[ I'm your greatest achievement and you detest me!
Those lost few nights were so, so angry. John can almost taste the burning ozone from frayed wires just as he could close his eyes and feel the heat from the remains of the Covenant Lich ship fall apart in flames around him on the floor of the Ivanoff Station hangar bay. She didn't pull the ship up even when he pleaded as nanolaminate hull plates torn in ribbons out from under his feet. The wasn't the last time it all just broke apart around him.
It's okay., John thinks even though no one is listening. Trying to placate dead echoes reverberating in the back of his mind buried too deep to unstick.
Since Halsey had whisked Kelly away to parts unknown with and John is none the wiser to her eventual return to the UNSC and arrest the last four years came back down on him all at once. The last traces of color were drawn out from her hair that sat light below the ears framing her pale face. John sees how the strongest woman he'd known all his life stands like she's lost weight; frailer but not weaker. He thinks she knows.
Then, John does something thirty years of training tells him not to. His shoulders buckle and he falls out of attention, taking one step into the room. Slouching his massive armored body to clear the door but not rising back up again when he enters. All the IIs had been crumbling in increments for years, and only now was it all catching up to him. ]
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Those lost few nights were so, so angry. John can almost taste the burning ozone from frayed wires just as he could close his eyes and feel the heat from the remains of the Covenant Lich ship fall apart in flames around him on the floor of the Ivanoff Station hangar bay. She didn't pull the ship up even when he pleaded as nanolaminate hull plates torn in ribbons out from under his feet. The wasn't the last time it all just broke apart around him.
It's okay., John thinks even though no one is listening. Trying to placate dead echoes reverberating in the back of his mind buried too deep to unstick.
Since Halsey had whisked Kelly away to parts unknown with and John is none the wiser to her eventual return to the UNSC and arrest the last four years came back down on him all at once. The last traces of color were drawn out from her hair that sat light below the ears framing her pale face. John sees how the strongest woman he'd known all his life stands like she's lost weight; frailer but not weaker. He thinks she knows.
Then, John does something thirty years of training tells him not to. His shoulders buckle and he falls out of attention, taking one step into the room. Slouching his massive armored body to clear the door but not rising back up again when he enters. All the IIs had been crumbling in increments for years, and only now was it all catching up to him. ]
Ma'am.