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Visiting Cori

Posted Feb. 20, 2019, 8:38 a.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

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“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

“Fine, but the offer still stands. If you need a reason do it for my daughter, she hasn’t done anything wrong and shouldn’t be punished for my past sins. The idea of her meeting people that connect to my past, Lilly’s past… I don’t want that taking away from her. So hate me if you want, but please consider that for her.” Jarred said softly, he didn’t raise his voice even if this didn’t go quite as how he had expected. Turning he left, not wanting or expecting an answer at this time.

Alindor, CE

As the door slipped closed and she was once again alone in the little meeting room, Cori braced her holographic arms on the edges of the crate as her entire body bowed forward. the tears that fell down her cheeks escaped her face only to disappear into thin air as they reached the limits of her holographic field.

~Corinne Dalton


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