"

Otacon thought for a few minutes about what Spencer had just said. It made sense. The kid wasn't stupid, he may not have known what Snake was capable of, but he at least knew that Otacon had been telling him the truth. The more he thought about it, the more nervous he became, for the boy's sake.

"I think he's supposed to come back in a few days. I can promise you that he won't appreciate the fact that you're here at all, much less that you've been here for days. So yeah, I would have to agree that it would be best if you got outta here before he gets back."

"And when exactly are you expecting him to be coming back?"

"In about four days. He was on a … business trip. And he had to fix a few things for some big name company." Otacon was so much better at lying to strangers about something concerning Philanthropy than he was at lying to Snake about things like getting beaten up.

"Alright then, I guess I can be out of here the day after tomorrow. No worries. I take it this guy is not a big fan of strangers?" Otacon nodded as he took a bite of toast.

For most of the day, the two of them played video games and insulted each other's playing abilities, both of them completely oblivious to time. As it approached noon, Otacon quickly made the decision to order some food.

"Hey, I know a few guys that work at this one pizza place, let me call… and I think you should let me get the pizzas too…" Otacon looked confused for a minute before Spencer motioned his face with his hands. Then Otacon understood.

As they waited for the pizza, Otacon went to see if his face was as bad as it had been the day before.

And it was worse.

He noticed that the dark splotches of bruises had actually widened and expanded about half and inch from where they originated. The left side of his face was still a bit painful, but as long as he didn't touch or poke at it, he could deal with it.

He wasn't exactly surprised that his bruises had expanded and looked worse now than they had. In fact, he was well aware that his bruises were probably as worse right now as they were going to be. They could only get a bit more odd colors, but they would heal quickly now.

As he made his way back into the main rooms, he saw a taller boy with Spencer. It was the same kid that he had seen walking with him the other day.

"Oh, Hal, this is Jacob, Jacob, Hal. Nickname, Otacon." He said it like it was a trophy nickname. The tall kid looked over at him and he smiled and nodded.

"That's cool dude, but I gotta say that you're lookin a little rough there buddy. Pound it." He held up his fist and Otacon punched it. He wasn't really sure what else he could do.

"Awesome. Thanks Jake. Oh, and can you tell Sarge that I got a place for the next two days? I'm sure he's wondering what happened to me." Jacob nodded and looked pointedly at Spencer.

"Yeah man, he was actually freakin' out earlier. He said something about you getting hit by a car or something. Or maybe just that he was worried that you might have gotten hit… whatevs."

"Heh," Spencer laughed sarcastically. "Funny story about that really. But I love the fact that he thinks of me as a stray dog. It makes me laugh on the inside….. A lot." Otacon noticed the way the two boys didn't seem too phased about the fact that he was just standing there or the fact that Spencer was indeed hit by his car.

"Awesome dude, but I gotta hit the road, places to go, people to feed, you know, the works."

"Oh! Hey by the way. Uh, don't mention any of this to Nikita. Or Ken and Tommy, I don't wanna get him involved with that issue. Alright?" He slightly whispered to Jake as he headed back through the doorway. Jake looked pointedly at Otacon before nodding to Spencer.

Spencer nodded back and he and Jacob parted ways and the door was shut.

"He's a bit of a spaz. He's always moving, and can never really stop to sit down and chill out." Otacon just nodded. He knew a few people like that. But he never actually noticed it until now. And he was a bit curious as to what had just transpired between the two younger males. Huh, speaking of age…

"Uh, can I ask you how old you and your friend are? I mean, I just find it odd that you would be hanging out around me… at all." Otacon spoke nervously.

"Oh, I'm twenty four, actually, and Jake's about twenty five, I think… he said he was twenty, 'give or take a year or two' and that was about five years ago."

"Oh, wow, you look a lot younger than that. I would have guessed eighteen, or nineteen. Well, shows how well my intuition is."

"Huh, well, now we have our lunch and we can get back to video gaming. Twenty bucks says I can finish my half of the pizza before you can."

And with that challenge, the two of them continued their video gaming and anime movie watching. They watched a few of the classics, and then a few of the newer stuff. Otacon had even introduced Spencer to several other animes that he had never even heard of.

Darkness started to roll around and as Otacon looked around, he actually noticed the time. It was nearing 9:25PM. As he thought about it, he was surprised that Snake hadn't tried calling him on the codec yet. He glanced over at Spencer who was lying with one leg over the back of the loveseat, the other on the actual seat, and his head was lying on the left armrest.

Spencer was most definitely asleep, if he wasn't, then he was very good at faking sleep. He even had the slow shallow breathing down right.

Otacon was not as tired as he thought he should have been so he threw the spare blanket over Spencer's sleeping form and made his way to his room where his computer was still sitting on the desk. As he began looking over several suspicious sites, he found his paranoia kicking in every couple of seconds.

He felt like he could hear footsteps wandering around outside his door, but every time he looked up, there was no one there. He just couldn't help but worry about what would happen if Spencer woke up and found him hacking black market sales.

There was the strange thing that just now decided to make its presence known inside Otacon's mind though. The boy said that he was worried about him calling the cops. This was strange, all things considered. And those last few words he exchanged with his Jake friend. It made him want to be extra cautious around the kid now.

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Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. I enjoy the fact that I get them at all. So thank you. And beware, I've written a book under here thats pretty intense.

This chapter was supposed to be updated last night, unfortunately, my computer didn't get awesome internet at the house I was at, and the fact that I couldn't find my flash drive to transfer the chapter from my computer to my other computer that actually had some semblance of internet. But it was also about 11:41 PM when I thought about the day and time, so I realized that with VALDEMAR [my computer] taking so much time actually booting up, and with the sketchy stuff that doesn't always work, I wouldn't have gotten the chapter up on that day... even though it was in the middle of the night.

But I've got it uploaded today, and I also realized, while working on the ninth chapter..., that I'm going to have to change up a few things with the chapters hanging around that aren't uploaded. Something has to happen that hopefully doesn't spread out into the ones that I've already updated. Otherwise, I'll have to re-update half the story. So, read on before that ends up happening.... if it happens. And now, Have at thee and review if you want... Please... They make me smile.