Redhawk Caldera He's just a different kind of kid

Fennec knew that the hardest part of this would be the goodbyes they might have to make, but she wasn't going to worry about that or dwell on it right now. As usual, she instead focused on the parts of it that sounded most appealing, and that meant the part where she and Bronco would get to build something somewhere that was entirely new. She'd gotten a tiny taste of that in Firefly Glen and before she'd dropped a fucking grenade on it, she'd loved it. That wasn't a mistake she was going to make again, at least not knowingly. And she wasn't unaware of how much she had changed since then, for better or for worse.

She'd wondered at times if Bronco did want to lead, and she'd forgotten that he didn't at the Glen. That was right, though, it was those other guys. She snorted, then remembered how things had ended up. Alright. Maybe she should be a little nice, that shit was fucked and she hadn't disliked them. You could have been, easy. And even if I did a kickass job at it while I had it, I don't think it's something I'd want to do solo.

There were parts of being a leader that Fennec knew she sucked at, though she wasn't about to come right out and say it. Bronco had to already see it, right? It was shit he seemed to enjoy... making small talk, making friends, and connecting in ways she had never really figured out. While her blindness could have been another shortcoming he compensated for, that one didn't even cross her mind. She could play bad cop just fine but she knew that wasn't going to be enough, and she didn't care enough about strangers to think she'd want to attempt anything else.

I kind of figured you'd go for it before I would, in the Caldera, actually. We didn't talk about it, obviously, but I thought it would be cool. You seemed like you were good at it, which is funny, since I guess you never actually were one. She didn't mean to sound condescending or like she was... trying to confidence boost him or anything. She didn't think he needed her reassurance or anything, and giving the compliment made her skin prickle a bit self-consciously. She really didn't have much practice at it.