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The lion's den 5

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The lion’s den 5

Raleigh’s POV
I was in my room when suddenly the door opened revealing Lara carrying a duffle bag on her back and a box in her hands. She walked in, ignoring me completely as she dropped her things on the empty bed at the left of the room.
“Hey there roomie.”I tried to break the silence. She turned around and glared at me dangerously. “I’m not talking to you Beckett.”she hissed. “I can’t believe you’re doing this to me.”. “Lara…”I tried but she didn’t give me the chance. “You of all people should know how difficult it is for me to step back in a Jaeger! How difficult it will be to connect minds again with a person knowing well enough how big the chance is that…”.
She couldn’t finish her sentence thanks to the tears that fell from her eyes. I pulled her in a hug which she tried to fight first but eventually melted into it. “That it happens again.”she whispered into the fabric of my shirt. “I can’t go through that again. I can’t.”.
“I know.”I told her as I rested my head on top of hers. “I can’t either.”. “Then why are you… Why are we doing this?”she wanted to know. “To make sure it doesn’t happen again.”I replied. “Not to us. Not to anyone.”.

Lara’s POV
“I call this ‘the rabbit chaser’.”Newt told us delighted as he rolled in a machine that reminded me of a heart monitor. “It links two Jaeger pilots the same way it would do as when they’re in the Jaeger, only this time they’ll be able to explore each other’s memories or, as all of you pilots say, ‘chase the rabbit’. This will make the risk of ‘chasing the rabbit’ while connected in the Jaeger during a fight less to even none existing.”.
“Sounds great.”Raleigh commented from next to me. “Just a quick question though… If it’s such a useful device, why isn’t it used in the field yet?”. “Because it’s still an experiment.”Newt admitted as he set up the rabbit chaser near to two relaxes. “Never got the chance to really try it out. Not until Marshall Pentecost at least told me he had found some lab rats for me.”.
“Awesome…”I sighed. “So now we’re also rodents.”. “Don’t worry.”Newt assured us. “It’s safe.”. “How can you know if you haven’t tried it out yet?”I questioned. “Because I made the machine to start with.”the scientist countered with a smile. “Now, if you both would please take a seat?”.
Raleigh and I took our seats on the relaxes before lying down. Newt placed some weird stickers on our temples which were wired and connected to the rabbit chaser. “Ready to go?”he asked us. I nodded and I guess Raleigh did the same because Newt pushed a button activating the machine.
It felt as if a pulse of electricity went through me before everything went black…

Raleigh’s POV
The blackness slowly faded revealing an image I knew all too well. I was in the Shatterdome. Well, not THE Shatterdome, A Shatterdome.
“Lara?”I called as I walked down the corridor only to bump into her the moment I rounded the corner. “Raleigh.”she sighed relieved. “So… Where are we?”I asked her. “Your memories or mine?”. As on queue the alarm went off, telling everyone present at the Shatterdome a Kaiju had popped up.
A door at the end of the hallway opened up and a guy in his early twenties ran out and into our direction. He didn’t see us however. Revisiting memories makes the visitor invisible. I noticed how Lara had frozen at the sight of the man.
I looked back at him and just now noticed his features. Messy brown hair, dark blue eyes and an excited grin plastered on his face. “Come one little sis!”he called back towards the room he had emerged from. “Those Kaijus won’t kill themselves!”.
“Coming!”a female voice responded from the room and a second later a young woman ran out. I immediately recognized her as a slightly younger Lara. “Let’s go and kick some Kaiju butt!”she exclaimed the moment she caught up with her brother. “That’s my sis.”he told her smiling before they both took off.
Lara watched her memory-self and the man walk by. “Lance.”she whispered, her voice cracking on the end. She didn’t need to tell me it had been him. Lance was basically the male version of Lara which isn’t such a surprise being that they were twins.
“This is the day, isn’t it?”I aksed Lara. She nodded. “The 21th of January, 2022.”she muttered. “The day we go out to back up the Striker Eureka during the Kaiju attack on Melbourne. The day Lance dies.”.
Finally an update on this story :) Lara moves into her new room with Raleigh and Newt tries out his latest invention on the duo called 'the rabbit chaser'. Hope you all like it and please leave a comment with your thoughts! :huggle:

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