Okie Dokie guys. Last pairing and then the grand finale. Thanks for reading, thanks for your patience, and just remember I don't own this shiz.

Raleigh wants to know if Chuck fucks like he fights. He's pissed about Chuck's comments regarding Mako, his shoulder is aching, and he wants to see what shade Chuck turns with Raleigh's dick in him. Wants to compare it to the flush that climbs over Chuck when he is angry. Wants to kiss Chuck until he bleeds, a brighter shade than the scrape on his cheek. Wants to check that the carpet matches the drapes, so to speak, when he goes down on Chuck. Wants (and the thought is sudden and a strange and right) to see the streaks Mako's nails leave behind when they scratch down Chuck's back. Herc's voice is a surprise.

Standing there looking up at the Marshall was when it really hit Chuck that he didn't want to die. He had Raleigh next to him, already in a drivesuit. Raleigh who had saved his ass after all, and kicked it besides. Raleigh, who was stronger that Chuck had realized and soft enough that he wanted now to know more. All power and empathy, muscle and soft blonde hair. On Raleigh's other side was Mako, and he wanted the chance to fix that. Wanted to remember the people they had been when they danced on the beach all those years ago. Tendo was on Chuck's other side, ready to manage the cancellation in a jacket, button down, and burgundy bowtie. They just might make it out of this after all.

The water was lit up with lava and fire and the sirens of the jeagers.

"We can clear a path for the lady," said Pentacost. The lights were scarlet around them. That signal everyone knows from childhood, red light stop. So why were they still going?

"My dad always said, if you have a chance, take it."

And then he's being shoved into an escape pod and the last thing he sees is the inside of Stacker's mouth hollering

"PUSH THE BUTTON!"

Of course the PPDC puts a fucking red button on its escape pods. Of. Fucking. Course.

The first thing he sees, when he can blink his eyes open for a second, is Mako's mouth, more specifically, the underside of her bottom lip. She is kneeling over him in his pod, and the lingering feeling of pressure on his lips and chest tell him she has been giving him CPR, but he can't find a way to tell her yet that it worked, since he hears before he can speak.

"I can't tell, I can't tell," she is yelling, facing someone behind his head, and then Beckett's voice, "Let me give it a shot, I have bigger lungs."

There's a lot of shuffling going on and then an unfamiliar set of lips is on his pushing in air while Mako pumps on his chest and with that combination how can a guy not come back more fully to consciousness?

There are two fingers on the side of his neck and Raleigh screams "I've got him!" over his shoulder to Mako just as Chuck finds his voice.

"There's no reason to scream old man," he grumbles, his voice a little scratchy. Raleigh laughs and twists back to face him.

Raleigh's hair is a mess, his face is a pale, and his eyes are bloodshot, but he's alive, all three of them are alive and Raleigh raises his eyebrows to ask if there's a chance because they both know Mako won't and Chuck has to shake his head no.

The air is loud with choppers as the three of them sit together on Chuck's pod and wait for the world to rescue them back.