Title: (Re)Purpose
Fandom: Jupiter Ascending
Rating: All
Length: 175 words
Author Notes: Follows on Parallel Experience, on Stinger's side of things.

Summary: He lost eight months to the incident. All he can do now is move forward.

Stinger doesn't much care what people think of the suit of armor - strange armor, unlike anything he's seen, on Earth or off - that's in the middle of his garden. Jupiter had told him it was the armor from the man who he'd traded places with for eight months, left behind because it was out of power and damaged.

It's been filled with wax and honey and larvae since he came back, all ready for the coming winter, humming with activity. Repurposed, but still a reminder of what happened, and what he hopes will never happen again.

Yes, his queen came through it fine, her Royal Guard integrating as a unit well with Caine in charge, her household slowly growing as she took her first steps out into the wider universe. Sometimes he feels left behind, no matter how welcome he is, no matter how well he's getting back into the swing of things. There will always be those months he was missing, months he will never get back.

All he can do is move forward.