The captain and the first officer share a bathroom. When One got the job, she worried that she’d wake up to a rotating cycle of Pike’s flings- the Captain was a charming man, she wouldn’t be at all surprised to see him take a few people home at night. But somehow, she hadn’t heard a peep. Eventually she’d done some more digging and found that the captain was in a relationship, with a questionable emphasis on the past tense. Every once in a while, she’d hear him recording a message to a mysterious “Leland,” though she never heard a reply, and had connected that to several photos of a younger Pike and this “Leland” on his shelf right next to a few votive candles, flowers, and an unworn engagement ring. All was to say... yikes. So One had gone about her life, deciding not to intervene unless asked, until one morning she wakes up early to a strange man by the sink- one who looks like the man in the photographs.
“Ah,” she says flatly by way of introduction, “You’re ‘Leland’.”
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