#poor cris

C: How could you! I thought you was my friend!?

L: im sorry cris, i dont know what happened.

"Cris," Raffi said, trying to keep her voice level. "Where have you been the past week?"

He looked at her then with such emotion that she was stricken. There weren't many times she'd seen that deep into his soul, but this was one of them.

"With Alonzo," he said.

Raffi frowned. Who…? She straightened as it hit her. "Wait, Captain Alonzo Vandermeer?"

Cris nodded. "He's alive, Raf. The synths faked his death in order to take him captive, but he escaped."

Raffi was utterly dumbfounded. "Honey, you saw him die."

Cris shook his head and began pacing in the alcove. "They implanted fake memories so I wouldn't go looking for him."

But you stare longingly at your boyfriend!