#ouhh i can’t sleep mm… women time

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

can’t sleep, so if you will please indulge with me in one of my favorite fabbylaris thoughts. more of a scene, really.

while i think fabby and solaris got along a hell of a lot better by the death engine’s completion compared to when they first started working together, i think this was… hard for fabby to admit at first. if not for anything else, then for the sake of her pride.

of course, she doesn’t have to admit it for it to be true. and while solaris isn’t quite sure they’re friends per say, she knows they’re incredible coworkers, and the best team zoraxis has got.

solaris’ excitement grows as the launch of the death engine gets progressively closer. no one can have a conversation with her without her bringing it up several times over. years worth of hard work is finally paying off… her first laser project- and on such a massive scale, no less. of course she’s excited.

… but fabby… well, it’s not that she isn’t excited. she is, really-! it’s just… she’s. apprehensive. solaris will be gone for a little while, and zor’s been on edge ever since the theft of their car. the office won’t be the same while she’s gone… but her reputation would be irreparably damaged if she let that show. god forbid her coworkers catch onto that… so she tries to keep it on the down-low.

but, inevitably, during one of their numerous lunchtime chats, solaris comments that she “had better not miss [her] too bad while [she is] up there”. fabby, defaulting to lies as she so often does, remarks that she won’t. that she’d have no reason to. that solaris is going on essentially a business trip. that they can keep contact through email. that she’ll be quite fine on her own down here, thank you very much.

she regrets saying that after the crash. when solaris is dragged back from the wreckage bleeding and burnt and damaged in so many ways she barely looks like the same person. when she’s not even allowed into solaris room because of the high amounts of radiation she’s harboring. when no one thinks solaris is going to last the night. and one of the last things she said to her is that she wouldn’t miss her.

she’s never missed someone that badly in her entire god damned life.

#ieytd #the fabricator #commander solaris #fabbylaris #ouhh i can’t sleep mm… women time #i had plans for this to be a fic but it never really worked #maybe I’ll make this into a separate post but I like to think that the death engine was essential to their relationship #in the sense that it taught fabby that she wouldn’t want to live without solaris #and it taught solaris that fabby. actually cared about her a hell of a lot more than she let on #solaris delirious off her ass on morphine trying to wrap her mind around the fact that the fabricator. is here. with her. wow…