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no more sacred language than the one tattooed on your soul by lastyrainhill
Fandoms: Pacific Rim (2013)
07 Jul 2014
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Inspired by chuckismycopilot's headcanon on her tumblr: Pacific Rim AU where Chuck survives Operation Pitfall, but his injuries leave him deaf. Frustrated and angry, he withdraws into himself while Raleigh learns sign language in secret. The first things he learns are “I’m here” and “forever” - “I love you” comes later. (An awful lot of thanks to her for letting me use this amazing idea.)
After Operation Pitfall, Raleigh doesn't really what to do with himself. It only lasts until newly upgraded Marshall Hansen has to leave and give him the mission to watch Chuck - who's in a coma since he came back from the bottom of the ocean. Raleigh reluctantly accepts. And when Chuck wakes up - everything is about to change.
In a deserted Shatterdome, a story of healing - each other and oneself.
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Rue Bennett has a system for most things.
The alarm at six forty-seven. The side entrance at BluTech that bypasses the loud lobby. The cove path that ends at the spot with two walls of stone and the water in front of her. The journal where she writes what she can’t say out loud.
She has not been able to build a system for this.
At twenty-one, she has never kissed anyone. She knows why. The understanding has not solved the problem. So she does what she always does — researches, makes a plan, finds the most controlled version of the thing she needs.
The woman who arrives is not what she expected.
She goes by Luxé. She sits at the far edge of the bed. She asks what she should know before she assumes anything. When Rue tells her, she doesn’t produce the face. She just says: it makes sense.
And then she asks about the arctic terns.
The Distance and the Return is a story about learning what closeness feels like when your nervous system has never had the chance — told in the specific language of two people who both needed somewhere no one knew their name.
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- Part 1 of The Migration