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- Dancy

Serena

The two of them had become thick as thieves over the last few months. They shared jokes and meals, talked about how similar or different Los Angeles was to Baltimore. They talked about family, the new and the old and shared concerns and secrets. Even the war came up occasionally, stories about what they had done, what they had seen, both drawing comfort from the others shared experiences and the fact that their words weren’t said to placate the other. Their attraction was mutual, a physical relationship started but solidified when they realized that they both liked one another for way more than that. But Gabe didn’t realize how much he felt for her until he thought he almost lost her.

Serena and Gabe both still went on missions but Serena could be gone for weeks and sometimes months at a time if she had to go into deep cover. She was on a mission to infiltrate one of the gangs plaguing New York, tasked with finding out their suppliers, their plans and their targets. During one of her check ins she sent a message stating she /may/ have been compromised but not to send people in yet, that she could handle it. Now Gabe respects this but he can’t tap down on the worry that is growing in his belly. It only gets worst when she misses her next check in...and the one after that. So he is collectively losing his shit because this woman that he had grown to care for had gone missing. 

Serena ends up sending off a message for extraction almost two weeks after she had gone missing and Gabe was on that carrier to pick her up bristling with anger/worry/concern/confusion for what he’s feeling. When she is finally picked up she is banged up, but she has the information, Gabe rushing out of the ship and stopping just short of hugging her. Their first words to one another then were less than romantic, but filled with the same mirth they had come to use with one another.

“Rini what the fuck?”

“Didja miss me soldier boy?”

And he did. And he was scared shitless and he was worried and he trusted her and loved her and never wanted to go through that again. It took him a few more weeks to say it, he broke first and she just sighed and asked him why he took so damn long.

Ava

The Outback, and Australia as a whole kind of, is not a place where one expects trust. After the Omnium explosion it was survival of the fittest, morals ignored and thrown to the side in the pursuit of just staying alive another night. Roadhog and Jamison had learned that trusting people would only lead to death so even if someone made you feel safe or happy or cared for, you couldn’t trust it. Until this tiny little woman wormed their way into both of their lives. Ava and Mako met first, she saving his bike (one point to trust) and him saving her only to get injured and taken care of by her (another point of trust). She didn’t poison his food, she didn’t slit his throat and take the money that he had in is pack, she just...cared for him until he was good enough to leave on his own and resupply on hogdrogen. He confused and intrigued him, reminded him of the times before the explosions where people could be good just for the sake of being good. He asked her to come with him because he didn’t want to leave this little anomaly behind, especially if he thought that she would get hurt. So he ‘hires’ her as his ‘personal mechanic’. 

She actually only managed to further prove her worth to him, fixing his bike and gun and hook and mask as needed. She even had first aid kits and would stitch him up or create salves from plants.  She was actually pretty handy at making whatever food they scounged up good and she still hadn’t slit his throat as he slept (or when he pretended to be sleeping just to make sure). He soon found himself completely smitten, something that he hid to the best of his abilities because he still didn’t believe he deserved happiness or her especially after she tells him how the omnium explosion effected her. When he told her his hand in the explosion, while passive at best he expected her to leave. She didn’t, she understood and wasn’t even mad.That is when he fell head over heels for her. 

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