Title: Home Attire
Summary: Two shorties revolving around Mako and Stacker Pentecost when they're not entrenched in duty.
Characters: Mako Mori; Stacker Pentecost
Disclaimer: Pacific Rim is property of Legendary Pictures, Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham.
I: Hometown
The house had changed more hands than Mako reckons Pentecost can count. From the photograph that rests in her hand, things have obviously changed over a period of ten plus years. Red shutters that his mother loved were replaced with a pair of pedestrian brown shutters. The lush garden that grew past its means and crawled the face of house was gone. Now it was just an half empty space, dry dirt and weeds that have grown into tiny trees.
The environment, the passage of time, all of its forgotten that the Pentecost's even lived in Tottenham. The occupants humor a guided tour of their home, they recognize her as the survivor of the "Onibaba Incident", and they know him as the man at the forefront of the Jaeger Program. To their credit, they don't freak out like the other pair they met on the way here.
The narrative tour of the house Pentecost takes her on doesn't provide much without visual context. The only picture he has of home is the front and there's no one there to speak of. She doesn't know what his parents looks like; maybe he takes after Viviane, maybe he looks more like his father, Obadel. She knows he used to sleep in the first room next to the stairs, his sister, Luna, and his parents slept in the rooms furthest down the hall.
Whatever was left behind, owners past and present either sold off or left to the wayside. Pentecost wishes he'd taken the time to revisit home to tend to the family's belongings before it was all gone. Regardless, Mako still feels as safe inside the home as she would in Pentecost's mere presence.
When it's time to leave, Pentecost isn't such a mystery to her anymore.
Author's Note: Viviane and Obadel Pentecost are mentioned in the novelization of Pacific Rim.