[Just that. Just that one simple word. From a ghost. Pidge... she'd told him they'd found out her brother was alive, but this is wildly different. This is actually seeing him. Actually looking into the face he'd last seen collapsed on a floor.]
[Looking like he'd betrayed him.]
[They're both standing there, stunned. And at the back of his mind he just keeps thinking he needs to tell Pidge, he needs to tell her, call her. She needs to be here. She deserves to be here. He shouldn't be the first person to see...]
Yeah. I... yeah I am.
[The words are woefully inadequate. Ghosts of what he wants to say. Of what he should say.]
Katie -- she's here, too. [That, at least, he manages to scrape together before the weight in his chest gets too choking.]
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[Just that. Just that one simple word. From a ghost. Pidge... she'd told him they'd found out her brother was alive, but this is wildly different. This is actually seeing him. Actually looking into the face he'd last seen collapsed on a floor.]
[Looking like he'd betrayed him.]
[They're both standing there, stunned. And at the back of his mind he just keeps thinking he needs to tell Pidge, he needs to tell her, call her. She needs to be here. She deserves to be here. He shouldn't be the first person to see...]
Yeah. I... yeah I am.
[The words are woefully inadequate. Ghosts of what he wants to say. Of what he should say.]
Katie -- she's here, too. [That, at least, he manages to scrape together before the weight in his chest gets too choking.]