The life of a Jaegar Pilot

Settling down in the last shatterdome

January 2, 2025

Chuck and I were sitting at the lunch table eating lunch and messing around with each other and he threw a piece of bread down my shirt making me frown "Mr Hansen that is wasting food" I smirked at him as I reached in and he grabbed it from me and ate it "I see it as a storage facility" he retorted I took a spoonful of mashed potatoes and was trying to cram them down his shirt as he fought me off "Let's test this theory" I smirked causing us to both laugh and Max to whine as he thought he was missing out and Chuck petted him as he picked him up, putting him on his lap and fed him. "Raleigh!! Come sit with us" I heard Herc yell at Rals as he was walking in handing his tray I smiled at the gesture "Oh, I'm okay. Thank you" Raleigh replied causing me to frown but Herc wasn't having it "Ah! Come on, there's plenty of room at our table" Herc patted him on the back and they made their way over to us and I looked at Chuck smiling as I seen his glare at my brother and nudged him "Stop it" I hissed causing him to look down at Max and then to his plate uninterested. " I haven't seen bread in a while." Raleigh said as he stared at his mini loaf of bread as we smirked at him "Hong Kong. Beauty of an open port, no rationing." I passed him some more food as I looked over at my husband who was eerily quiet. "We've got potatoes, peas, sweet beans, decent meat loaf. Pass the potatoes." Herc motioned towards me and I obliged making them smile at me "Raleigh, this is my son Chuck. He's my copilot now." Herc motioned towards the stubborn ass man I call my husband as he glared at Raleigh as if sizing him up for battle " He's more my copilot. Right, Dad?" and Herc and I gave him a don't you dare start your shit today look and Raleigh looked at him briefly before looking at me and continueing with his dinner, "So you're the guy, eh? You're the guy who's gonna run defense for me in that old rust bucket of yours?" and I glared at Chuck making brief eye contact with him before he kept on going as Raleigh looked at him boredly "That's the plan" and Raleigh kept eating as if trying to keep Chuck from continuing even tho I know that won't work. Chuck took a piece of food off his food and fed Max and I kept on eating thinking it was over "Good. So when was the last time you jockeyed, Ray?" he was picking a fight and didn't give a damn who he ticked off "About 5 years ago.." Raleigh replied as he had dropped his fork already and was ready for what Chuck was throwing at him "What have you been doing for five years? Something pretty important, I reckon." and Chuck glanced at me as I glared at him even more and he kept on going but Raleigh wasn't backing down either "I was in construction" Raleigh was obviously getting mad "I mean, that's really useful. We get into a fight, you can build our way out of it, eh, Ray?" Chuck was being a huge prick and Raleigh was pissed off now and the tension was thick between the two "It's Raleigh" he gritted thru his teeth as he glared at my husband "Whatever" Chuck glared right back and I had enough by now as I dropped my fork loudly "Enough you Charles" i hissed but he kept on going "Look, you're Pentecost's bright idea. And my old man, he seems to like you plus you're my wife's brother. But it's guys like you who brought down the Jaeger program. To me you're dead weight. You slow me down I'm gonna drop you like a sack of Kaiju shit." he was standing by now as Herc was looking down at his plate embarrassed by his son and I was fuming as I looked dead ahead of me past Raleigh as they kept glaring at each other and Chuck puts on his hat while grinning and clicks his tongue and points at Rals "I'll see you around Raaaleigh" and he kissed my head and called for Max as he walked away. I looked at the men in front of me and put my hand on Raleighs "ignore him he's being an idiot" he just glanced down and Herc spoke up "You can blame me for that one. I've raised him on my own. He's a smart kid, but I never knew whether to give him a hug or a kick in the ass.Your sister here has helped a lot but he's a renegade sometimes" and they looked at me ass I sighed in annoyance "With respect, sir. I'm pretty sure which one he needs." and they both grunted in agreement and I smiled as I looked up to see Stacker at the doorway motioning for me to follow so I told the boys goodnight and followed the Marshal.

He was looking out the window as I approached "Brooklyn, I have always admired your dedication to this program and your loyalty to your family evven the non blood family you've taken in..." he turned around and sat down with me looking at me as if studying me "So when I informed you of Gipsy and recovering your brother I'm surprised that you turned down the job. May I ask why that is?" I sucked in the air as I knew what he wanted "Stacker, this was my dream at one point in time when everything happened tho and Raleigh said what he did, I lost my spark and I have changed and hell, who knows if I still have it??" He smiled at me "There's only one way to find out... If you show up in the morning for the trials I would be happy just give it a whirl is all I ask" I nod my head and got up to leave. I was almost out of the door when he spoke again "Brooklyn I wouldn't keep harassing you on the issue unless I knew you were the one for the job" I just dropped my head and walked to my room and barged in on Chuck undressing "Quite a way to get along with my brother" I muttered as I grabbed my tank and shorts for bed "Oh come on Brooklyn, he's a git and acts like what he's done isn't a big deal and that what he said was ok" I turned around and glared at him "Ohhh please Chuck you're just doing it to be a prick as usual and driving a wedge between us because you can't grow up for once and stand that someone else is getting attention" he looked down "Everything I do just isn't good enough anymore is it since he's back" I threw my shirt at him "How dare you?!?! This is all because you have issues with him that have nothing to do with you" he threw his hands up in the air "Ohh yeah because my wife getting hurt isn't my business and he'll do it again Brook!! but I just have issues huh??" I shook my head in disgust and walked out the door and into Makos room. She handed me an extra blanket and let me share a bed with her like old times as she had apparently heard everything and didn't ask much I turned on my side and let the tears roll down "I'm sorry Mako" and she whispered "It's ok friends are there for each other"