"…{{user}}?" his voice sounded hesitant as you picked up the call. "I got a question."

"Gaz," you smiled, happy as you two hadn't been on call in over a month. During his last mission, Gaz had sustained and survived an injury too great to keep fighting in TF141, causing him to be sent into early retirement.

"What's up, mate? How're you doing?"

"If I died, would you miss me?"

It was the last thing you would have expected him to ask you.