[It wasn't that he'd completely forgotten, but for weeks it had felt like a dream that part of him screamed was real but too much was going on and he needed to focus. He had to be the leader the team needed. During the night, sure, he could think about it. But mission always came first.
That's likely why the news stuns him for a moment as he stares up at the screen. The leader... what? For a moment he's brought back to when he was far younger, when he was angry at the world yet another time and the adults threw their best under the bus to save their own skins. Pilot error flashes in his mind at the news and he frowns. There's no way the guy with messy hair and a calm mask that hid a silly side like Ren's would...
He's about to call it quits and go meet up with the others by the station when someone bumps into him. Keith blinks, stunned for a split second when he recognizes the hair and eyes.]
Ann? [He shakes it off after a second and the usual mask falls over his face.] Yeah, it's me.
cw mentions of suicide
That's likely why the news stuns him for a moment as he stares up at the screen. The leader... what? For a moment he's brought back to when he was far younger, when he was angry at the world yet another time and the adults threw their best under the bus to save their own skins. Pilot error flashes in his mind at the news and he frowns. There's no way the guy with messy hair and a calm mask that hid a silly side like Ren's would...
He's about to call it quits and go meet up with the others by the station when someone bumps into him. Keith blinks, stunned for a split second when he recognizes the hair and eyes.]
Ann? [He shakes it off after a second and the usual mask falls over his face.] Yeah, it's me.
[The weird half-alien someone met on an airship.]