jazmine becket open post.

[littlestbecket]

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[raleighs]

[For fuck's sake. Raleigh makes a face at her, a little irritated with her and then feeling like a real asshole because he's mad at her for the attitude. She's pregnant, Becket, have some priorities.

He sighs after a moment.]

I mean it, Jaz. We're not just going to abandon you. Not this time.

[littlestbecket]

No? So what -- you...you quit the program?

[ She's curling around the toilet and trying not to cry. ]

[raleighs]

[This is Raleigh being silent for nearly a minute while he considers that and then--]

Yeah. That's exactly what it means.

[littlestbecket]

You--

[ That's what she wanted to hear, right? That's what she's wanted for ages, what she wanted when Mom was sick and when Dad left and she was on her own. She wanted her family back, she wanted her brothers back - where they were safe and where they could be a family again.

But something inside of her screams that this isn't right. It's selfish, abhorently so, and she can't...

She just can't.

She swallows back bile and pulls her head off the toilet (and out of her ass, so to speak) and looks at him, blue eyes watery, features so similar to his own. ]

No. Don't be a fucking idiot, Rals.

[raleighs]

[Is she freaking serious. She's lucky that he loves her because his little sister is one of the most contrary people he's ever met and he could slap her right now. But he won't. Because he loves her and she's pregnant and that just seems extra wrong.]

We're not just going to let you fend for yourself, Jaz and a baby. Come on.

[littlestbecket]

[ Ugh she's feeling fucking contrary. She'll blame this shit on the hormones later, or something. ]

Don't--leave the program, Jesus Christ.

[ She's not even sure he can. He's got a fucking jaeger, you can't just walk out on that. ]

[raleighs]

[Well no, he can't just walk from that but what about--]

Come with us, then.

[littlestbecket]

Come with you?

[ Now she really is picking her head up off of the toilet, and she's giving him a what in the fuck look because what in the fuck? ]

How would that ever work?

[raleighs]

[Okay, stop challenging the plan. That's all he has worked out.]

There's-- lots of stuff that needs done around the Shatterdome. You could help out. There'd be tons of free daycare too.

[littlestbecket]

[ Gross. She's actually considering this. She can't even fucking believe it but--

What else is there for her? Stay here in this shithole, all by herself? Raise a baby alone? Be a mockery of the close-minded, conservative crap town she grew up in?

What Raleigh proposes isn't ideal but it's -- something. ]

Like what? What could I do? I'm not gonna be the fucking janitor.

[raleighs]

[Sometimes he has good idea.]

God, I don't know. There's cooks and assistants and work on the jaeger for all I care if that's what you want.

[littlestbecket]

[ Work on the jaegers. She isnt' an engineer at all but it -- sounds kind of...cool.

God she can't believe she's even doing this. ]

Yeah. Yeah, okay.