Another wonderful photoprompt challenge! Except this drabble series will focus mostly on the characters who supported the main Pilots. Sure, we'll see the boys, but I wish to highlight the likes of Hilde, Catherine and the other wonderfully kick ass counterparts the wars had. :)
This one can be found here: post/144763274330/simulacraryn-claraxbarton-simulacraryn
Sometimes a girl needed to relax.
Usually for most women that entailed a long bubble bath. But when you live in L2, where you can barely afford to have a decent sized shower in your barely there slum of an apartment the thought of a bubble bath goes on to join the rest of the dreams you gave up on. Like actually affording a vacation… But Hilde pushed those thoughts aside and snuck to her favorite place in her and Duo's hole of an apartment. Rummaging through the contents of the box near the day bed, Hilde found Duo's pack of cigarettes.
He could spare one after nearly blowing up the yard, right?
She lights up the cigarette, taking a deep inhale of it's putrid smoke. A content look crossed her face, exhaling. "Hilde…"
"Yes, Duo?"
"Have you thought of moving Earth Side?"
A pang fills her chest.
"Never been outta the colonies."
"Ain't like we are making a living here anyways," He counters, the offer one she never thought of.
"Maybe it is time we find something new."