Synchronicity
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The first letter Gale gets from Bucky is about a unicorn.
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Gale’s used to John rambling when he’s drunk, usually while hanging off one arm hooked around Gale’s shoulders, but there’s a different note to his written word. When he’s drunk in person, he likes to pester Gale with questions, get Gale to talk about himself. When it’s just John and a pen, it seems he simply shares every little thought that crosses his mind.
He lets the letter close on its own again, staring down at his eggs until he hears “Good morning, Major!” from outside the mess hall. Hurriedly, Gale tucks the letter back into its envelope and the envelope into the pocket of his trousers. By the time the doors swing open, John sauntering in like he owns the base and the mess and the doors themselves, Gale’s sure all knowledge of John’s words—of that lipstick print pressed onto paper beside John’s name—has been wiped from his face.
All the same, he can’t resist taking a peek. John’s walking on air. Gale smiles.
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- Part 1 of Synchronicity
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Three days after Gale and John finally kiss, they find themselves as close as they can physically be.
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During the war, Gale had chased every horizon, discovered the sky’s every nuance: the shape of a cloud like a storm’s herald, a curl of wind like a gust’s forewarning. In the pilot’s seat, days became weeks became months became years, the sky as familiar as the back of his hand, the inside of his eyelids. It used to steal his breath away.
But nothing—not the clearest blue, the brightest sun, the purest clouds—could compare to Major John C. Egan.
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- Part 2 of Synchronicity