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[ It was always easier to act like he was above shit like being attracted to people when he was acting as a pure AI backup for Carolina. He wasn't organic, didn't have to deal with hormones and chemicals making him act like a huge fucking asshole who got stupid over other people. Even when thought about Tex it was kind of a distant sad longing, a remnant of the parts of him that were the Director and Alpha. He'd let go of that. Or at least that's what he thought. Not that he was a total emotionless asshole; he had his friends and even if they were all morons most of he still cared about them. Tucker and Caboose were his team. And even the reds weren't that bad.

That's why he tried to delete himself, one last fragmentation to keep them all alive because he'd run the numbers and every time they all died unless he did. It didn't make dying feel any less awful knowing it was the last time but knowing that the guys would make it out alive was good enough. He was ready to rest.

Except the universe apparently can't stand to let Leonard L Church stay dead.

He's found at one of the many temples on Chorus almost a month after the battle on the Staff of Charon, unconscious in a set of blue armor. Only this time there's an actual human body inside of it instead of a robotic frame. The temple made him is a perfect sim trooper body right down to the neural implant at the base of his neck. It's one of the things that makes Dr. Grey take him seriously when he tells her who he is. In the end she calls in Captain Tucker to the field hospital where Epsilon is being held. They confiscated his armor in case he was a remnant of the Charon forces and left in in a tent wearing just a pair of fatigues that they had on hand.

And that's where Tucker will find him when he arrives, sitting in a tent with a cheap paperback one of the medics had given him when he kept complaining he was bored. ]