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[ chuck keeps his silence for every step they take. it isn't locked away like a jealous lover, or stuffed into a drawer like old photographs- but his mouth doesn't twitch and his expression doesn't flicker. chuck shares no likenesses perhaps because he offers none in return. it's the kind of thing one might seek out in others- a sense of belonging, or a lack of aloneness. to be a jaeger pilot means that he will exist perpetually between these two extremes, and there's a quiet understanding of this fact that pours into his bones until it takes root. until it becomes commitment. until it's all he is outside the corps and all he is outside of striker.

all he is outside the drift.

alayne leads the way and her wolf goes on ahead, but chuck says nothing. it is as much a dry resignation as it is a child's petulant (meaningless) protest. ]