Title: On the End of My Tether (Dangling)
Author: Love and Honor and Service
Prompt: 49. Dangling
Fandom: Games of Command - Linnea Sinclair
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Branden Kel-Paten/Tasha "Sass" Sebastian
Characters: Branden Kel-Paten, Tasha "Sass" Sebastian
Additional Tags: Community: fan_flashworks, Missing Scene, Questioning the Gods, Time Does Odd Things While You Wait To Die, Masks Slip at the *Worst* Moments
Summary: Tiny missing moment inside Sass's head while she dangles on the end of a conduit waiting to be rescued.



Lock your hands. Pray.

To which of the gods? Which of the gods can come to her rescue here, turn back the clock, give her a chance to take Branden up on what he was offering? They are on a mully-trocked mining raft that doesn't exist anymore, with front row seats to a parade of her ghosts and her demons. And she's convinced that there are only reason Kel-Paten is even attempting to rescue her is that statistically two people have a better chance of surviving than one. Oh and that he'll want to take the evidence of the UCees treachery home to the Triad.

The conduit jerked, jiggled ... up she went.

A prayer to all of them it is while he finishes pulling her up. To give thanks for the rescue and a plea for a silvertongue and fast reflexes, because she's - she's fallen in love with the Tin Soldier, which means she has to talk her way out of this. There's no other way out left.