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Raiden walked up the stairs trying to find Chris. It was three weeks ago that he was told her horrible story and he still felt sick to his stomach every time he thought about it. They had avoided each others company for awhile now and he missed he small smile that reassured him that everything would be alright. She just seemed to disappear.

He walked into Snakes room and saw him working at his desk. He smirked as he watched Snake get frustrated with the laptop that wasn't turning on.

He was brought out of his thought with Snake's ruff voice, "What are you smirking at pretty boy?"

"Ahh...do you know where Chris is?" Raiden asked.

Snake grunted, "She's at work. She'll be back around five."

Raiden raised his eyebrows, "Work? What type of work does she do?"

"I hide his mistakes and you forgot today's Thursday I get off early." Chris walked over and plugged the laptop into the wall and smiled.

"Hide his mistakes? How?" Raiden grinned at Snake's death glare toward the computer cord.

She smiled, "It was Otacon's idea, but I'm working with a man by the name of Hideo Kojima. Wonderful, intelligent man he is and brilliant at making video games. Otacon met him at an anime convention and that's where it started. We implanted the idea of making a video game out of Metal Gear. So we created one for the system of GameCube, that one's about dear Snake here and his brother."

"Right now however we are trying to cover up for the Big Shell and its going very well and it's for the PS2, except Mr. Kojima is having a bit of trouble with the parts. He says they're just to different and it's hard with a different main character and that dear boy would be you." She smirked. "I needed to consult you with it too. We need, well I need, your input..."

"Yea sure I'll do anything to help." Raiden prodded her to continue.

"Well its just I never met E.E. and every time I bring her up around Otacon he gets shook up and Snake only knew her momentarily and well you saved her and saw how she acted." She frowned, "I hate talking like this."

"I think I can handle that." Raiden told her, "When would you like to do that?"

"Right now if you're not busy that is?" She looked down at her feet. Why was she being so bashful all of a sudden.

"Yea sure, I have nothing to do right now." Chris smiled as they walked down to the kitchen.

They sat down and Raiden began to recall how Emma Emmerich reacted to the situation she was in while he saved her. He watched Chris write down notes frantically keeping up with him.

He had never really noticed Chris before. She was extremely beautiful. He brown shoulder length hair hung gracefully around her face and made her smile stand out.

She looked up into his eyes and everything seemed like it was going to be okay. He smiled and took a deep breath, "Chris, may I ask you something?"

She smiled and brushed her hair behind her ears, "Sure, what's on your mind?'

"Well, um, I received a invitation in the mail to---to a ball that recognizes all the people who don't get recognized for doing their job. You know like the CIA and FBI undercover guys." He rambled.

"And people like you." She smiled.

"Yea..." He laughed nervously, "Well um it said that I could bring a guest and I would be really honored if that guest would be you."

Chris stopped fiddling with her pen and sat up straight, but said nothing. A small silence filled the room, Raiden didn't expect her reaction to be this way.

"You don't have to answer right now, it's a week from today." He wished he hadn't asked now.

She looked at him with a surprised looked, "Jack Flynn! You waited to ask when it was a week away!"

"Why is that a problem?" His eyes widened, he wasn't expecting that either.

"Do you know how long it takes a girl to prepare to go to a ball?" She looked at him and continued, "First she has to find the perfect dress and god knows that could take at least three days. Then there's finding the right way to wear her with the dress and that could be two, three days. After that she has to try all these different ways to wear her makeup with her hair and her dress. Then she is ready for a ball." She smiled.

"Are you saying you're going to grace me with your presence at the ball?" He smirked.

"I will do my best." She looked him and gave him a small smile.

Raiden couldn't help it he got up, gave her hug and whispered gently into her ear, "Thank you."

Chris looked at herself in the mirror in her lovely baby blue satin evening gown. A week had flown by very quickly and she wasn't exactly sure if she should be going to this ball anymore.

Snake walked in behind her and smiled, "You look...ah...nice." He was still disappointed that she was going and with Raiden who was still swooning over his ex-fiancee. He'd finally gotten around to telling Snake what had happen. She turned around and stunned him with how beautiful she looked, "What happen to my Crystal that I had to take of?" He asked her.

"She grew up dear Uncle and thank you." She walked over and gave him a huge hug and a small kiss on his rough face.

He coughed and shrugged it off, "Well you don't wanna be late now do you?"

She smiled and walked down hall way and down the stairs to where Raiden was waiting for her in his tuxes.

He looked up at her as she walked down the stairs. She was an angel descending from the heavens above.

He extended a hand to her to help her down the rest of the stairs, "Are you ready to go?"

Chris smiled and nodded. They walked down the street away and caught a cab to where the party was being held at.

As they got out of the cab Chris inquired, "What no death march today?"

Raiden smiled, "Nope not today an angel shouldn't have to march they should glide." He gestured his arm to her. Chris blushed as she took it gently. They proceeded into the crowded ball room and waited for themselves to be seated.

"Jack! Jack my boy good to see you, good to see you!" A very round man came over and shook his hand.

"Colonel Brodwick, what a pleasant surprise?" Raiden smiled.

The Colonel smiled, "Who is this delicate young woman that you have accompanying you?"

"Colonel I like to meet Crystal Mackintosh. Crystal, Colonel Brodwick. He's one of the men who created VR training." Raiden introduced them.

"It's very nice to meet you Colonel Brodwick." Crystal nodded.

"Dear lady are you foreign?" The Colonel asked.

"Colonel!" Raiden spoke up.

"No, no Jack it's fine. Yes I'm European I moved to the Americas 11 years ago." She smiled.

"Then, do you speak French?" He asked.

"Um I'm more American, but I can speak French a little bit." Chris shifted around a little.

"Then would you mind helping me, you there is this man of importance here and our interpreter is out ill. You see him over there." The Colonel turned and pointed across the room to a tall dark man with a cold expression on his face. His eyes were a steelygray that pierced through Chris like a knife. She remembered those eyes.

She quickly looked down at the ground, "I'm sorry, but I've lost touch with my home languages you'll have to find someone else."

Raiden looked down at her, "Um we're being seated now. We'll talk more later Colonel Brodwick." Raiden quickly led Chris away from the persistent colonel. He stopped behind a fake tree, "Chris? Chris.....Crystal?" She looked up at him, "Are you alright?"

"Th-tha-that man he killed my parents. He's the one who took me away from my dying brothers after he shot them." She took a deep breath and shut her eyes to stop from crying, "I can't...I can't do this. I'm sorry Raiden. I have to go home." She turned to leave, but was pulled back facing Raiden.

Raiden took her face into her hands, "Chris, you're my friend and something's wrong. Let me help you."

She smiled as he continued, "You said you came here 11 years ago. You've grown up since the last time you saw him I think. He probably won't recognize you." Raiden smiled, "You can do this."

Chris smiled and let out a long heavy sigh, "I don't know why, but you're right."

He smiled as he took her by the arm and led her to a seating place that wasn't occupied.

"Ladies and Gentlemen I'm glad you could all make it and let the ball begin please enjoy yourself." The ceremonial junk was over with and so was dinner. Music began to play and many couples started to get up and dance.

Raiden looked at Chris. She was more relaxed now and she was even smiling again. He reached over and grabbed her hand. She quickly looked at him and smiled, " Dear Lady, would you do me the honor of a dance?"

"It would be my pleasure." They moved to the dance floor and dance rhythmically to the music.

"Chris, you know you're beautiful don't you?" Raiden asked her. She just smiled at him, "Because if you don't I'd be happy to tell you that everyday." That made her blush, but she still didn't say anything. The song ended and they slowed to a stop. "Are you thirsty?"

"I am." Chris smiled as they walked toward the bar.

"What'll it be, sir?" The Bartender asked.

"Um I'll have two gingerales." Raiden told him as he looked around the room and noticed some of guys he knew that were waving him over on the other side of the bar, "Chris, I see some friends do mind if I go talk to them real quick?"

"Oh no, by all means socialize, be a butterfly." She smiled and watched him chuckle over to his friends across the room.

"Oh my god. Crystal Mackintosh is that you?" Chris turned to see the one; the only; Rosemary walking toward her.

"Rosemary...Hi...." She tried to hide her disgust.

"Hey! How've you been haven't talk to you in a while?" Rose asked her.

"I've been splendid."

Rose took a seat next to Chris and continued, "Hey have you seen Jack here at all?"

Chris looked at Raiden's back, he was leaning on the bar, "Uh yea, yea I have."

Rose sat up, "Really! Can you point him out to me?"

Chris looked at her and shook her head, "You know I could, but I'm not going to."

"....but I'm not going to." Raiden heard Chris's voice and turned around to see Rose talking to her.

"What do you mean you're not going to?" Rose looked at Chris with fire burning in her eyes.

"Exactly, what it meant you are not going to see Jack on my account." Chris said calmly looking her dead in the face.

Rose stood from her bar stool, "You can't stop me from seeing my fiancee."

"Ex...ex-fiancee...." Chris said with bitter hatred. "As I recall he called you a few week ago to see how you were doing and you just yelled at him so he gave up and said it was over and you did too."

"You were with him?" Rose shouted.

"He lives at my house!" Chris's voice rose.

"Well you just don't...." Chris interrupted her, "Shut up! Just shut up! You don't know how lucky you were having someone like Jack care for you! And you threw it all away! He gave you everything. You, you just threw it all away and for what? So you could be high? So you could escape the fact that you couldn't see anyone else? That you were carrying a human life that you knew you could never be able to take care of because you didn't love the father of it?"

"Well he just..."

"He loved you! And did everything for you. The only thing he talks about is Rosemary. He really would've done anything for you. I would do anything for thattype of loveand what did you do!?!", Chris's eyes glistened as she towered over Rose, "You killed his child! Not your's because you don't deserve it! And then you had the nerve to blame it on him! You could've cared less about it! So you went out and you took dope and you drank bleach. You did everything in your power to kill this child. And you know how I know, I know because you told it all to me one night while you were high! Do you deny it, do you?"

Rose looked at Chris and slapped her hard across the face, "I don't, but you were wrong about one thing I loved him."

Chris's hand went to her face she felt blood on her hand, "You don't deserve him. He would give you everything again, again and you would just be using him. And I will use all that I have to keep you from hurting him again."

"You dirty bitch! You're stealing him from me!" Rose's hand rose in the air to strike Chris again, but she was stopped mid strike by someone.

"You will never lay a hand on her again." Rose looked horrified at Jacks breaking grip.

He jumped over the bar and looked at Chris's face. Rose had scratched her pretty deep. "Come on let's get out of here."

"Jack! Please wait let me explain!" Rose grabbed onto him.

He looked at her, "Who are you?" With that he walked away with Chris protectively in his arms.

Heeee I really like this chapter.....Plz R&R!
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