[ that she stops at all frees up something in his bones. his adrenaline is still pumping, and his heart is a bellow in his ears that tells him he's dodged a bullet, gotten out of the way of an oncoming train- not that he's stopped a girl from following through on some signal of respect.
chuck has always been greedy. once it was about recognition, about his rightful place. he's not sure what changed. it'd be too easy to dismiss it as the impact of real world experience. of getting a taste of life on the front lines, of holding the line in a jaeger of his own. it isn't. chuck and mako both have had a different brand of understanding about the program and it's rangers- for whatever good or bad that might be. they stand before one another as relative strangers- stilted by formality and too much intimacy (too much understanding) from a lifetime that no longer matters, by what's done being done and whatever they've been left with now.
you tell me he says, and chuck leaves the rest. you called, i answered. ]
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[ that she stops at all frees up something in his bones. his adrenaline is still pumping, and his heart is a bellow in his ears that tells him he's dodged a bullet, gotten out of the way of an oncoming train- not that he's stopped a girl from following through on some signal of respect.
chuck has always been greedy. once it was about recognition, about his rightful place. he's not sure what changed. it'd be too easy to dismiss it as the impact of real world experience. of getting a taste of life on the front lines, of holding the line in a jaeger of his own. it isn't. chuck and mako both have had a different brand of understanding about the program and it's rangers- for whatever good or bad that might be. they stand before one another as relative strangers- stilted by formality and too much intimacy (too much understanding) from a lifetime that no longer matters, by what's done being done and whatever they've been left with now.
you tell me he says, and chuck leaves the rest. you called, i answered. ]