Muffled noises woke her up.
The sound of clothes rustling and of...Kazuhiras voice. She looked up. DD lay right in front of her, still on the couch making restless, anxious howling sounds. She put her right hand on his head and stroke him carefully.

"It's alright boy. Good boy." She whispered, half asleep and yawning. Big Boss stood in front of her, in the middle of the room trying to fix his uniform. He struggled with the belt and looked more than stressed out.

"Pequot, arriving shortly at LZ"
Pequots voice sounded muted through the Boss' IDroid. Still, it made her jump.

"What? Whats going on? A Mission?"
A sough was heard in the background, must have been the DVD Player, which was still on going.

"Yeah. I just woke up. You remember that i told you about the White Mamba?", Snake said, getting out of his grey sweater and into his bulletproof Vest.
"That kid...who brought together the children in the warzone...now? Why now?", she made her way to her wardrobe, and yawned while doing it. It was still opened. Big Boss always had one of his uniforms here, just in case that things like these would happen. That one time the two watched Carrie and Kaz called in the most exciting moment...he had to run all the way to his chambers and came about 10 minutes too late to the LZ. It was too embarrassing.

"I have no idea. Kaz just gave the order. Could be my fault actually. Maybe he said it would be now a while ago and i just...forgot it."
She sighed.
"Oh...you really ARE getting old."
"I know, don't tell anyone."
"Tell them what? That you naturally age every year?"
"Yeah. Please."
"Your secret is save. Old bear."
"Thank god."

"Alright then.", she said, grabbing her uniform and started putting it on.

"What the fuck are you doing?"
"I'm coming with you for this one."
"You WHAT? No. Forget it."
"You don't really have a fondness with children. You'll be lost."
"I am good with children! I love children!"
"And you are a terrible liar. Kazuhira?", she held out her hand and Snake gave her his IDroid, with a unpleased look on his face.

"Yes? What is it?", he asked. The speaker function was still on.
"I'm going with the Boss for this mission."
"What, Why?", Kazuhira sounded shocked and Snake smirked at her with an I-told-you-so expression.

"I don't think that's a bad idea, you should.", Ocelot said and she smiled while hearing this.
"Thank you Adamska."
"Adamsk...no...no don't even think about it. These may are children, but we've gone wild. They are armed and they won't hold back. This is dangerous."
"I don't think you should come too. Stay here.", Snake interrupted , this time more caring and carefully.
"Kazuhira, listen to me, I've been to the soviet union with this guy, fighting the Kobras and you actually think i can't handle children? If someone here can't handle children then it's the Boss."
"That's what i'm thinking of too. Our Angel could be a great help with this one. And don't worry about her Miller, i made that mistake a long time ago.", Ocelot stated and for a second it got quiet.
"Hmpf...", Kaz growled and Snake sighted.
"Look. It's not that i'm worried. I know you. I know i don't have to", Big Boss said, finally done with his suit.
"I know, that you know that. So why do you think like that?"
"This is a sneaking based mission. And you know i work best if i'm alone with thi-"
"You're right.", she nodded. Completely out of the blue and Snake first looked a little confused, then satisfied. "No...you are completely right."
She knew that. And i would be a loss of time to keep discussing about it.

He lightly touched her shoulder and smiled at her. "Good. This doesn't mean that i don't need your help. Stay here and support me."
"Ehm...sorry to interrupt Boss.", it was Pequot and both of them looked at the IDroid.
"It's just...i guess you want to get a lot of children out of there. I'd suggest to take two helicopters for that mission, so it doesn't get too crowded. How about you stay in that second helicopter Miss? We'd need your help to keep these children, we get out, calm."
"I like that idea.", "Me too. that's to best way i guess." Ocelot and Kaz agreed.
Snake looked at you for a while until he took the IDroid again. "Pequot?"
"Y-Yes Boss?"
"If i could promote you, i would. Good job."
"Thanks Boss."

She chuckled and slowly left the room. She looked back at him and smiled. "See you there. Be carefull with those kids."
"Will be.", he answered and watched her disappear to the other LZ on the command platform.

The night was exhausting. Although disarmed and beaten the children were a quite easy task for her.

"I think that was the last one.", she heard the Boss' voice in front of her, as he handed a unconscious child into the helicopter and to her. She took the little one in her arms and after checking on him she carefully lay him down to the other ones.
"Alright. So there is only the Mamba himself left?" , she asked and looked down on him.
"Yeah...i need to figure out where he is. But I'll take him with me and Pequot. I think he needs special treatment. It's just a feeling but...we better keep him away fom the other children at first.", Snake yelled, trying to be louder than the helicopter which floated in front of him.
She leaned out and looked at her surrounding.
"Take a look inside the ship."
"A what?"
"The ship!", she yelled and he seemed to understand her this time.
"Why?"
"He's still just a child, Jack. Trust me. Take your time and search inside that ship wrack."
He glanced at the wrack in the distance. Puzzled and confused, then back at her and nodded.
"Alright. I will. Have a nice flight home.", he called out and she nodded.
"Be careful!"
"Will be."

The Helicopter started and she told the pilot to head to motherbase.
Slowly the first kid awoke and looked as he would start to panic anytime. She sat down next to him. "It's alright. Your save."

"What a beautiful night, right?", she said. Sitting on the edge of the opened helicopter door she pointed to the moon, which was clear visible in the night sky.

One of the children looked at her, simply nodding. She did not knew if he spoke english. But he seemed to understand what she meant.
He took the place next to her and the other children started whispering in Afrikaans. She put her hand on his head, on his sweet shining black locks and caressed him.
"See that? Motherbase. You will stay here with us for a while. You are save here. And if you want to leave, you can leave, if it's save."
She tried making gestures to make him understand and he stared at her with the wide and innocent eyes of a child.
He may held a weapon ones. But he never killed anyone. She could tell. Everyone who would look into these dark beautiful eyes will be able to tell.
She smiled and then jumped down, about two meters between her and her home.
Landing softly, she held out her hand. The first kid, who sat next to her the whole flight seemed to take it without hesitation and she caught him smoothly and gently sat him down. Two soldiers came to her aid and helped the other ones out.
She gave them a smile. The kid slightly touched her hip and held onto her, she didn't look at him but set her hand on his head again to carefully play with his hair.

After making sure that every single one of the kids landed safely at Motherbase, she gave the sign and the helicopter started again.
"Where's the Boss?"
"They can't be far away. It will be best if we wait here for them. The Mamba will feel better, when he sees that his comrades are alright.", she answered and the soldier nodded.
"Yes mam."
"Don't call me that. Sounds so old.", she hissed and he chuckled.
"Didn't want to call you Boss Miss."
"Yeah. you shouldn't. Or we both get a problem."
They smiled and lead the children to a save distance to the LZ.

"So these are the new recruits, i see.", Ocelot smirked and she turned around as she heard his steps.
"Stop joking around. The Boss still isn't here. I'm starting to get worried..."
"No need for that. Here they come.", he pointed into the sky and she stared at the small light in the distance, slowly getting bigger and bigger until she could see Pequot greeting her. She smiled at him and and then turned her gaze to Snake, who jumped out, just as she did a few minutes ago, and held out his hand to the Boy inside the helicopter.

The Kid ignored him and jumped out himself, looking around Motherbase.
She gasped and Ocelot watched her. She had a big grin on her face, which she struggled to hide.
"What is it?", he asked without getting a real answer.
"Ohhhhhh.", she said, joy in her eyes.
"What...? Oh no..."
"Ohhhhhhhhhhh",, she said again, making strange squeaking noises, while hiding her grin behind her hands.
"Oh please God no."
"He is SO cute!", she stuttered, filled with joy.

Big Boss left the boy behind, walking straight up to her and Ocelot.
"Welcome to Outer Heaven.", he said, touching the boys back.

It all happened really fast.
In a matter of seconds the Kid ran up to him. The little hand of his grabbed a knife, which seemingly was attached to Snakes suit.
But she knew Snake, Ocelot did too. One of the soldiers on her left started running forward, but it wasn't of much use.
Before the attack actually started, Big Boss turned around, reached for the boy and slammed him onto the hard, metal ground.
Her eyes widened. The boy was fast.
"He's pretty good.", Ocelot whispered and she wanted to agree, but couldn't take her eyes of these two in front of her.

The boy laid on his back and started screaming.
A pained, angry, helpless scream which made her heart stop for a second.
But he didn't stop. Big Boss pushed the boys arm to the left, the ugly noise of a dislocated bone mixed up with the scream of the Mamba, who held his hand in front of his head and looked pained as he quickly turned his sight into another direction.

"SNAKE!"

The soldiers next to her, including Ocelot, jumped and either looked down or to her.

Big Boss rose up and glared at the Kid beneath him, then at her, as if he wanted to ask what he did wrong.
She walked up to him and stared at him, angry enough to make him back off a few centimeters.
"What do you think your doing, get away from the boy!", she didn't yell anymore, but hissed at him and he looked sulky.

The knife still lay on the ground, and Eli tried to reach it.
She stepped on it and he looked up to her.
"You too young man. Stop.", she hissed and his jaw tensed.
"Boss, take care of his arm. From here on we'll handle him. Soldiers. get those kids to their chambers!", she said, calmer but still somehow pissed and Ocelot had to hide a smirk. Seeing her handling the Boss like that really was something.
"And stop giggling Adamska or you'll be next!", she yelled, he gulped and nodded, still smiling.

Eli let got a small cry, as Snake cared about his arm, but he was on his food again a few seconds later and glared at the Boss, before he went after the other kids.

Some time passed. A few seconds. A minute maybe.
Big Boss stood next to her for a while, without saying anything. He knew she was mad at him for being so rough.
"Here.", she said, handing him a cigar. He turned to her, kind of surprised and took it with a nod.
She sighted and then started to chuckle.
"I am good with kids. I love children.", she said, quoting him.
"Oh shut up. Stop teasing me.", he answered, lighting up his cigar, he had to smile nonetheless.
She went away giggling, catching up on Ocelot to start talking.

He watched them both and sighed until he started smoking again.

Soo...do we count this as a whole chapter? I don't know. Maybe some kind of...little extra.
Eli will be around more often now.
Causing chaos, as always.
Hope you like it! (as always... the i hope part...not the "you always like it"- part...i don't know if you always like it...i hope so...)
See you soon comrades! Have a wonderful night, as always! And as always, if there's anything on your mind you'd like to share with me, go on and do so, I'm here for you! (as always.) (AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SWEET REVIEWS. IT MAKES ME SOO ENDLESSLY HAPPY)