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Sue graduates from Tactical School a year early, he's barely fifteen. He's toned down the flirting - he treats Aegis completely platonically, in particular - and has cut down on the unhealthy amount of sleeping-with-everything-that-wants. And he's apparently, via his independent study, gotten far enough through the curriculum that they're nudging him along to Command.

They've given Sue a strange old man for a tutor, who appeared in his room and started a physical confrontation, which Sue won; Sue related this story to her with something between amusement and irritation.

And a quicker-than-average flurry of notes has been piling up in the psych data since about that time, according to the timestamps.

Aegis knows before they tell her that they're going to send her to Command early too. She's just barely fifteen herself when she gets another update of the psych files and sees that Sue's had - well, the files aren't terribly clear, some of the communication is happening via in-person conversation and memos that don't get stored in these folders, but Sue's had some kind of breakdown and the only things they can think of to get him out of it, get him back into shape to train and fight, are her friendship and Howlett. They have mixed feelings about both - Howlett's insubordination problem; their bewilderment that Aegis and Sue can be so close when "she's the one person he can't link!" - but they're desperate.

Bird? They don't talk as often over the long distance, just as there was a lull when he went to Tactical ahead of her; their schedules have nothing in common and their contexts less. But he knows her, and he can reach this far if he tries. And she wants to know what's wrong.

Date: 2013-03-03 09:31 pm (UTC)
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"Amoral idiots," he reminds her.

Date: 2013-03-03 09:35 pm (UTC)
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He laughs. "Maybe that's how they picked our staff."

Date: 2013-03-03 09:38 pm (UTC)
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"I miss that game," he sighs, and hugs her.

Date: 2013-03-03 10:01 pm (UTC)
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Hug hug hug.

"Bird," he mumbles, smiling.

Date: 2013-03-03 10:08 pm (UTC)
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He sends her the remembered image of bird-hugs.

Actual hugs are superior.

Date: 2013-03-03 10:20 pm (UTC)
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The battle schedule is relatively light; their next engagement is almost a day later.

As Sue settles himself in front of the simulator, he tries to scrutinize it with his power, looking for minds.

Date: 2013-03-03 10:34 pm (UTC)
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He pushes himself. With a little work, he can see Earth, lit by the glow of billions of minds. But he needs to go much, much farther than that, to a pattern that looks like the ships glowing in the simulator, to... almost, almost, he's almost got it, just a little farther, if he could just reach...

A sparkle of golden light by the side of his neck, and then there's a housefly zipping into the lights of the simulator, dancing from ship to ship. Sue flips the perspective of his display, rotating through the formation twice, then slides out to an expanded view that shows all of them. He feels like he's there, all of a sudden, like he is literally, physically present among the fleet.

He finds commanders and taps his mind across theirs like a child dragging a stick along a fence.

Date: 2013-03-03 10:44 pm (UTC)
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Sue flings his arms around her right back. There's a golden flicker in the air, and his link to the far-off commanders wavers, then steadies. He lets them go one at a time, then the local staff, and finally Aegis.

Date: 2013-03-03 10:47 pm (UTC)
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He laughs and, in the spirit of celebration, kisses her forehead.

Date: 2013-03-03 10:52 pm (UTC)
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Sue giggles and hugs himself.

Then he returns to their quarters.

Date: 2013-03-03 10:56 pm (UTC)
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He snickers when he sees her.

Date: 2013-03-03 11:00 pm (UTC)
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"You look," he says gleefully, "like a bird's nest."

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