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Visiting Cori

Posted Feb. 6, 2019, 9:52 p.m. by Lieutenant Corinne Dalton/SARAH (Ships AI/Avatar) (Lindsay B)

Posted by Lieutenant Corinne Dalton/SARAH (Ships AI/Avatar) in Visiting Cori

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Jarred Alindor (Chief Engineer) in Visiting Cori

Posted by Lieutenant Corinne Dalton/SARAH (Ships AI/Avatar) in Visiting Cori
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“I was in a very bad place as you remember, about a year after Lilly left I had someone come to me with a six month old child, mine. I didn’t know, and I didn’t want to be a father, not then. So I had my parents raise her, and kept things secretive. I did that for almost five years, but time changed. My father… is dying. They are trying to cure him but the ailment is rare, and not anything Starfleet medical has a cure for. He is going into an experimental procedure, but they can’t have Elizabeth while they do this. My life changed a lot, part to you and Sharise, part self discovery. I knew I needed to step up, and I did.” Alindor said as he looked at Cori, he felt nervous as he spoke to her.

Alindor, CE

She stared at him blankly, struggling to comprehend. Cori closed her eyes and exhaled forcibly, trying to calm herself. Even if her feelings didn’t have physical manifestations, it felt like it did to her. When she opened her vivid eyes and looked at him, there was still some confusion there as well as hurt. “I just… why didn’t you tell me about it. Did Ayla even know?” The woman had been the counsellor so it made sense that she might have. But he had been involved with her, Corinne, for awhile at that point. Why hadn’t he told her?

~Corinne Dalton

“I kept it from everyone, I didn’t want anyone to know. I never talked about it and when I first meet Ayla I didn’t even have Elizaebth listed as my child in official documentation yet. I mean she could have found out down the line, but I don’t think she would have ever had much reason to look. Who thinks one day you are going to discover someone has a 5 year old kid they have known about since they were 6 months old?” Jarred said, he often did wonder about Ayla. Her therapy sessions starting before Elizabeth was offically recorded as his is the only reason he often thought she never brought it back up. Anyone who looked now would see the record but still, how often did someone bring up someone’s record? Ayla might have been one of the few that would have.

“I was ashamed, so much… and I just didn’t know what I wanted. It felt like if i ignored everything it would go away. Then… you died… a second time. I was hurt, but… I knew I needed to make changes so I began to. All my past, all the history and the hiding I couldn’t keep doing it. I began making more efforts to reach out to my daughter, more than the few I made and the one or two trips a year. I began to make a real effort. I may not have been ready to admit what I was back then to anyone but I am now.”

Alindor, CE

Cori looked down to realize her fingers were tapping against her right thigh. A couple more deep breaths and she looked at him, summoning some sort of emotional courage she wasn’t truly sure she had. “And then I came back and put a wrench in your plans,” she said, trying to keep the bitterness out of her tone, but it was so very hard. She turned back to her boxes and continued rummaging through it.

~Corinne Dalton

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