april wished that there was more that she could have offered the young male, but she’d always been the type to keep to herself, company mostly that of the other doctors on the ship. yet the yearning to give him some kind of special story remained, though she didn’t want to be dishonest with him. that wouldn’t have been fair. “she was, yeah. kind to everyone that i ever saw her interact with. she was admirable that way.”
that was his mother. she was always kind, unnecessarily so. always willing to help out where-ever she could, even with strangers - people she barely knew, people that likely didn’t deserved to be helped. she was a good person with a good heart and yet, tony had carried none of that into his teenage years. spending his eighteenth birthday on the ground and without his mother? it added to the bitterness already resting on his tongue. “yeah. she was a good woman.” at least he could say that. “i miss her.” words were much quieter this time around, vulnerability seeping from every pore of his body.