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ʀᴀʟᴇɪɢʜ ʙᴇᴄᴋᴇᴛ ([personal profile] raleighs) wrote2013-09-13 08:52 pm
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NO U

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[ (That's because he's half-French. Have you seen how much their soccer players cry. Like seriously.)

Mako's tempted to reach out, to instinctively comfort him, because he's gone through just as much, and from the way he looks at Eleanor the past two years had been difficult on him as well. She's sorry, she wants to say -- she's sorry she couldn't have made her mind up sooner. ]


Two months ago. They offered me a position here. [ She pauses, looking up at the construction site he'd just emerged from. ] And... you?

[ ...Is there someone else, now? ]

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[personal profile] fissions 2013-10-15 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ Especially Raleigh, precious baby boy. He has so much feelings.

Mako feels an odd sort of relief at that answer -- she never knew he had a sister, that's strange -- and she nods. She shares the sentiment; there's no point skirting what's happened, is there? ]


A robotics firm. I'm undergoing an apprenticeship of sorts. [ Eleanor is getting restless again, and Mako pauses only to soothe her in quiet Japanese. She settles, decides to fix her attention on Raleigh, as if taking his measure. Mako takes a few moments, and maybe, just maybe they could try again. Pick up the pieces, and -- ]

It's... good to see you again.
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[personal profile] fissions 2013-10-15 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Someday, Mako would like to meet his sister -- she's the only family he's left, isn't she? Someday, too, she'll ask why he keeps her hidden. When he looks like he's about to start crying again, Mako's heart softens, aches for him because she's never stopped loving him. All of the hurts and the damage and the longing aside, she could never stop loving him.

She sets Eleanor back into her stroller and straps her in, pulling a blanket over her as the baby gurgles happily. Mako takes a moment to let the enormity of that statement sink in, that he wants to be a part of their lives again and -- for a while, she had feared that he wouldn't have wanted to -- but he looks so hopeful, so teary that she could barely restrain the desire to step into his arms, to hold him and kiss him like she would have done nearly a lifetime ago. (Really, it should be official, Mako Mori is in lesbians with Raleigh Becket.)

But it's too soon, and Mako swallows a lump in her throat when she smiles and nods. ]
Yes. Yes, of course. [ She gestures in the direction of her apartment. ]

I live five blocks down, in the red-bricked building. Unit 813. [ She pauses, thinks that this is a startlingly surreal turn of events. Would she wake up have it all be another dream? ] Maybe tomorrow? I'll make dinner.
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[personal profile] fissions 2013-10-16 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Of course she had to ask -- it hadn't appeared in his personnel files within the Marines either; or perhaps it had been a detail that had been removed, but still, let's move on. Mako doesn't like thinking about what they did, what she, or he had to do to keep the club thriving.

They say lies are never the foundation for a relationship, but then they're probably bullshitting anyway, so fuck them.

Mako shakes her head, briefly. He's trying hard, she thinks, she knows. He's been lonely and unhappy and he's trying so, so hard, and she wishes things would be simple between them again -- not that they ever were, when you come right down to it. ]


It's fine. I could use the practice.

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TIMESKIP NEXT TAG, MEL BB?

[personal profile] fissions 2013-10-17 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Raleigh doesn't ask, and Mako doesn't offer. He's right; they're not there yet, and Mako is not ready to take that step. Maybe days, maybe weeks, maybe months from now -- she doesn't know. But Raleigh's looking her like a father would his daughter, and her fingers tighten briefly on the handle of the stroller.

They'd talk, one day. Talk about all this, all the unfinished business between them; and she finds that she's waiting for it to come. ]


Yes. [ She doesn't want to hold him up for too long, and she nods, glancing behind him. ] I'll see you soon.
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bby ure perfect u///u

[personal profile] fissions 2013-10-18 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Mako's heart skips a beat when she sees him at the door, cleaned up and handsome as the day he'd left her. She feels something twist in her heart when she sets eyes on him, when she picks up on her nervousness so easily because it's a thing they have with each other, a preternatural ability to sense what the other is feeling without so much words.

To be fair, she is nervous too; she'd spent an hour beating out the same rug over and over, nerves settling into a tight ball in her stomach. A simple beef stew is boiling on a stove, and she'd settled for a simple accompanying fare of steamed rice and vegetables. Easy enough to make, and she'd had to mash up some of the vegetables to mix into Eleanor's porridge anyway.

Her daughter is crawling happily on her colourful patch of numbers, knocking her toys around, firmly suckling on her pacifier; she only looks up briefly when Mako answers the door, quite oblivious to the fact that her father stood on the other end side of it.

Mako, however, feels a lump catch in her throat, and her gaze lingers on him before she pulls open the door further. He's late, but it doesn't matter; the important thing is that he's here. ]
Come in. [ Her apartment is small, but cozy; she'd brought none of the things they bought when they'd lived together, and in the few photoframes were only the photographs she had of Eleanor. No Raleigh -- not when the memory of him still rings bittersweet and painful. ]

Sorry for the mess. Eleanor's in a very good mood today.
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[personal profile] fissions 2013-10-19 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
It's fine.

[ Babies make messes in whatever mood they're in, Raleigh. She nods, and closes the door behind him, feeling something ease in her chest when he smiles.

Maybe this would be easier than she'd thought. ]


Take a seat. Dinner will be ready soon.

[ Meanwhile, Eleanor pauses again and watches them curiously while gnawing on one of her building blocks-- evidently, they rarely ever have guests in their home. Mako, however, deftly steps over and chides gently, lovingly, taking the block away from her, and cleaning her mouth with a handkerchief. ]

No, Ellie, you can't do that. [ She glances at Raleigh, after a moment. ] Would you mind looking after her for awhile?
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[personal profile] fissions 2013-10-19 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Mako wonders, briefly, whether it's fortunate or unfortunate that she could still read him like a book after so long. She knows the anxiety, notices that he acquiesces anyway. It's what she's loved about him, she notes -- that he doesn't let anything get the better of him, no matter what it is.

Eleanor's probably too young to know about stalkers, so she's going about minding her own business, and valiantly attempting to crawl after her mother, quite put out that she's leaving again. Mako deftly distracts Eleanor with her favourite toy giraffe; and she knows what it means, when she asks him to look after her -- that he's keeping a respectful distance because she wanted it. She fights down a twinge of guilt, because the two years had not been kind of either one of them. ]


...Thank you. [ She disappears into the kitchen, taking a few moments to breathe, to gather her thoughts before it scatters, and she's moving again, setting the table. Plates, forks, steaming dishes and two plates of white rice for the both of them. ]
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NEVER

[personal profile] fissions 2013-10-21 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Mako doesn't take her away from him even if a part of her wants to -- the overprotective part, the part that had raised Eleanor on her own for nearly a year, when she had been alone for almost two. She pauses at the dining table, and something clenches tight in her chest because that's her baby girl --

-- and that's Raleigh's, too.

She forces herself to remember that, to smooth over half-finished resentments, to remember the look on his face when he'd seen Eleanor, when it clicks and he understands. Mako sets the table in silence, watches how he is towards her, before she finally goes towards them and picks her up. ]


...Dinner's ready. [ Her words are quiet; deliberately neutral but not unkind. ]
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WHY ARE YOU TALKING TO HIM

[personal profile] fissions 2013-10-23 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope you still like stew.

[ She remembers it had been one of his favourites -- beef stew with carrots and potatoes, and she'd somehow learned it along the way. There is a small pot of stew, fragrant and still steaming, together with a plate of stir fried vegetables and rice.

Eleanor clings to her happily before Mako puts her into her cot not too far away. Taking a seat at the dining table, she's quietly relieved that he doesn't protest, that he doesn't push. Raleigh, ever-considerate, the man so used to putting others above himself. ]
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NO I LOVE YOU ANYWAY IT'S ADORABLE

[personal profile] fissions 2013-10-25 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ So he's just getting straight to it. Mako's not surprised -- Raleigh has never been one for beating around the bush, and he isn't about to start now, just because they haven't seen each other in two years.

She takes a bite of her food, quiet and thoughtful before she takes her time to respond, feeling a tightness coil in her stomach. Apparently, Raleigh's not the only one without the appetite. ]


I wondered sometimes, [ She says finally; and this is a way of answering the question, isn't it? What are they going to do, when the cracks run so deep? ] if you loved the baby I had inside me more than me.
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[personal profile] fissions 2013-10-26 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's blunt, it's honest and if Mako had been any less of what she is, she would have flinched at the way it was delivered. But as it is, the two years had given her a lot of time to think about things, to pick through the mess they've mired herself in. She watches the surprise in his eyes, knows that he hadn't thought of it that way until she brought it up.

It's understandable, she thinks, to not to want to stick around to see what happens to their relationship, to watch it gut itself out and to endure the pain of watching it die before their eyes with no way back. And in a warped, twisted way, leaving had been the better option because then the deterioration is stopped in its tracks, leaving with it heartbreak, grief, resentment, and all other manner of feelings left unaddressed.

Mako knows, too, that she couldn't have expected him to know that she hadn't done it in the end. Hell, when she left the apartment, she didn't know she wouldn't have gone through with it.

But she needed him. She needed him and he wasn't there. Mako looks down at her plate, and something inside her twists -- painful and sharp, a wound that had never closed. ]


And this was the alternative.

:< very soon

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shhh baby enjoy the ride c:

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too late you're strapped in

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DON'T CRY

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