YEA! I had I giant brain bust and everything was just pouring out....but this chapter is a bit mature for some audiences. It's nothing graphic, just mentions rape....it might make you a tad sad.....I know I wanted to cry a bit.....anywho the rating goes up to like PG-14.5...yea...anyways on with the show!

I would like to thank the following:

Princess Hannah! chapter four is dedicated to you! I forgot to tell you that....but you inspired me to start writing this again! Thank you! P.S. There's going to be some pretty good scenes coming up.:-P

Nananki! you rock! you really do! I liked your ideas and tried all of them. I hope to hear more from you.

Crane, darling, Josie says hi.....; )

Disclaimer: I don't own Metal Gear its Hideo Kojima's.

The next morning was a helluva time getting out of bed for Chris. Not only did she feel sicker then a sea dog, have a blooming headache, and managed to stub her toe before she fell asleep last night, but she'd forgotten to finish her work, her boss was going to kill her.

"They're gonna kill me for being late." She stumbled to the door and stumbled into the kitchen. She softly made her coffee and grabbed an aspirin from a bottle on the counter. "Good morning."

She whipped around as her hand flew to her chest trying to stop her beating heart, "Good morning, Raiden."

He walked into the kitchen and sat at the table, "How are you?"

Chris sighed, "I'm tired and my toe hurts, but other then that I'm good." She smiled and asked, "How are you?"

"I'm better, but I'm not over it." He frowned.

She sat down next to him, "You wanna talk?"

He wanted to say no, but there was so much on him, "I loved her, and she blamed it on me. All these questions are running through my head. Things like: Did she love me? Why us? Why now? Is it my fault?"

"No! It's not don't ever say it is." She mentally kicked herself. She didn't want him to know about Rose.

Raiden looked at her, "Do you know something?"

"Yea I do." She looked at him.

"What?" Chris looked away from him, "What dammit!?!"

"Jack Flynn don't you dare yell at me!" She looked at him sternly, "And what I know is it's not your fault and...and it's not Rose's fault either. It just happens! It happens..."She trailed off tears streaming down her face.

Snake walked in and saw her crying, "Crystal? Crystal, what's wrong?"

Chris stood up and looked at Raiden, "Don't think you're the only one who's experienced loss."

Snake escorted her to her room and stayed there for a few minutes calming Chris down before he came back into the kitchen to find Raiden not there.

He proceeded into the living room and sat across from Raiden with a pale expression on his face.

He began calmly leaning forward until his arms rested on his legs, "Raiden it's time you know why Chris is always happy."

Raiden looked at him confused. She had just stormed out of the room crying and he needed to know why she was happy, "What?"

Snake swallowed hard, "I'm gonna tell you Crystal Arvidarchi's story."

"Arvidarchi?"

"Just listen okay!" Snake snapped at him, "They Arvidarchi family was know for the history in top secret military science development. One of there bigger projects was the development of superhuman children. They took orphans and genetically enhanced them, none of them survived for long periods. Their superiors were not happy with the results of corse, you can obviously see that nothing was progressing." He stopped to make sure Raiden was focused with him and continued, "They took the Arvidarchi children and demanded them to perform the experiments on them. Of corse with the recent results they refused and fled with for their lives with their children."

"They lived quietly for two years with their daughter, now the age of 7, and their two sons, whom were the ages 12 and17. But then fate caught up with them. The military found them burn their house to ground and killed the children's parents right in front of them." He rubbed his face, "They took the boys and questioned them about the project, but the knew nothing of it, so right in front of their little sister they shot them. That little girl didn't understand why she was being taken away from her sleeping brothers. She wouldn't understand for along time, but until then she was forced into an elite training program so she could become Codec messenger as we know today when we can't use Codec."

"Age 15 I found her crying. I thought it was just being new and seeing action for the first few times, but it wasn't the case. Just moments before I had reached the that very spot she...she had been...raped...", Snake didn't like this, "That's when I took her back to Otacon. He set her up with a new name, Crystal Mackintosh. We thought she had a new life or so she thought."

"The bastard that hurt her made her pregnant. Everyone that knew about it suggested an abortion, but she wouldn't think of it. Next thing you know she's in labor." Snake paused and took a deep breath.

"He was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Charlie Mackintosh, the most beautiful baby boy in the world." Both Raiden and Snake jumped at the sound of Chris's voice. She closed her eyes, "He had the smallest hands and feet, the bluest eyes and he was mine." A bittersweet smile came to her face as tears glistened her eye. "But that's not the end of an already tragic story. The doctor came in and told me that Charlie's lungs were to small. He said he wouldn't live for more then a few hours." Chris looked at Raiden, "It was the most happiest and saddest two an a half hours of my life."

Raiden averted his gaze, "I-I-I'm so sorry."

"Don't be Raiden." She put on a small smile, "Raiden I'm not afraid to say that it hurt. The fact is most people don't recover from those types of situations. I'm one of the few that did."

A small silence fell through the room before Raiden asked, "Do you mask your feelings?"

She walked over to the couch and sat next to him, "Only sometimes, most of the time I just live on." She stopped and thought about what to say next, "People ask me why I'm always happy. It's because I don't want to die angry or alone." She moved from the couch simply living the room with an angel like grace and composure.

Raiden looked at his hands. All this time he thought that no one could understand him when he, himself, couldn't understand that he wasn't alone. "Raiden? Raiden....Raiden!" He looked up at Snake slowly, "What is it?"

"Are you gonna sit here for the rest of your life?" Snake knew he was shook up, but he'd been sitting there since ten this morning.

"Hmm?" Raiden looked at his watch it read five o'clock. "Oh..."

Snake rolled his eyes and handed him an envelope, "Here, Chris took the liberty of transferring your mailing address so everything comes here now." Raiden looked at the envelope as Snaked continued as he left the room, "Look at it, think about it, ask her about it."

Raiden looked down at the envelope and opened it carefully. It read:

Dear Jack Flynn,

You are cordially invited...

Whoooo! What's he invited to? I know! and you'll just have to find out! R&R Plz!
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