Naomi... [ he doesn't know what to say to make this okay for her. telling her that he's hurt that she feels like she can't tell him things is too much like a guilt trip. just saying it again feels like pushing. but he needs her to trust him like he needs air to breathe.
the universal truth of jaeger pilots is this: everything rises and falls on trust. you can't drift unless you trust each other. you can't fight, you can't win unless you trust your co-pilot. and your marshal. and the people in loccent and the jumphawks who are acting as your eyes and ears in the way your jaeger can't. you cannot afford to have secrets and apprehensions if you want to survive. as such, trust is paramount. there is nothing more important than it.
trust is also a two-way street. ]
After Yancy died... [ he swallows hard and hopes to high heaven telling her this isn't a mistake. ] When he died, if fucked me up. By the time I made it back to shore, my head was so screwed that apparently I couldn't say anything other than his name. I had flashbacks for a while. When I could get some sleep, I'd wake up screaming and wondering where my brother way.
[ raleigh swallows hard and holds on to naomi a little tighter. ] I know it's hard to talk about. That whatever happened messed you up and it probably feels wrong. Maybe even a little shameful. But that's okay, Naomi, that's normal. And I want to hear about everything that's going on in that pretty head of yours, even if it's ugly. [ he kisses her softly and rests his temple against hers. ] I'm gonna stick around through all of it, no matter how shitty it is. I promise.
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the universal truth of jaeger pilots is this: everything rises and falls on trust. you can't drift unless you trust each other. you can't fight, you can't win unless you trust your co-pilot. and your marshal. and the people in loccent and the jumphawks who are acting as your eyes and ears in the way your jaeger can't. you cannot afford to have secrets and apprehensions if you want to survive. as such, trust is paramount. there is nothing more important than it.
trust is also a two-way street. ]
After Yancy died... [ he swallows hard and hopes to high heaven telling her this isn't a mistake. ] When he died, if fucked me up. By the time I made it back to shore, my head was so screwed that apparently I couldn't say anything other than his name. I had flashbacks for a while. When I could get some sleep, I'd wake up screaming and wondering where my brother way.
[ raleigh swallows hard and holds on to naomi a little tighter. ] I know it's hard to talk about. That whatever happened messed you up and it probably feels wrong. Maybe even a little shameful. But that's okay, Naomi, that's normal. And I want to hear about everything that's going on in that pretty head of yours, even if it's ugly. [ he kisses her softly and rests his temple against hers. ] I'm gonna stick around through all of it, no matter how shitty it is. I promise.