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legionmissions2018-01-03 09:31 pm
iamresponding) wrote in legionmissions2018-01-03 09:31 pm
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"A Three Hour Tour" [locked to Rich and Grif]
Who| Grif and Rich
What| "A Three Hour Tour" plot. After investigating a garbled Legion distress call, Grif and Rich crash several months in the past on an alien planet and have to survive together and wait several months until rescue
Where| Azhol IV.
When| Post- Blargh, pre-"Lights Out"
Warnings/Notes| Shippy self-indulgent nonsense
Rich is feeling better. He'll never feel the way he used to, before getting his memories of the Cancerverse back, but the medicine and therapy are helping - and even allowing him to unpack things he tried not to touch before, like the War, and the fall of the Corps, and being controlled by the Phalanx.
He can never be his old self again but he can still be something healthy, if he works hard enough at it and actually accepts help. In fact, all of it's helped enough that Kid Q even let him go on a minor mission with Grif, some diplomatic talks and security consultations with a new UP member world.
And it'd gone well. He feels almost human again. He feels like he actually has a future.
So even now, after receiving a Legion distress call, responding to it, getting caught in some weird time storm, and crashing on a planet, he feels okay. Even after they figured out it was their own past distress call they were responding to. Even after figuring out they're stuck several months in the past, according to some of their instruments that use certain physical forces to calculate the correct time. Even though something in the atmosphere is making their flight rings fail and making their long-distance comm functions go offline.
They're both mostly uninjured, they have their omnicoms - which are saying there's fresh water and edible plants nearby - they have some rations and supplies like water filters, emergency blankets, backup transuits.
And they have each other. Grif definitely isn't the worst person to wind up stuck with.
"Our flight path took us right past this planet. We just have to hold out until the rest of the universe catches up a few months and they actually notice we've gone missing. The search pattern spread will bring them here."
It could be way worse.
What| "A Three Hour Tour" plot. After investigating a garbled Legion distress call, Grif and Rich crash several months in the past on an alien planet and have to survive together and wait several months until rescue
Where| Azhol IV.
When| Post- Blargh, pre-"Lights Out"
Warnings/Notes| Shippy self-indulgent nonsense
Rich is feeling better. He'll never feel the way he used to, before getting his memories of the Cancerverse back, but the medicine and therapy are helping - and even allowing him to unpack things he tried not to touch before, like the War, and the fall of the Corps, and being controlled by the Phalanx.
He can never be his old self again but he can still be something healthy, if he works hard enough at it and actually accepts help. In fact, all of it's helped enough that Kid Q even let him go on a minor mission with Grif, some diplomatic talks and security consultations with a new UP member world.
And it'd gone well. He feels almost human again. He feels like he actually has a future.
So even now, after receiving a Legion distress call, responding to it, getting caught in some weird time storm, and crashing on a planet, he feels okay. Even after they figured out it was their own past distress call they were responding to. Even after figuring out they're stuck several months in the past, according to some of their instruments that use certain physical forces to calculate the correct time. Even though something in the atmosphere is making their flight rings fail and making their long-distance comm functions go offline.
They're both mostly uninjured, they have their omnicoms - which are saying there's fresh water and edible plants nearby - they have some rations and supplies like water filters, emergency blankets, backup transuits.
And they have each other. Grif definitely isn't the worst person to wind up stuck with.
"Our flight path took us right past this planet. We just have to hold out until the rest of the universe catches up a few months and they actually notice we've gone missing. The search pattern spread will bring them here."
It could be way worse.
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It's not like Grif is a biased source or anything. A biased source who's trying not to think about how weird but nice it is that Rich is idly brushing his fingers.
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He doesn't want to think about being with anyone else, he suddenly realizes.
That's not to say that he doesn't still have feelings for Nita. That's the part that's confusing. Especially since he can't say that he has more feelings for Grif than Nita or vice versa. That's just the way he is. There's room in his heart for more than one person. That's what'd made it so hard to decide back when he'd had feelings for both Laura and Nita at the same time.
Except, in the end, Laura really hadn't been the best for him. Too much acting like she was dating him to make her father mad, like she was slumming it or something. Nita was different. Nita saw him as something worthwhile. She'd loved him for being Nova and for being plain ol' Rich Rider.
This is different than Laura and Nita, because Grif is nothing like Laura - he's like Nita. They both inspire the same feelings. That's what he wants, either one. Nita or Grif, and he doesn't want one more than the other.
So it's more about...what fits. What works right now, with him the way he is. And about what happens first, especially with Nita gone.
And of course, about whether either them decide they want him back. He wouldn't blame either of them for seeing him as too downer, as having too much baggage for a healthy relationship, and the problem is he isn't sure that'll ever change.
He doesn't know for sure, how it should go down, and that's why if either of them was to say they wanted to try to work things out, it really would come down to who says it first. That's not opportunism or not wanting to be alone, that's...that's it being them. There's in love there for both of them.
"Yeah. Options." If his heart doesn't sound like it's in it, the idea of being with other people, in general, it just isn't. "I guess it'll all work out somehow."
But he hopes it's only with one of them.
He doesn't let go of Grif's hand. Even as he starts to fall asleep, he holds on.
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Grif is drowsing when he feels Rich's breathing settle out into true sleep.
'Hey.' An idea crosses his mind. 'At least he's single.'
Grif's last conscious thought for the night is an exasperated groan.