Chapter 9

Spensa's PoV

I walked out of Cobs office to someone yelling. Sadly the only thing I caught was. "...WATCH OUT!!!" 

I turned my head to see Rodge running down the hall chasing after something that was floating in the air, what I wasn't able to do, was duck before the thing crashed right into my face. "AURGH!!!" 

"Sorry, sorry. Hey Spin..." Rodge looked down at me and his eyes widened. "Oh my gosh I'm so sorry, I was tinkering and decided to make a drone, then there was an eclivity ring and well... anyways it's a bit of a long story." I started to struggle to get up, pushing the thing off me (that I now knew to be a drone). I stumbled and Rodge grabbed my hand and pulled me up, stealing the wind from me. Dang he was still taller than me, why did I have to be so short.

He chuckled, then picked up the device and turned it over, searching for something. "Ah ha!" He pulled a plug and the thing stopped the twitching it had been doing (Trying to get away again I guess). "She's got a mind of her own, it's kind of amusing." I looked at it. "Well when it isn't crashing into people's face's that is." I retorted. I chuckled again and I realized that he was in a better mood then before. 

"Why are you in such a good mood?" I asked, but it came out more harshly than I intended it to.

Rodge's eyes widened. "Wow, cat snatched the yellow string today!?!"

"What?"

He rolled his eyes. "It means, you not happy today. Basically"

"Oh."

"Jorgen doing better?"

I closed my eyes trying to keep the tears that had been threatening to spill all day from leaking out. Pilots didn't cry. Even if I had lost a good deal of my aggressiveness I still kept some of the tendencies from when I was growing up. It was a habit that was really hard to break, even after Starsight.

"Spin, its okay to cry, but is he..." Rodge trailed off. I quickly shook my head. "N-no, he isn't, but, if he doesn't wake up in a few weeks, they'll have to-to t-take him off life support."

Rodge's eyes widened even more then they were before. "I'm so sorry." he said quietly. I started crying. I couldn't hold it in any longer. Rodge looked at me before leading me off to my room. My head was on his shoulder as we walked. We got some strange looks, mostly because I was crying. The great 'hero of Alta' 'Lieutenant Nightshade' 'the daughter of a coward' was crying. 

Once we got to my room, Rodge opened my door and led me inside. I sat on my bed, and tried to calm myself down. Rodge being Rodge, pulled me close and let me cry on his shoulder until my crying had reduced to small hiccups. "You going to be ok there Spin?" I nodded not sure on what to say. "You know,  you can always talk to me, I'm your best friend, and your mine. Before flight school I was the small skinny kid who always got bullied. But you, you were the kid who was shunned, and had the biggest most unrealistic dream I had ever seen. But you defended me, made me your friend and pulled me along. That got me to do the pilots test, got me to drop out, get into engineering, meet the one and only FM (or Freya) and made me who I am now. I know that I kinda ranted there but because of you I'm who I am now. I would do almost anything to keep you safe - even though I know that's unrealistic and crazy because you are a pilot and all - so if you need someone to confide in or to cry on their shoulder I'm always here. I can't tell you that everything will be alright, we aren't in a story book where everything will just magically be OK, (*cough* I would rethink that Rodge. *cough*) but I'm going to tell you that if I could make it so Jorgen and well quite frankly all our friends are okay then I would do it and I know that flight command and medical staff are doing everything in their power to keep us alive."

By this point I had stopped crying, wiping the last of my tears away and sitting up.

"Thank you, I really needed that."

"Of course."

A/N: I know it's been a while, I'm really sorry about that, if you've ever picked up a book on Wattpad then seen that its got like what... five? six sequels, you have a desire to finish it, that's what happened to me. So I got really lazy on my writing.

I don't know what else to say, other than that I hope you all enjoyed this addition to the story (And that I fully apologize that this really isn't that big of an addition to the plot more of a filler) I gave it a bit of fluff, and drama.

I fully hope that everybody is having a nice day, staying safe now that COVID-19 is going on another wave and that overall people are having a good (ish) life. 

(P.S. listen to the video at the top it's what I listened to while writing and is a truly amazing piece.)

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