"Don't need to thank me, Gunny." He squeezed her hand, back against the wall and gazing out across the hall with no real focus.
It really wasn't even in question, that he had her back. At least it wasn't for him. He'd known her for - what, maybe a month? - and she'd ingrained herself so fully into his life and his head and his heart that it was hard to remember when she hadn't been a part of it. He wouldn't have been able to explain why she had clicked into place so easily. Maybe made up something about how she got a head start, since she knew him even when he didn't know her. That she was Martin, that they shared a bond that no one else on the station did. All these things were true, but they also didn't matter.
She could have been from anywhere, and he still thinks he would have wanted to cement himself at her side.
He didn't know what was happening to her, but it didn't matter. He wasn't going to let her go through it alone.
Amos was his brother, Naomi and Prax and Frank his crew, his family.
But he was pretty sure, somehow, that Bobbie had ended up his best god damn friend. He wasn't going to lose her, if he had a single god damn thing to say about it.
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It really wasn't even in question, that he had her back. At least it wasn't for him. He'd known her for - what, maybe a month? - and she'd ingrained herself so fully into his life and his head and his heart that it was hard to remember when she hadn't been a part of it. He wouldn't have been able to explain why she had clicked into place so easily. Maybe made up something about how she got a head start, since she knew him even when he didn't know her. That she was Martin, that they shared a bond that no one else on the station did. All these things were true, but they also didn't matter.
She could have been from anywhere, and he still thinks he would have wanted to cement himself at her side.
He didn't know what was happening to her, but it didn't matter. He wasn't going to let her go through it alone.
Amos was his brother, Naomi and Prax and Frank his crew, his family.
But he was pretty sure, somehow, that Bobbie had ended up his best god damn friend. He wasn't going to lose her, if he had a single god damn thing to say about it.