Title: Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Charlie Bean & co's Tron: Uprising.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Up until episode 14, "Tagged".
Warnings: Unsolved disappearances.
Characters & Pairings: Zed & Beck & Mara
Summary: Their legacy to Zed was another 990 cycles under the yoke of the Occupation. Alone.
Author's Note: For a prompt by ranoutofrun. Based on the state of affairs as of ep 14, "Tagged"; AU as of ep 18, "No Bounds". Enjoy!
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Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
Beck and Mara don't show up to work one millicycle. Nor the next. Or ever again.
What was left of their friendship dies not with a bang, but a whimper.
Zed knows they probably died. And if so, that they died together.
Zed wasn't even invited.
They were never any more interested in each other than they were in Zed, which should've been his one consolation, but isn't. He replays his memory files and sees them all tainted with never-would-have-beens and long-since-ceased-to-bes.
What did it say about Zed that they'd both rather die with another just-friend than stay with him?