Unspoken
A short one to expand on the last scene of the last episode.
Mac may not feel like talking, but sometimes what we don't say speaks volumes…
Matty stood beside the young genius, in silence, both were looking out onto the beautiful view off the blonde's deck. Matty was worried about the young man standing beside her; Mac was hurting and he instead of talking about it, was putting up walls so high that made it impossible for her or probably anyone (except maybe Jack she assumed) to get through.
What Mac had witnessed, with Zoey, the young scientist on the ship giving her life in order to save 31 others, was something that would hurt anyone's soul; Mac was a sensitive young man, a kind soul who had suffered a lot in his young life, starting with the loss of his mother at the tender age of 6, to the abandonment of his father at12, the death of his grandfather as young man, things he saw and did both in the Army and through his work at Phoenix. All of it has taken a toll, it has chipped away a little bit at a time out of the boy's core, and there was no way to get those chips back; Matty knew that, she understood that, and she respected that, which is why she decided that right now, at this moment, silence was probably more healing for Angus than anything she could ever say to the boy.
Eventually, after who knows how long? For Matty had lost track of time as she stood beside her agent, she felt the young man's hand connect with hers. Silently, she wrapped her small fingers around the boy's hand and squeezed. Unspoken were the words that conveyed her feelings to the blonde. Unspoken remained her words of encouragement that really would have fallen on deaf ears today anyway. Unspoken remained her words that would have attempted to make him feel better. They simply stood there, in silence that screamed as loudly as any words actually spoken ever could have, that "life was not fair, and that sometimes the good people in the World had to die in order to restore some sort of balance in the Universe".
Matty stood there, in silence; and she would stand there for as long as her friend needed her to.