[The last time Jazmine talked to Yancy, she told him to go to hell and never come back. Original, she knows, but she was seventeen going on eighteen and whatever he said, on her own from now on. Mom was dead and Dad was gone and her brothers off training to be Jaeger pilots. She was going to have to take care of herself from now on, and she didn't appreciate her oldest brother trying to give her advice for what to do next.
She was not joining the corps so she could stay close to them. First of all, she had zero technical skills, nothing useful except for pouring coffee and that leads to the second point. She wasn't going to hang around the PPDC and be The Becket Brothers Little Sister.
She was Jazmine Becket, with a goddamn z in her name, she could make it on her own. She already had a job busing tables part time and after she graduated high school, she could go full time no problem. She had plans to move into an apartment with her best friend and her boyfriend. She'd be fine.
(The third point involved the fact that she was so jealous of Raleigh and Yancy, that they got to work together and go off and save the world together, that it was all about the Becket brothers, but they had a sister too that no one cared about.
She was really dramatic as a teenager.)
Then there's Knifehead and Raleigh dies and she thinks, it's a four hundred dollar bus ticket from Juneau to Anchorage but she manages to get the money together. From her savings and her roommates (different city so different ones than before, a girl she works with and a gay couple) chip in. She brings only what she can stuff into a backpack and heads to the hospital that Yancy's staying in right now. She tried to call ahead, to get an idea of what to expect but all anyone would tell her was that he was going to live and visiting hours went until nine every night.
Yeah, that's great, thanks.
Of course when she gets there, everyone thinks she's a reporter or an insane Jaeger fly and she just starts carrying her ID in her hand, flashing it to every nurse, doctor and tech that opens their mouth at her. One nurse finally leads her to Yancy's room, a private room at the end of the hall, like they're trying to shelter him or something and Yancy, what happened to you, why is Raleigh dead, he can't be gone, what happened, what happened, what happened.
Jazmine takes a deep breath and knocks on his door, opening it a second later.] Yancy?
you deserve this
She was not joining the corps so she could stay close to them. First of all, she had zero technical skills, nothing useful except for pouring coffee and that leads to the second point. She wasn't going to hang around the PPDC and be The Becket Brothers Little Sister.
She was Jazmine Becket, with a goddamn z in her name, she could make it on her own. She already had a job busing tables part time and after she graduated high school, she could go full time no problem. She had plans to move into an apartment with her best friend and her boyfriend. She'd be fine.
(The third point involved the fact that she was so jealous of Raleigh and Yancy, that they got to work together and go off and save the world together, that it was all about the Becket brothers, but they had a sister too that no one cared about.
She was really dramatic as a teenager.)
Then there's Knifehead and Raleigh dies and she thinks, it's a four hundred dollar bus ticket from Juneau to Anchorage but she manages to get the money together. From her savings and her roommates (different city so different ones than before, a girl she works with and a gay couple) chip in. She brings only what she can stuff into a backpack and heads to the hospital that Yancy's staying in right now. She tried to call ahead, to get an idea of what to expect but all anyone would tell her was that he was going to live and visiting hours went until nine every night.
Yeah, that's great, thanks.
Of course when she gets there, everyone thinks she's a reporter or an insane Jaeger fly and she just starts carrying her ID in her hand, flashing it to every nurse, doctor and tech that opens their mouth at her. One nurse finally leads her to Yancy's room, a private room at the end of the hall, like they're trying to shelter him or something and Yancy, what happened to you, why is Raleigh dead, he can't be gone, what happened, what happened, what happened.
Jazmine takes a deep breath and knocks on his door, opening it a second later.] Yancy?