Exploring Titan

~34~

It felt like reality momentarily shattered for me.

"But.....you....uhm.....date?? How...me!?" I couldn't even begin to words.

"Well not technically WITH us, but basically close enough." Leo then quickly corrected after a moment of thought.

"How about you START with that next time and not give me a mini heart attack in the process!?" I yell.

"Where's the fun in that?" He winked.

"PSYCHOPATH!!" I pick up a still-burned and smoking pillow and whack him with it.

"Glad someone else sees it," Dion huffs from the sidelines, enjoying the view of the assault being waged on his man.

"We were gonna ask you anyway, but given your quite recently developed living situation, it kinda expedited that process," Leo said, eyeing the room around us almost maliciously, accusing it of having the audacity to not function properly.

I calmed down a moment and let his words process.

One look around my room had me answering immediately.

"When?"

Leo looks to Dion for an answer.

He, Dion, wordlessly pulls out a mini device from his ten billion pockets and did some quick rapid-fire calculations on the spot.

"Now?"

"NOW!?"

"Technically 2 hours from now?? We still gotta wait for that appendage to get far away enough."

"Isn't that a little too soon?"

"Yup, but the tragala's migration pattern, as Mel would say, is a bitch." He looked back at his calculations. "We either do it today or wait, at best, 3 weeks before getting another decent opening to take her down."

"What do we mean by 'decent'?" I quietly pop my head between them and ask for clarification.

"The small window of opening we have today has a 30% chance of success." Dion responds to my question without hesitation.

"What about any other day?" I further question.

"0%" he deadpan answers. "-2.5%, if possible. A legitimate death sentence, through and through."

I gulped.

"I-if you're having second thoughts," Leo started to say, but I cut him off.

"At 30% odds? Bitch please, I've survived worse."

"Then what's got you hesitate?" Dion pointed.

"How did you guys manage to come up and see me with all that madness going on?" I leaned against a non-burning counter and asked.

The two of them were silent for a moment.

"It wasn't easy..." Leo started, the look on his face momentarily conveying untold horrors they must have been through. "But you were worth it." He finished solemnly.

I was quite then.

Moments ticked by as I allowed myself to fully absorb and process what he'd just said before making my next move.

I silently walked over and just hugged him.

He hugged me back on the spot.

I tried to pull away to go hug Dion next, but Leo wouldn't let me go.

I huff out a laugh at his action.

"Let me go hug Dion." I say in protest.

"Nah, he can come to us." Leo refuses with a grin.