"Alec," he replied to Rebekah, without frustration at the repetition. The last few minutes had been intense and stressful for all of them - it was fair to assume that normalcy wouldn't return for a little while yet. They were all going to need a rest period once they landed. No chance of being able to concentrate on anything for a while. He was (unfortunately) well-practised at putting off shock responses and grieving processes... but even he'd need to stop and process at some point.<br/><br/>He nodded to the soldier as she took the magazine, then turned towards the wall panel for the last quarter of a minute or so to watch the countdown, making sure his own breathing was steady and that he was sufficiently calm. He folded his arms across his chest, wincing as he pressed his bruises.<br/><br/>And then, in the last couple of seconds, everything took a sharp turn to the left. Time seemed to slow, and he had the strangest experience of déjà vu he'd ever felt. A totally mundane memory, only now with the jarring addition of two things that couldn't have been there - one was one of those monster-things that had very nearly incinerated the lot of them, and the other was... well, an impossible person.<br/><br/>He thought he heard someone ask "Who are you?", but that couldn't have been true. Everyone outside the airlock knew their names. Everyone inside it had just been introduced.<br/><br/><em>That's it, I've cracked. I'm done.</em><br/><br/>"Kai," the guard said, as if in reply to the question that hadn't been. Sean greeted her in turn, and then the door hissed open.<br/><br/>He found it interesting that she wasn't allowed to rejoin the other troops. He hoped it was out of consideration for her recent losses and exhaustion, rather than some disciplinary measure. Kai was a hardass and didn't exactly play nice, but she had basically held the thing off for long enough for them to get through the airlock and ditch the cabin. Not to put too fine a point on it, he felt he owed her one. He'd try and speak up for her if he had to.<br/><br/>"I have a question," Alec spoke up from the back of the line. "You seem like you have an altogether far too secure hold on the situation right now for someone who had no idea we were going to be attacked. Did you know that was coming? Do you know what it is?"<br/><br/>The answer was likely going to be a 'No' or an 'I can neither confirm nor deny...' sort of bullshit response. He wasn't sure he could believe a denial.