@phaseshiftings sent: 🎁 - from the spotify wrapped meme! ► from this meme. | it's not living (if it's not with you) - the 1975
Looking at Angel now, Rhys blurts out, "Come with me."
And he regrets it almost instantly.
Only minutes earlier, they'd been having such a good time sitting on the rooftop of the facility. With booze and food in multiple hands, a circle had been formed around a fire with Fiona, Sasha, Vaughn, Yvette, Loaderbot, and Gortys. They'd related the whole deal with the Traveller to Angel with excitement-- any friend of Rhys' was a friend of theirs-- and by the end of it, had gone into talks of what they'd do with all the treasure they'd found.
I'm going to rebuild Atlas, properly, Rhys had said at his turn. I'm going to go back to Promethea, where Atlas destroyed everything for a Vault, and I'm gonna use this Vault to make up for their mistakes. I'm gonna make a planet people can live in. I'm gonna use tech for good--
And then Sasha had teased him about his big dreams, and Rhys had laughed as the conversation moved on.
Now, though, with everyone else retreating downstairs to turn in for the night, Rhys considers Angel where she helps him clean. It's cold tonight-- cold like when she'd found him amidst the rubble and ruin of Helios-- and the concept of separating suddenly feels terrifying.
It was inevitable, of course; he's separating from everyone tonight, after all (except Loaderbot and Gortys, who opted to stay with him). Rhys doesn't know when he'll see Fiona and Sasha again now that they're hunting Vaults, and Vaughn and Yvette have a bandit clan to take care of above all else.
Angel, though... Angel's been living with him at Old Haven, travelling with him to help him with prototypes and securing investors, and has been by his side since before Rhys knew that Promethea was an option.
Rhys, despite knowing better, has issues with letting go.
"If..." Ducking his head, Rhys ties the plastic bag full of empty cans closed. He can't even lie and say he had too much to drink; Angel knows more than anyone how quickly his cybernetics burn everything. "...only if you want to, of course. Promethea is... it'll definitely be dangerous. But, I mean, we've been surviving Pandora long enough, you know, and-- I'll stop talking now."
