Pacific Rim Uprising--Official Movie Novelization by Alex Irvine

Author:Alex Irvine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan

Shatterdome security put Amara straight into a holding cell while the medics were still working on Jinhai. The room’s only furniture was a small table and two chairs. She sat down and waited for over an hour, feeling more and more guilty and anxious as she watched people go by. Most of them didn’t look at her. Those who did were either disgusted or pitying. News of her offense had traveled fast.

She saw Jake in the hall outside the holding cell, pacing back and forth. A few minutes later, Marshal Quan appeared. He and Jake started talking and the conversation quickly grew animated. Then really heated. Jake was furious about something, and Quan—if Amara was reading this body language right—was demanding that Jake follow orders. Eventually Quan made one last point and then stalked back down the hall the way he’d come. Jake stood watching him go. He rubbed his face and Amara realized it must be pretty late at night by now. She’d lost track of time. For Jake, it must have seemed even later. He probably hadn’t slept since before Gipsy Avenger’s feet had made contact with the snow outside the old factory on the Taymyr Peninsula.

He opened the door and came inside. “Is Jinhai okay?” she asked. That was the most important thing. She knew she was in for some punishment, and she could take it. She’d earned it. But if Jinhai’s injuries made him unfit for Ranger duty, Amara knew she would never forgive herself.

“There’s going to be some scarring, but yeah. He’ll live.” Amara let out a long sigh, feeling at least that worry leave her. “Marshal’s put him on probation,” Jake went on. “Meilin and Suresh too. They blink wrong, all of ’em are out.”

“It wasn’t their fault,” Amara said. “I talked them into it.” Before they got into the part of the conversation where Jake told her how stupid she was, Amara wanted to make sure he heard about what she’d found inside Obsidian Fury. “Jake, there’s something—”

He held up a hand. “Amara, I tried to talk to the Marshal.” After a brief pause, he added, “I’m sorry. You’re dismissed from the program.”

This hurt more than Amara had thought it would. In the past few days, she had just started to see the possibility of a life beyond squatting in the ruins of Santa Monica, dodging gang psychopaths and stealing to meet her needs. She’d found a family, just like Lambert had talked about… and now she’d blown it. Because she had to push the boundaries, had to act like the rules didn’t apply to her. “Doesn’t matter,” she said, trying to stay impassive. “I never belonged here anyway.”

Jake crossed the room and sat on the other chair. “I said the same thing, long time ago. But I didn’t want to be here. Not like you.”

Amara knew what he was doing. She appreciated it, but at the same time she wished they would just get everything over with. If she was kicked out, she was kicked out.

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