Stacker Pentecost (thepentecost) wrote in thedoorway, @ 2013-11-04 10:22:00 |
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Tamsin Sevier's illness had been long, peppered with hope and remission before weakened and worn, she couldn't fight the cancer any longer. Tamsin, who Luna had so loved and who had become the only connection to his past that Pentecost still had; a woman he'd adored and fought alongside to protect the world, a woman whose illness he shared. But Pentecost had told himself he wasn't going to go out like that, wasting away in a hospital, fighting and illness and letting Mako pray and endlessly wish for his recovery with unfailing sanguineness. He didn't want to do that to his daughter, he wanted her to be able to pick up and move on far better than he'd been able to when Tamsin got sick. That's why he'd suited up for Striker Eureka -- that's why he'd always intended to suit up for the final attack on the breach; because if he was going to die anywhere, there was no place he'd rather do it than in a Jaegar. But something went wrong. There was no thermonuclear detonation - only a blue light and a hospital bed. The rhythmic beeps of monitoring equipment and general haziness feeling of being filled with pain medication and antibiotics. He had a few minor burns, but it was the radiation that had really taken the energy out of him -- otherwise, he'd be pulling wires off himself and making for the door. Especially when he heard that Mako was here somehow. The last thing he wanted was for her to see him like this -- even if it wasn't fair to ask her to stay away. She'd just been a child when they'd gone through all of this with Tamsin in Hawaii. He didn't want to see the look on her face when she realised it really was happening all over again. Stacker wasn't sure who else was here, or what exactly was going on. The SHIELD Doctors had tried to explain, but he'd slipped in and out of consciousness so many times that half of everything that happened since he'd left the Shatterdome with Chuck felt like a dream. Including what he'd picked up from the drift with Herc's son. The only name that had stuck with him, when he'd heard it, was Mako's. Because even if he didn't plan this, even if he'd been ready to die and wanted to go out in flames as opposed to ending his life in a hospital -- if she was here, than he was meant to be. He'd keep fighting if he had to. |