#*dispatch

Just--Okay let me help you with that.

fandom: dispatch (video game) pairing: robert/flambae chapter: [ five out of eight ] words: 8.6k rating: mature notes: might i offer you a little bit of angst? it won't last long! we are beholden to canon's pacing, after all.

Robert blinks, and three months have passed.

He doesn’t think time has ever moved so fast in his life. In fact, for most of it, time has crawled by at an excruciatingly slow pace. So much so that he’d stopped expecting it to behave any differently.

But three months pass, and he barely feels them.

That’s not to say he doesn’t feel them at all. Facets of his life take shape in unexpected ways during these three months. 

Royd seems closer than ever to a new Proto-Pulse, for example. He lets Robert linger in his workspace despite the fact that he’s more likely a nuisance than a help—he’s nowhere near the expert at robotics that his dad was, and he certainly has no brain for physics and all the hellish math it involves. Not one that’ll be valuable in any way to the guy, at least. Still, he never seems to mind Robert’s presence. And Robert—well, he finds he doesn’t mind not being actively unwanted.

Which is another facet of his life that’s taken an odd, indiscernible shape.

Dispatch - Episode 5