Ground control to Major Tom - Scifi Fanfiction about the song Space Oddity by David Bowie and a dream i had a few years ago.
“Hey it’s been a while since you’ve gone to Neptune, how are things going? Is the sky still the color of your eyes? Sorry, I had to throw that one. Cassie has started reading romances for teens now, she can’t not talk about these many handsome characters and their advances being so cool towards the main love interest. I think she’s finally found something that makes her happy after you left.”
10...9...8…
“Do you remember the cookies we used to make at the station? Back in Neptune, I swear it couldn’t have gone worse, a space gardener and a technician, even though they had to steal the deserts robot for re-purposing it’s parts, no one could bear that constant use of protein pills and jelly juices. But thinking back they were better than our burned-exploded cookies, never put local seasoning with an improvised stove in a weird planet. So silent even a kpin turned KABUM!.”
7...6...5…
“That last part about the sound was actually Cassie’s idea, kid was literally four when we sent her the video from there and she still remembers it, we saw her reaction on live, she wouldn’t understand the details of our mission so we started drawing with her real time with our pads and her on pencil and paper on Earth. Funny to think the paper was more expensive than the pads but after you decided to stay that isn’t much of a problem anymore. Although I do value that, no money could make me let you do that again.”
4...3...2…
“You have no idea how much I miss your bad jokes, messy hair and horrible smell inside the space suit. All your clothes are still here, sometimes I think you’re still making cookies on Neptune and drawing ugly cartoons, fixing things for hours until you just lay down on that freezing cold gazing the light blue skies in terminal silence, with me watching you from my garden, that you decided to go with us, that you didn’t release my hand, that the pipes didn’t explode after we left, maybe the garden can still give you oxygen? if I break the the forbidden territory and go to that planet again then maybe- ?”
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“Tom. Ground control to major Tom. Are you there? Can you move? Can you hear me Major Tom? Can you get back into the capsule? Ground control to major Tom. Please, come home.”
– A voice frequency said from the stars I’m coming home.
