Apollo au tell me more......
sorry that this ask is from ages ago now, but the original idea was also from ages ago SO this was actually a fic idea from my husband who one time when we were on a walk was like: apollo astronaut alex & ground control george. and it's a very good one to think about although i'm realising now that i never wrote any of it down lmao HOWEVER. we can all imagine 1960s fighter pilot alex and ambitious nerd with black tie and glasses george and i think that during the training period they would start hooking up for "convenience" while telling themselves that it's perfectly normal for two people in a high profile and high stress job to want to let off some steam and have some fun, and that it doesn't have to mean anything only then when it's alex's turn to actually go up into space, it doesn't feel so fun anymore, and george is probably the guy whose job it is to talk the astronauts, so they have to hear each other on the radio all the time but they can't say anything real because everyone else is listening and it's agony because maybe they even had a fight or something the night before alex left over something stupid because they were both repressing their emotions
and THEN it would turn out that alex's mission goes sideways ala apollo 13 and when the oxygen tank explodes or whatever, george is obviously absolutely frantic on earth trying to do the best science anyone ever has trying to save alex, and meanwhile alex in space can hear how frayed and scared george sounds on the radio even though he's trying to put on a brave face and be a Leader, only he can't say anything or even ask george how he's doing because 1) obviously they're all focused on the mission first of all and 2) no one knows they're fucking still. PLUS i think alex is secretly feeling terrible too wondering if he was the one that fucked up the mission (he wasn't)
and anyway of course alex et all get back to earth, and then alex takes george home and george finally cries for the first time because he's realised alex is going to be okay, and then they have sex where alex does praise kink to george and tells him what a useful little nerd he is :)
