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Self Soothing
Prompt from @imagentmi: Imagine Wash frequently waking up confused and disoriented on Chorus, thinking he is back on the MOI. Epsilon, who monitors all the rebels’ computers, security and communication systems, calms Wash and talks him back into bed. Epsilon never tells anyone, not even Carolina.
When Wash wakes up confused and disoriented on Chorus, sometimes Church is the one who talks him down. It’s kind of a self-soothing thing.
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Even on a military base that’s fully staffed at all times, life for an AI gets really, really boring in the middle of the night. Church likes to fill the graveyard shift with housekeeping in the civil grid, because he’s just a fucking humanitarian like that. He’s hard at work on recalibrating a filter that’s been letting contaminants into the water system when his feelers in the comm network get pinged.
He’s got flags on all the guys—if Carolina counts as a guy—because one or another of them tries their hardest to die at least once a week. This one isn’t anything like that, though. It’s just Wash’s voice, saying, “Epsilon?” Which in its own quiet, private way, is almost as bad.
Fuck it, the army won’t come down with lead poisoning in a single day.
Reblogging this because I’m pleased with it even though WOW THAT FAILED SO HARD AT BEING FLUFF WOW SORRY.
But also because so many people are tagging it with some form of Church/Wash and I just want them all to know I love that, because if I’m writing about two people in the same scene, secretly I’m probably shipping them somehow.
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