"You're not that much older than me, Tucker. Just you wait till the first day you wake up and your knees are aching just at the thought of climbing out of bed." Wash informed him with a flat look as he set the whiskey bottle down on the desk where he'd set his helmet and pulled it back on with a sigh.
Wash could smell his whiskey tinged breath in the tight confines of the helmet and fought back a grimace.
"I appreciate your discretion. It's almost like you're maturing into an adult." He drawled and headed for the door.
Something about Tucker's parting words stood out sharply to him and he felt an instantaneous wash of concern for the Sim trooper. But he had bigger fish to fry right now so he let it pass without comment and slipped outside to go track down Carolina.
What came to pass next was one of the hardest things he'd ever had to do in his life. But she deserved to hear it from him rather than from base gossip or thanks to the tactless words of say Sarge.
It would be the better part of an hour before Wash found himself wandering back through officer's territory. All he wanted to do was go fall facedown in his bunk and just pass out.
But Tucker's words had stayed with him like a bad song stuck on repeat in his head so instead of heading directly for his quarters, he stopped by Tucker's.
He knocked very gently on the door so as not to wake the younger man if he'd already passed out but hopefully it would be enough to garner his attention if he were still awake.
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Date: 2016-06-11 04:12 am (UTC)Wash could smell his whiskey tinged breath in the tight confines of the helmet and fought back a grimace.
"I appreciate your discretion. It's almost like you're maturing into an adult." He drawled and headed for the door.
Something about Tucker's parting words stood out sharply to him and he felt an instantaneous wash of concern for the Sim trooper. But he had bigger fish to fry right now so he let it pass without comment and slipped outside to go track down Carolina.
What came to pass next was one of the hardest things he'd ever had to do in his life. But she deserved to hear it from him rather than from base gossip or thanks to the tactless words of say Sarge.
It would be the better part of an hour before Wash found himself wandering back through officer's territory. All he wanted to do was go fall facedown in his bunk and just pass out.
But Tucker's words had stayed with him like a bad song stuck on repeat in his head so instead of heading directly for his quarters, he stopped by Tucker's.
He knocked very gently on the door so as not to wake the younger man if he'd already passed out but hopefully it would be enough to garner his attention if he were still awake.