Horatio doesn't really know him. It's not a comfortable fact, but he'll adjust. He and Horatio have learned one another before-- He suspects they'll manage even better, this time, now he knows him so well and Horatio himself seems a little freer with his emotions.
It's still something that hurts, if he thinks to let it, so he tries not to. Focuses instead on the discomfort of his leg (his phantom foot itches; it's a shame the nanites can't fix that.) Focuses instead on getting to know his new home a little better.
He's gone on a walk to the oxygen gardens and back. When he returns, there's a very familiar form standing there-- A man he thought most certainly dead and buried; knew it in the way he knew Horatio was his captain and he would always be there to follow him to the end.
There's a lot that's changed, when it comes to certainties these days. Because that's certainly Archie Kennedy, looking just as he did last William knew him alive, and there is something that aches in him at the sight of him.
"...Kennedy."
Saying his last name (he's been Archie so long, in the privacy of his mind) is a deliberate thing. He's trying to keep his acknowledgement of this ghost as distant as he can, until he can bear it.
(Horatio had said Archie was here. William should have known he'd never be ready.)
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ad astra meetups!! who will cry first
It's still something that hurts, if he thinks to let it, so he tries not to. Focuses instead on the discomfort of his leg (his phantom foot itches; it's a shame the nanites can't fix that.) Focuses instead on getting to know his new home a little better.
He's gone on a walk to the oxygen gardens and back. When he returns, there's a very familiar form standing there-- A man he thought most certainly dead and buried; knew it in the way he knew Horatio was his captain and he would always be there to follow him to the end.
There's a lot that's changed, when it comes to certainties these days. Because that's certainly Archie Kennedy, looking just as he did last William knew him alive, and there is something that aches in him at the sight of him.
"...Kennedy."
Saying his last name (he's been Archie so long, in the privacy of his mind) is a deliberate thing. He's trying to keep his acknowledgement of this ghost as distant as he can, until he can bear it.
(Horatio had said Archie was here. William should have known he'd never be ready.)
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