Posted Feb. 13, 2019, 9:46 p.m. by Lieutenant Corinne Dalton/SARAH (Ships AI/Avatar) (Lindsay B)
Posted by Lieutenant Commander Jarred Alindor (Chief Engineer) in Visiting Cori
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… suppressed (1) by the Post Ghost! 👻(snip)
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
“Hon, I was working on this long before you came back. This has been two years in the making. Lizzie has nothing to do with you and me, we… things change. The time you were gone I had to make a choice and my life began to twist. As much as I love you my life isn’t the same anymore, I’m not the same anymore.” Jarred said, he had told her this once before but this revelation had to be harder to believe with all that had happened.
Alindor, CE
She laughed and this time the bitterness definitely sounded. “And that’s supposed to make me feel better? You had a secret part of your life and you were changing and growing and you hid it from me?” Cori spun and glared at him, her electric blue eyes glowing slightly. “I get it. Three years is a long time for a person to be considered dead. Gone. Lost. You moved on. Except… you didn’t. I got myself free and we picked up right back where we left off. Why didn’t you just tell me then? And why are you even here now? What difference does it make? You get to clear your conscience and go live your lovely new life with your new little family, and I what, am supposed to jump and down with joy because they get the best of you and you hid yourself from me?”
~Corinne Dalton
“I hid from everyone, you weren’t special in that regards. If I didn’t have to have had my own family help me out I am sure I would have tried to hide it from them too. I didn’t want people to know about that part of me… it was Lilly again getting the last laugh at my expense. So yeah you didn’t get to know. Most of my discoveries of my life, you were dead. That is my catalyst of change, what brought about me. I was happy to ignore my own daughter yet I couldn’t anymore.” he said as he looked at her, knowing this wasn’t going to make her feel better but he wasn’t aware of how harshly she had taking this all. She seemed okay when he broke up with her, she didn’t seem to need this but maybe he never gave her a chance.
“As for us and your return. We didn’t pick up right where we left off, you know that right? It was a shadow, I had changed… didn’t you sense my distance. You were what I wanted for so long I thought… but I wasn’t the same person. I fooled myself into thinking this was what I needed, what you needed. We didn’t need falsehoods as the reason we got back.” Jarred paused as he took a deep breath.
“You want to sit there hate me, think I hid my myself from you fine. I didn’t, you helped me find this new side of me by your death. I am trying to show my world to you now, so you can be angry at me and forget everything we had and pretend it didn’t mean anything or let me in my life. I didn’t want you to just vanish, you meant more to me than that and you still do. My new relationship with Kalani and the life I built with Lizzie doesn’t change my desire to keep you in it. So when you are done having a pity party and want to realize I am trying my best to be your friend I would love for you to come and have dinner with us all. If you want to meet her that is.”
Alindor, CE
Corinne stared at him in disbelief. “You ignore me for months and I’m surprised and shocked by your news and I’m having a pity party?” she said shrilly. She pointed to the door. “Get out! Now!” And she was serious too. Dinner? Out of the blue? She didn’t even know Kalani and she was supposed to join in like, what? she was a part of things again? Even if the feelings he spoke of were genuine, he couldn’t just snap his fingers and make it all better. It wasn’t going to work like that with is daughter, so why would he just think it would work like that with her?
The other side of it was that her mind was reeling and she needed to process this. Access to the ability to do trillions of calculations a minute didn’t make cognition easier. She was still very much Human in that aspect.
~Corinne Dalton
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