emotional exfoliation (and convenient ventilation)
Summary: Behrad and Natalie have been resurrected, the Loom is broken, and the Fates are gone. Charlie retreats to her room to process. And then four other losers also retreat to her room, and somehow it isn't the worst.
Characters: Charlie, Zari, Astra, Behrad, Sara
A/N: listen. this is 10% angst and 90% them having a slumber party and smoking behrad’s weed. this is called coping.
The night after everything, Charlie goes to the fabrication room.
“Are you sure you’re alright?” Gideon asks.
Charlie nods. “Just the blanket and the player, thanks.”
And Gideon makes them for her—the heaviest blanket in her pattern database and a small little cassette Walkman, steel blue. Giving a small, tight smile toward the ceiling, Charlie gathers them in her arms and walks back to her quarters. Gideon, the old gem that she is, says nothing else.