chuck and raleigh have been a hell of a lot of things in their collective history thus far, but there's never been symmetry. it's nothing to grieve over, not when the only person he has that could ever come close to friendship is his father- not when they have nothing but the drift. he knows what becket's saying without the words to articulate it. it's a punch to the gut, one that flattens his diaphragm and takes a rib with it and leaves him winded. angry.
becket tells him to ignore it and go on anyway. but that isn't a call chuck has ever made on his own, isn't the kind of call any good ranger makes when he's in the field. he couldn't make it in the bay of hong kong. and he can't make it now.
there are some things he won't be able to undo. chuck remembers getting word when gipsy danger had gone down. when yancy becket had been lost and his copilot fucked off to lands unknown. chuck wants nothing more than to go after his old man- it hammers in his lungs and drums in his ears. ]
Nothin' to talk about.
[ but his dad gave the order. and what he needs is for chuck to do his job. ]
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chuck and raleigh have been a hell of a lot of things in their collective history thus far, but there's never been symmetry. it's nothing to grieve over, not when the only person he has that could ever come close to friendship is his father- not when they have nothing but the drift. he knows what becket's saying without the words to articulate it. it's a punch to the gut, one that flattens his diaphragm and takes a rib with it and leaves him winded. angry.
becket tells him to ignore it and go on anyway. but that isn't a call chuck has ever made on his own, isn't the kind of call any good ranger makes when he's in the field. he couldn't make it in the bay of hong kong. and he can't make it now.
there are some things he won't be able to undo. chuck remembers getting word when gipsy danger had gone down. when yancy becket had been lost and his copilot fucked off to lands unknown. chuck wants nothing more than to go after his old man- it hammers in his lungs and drums in his ears. ]
Nothin' to talk about.
[ but his dad gave the order. and what he needs is for chuck to do his job. ]