snake x otacon - nightmares in alaska 🍳 finale
27.5k sweet slow burn, philanthropy era // read it over here (completed)
In the yard, the sky was wide, framing the greenery around them with sunlight that didn’t burn. The warmth soothed David’s body as he stood in the grass, smiling as he watched Sunny and Hal run between the trees. Sunny had picked up his proclivity for hiding and easily scaled the trees around them with her little hands. She ducked behind leaves and branches, leaving her giggling as the only trace of her for Hal to follow.
Hal was wrong. David had pined for him for years. As he watched the pair of people he loved the most, he thought about how his heart continued to pine— he pined for the future that he and Hal could have had. The future that people felt that they had the authority to take from them.
David had always been plagued by nightmares, alone in the dead of quiet Alaskan nights, until he discovered how loudly Otacon lived.
(A Philanthropy fic exploring Hal and David’s relationship in different shades.)
