cyberneticbanshee requested this on tumblr for my jaeger pilot Alice, because she's a bastard and likes making my girl suffer apparently, but also she's lovely and makes me write things. SO!
“And what now?” Enchi asked, small on Alice’s laptop screen. “Back to the Spike?” She’d grown her hair out to her ears, it looked shaggy and soft in a way that was totally unfamiliar. Her piercings were back in, too. Less chance of taking a blow to the face working in R&D, or at least that’s how the dress codes saw it.
“No,” Alice said. “They want me to go back to Teo.”
She closed her eyes and imagined she could feel Enchi’s concern through the blue, even across thousands of miles. She couldn’t, but when she opened her eyes the from greeting her was far from a surprise. “Who wants that? You’re the best pilot on that base.”