Chapter 6 "Rebel Yell"

"Aaaaah!"

BANG!

As Quiet's uneven breathing stabilizes, coming back to her senses, she realizes what has transpired. She quickly looks through her scope where Snake forehead is, notices a bullet hole in the wall. As she turns slightly to the left, Snake's body still lays there, sleeping. When she pulled the trigger, the man fell slightly to his left, as a consequence of being in deep sleep. She catches her breath, stands up, and sighs in relief, turning invisible and dropping down from the arch to check on the man.

Truffle "Hmm…" Quiet puts her hand on his shoulder.

Truffle truffle "Hmm…" He still doesn't wake up.

"Snake…" truffle truffle "Wha…" He smacks his lips and stretches his arms when he opens his eye…

"They are big…" The first thing Snake sees is Quiet's bosom close to his face, the woman was crouching. One hand in his shoulder and the other hiding the bullet wall as to not raise suspicion or cause an awkward situation. She gets a bit flustered at the comment. "I know…"

"Want to give me some space?" Snake stands up using the wall and his arms as a means to help himself up. She steps back a bit. "First time seeing them this close in this sunlight." Quiet blushes a bit.

"Let's go" Snake shoves playfully Quiet to the side and takes a cigar and lights it. Quiet looking surprised before calling out his name in slight annoyance, she notices her breasts are exposed.

"They are beautiful…" He sneakily loosened the knot as he shoved her.

Quiet hooks them in embarrassment, "Snake!..." He chuckles and turns to her. He grabs one of the knots as they lock eyes and loosens it up again. "Why don't you leave them out like this?" He asks while fondling her left breast.

"Funny…no." She ties her bra again.

"Then let's go…" Snake goes on to the vehicle

Quiet watches his back and lets out a smile; "Quite charming aren't you?"

"Uh-huh…" Blows smoke and throw the cigar.

"The sample must be stronger…" Quiet rushes down remembering those words and playfully slaps his butt, he lets out a slight chuckle as she hops in the vehicle, sporting a smile. The question was, was it genuine, or was she just pretending. At this point, she couldn't tell. As Snake sits down, she turns the vehicle on and drive off to the cabin.

On the way back to the cabin, Snake keeps appreciating the deserted landscape with its rocky mountain under the sunlight from dusk. It begins to get dark, he pulls out a cigar and in this silence, he begins wonder back. What relationship is he with this woman? How was he feeling about it? He could only imagine himself talking to Ocelot in an interrogation room, both sitting in metal chairs and keeping them apart from the metallic desk. He fondly remembers the cowboy fan, as he was supportive of him and his relationship with Quiet. He could also imagine Miller in some dark corner sporting an angry face as he always had.

"How do you feel about this Boss…"

Snake just stares at Ocelot

"The woman is a real catch, one hell of a soldier, one of a kind…"

Ocelot appears to his side handing him a cigar

"You have already made "love" to this woman, what can you do now?"

A lighter is pulled out and turned on, Snake looks at Ocelot and puff the cigar

"Boss, Quiet is a real catch; you have her all to yourself, even if you don't know why she wants you alive, seeing, you are still alive and not dead. Why don't you keep playing along, you haven't had yourself a woman to yourself in this lifetime, why not make the most of it!"

Ocelot stands on the table, Snake frowns as he remembers that Ocelot is quite the talker and loves giving "eloquent" speeches.

She looks the same as she did 10 years ago, you two are alone now, all to yourselves, Boss, why are you even here having this imaginary talk with me when you could be showing that Woman the Man in you.

"Don't do it Boss!" Miller steps out of a dark corner, walking with his stick.

"Miller!" Ocelot looks at him

"That, that woman, she tried to kill you, she was with Cipher!"

Snake then looks at the yelling man and then remembers their encounter at the hospital.

"Boss look here" Ocelot calls out to him

Snake looks down on the floor and hears something

"Snake... Snake?... Snake!"

"What!?" Snake wakes up from his deep train of thought

"Geez, get a grip, we have just arrived."

The man had been in a trance. Fast-forwarding himself from the ruins to the cabin without even realizing it.

Through Venom's train of thought, he remembers he's not the real Big Boss

Ocelot steps back and slams the table "Oh who cares, if you are not the real Big Boss, you are Snake! Venom Snake! The man who saved the World 10 years ago! And today you have Quiet to yourself, get on with it!" Ocelot snaps his fingers and Snake is back to reality. As he steps out of the vehicle, Quiet leaps out and grabs a bag containing food she gathered to make dinner for him. As she makes her way to the stairs, Snake observes her from behind, there is still a little bit of light from dusk left before the night fully arrives.

"Quiet…." He calls out her name "Yes?..." she looks at him. He looks at her eyes, and the memories flood his mind. The fights, the torture, and the shared battlefield. He then looks down and lets out a deep sigh. "It's nothing…" Night has arrived.

After serving dinner to Snake, Quiet has spent the majority of the afternoon and evening outside smoking and cleaning her rifles, while Snake has remained sitting on the table disarming and arming the handgun as a way to pass the time. This was an evening shared in silence, Snake gets up to bed. As Quiet finishes cleaning her rifle, having a cigarette in her mouth, she looks at the dark sky. Staring at the stars, she wonders, how she could make the sample stronger. She looks back and sees him getting to bed. Quiet lets out the last smoke from the cigarette, flickering its ash and then throwing it away.

She gets herself back to the cabin, putting the rifles under the bed, stretching her arms. She turns off the lantern, and begins to take off her clothes. Passing her hands over her butt intentionally, as to catch the stoic soldier's attention, he begins to stare. Then she waves her hair, removing the hairband, and caressing her long hair more, while having the hairband in her mouth. As Snake keeps starting at Quiet's sensual strip-tease, he begins to get aroused like he was at the waterfall. The way Quiet handles her hair, her strong arms slightly above her head while having the hairband tucked between her teeth, somehow the pose turned him on.

Quiet looks to him, while still handling her hair, he begins to feel a slight rush of excitement and arousal. She smiles at him while still looking at his eye. As she finishes, she gets on his side of the bed, putting herself on top of him, still looking at him. As she feels something poking her, she makes a comment that makes the stoic soldier break and give himself to his urges for the beautiful sniper.

"Ohh, hard down there aren't we?"

Without a second thought, Snake rushed to kiss her intensively and she responded well. He switches places with Quiet albeit a bit aggressively, putting himself on top of her this time and puts his hands on her crotch, Quiet gasps in surprise and their passionate kiss become even more intense. Tears begin to fall down her cheek, she's the one delivering herself fully to him.

Quiet continues moaning slightly, feeling the legendary soldier inside her. As they continue, she is haunted by memories of her past. She resists, trying to experience fully the moment. Putting herself on top of Snake again, their lovemaking grows even more intense. Snake now begins to moan a bit, and they share another passionate kiss again. As they are about to climax, Snake is also hit by flashing images of the past, seeing images of when he willingly let Quiet be tortured by his men. He throws Quiet to the side of the bed, not letting himself finish inside her.

The two of them are now trying to catch their breath; "sorry..." says Snake sounding a bit fatigued. Quiet laying face-down "it's okay; I know what was happening…" "Quiet I…" "We'll talk about it tomorrow." She quickly gives him a lip-lock kiss and goes to sleep. Snake has his mind now wondering, about the images he saw and now started to feel something. Maybe it was regret or something else. He goes to sleep too.

Later that night…

Snake wakes up, this time he dreamed about the time he let Quiet get tortured by his men. He had known she was in love with him, but he could not do anything about this because of his role as Big Boss. At that moment, sitting on the side of the bed, his mind goes adrift when they shared a final battle. It was when she left the mother base because of the Wolbachia mutation, fearing she would infect everyone and get herself killed. Right before he got bitten by that snake, the only thoughts that were running in his head was to get her safely to the base. And he would do all he could to not get her killed from Miller, he was growing weary from Miller's constant screaming.

When the snake had bitten him, and he was dying, Quiet was tending to his wounds. As the call from Pequod comes in, she tries to communicate in Navajo but the pilot would not understand. When she hesitates, she knew what she had to do, Snake looks hopelessly at her, being unable to speak. As she begins communicating in English, Snake begins to feel stings to his heart, he knows what was going to happen, she was already going to die. The more she talked the more painful the stings became; he was watching helplessly as his friend sacrifices herself for him. "This role of Big Boss… why?" When he closes his eyes... "One last time…."

After waking up, he notices his soldiers are ignoring him when he asks for the female sniper. After following footsteps left in the desert, he finds a cassette tape. Quickly listening to it, his heart grows heavy, "I wanted to express my feelings to you…if only we shared a common tongue…" Snake gasps in realization now, they could talk, and they didn't have anyone frowning or going against their relationship. When he looks to the side of the bed, wanting to wake up Quiet, he notices she is not there, as he looks to the front door, it's open, and a slight beam of light is emanating from a vehicle.