"Seriously? No happily ever after for our brave soldiers among the stars?" Gabe gives a slip of a grin and a teasing shake of his shoulder, letting go just long enough to fish out his key and open the door. "What's this dark night of the soul stuff?"

It's playing, all of it - even bullshitting as much as he is now, he can't pretend he hasn't seen things that would put his brain in the exact same place. He can't pretend anyone who's had boots on the ground and a rifle in their hands hasn't probably thought it at least once.