A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, a51 – 200 word drabble.
Two Weeks Notice
He claimed to be a Stargazer, but he had to put up with being a Junker for a little while longer. Part of it was lack of…everything. No working leg – though it was on the mend, thanks to the other Junkers that found him. No secret stash he could fall onto in terms of food…and the half-filled bottle of whiskey he'd found had smashed in fighting the spider machine.
And all he had left of Hoshino Yumemi was the memory card in his lighter, and no-one still alive would have a clue how to use that.
But what he did have was his life, though he'd almost lost it, lying in the acid rain before the Junkers picked him up. And he had a dream, though he almost lost that as well, along with his life. And he had all the knowledge and experience of the Junker he'd been before, the Junker he still had to be for a little longer… And he had enough knowledge of mechanics to fix his broken guns, to fix Miss Jena and, hopefully, to build a mini-projector as well.
And then he could go off and be the very Stargazer he claimed to be.