[ he doesn't flinch at the language, it's hardly the worst thing he's heard in years. how he leaps from the Ishimura to follow what Yancy has to say is anyone's guess, but when you become a ranger there are certain leaps of logic you learn to follow. he's quiet for a beat, before saying: ]
five years. and suddenly he can't be sitting. he can't be still.
five years.
it should feel small, but it's not. it's a chunk of a lifetime. it's a fist to his solax plexus. it's a year short of his whole tour with raleigh from the day gipsy was deployed to the klaxons sounding at two in the fucking morning, raleigh's bright-eyed enthusiasm and the bumping of their fists hey kid, don't get cocky and the moment they shut the comms, one unanimous thought in their heads let's go be big damn heroes and save that fishing boat.
[ he lets it sink in, but when the silence stretches on for long enough to cause concern, Herc speaks up again. he can't imagine what it would be like, losing a chunk of time like that. has no idea what the ranger might be going through—
but as Stacker used to say: if he could be nothing else, he could be a fixed point. ]
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heracleidae) wrote2013-09-06 11:57 pm
( wk 6, d3, voice )
Five years.
( wk 6, d3, voice )
five years. and suddenly he can't be sitting. he can't be still.
five years.
it should feel small, but it's not. it's a chunk of a lifetime. it's a fist to his solax plexus. it's a year short of his whole tour with raleigh from the day gipsy was deployed to the klaxons sounding at two in the fucking morning, raleigh's bright-eyed enthusiasm and the bumping of their fists hey kid, don't get cocky and the moment they shut the comms, one unanimous thought in their heads let's go be big damn heroes and save that fishing boat.
five years. ]
( wk 6, d3, voice )
but as Stacker used to say: if he could be nothing else, he could be a fixed point. ]
Yancy?