Half-Life 2: Episode 3

--Note: 1). I Do Not Own any aspect of the Half-Life series. 2). This is my take on what should happen in Episode 3. I do not have any confirmed details about the new series installment. 3). DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED HL2:EP.2 YET!!!!! It contains major spoilers. Enjoy and please review.—

Chapter 01 – Discovered Feelings

Gordon Freeman fell to the floor. The Combine Advisors telekinetic hold on him and Alyx had broken once DOG had scared them away. This allowed Alyx to run over to her father's corpse. Eli lied on the floor. He looked more peaceful as he had ever looked in life. The Advisor had stabbed him in the back of the head, but not mutilated him. Alyx ran over and clutched his body in her arms.

"NO! DAD! Please God no! No…" Gordon heard no more. He didn't know if it was the shock of the fall or the shock of Eli's death which caused it, but (whatever it was) Gordon passed out. Alyx's voice echoed in his mind before he faded out to sleep.

Hours later Gordon started to stir. Alyx's voice still echoed in his mind. "Gordon…?" Alyx repeated his name and asked if he was awake. Suddenly, Gordon realized he was awake. He opened his eyes and sat up on the makeshift bed Dr. Kliener had put together in the White Forest hideout. Alyx sat over him with a happy look on her face.

"Gordon! Thank God you're okay!" Alyx threw her arms around Gordon with more force than she ever had before. She almost knocked Gordon over. Alyx spoke up again, still embracing Gordon. "Although, I should have known you would survive. You always do…." Gordon could hear the sadness in her voice. She was trying hard to hold back tears. "I couldn't lose you too…" She said in a whispery tone. That was when the tears started. Gordon quickly embraced her back. Then he did something ha hadn't done in over 22 years, due to the G-Man putting him in stasis. It was crackly and guttural at first, but Gordon fixed it quickly. That was when he said his first words in years.

"Alyx…" he cleared his voice. "It'll all be fine." Alyx jumped back in surprise.

"Gordon! You…You…Your voice! You can speak!"

"Yes, I can speak. I just haven't in a while." Alyx still just sat there in astonishment. Then her mind quickly hopped off the subject and back to that of Eli's death. Gordon noticed this and spoke up again just as the tears began to come again and Alyx embraced him again. "Alyx…Your father loved you more than anything else in the world. I can tell you that the last thing he would ever want you to do is cry for him. He would want you to carry on." Alyx looked up at Gordon and smiled through her tears.

"You're right. He would want that. And, there is a bright side to it." She said.

"And what would that be?" he asked.

"I still have my Guardian Angel here to protect me." She said gesturing to Gordon. This made him smile. That's when Alyx said something that completely shocked him. "Gordon, I…I…Gordon, I love you!" Alyx grabbed Gordon once again and squeezed him as hard as she could. Gordon's eyes widened. She was in love with him? Gordon had thought about her in that way before. All those times where their lives were in jeopardy or they were safe, there was always that tension between them. Suddenly, Gordon realized it. He thought back to all those moments between them. Those high tension moments where the entire world seemed lost to them were always the best between them. Then he remembered that moment in the train yard. That moment when the Hunter attacked Alyx and trapped Gordon under rubble, he remembered the sheer terror he felt when he thought she was dead. Gordon spoke up to Alyx again and said something he never thought he'd say.

"I love you too Alyx. Since the moment I met you I've known. I just never had enough courage to say it." Alyx looked up at him and their eyes met. Slowly the inevitable moment that had been ready to happen for all this time came. Gordon and Alyx's lips met and they passionately kissed for over a minute. When that was over Alyx spoke.

"I've wanted to do that for so long." She said.

"How about again?" he said. She nodded and they locked lips again. Alyx slowly pushed Gordon down and soon they were laying down making out on the bed. That's when the door to the room opened. Gordon and Alyx almost jumped off the bed. Barney Calhoun had walked into the bunkroom. He must have arrived at White Forest while Gordon was unconscious. He was still clad in his Combine uniform.

"Hey Alyx, How's he…" Barney marveled at the sight of Gordon and Alyx together. There was that moment of uncomfortable silence that everyone hated. "Um…uh…Am I interrupting something?" Gordon and Alyx blushed. Barney broke the silence and gasped with relief. "Oh Thank god! Do you know how long we've been waiting for this to happen. Me and Kleiner have had a bet for a few months now. He owes me fifty bucks." With that, Barney walked out laughing. Gordon and Alyx looked at each other and began to laugh as well.