Forbidden Access

A couple of months went by with out much happening, mission wise. Hal sat at his computer eating some ramen with some carrots and peas put in it to add more flavor. The dogs wandered around the room, one resting his head on Hal's leg.



Snake wasn't about to complain about not being deployed for this time, the less he had to step away from Hal the better as he seemed to have started growing alarmingly close to him as the weeks went by.



Hal set his bowl aside and stretched. He pet the dog before getting up and going to find Snake. "Hey Dave you want anything to eat?" he asked going to get a popcicle out of the fridge.



Snake got up from what he was doing at that. If he would keep doing his job he had to keep his training optimized enough for it as well, so he didn't let anything catch him off guard if need be.



Hal unwrapped a cherry popcicle and put it in his mouth while he leaned against the counter.



"Are you alright eating like that?" Snake asked. Hal knew about this more than he did but that didn't seem healthy to him.



"Like what? It's frozen juice." Hal replied licking the top of it. "Plus I'm warm and I wanted to have one."



"Ah, I see... I wouldn't mind one." He said, ignoring the fact that this was Alaska and he was saying he was warm as best as he could without assassinating his logic into silence.



"What kind?" Hal asked



"Anything, really."



Hal got him a grape one and tossed it to him. "Catch." he smiled



Snake reacted and closed his fingers around the object before examining it.



Hal sighed in content. "What have you been up to?" he asked



"Training." he said, looking at Hal with a smile. "For when you deploy me."



"It's been unusually quiet.." Hal said.



"I see..." he said, wondering about that, he didn't like it when it shut into some deterrence like this.



"They're planning something.." Hal said biting some of the popcicle off and sucking on it, letting it melt in his mouth.



"Any idea on what that something is?" Snake asked at once, looking at him at that with a lot of sudden interest in what Hal had found so far.



Hal looked at him. "Not much information.." he replied. "I've been trying and trying but there's nothing. Just me falling asleep at my desk." he added stretching. His shirt lifted slightly as he did so and on his already thin frame it revealed a little bit of a belly. He finished his popcicle and threw the stick away. "Once I find something you'll be the first to know."



"I guess." Snake said, looking at him over and forgetting momentarily about the popsicle in favor of walking to him to kiss him instead, pulling a hand around his shoulders to deepen that kiss.



Hal kissed him back and ran his hands over his strong back and shoulder blades. "Mmmn... What was that for?" he asked smiling.



"Impulse." Snake replied, licking his lips before kissing him a little more passionately this time, leaning to kiss his neck a little as well. Still he eventually pulled away to get back to his training. After this he had to move out to keep his aim practiced.



Hal smiled and pushed up his glasses. He went to work on the other room. He was going to try to make it livable both for the baby and for himself and Snake as well. He started vacuuming the dirty carpet and washing the walls.



Snake paused to wonder what Hal was doing with something like the vacuum on him. "Do you need any help with that?" He asked, already intending to snatch it away from him. He wasn't good at this but while he was here he was fairly sure he could still help.



"Oh..I'm fine I'm going little by little." Hal replied scrubbing something off the wall. "I mean we've got 6 whole months to really work on it so I'm doing it while I can still bend down." he laughed.



"Even so, I'm doing nothing here, Hal, I can at least help you out." he said, taking this from the most logical side of things. The less Hal had to do while he was like this the better, in Snake's mind at least.



"Well you can try to get this stain off of the wall." Hal laughed handing him a rag. "My backs starting to hurt from sitting on that floor, scrubbing."