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[liesdontfindyou]

 

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AUs:

• Connie survives Longshore and either a) is the CT at Sandtrap b) ends up in Blood Gulch c) disappears until another point in time, canon event related or not.
• Connie never defects from Project Freelancer.

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[a_shadow]

Tex nods slowly, thinking.

"I think that would work," she says. "We'll have to make it as quick as possible, though."

[liesdontfindyou]

"I can do quick. If he starts acting up, you have my express permission to threaten him so we can make a quick exit," Connie says, and there's almost a hint of a joke in her voice. "He could do with a little reigning in."

[a_shadow]

Tex snickers. "One of those, huh."

She glances toward the door.

"We probably better get back to our usual routines. We don't really want them to notice this is happening."

[liesdontfindyou]

"Yeah, one of those," she says with a quiet laugh. "Right, I should uh, I should probably try and get in what actual sleep I can. I'm... usually awake around the time you came to me tonight," sleep has been difficult to come by for a while, "so whenever we need to talk, feel free to come around."

[a_shadow]

"All right." Tex nods, steps back to let Connie leave the room ahead of her, and then heads to her room.

She remembers now what happens when she ends up in there—she connects herself to the port in the wall and sets herself on sleep mode. She's resting and recharging, but not in the way a human would. From now on, she's not going to forget this is what happens. She's not going to end up remembering unstrapping her armor, taking a shower, and snuggling down in bed. She doesn't even know how those memories replace themselves in her head. But that programming is broken now.

[liesdontfindyou]

Connie falls back into her bed with a thump that she's surprised doesn't wake the still heavily sleeping South on the other side of the room.

Despite how drained she is, there's a new energy in her; after days of feeling like she was here on borrowed time, she, for the first time, has an ally on board. A gamble finally payed off and now, there's a plan that might actually work.

It's the most alive she's felt in months.