Take_Five



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    He says to her, once, “You know, I wouldn’t mind doing that again.”
    “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” says Rita. They’re training, back-to-back, against the robot mimics, and she hears him huff, soft and amused. They take apart the dummies together, mech fists and bullet sprays and slices of the broadsword, working in automatic tandem, and are left with a room full of sparking metal corpses, Cage’s breathing even and unhurried. She can feel him behind her, like an extra limb. He doesn’t bring it up again.

    Rita tries to scratch an itch.

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    Yesterday, Rita had smashed Cage so hard across the face in the mech suit that she had been pretty sure his nose was broken. Don’t, don’t, he’d said when she’d come toward him across the mat for a better look. Please, she’d snapped, I’m not going to do anything. Then softened: Cage, I’m honestly not. He’d let her look. His eye was red in the socket, rolling. She’d pressed just under it with fingertips.

    This is going to bruise like a motherfucker, she’d said, and it had.

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    post-film. Cage & Rita kill some time.

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    Cage can only reset the day if he dies. When he and Rita find themselves trapped, unarmed, in the back of a prison transport vehicle, they have to improvise.

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    He wanted so much to pull his broken body over hers, let them lie together in that last few seconds. He wanted to tell her, it’s for you, I know I had to do it, because of you.

     

    I did it because you made me into a man who couldn’t not do it.

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    The official statement is still that nobody knows what happened in Paris. Nobody knows how the mimics destroyed themselves. Cage is quite happy to toe that line.

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