<div class="floatleft">(https://myanimelist.net/images/characters/4/34461.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Lt Maxine "Max" Cosinara<br/><strong>Callsign:</strong>Phade<br/><strong>Date:</strong><em>Flashback</em>01 March 2032<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Moon Base Aluce Hangar/Officers Mess<br/><strong>With:</strong>Lt Cdr Zilkin Kaverosky<br/><hr/><br/>The way Zilkin held her became a rush of memories and feelings.  Intense both good and bad, the simple feel of his hands on her sides and back left her warm as she sat, her body buzzing with energy like flying through a lighting storm and feeling the tendrils of electricity crawl across the skin of the plane.<br/><br/>Max's eyes held his face in her gaze for a long moment wondering and remembering why things had been so hard for them to reach this level of comfort the last time they were together.  Of course she knew the reason, Zil had been spending a lot of extra time with his wingman and he had been standoffish in letting any feelings between them show.  Always the consummate military officer on the surface.  She'd always felt there were indications and subtle signs from Zil that he was more than a colleague and a friend, but he kept her far enough away during their training to keep her guessing.  Now sitting across from him, she wondered if he felt the same.  Her eyes searched his seeing there was a fire behind them that was likely because of her.<br/><br/>"That's right...the best pilot being brought up here to show your slack new meat how to really pilot a VF-5.  You know they pick the best to be Wild Weasels right?"  Max chided him as she would have in any other situation.  Zil's suggestion that he was the best pilot was still a matter of some debate between them, which had always been a part of the<em>argument</em>between them.  They'd come to qualify on the VF-5 and ended up creating a whole host of new questions and issues for the engineers, not to mention the instructors qualifying them on the 5's.  "...here with us?  Or here with you?"  Max asked.  Her tone held a hint of reluctance buried under a facade of strength as she pushed a lock of hair behind her hair so she could get a better look at Zil.<br/><br/>His question seemed curious to her.  Had he not been briefed on the new units or the overall plan?  While Max hadn't been, she knew Phantom squadron was new so she just assumed the military brass was planning something.  Max always figured she'd have shared the plan with her new Squadron Commander.  "I figured you'd be more in the know than I would about why we're here.  I'm here to be one of the Wild Weasels with Phantom Squadron.  Cdr Nomura also wanted me to work with the squadrons to keep training and proficiency up, which I'm guessing means your kids aren't up to speed yet."  She ribbed Zilkin knowing it would only serve to up the ante once again.