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Tennessee, Earth - Home Sweet Home

Posted Sept. 27, 2021, 4:17 p.m. by Commander Shara Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) (Lindsay B)

Posted by Civilian Micah Pikelsimer (Federation Security Agent) in Tennessee, Earth - Home Sweet Home

Posted by Commander Shara Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Tennessee, Earth - Home Sweet Home

Posted by Civilian Micah Pikelsimer (Federation Security Agent) in Tennessee, Earth - Home Sweet Home

(snip)

“Engineering professor at the university there on Midos. Owns the house across the street from the one his parents live in. Married, two kids, both grown and married as well. No criminal record, no questionable contacts, no illicit or hidden hobbies. Volunteers with a foundation providing clean water systems on impoverished planets. Season tickets to the local ballet that he takes his wife to. No mistresses, no blood sports, no gambling. In short… boring as hell. Wouldn’t invite him to the card table. Probably put me to sleep by the third hand.” and he grinned at Nadine.

Micah

Nadine grinned and Shara laughed loudly. “Yeah, he’s a sweet guy, but the way I see it, even if we had tried to make it work together, we’d have driven the other away in some way and it all would have ended up messy. I don’t know, this feels like a good outcome.”

“Do you think I should contact him?” Nadine asked, inhaling audibly.

“I think you should trust your gut, just like you did when Micah showed up to tell you I in fact existed,” Shara said. “But I think we both know the not knowing would be something you’d regret. No one is saying you have to have a relationship with him if you don’t want to, but I think he’s worth knowing and he can tall you all my terrible high school stories I won’t,” she said with a wink.

~Shara & Nadine

“But that is a choice for later. Right now, you two have more pressing issues at hand. That being… you don’t catch, you don’t eat.” and he grinned as he handed Shara his rod (fishing, of course); and then dug out a sandwich from her pack, sat on a rock, and began eating. “Hurry up!” he yelled over a mouthful of bread and meat. “Otherwise I’m gonna eat all these myself!”

Micah

“I fear anything I toss back at you in reprisal will just be taken the wrong way, so I’m going to quit while I’m ahead and focus on catching some fish,” Shara said, as she cast her line out and waited.

Nadine just shook her head. “You know, if I didn’t know better, I’d say the two of you had been married for decades.”

Shara snorted. “Perks of being older- you care less and less about giving a crap what others think and tend to speak your mind. It just means Micah and I are blunt as hell and try to say what we actually mean, rather than what we think the other person wants to hear. Maybe that’s the key to marriage, but give me a few more months and I’ll tell you if it’s true.”

~Shara & Nadine


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