[ it's a process of elimination, and to Herc's eye the only thing the rangers have is one another. he can't imagine anyone else getting under Mako's skin this way, and while he doesn't know the intimate going-ons between the others (even Chuck's life, here, is half a mystery to him— made more so with the lack of a drift) it could be none but Raleigh.
he's a father, and that plays into it, but he'd never been much of a good one. if asked, he'd shrug off that particular detail. ]
Nah. [ Raleigh's been a civilian longer than any of them, the years he'd backed out to climb the Wall ] But you figure it out, or it falls apart.
[ things with his wife hadn't fallen apart (he'd been retiring for a reason), but they'd never had a chance to. he pauses, briefly, before adding: ]
War's over. It's something you can think about now.
With all due respect, sir— [ Mako doesn't have to say it, but she does. ] —you don't. Chuck doesn't. [ They don't talk about it, but she knows. It's in his demeanor, the way he stands and the way he talks. As far as Chuck is concerned, there will never be more for him. His sentence has already been written, with a period tidying it up at the end — a closed loop into which nothing new could be allowed. (They're soldiers, always have been. It's not something that they lament.)
Raleigh had told her once, (a brief moment in the conn-pod, seconds before the dead drop of initialization), I never thought about the future until now and when he'd said it she'd known (the Drift connecting them) that he'd meant the both of them and that, in knowing her, he'd imagined an entire life together. And to be honest, that thought that made Mako more nervous than any engagement at the bottom of the sea. Not fear, per say, but a roiling kind of anxiousness that spoke to her in ways that nothing else in her life ever had.
Mako continues to stare out at the city. The next question is difficult to eke out, but she tries not to struggle with it. ]
Would he have wanted this for me?
[ He. It's the first time Mako has spoken about Pentecost to Herc since their arrival in the city. Even with his passing, the thought of him lingers and even with him gone, Mako is still struggling to be the daughter she thinks he hoped she would be. ]
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heracleidae) wrote2013-09-06 11:57 pm
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he's a father, and that plays into it, but he'd never been much of a good one. if asked, he'd shrug off that particular detail. ]
Nah. [ Raleigh's been a civilian longer than any of them, the years he'd backed out to climb the Wall ] But you figure it out, or it falls apart.
[ things with his wife hadn't fallen apart (he'd been retiring for a reason), but they'd never had a chance to. he pauses, briefly, before adding: ]
War's over. It's something you can think about now.
( i x : d 1 : late night )
Raleigh had told her once, (a brief moment in the conn-pod, seconds before the dead drop of initialization), I never thought about the future until now and when he'd said it she'd known (the Drift connecting them) that he'd meant the both of them and that, in knowing her, he'd imagined an entire life together. And to be honest, that thought that made Mako more nervous than any engagement at the bottom of the sea. Not fear, per say, but a roiling kind of anxiousness that spoke to her in ways that nothing else in her life ever had.
Mako continues to stare out at the city. The next question is difficult to eke out, but she tries not to struggle with it. ]
Would he have wanted this for me?
[ He. It's the first time Mako has spoken about Pentecost to Herc since their arrival in the city. Even with his passing, the thought of him lingers and even with him gone, Mako is still struggling to be the daughter she thinks he hoped she would be. ]