Lovelace and Jacobi’s Disaster Tour™
or: what these two get up to post-hephaestus
on the way back to earth jacobi corners lovelace when she’s by herself
“mind if i tag along?”
“i could always use the extra help”
the first thing they do is go on a vacation. some place cliché, like the bahamas or caribbean
on their first night there, they lay in the sand at night and look up at the sky
jacobi starts crying. lovelace pretends not to hear.
she does a bad job at this and starts crying herself
they hold onto each other until the tears slowly, but eventually turn to laughter
“wanna get blackout drunk?” lovelace asks
“more than anything”
they agree never to speak of this again. ever.
after their vacation and subsequent destruction of goddard futuristics, they say their goodbyes
it takes about a week for jacobi to show up at lovelace’s hotel room
“miss me?”
“i guess.”
they order pizzas and eat a lot of ice cream and candy bars from the vending machine
when jacobi wakes up the next morning all their stuff is gone
“we’re going to minkowski’s,” lovelace informs him
he doesn’t argue
they go to disneyworld first
then they stop at jacobi’s apartment to swap the rental car for his car
all of lovelace’s things were gone considering everyone thought she was dead, but jacobi was one of the only survivors that hadn’t already been declared dead
“do you want help?” lovelace asks him
“no i just need to grab my keys”
after half an hour of sitting in the parking lot, lovelace goes up to his apartment to find him holding a shattered picture frame with a bleeding hand
the picture is of him, maxwell, and kepler
she remembers all too many moments like this after her crew died
“come on,” she whispers gently. “we have to move on”
he folds up the picture and puts it in his wallet
on the way to minkowski’s they stop at every cheesy tourist site
together they amass a collection of terrible t shirts and souvenirs that they share
they get a postcard from every place they stop
sometimes they fight over who gets to wear which shirt
there are a lot of really bad selfies
they’re hilarious
when they finally get to minkowski’s they commandeer a wall to hang all their postcards and pictures
this quickly catches on with everyone else
soon everyone is taking pictures together and putting them on the wall
some of them say its for eiffel, so he feels more attached to this life and its memories
all them secretly know that this is only part of the reason. it’s a way to prove that despite everything, they have each other
ignoring everyone's seemingly new fascination with using first names, jacobi and lovelace always refer to each other by their last names
except for one time when jacobi eats a cupcake lovelace was saving and from the kitchen he hears her yell “DANIEL” full of fury
he hides in eiffel’s room for the rest of the day
