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“I know it’s scary, Gordon, but. Sometimes you just gotta say ‘time to do it to ‘em,’ and rev the engine a lil. Y’know? Show them you are exactly what you promised- and more! Make sure they know you know what you’re doing, and then blow them out of the water with things they’ve never seen before, for that is the spirit! Of! Doin’ it to ‘em!!”
Gordon is in tears by the end of it, hands shaking on the control panel of his shuttle, sides feeling ready to split from laughter.
“Who the fuck says that?!” He barely manages down the comms. And Ed’s smooth, stupid voice comes back, as right in front of him Ed’s shuttle does a one-eighty on its nose and rockets on backward faster than Gordon is going forwards. They stay nose to nose as Ed says, in some too spot-on Tom Cruise impression:
“It’s the need talking.”
“The need for what- oh God damnit.”
This illusion of coolness and expertise is shattered by Ed shouting “the need for speed- oh fuck!” and then immediately stalling when he tries to spin the shuttle back to flying forward, gripped by gravity and sent falling a few hundred meters before he can bring everything back in order.
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“I don’t-” Gordon nearly gets him again at the middle of his emotionally-charged confession- “Want to go through it again.”
“I know.”
“Do you?”
“I scraped you off the fuckin’ ground, but, no. I guess I don’t...” Which is the truth, to some extent. Gordon had given Ed supports, but between the two, Kelly had become the antagonist. Ed hadn’t accepted the wrong he’d done, beyond what he remembered from his and Kelly’s arguments. Gordon hadn’t understood- nor had Ed –that the breaking of their marriage was a failure on both parts. Over time, his acceptance of his role in it became almost as obsessive as his animosity towards Kelly.
And along the way, Ed decided that he didn’t need love.
Yet here they both are, Gordon saying “computer, play ABBA’s Take A Chance on Me,” ready to keep scraping Ed up and up until he gets back into a shape he can start feeling proud of, until Gordon has shown has shown Ed just how deserving of it he is.
And Ed is reminded of how much he loves this man.
[In which Ed is terrified of love, and swordfights Gord a bunch to figure it all out. Other stuff happens too]
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There are a lot of things that can go wrong, in space.The safety net of the Union's scientific advancement in medicine is something of a comfort, to those as deep out in uncharted space as the Orville. Out where every new star needs a name and each cluster a fly-through in search of anything new. Out here, where /everything/ is new: every beam of light, every pulse of energy, every nebula and gaseous cloud and moon, sun, planet. Every lightyear of the endless, black vacuum they cover.
That safety net, however strong and stable it may be, is not always readily available.
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5 Times Ed Mercer is a Self-Sacrificing Fucker
and one time the shoe is on the other foot