//the world i wanted at my feet
Jan. 18th, 2011 12:20 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
[Liquid walked down the hallway with an empty, almost dead look in his eyes, blood dripping from his hands--the crimson substance that covered the soldier didn't belong to him, and for the first time Liquid Snake was horrified by that.]
[He was worthless. He had tried so hard to protect Otacon, even willing to subject himself to Snake's torture...all for nothing.]
[Had he ever understood what he felt for Otacon? No, of course not. How could someone that had gone unloved all his life comprehend what love felt like? All he knew was that there was a certain way he regarded Otacon and that certain way was referred to as loving someone. He never understood it, and hearing those words in Otacon's dying breath had hit like a slap to the face.]
[It was sinking in now, rage giving way to a crushing despair. Liquid had to finish Otacon, there had been no other choice--he'd been in so much pain and looked so goddamn pitiful.]
[Raising his hands, the soldier blankly regarded the blood he seemed to be covered in...]
[...then dropped to his knees and started screaming in agonized rage.]
[He was worthless. He had tried so hard to protect Otacon, even willing to subject himself to Snake's torture...all for nothing.]
[Had he ever understood what he felt for Otacon? No, of course not. How could someone that had gone unloved all his life comprehend what love felt like? All he knew was that there was a certain way he regarded Otacon and that certain way was referred to as loving someone. He never understood it, and hearing those words in Otacon's dying breath had hit like a slap to the face.]
[It was sinking in now, rage giving way to a crushing despair. Liquid had to finish Otacon, there had been no other choice--he'd been in so much pain and looked so goddamn pitiful.]
[Raising his hands, the soldier blankly regarded the blood he seemed to be covered in...]
[...then dropped to his knees and started screaming in agonized rage.]