the things we don't name | yellowjackets

act one:

in which michelle palmer realizes some things were never meant to be named

and that noticing them is the same as stepping closer to the edge.

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no one talks about it.

not what happened out there. not what they became. not the things they had to do to survive.

before the crash, there were rules. roles. people you trusted. people you didn't.

michelle palmer was the one who kept things together.

not the one people noticed first.
not the one they looked to when everything felt easy.

but the one they relied on when it didn't.

co-captain. leader. stable.

she wasn't the voice people followed.

she was what came after.

the quiet adjustments.
the decisions already made.
the reason things didn't fall apart when they should have.

people didn't notice her

but they noticed when things worked.

when someone had already thought ahead.
when everything held, just long enough.

that was her.

not the center.
not the reason.

just

the structure.

but survival doesn't care about structure.

out there, lines blur. loyalties shift. and the things you don't say start to matter more than the things you do.

some connections were never named.

some choices were never forgiven.

and some things

should have never followed them back.

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season one: updates ongoing