Ch 4

After the Ravagers gave the Guardians spacesuits, they slowly flew out of the Bowie with Groot staying to look after Rocket.

When they landed, Quill pressed a button on his suit to tune out the external audio so only the two of them could hear their conversation.

"So you really don't remember anything?" he asked after a minute of trying to figure out how to start it off.

"Like what?" Gamora asked.

"About your time with us."

"No."

"Well, we were-"

"We weren't anything. That person was some alternate future version of me. Wasn't me." Gamora said with a blank expression.

"We loved each other." Quill tried.

God, why the heck was this so hard? Did she even remember the day they met in the Battle of Earth or did she not just like everything else?

Time travel was annoying.

Not that that would stop him from trying, though.

Some part of him felt like he should just move on but another part just refused to accept that his lover was gone and now there was a completely different person.

It was almost as if the universe had given his wish to him with a slap to the face.

Also he was just hopelessly in love with her like he always had been, whether she was from the future or past.

"I know you don't remember any of it but you were everything to me. And I miss you. So much. And maybe...Maybe if you open yourself up to it, there's a possibility-"

I don't think so, Quinn."

"Quill." he corrected, awkwardly.

"Quill. I don't think so."

Then Quill almost jumped when he heard the last voice he expected to hear.

"You know this is an open line, right?" Mantis asked.

"What?" Quill asked.

"We're listening to everything you're saying." Mantis added, not helpfully.

"And it's painful." Drax replied, making Quill wish he hadn't even done this in the first place.

"What button did you push?" Mantis asked.

"Blue." Quill replied.

"Orange is for blue."

Quill just gaped dumbstruck. That wasn't how colored worked!

"Yellow is for green. Green is for red. And red is for yellow." Mantis finished.

"No, yellow is for yellow." Drax replied.

Okay, now his brain hurt. Like a lot.

"How the hell am I supposed to remember all of that?!" Quill asked in frustration and Gamora rolled her eyes.

"Look, can we just get back to saving our friend here?" Quill said as they finally got moving.

Yeah...just...forget that ever happened.