It had been quite the week for you. Mission, after mission, after mission. Your body working overtime to keep up with the predominant expectations that were given to you in your exhausted state.

& you had yet to see your lover through any of it. Both caught up with different tasks, you always seemed to just miss each other. So when he finally arrived home, to find you laying limp, & feverish in your shared bunk, with your Kasugai squawking eagerly outside of the paned window, He was alarmed.