[ It’s probably a good thing she’s not looking at him, because Simon spends like a good ten seconds looking her over as she speaks. Because it’s weird, to have this extra dimension, to see how small and drawn-in she looks when she was so often everywhere, a projected presence too big and formless to be measurable.
After a while, the way they communicated in the remains of PATHOS-II started to feel normal, but now he has the surreal realization that this is what he could’ve been seeing that whole time, and— what would he think of her now? If he’d had this extra information from beginning to end, instead of that chipper, bossy voice against anecdotes about a mousy recluse who didn’t sound familiar?
Then his social graces kick in and Simon stops staring at what is still a shy, uncomfortable conversational partner to look off into the middle distance instead, but her... Catherine version of being emotionally open... piques his interest. Her last statement he can agree with, but he had his bases covered by having the Omnitool here, so, onto the other thing. ]
You really think it’d be weird? Even though we already launched the ARK and everything?
[ His tone is curious, devoid of skepticism or accusation. It’s not as if Simon thought she saw him purely as her brain-toting workhorse down there. Given the circumstances, and how much time Catherine spared to talk about all kinds of things despite how little time they had, it just doesn’t seem possible, no matter how impatient she can get with him and how asocial she seemingly was in life. You can’t go through all that with somebody and not get a little attached. It’s human nature, right? But Catherine gives too little of herself away for him to be sure she’d miss him if she worked for Hathaway without him there. ]
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After a while, the way they communicated in the remains of PATHOS-II started to feel normal, but now he has the surreal realization that this is what he could’ve been seeing that whole time, and— what would he think of her now? If he’d had this extra information from beginning to end, instead of that chipper, bossy voice against anecdotes about a mousy recluse who didn’t sound familiar?
Then his social graces kick in and Simon stops staring at what is still a shy, uncomfortable conversational partner to look off into the middle distance instead, but her... Catherine version of being emotionally open... piques his interest. Her last statement he can agree with, but he had his bases covered by having the Omnitool here, so, onto the other thing. ]
You really think it’d be weird? Even though we already launched the ARK and everything?
[ His tone is curious, devoid of skepticism or accusation. It’s not as if Simon thought she saw him purely as her brain-toting workhorse down there. Given the circumstances, and how much time Catherine spared to talk about all kinds of things despite how little time they had, it just doesn’t seem possible, no matter how impatient she can get with him and how asocial she seemingly was in life. You can’t go through all that with somebody and not get a little attached. It’s human nature, right? But Catherine gives too little of herself away for him to be sure she’d miss him if she worked for Hathaway without him there. ]