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Earth - I'll Make 'Em An Offer They Can't Refuse

Posted July 12, 2021, 1:32 p.m. by Civilian Ragna Idun McKenzie (Future Citizen) (Jennifer Ward)

Posted by Civilian Seamus McKenzie (Future Citizen) in Earth - I’ll Make ‘Em An Offer They Can’t Refuse

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Mike chuckled. He looked at the holo for a while and said “I’m really glad she had all of you.” He looked at Cuyler directly. “I’m glad we both do, now. I’ve never had much in the way of family after my father did his thing. But now… now I think I can finally see the past being made the past. And Cuyler… Dad… Im really glad the future includes you.” He lifted the bottle and drank, then looked out to sea. A look of peaceful determination came about him, and it seemed like a puzzle piece slid into place.

Cuyler sent up a quiet prayer of thanks to whichever god was looking out for Mike, because anyone else put in his position wouldn’t be the man Mike was. Mike was about to discover he had more family than he knew what to do with. Cuyler smiled as Mike called him ‘Dad’. He loved his daughters and wouldn’t trade them for any thing, but he’d always wanted a son, and now he had two! And the best the universe had to offer if he was allowed his biased opinion.

“I’m gonna kick these traitors in the teeth, and then we are gonna have a party for the ages.”

Mike

“I can’t change what you’ve been through, Mike. But I’m going to give you my first piece of fatherly advice. They tossed you into the depths of Hell, thinking in their childishness that they control it. Now that your nearing the end of that path, you walk in there, in two days, and you show them why OWN that path. You leave them in the hell they created and you walk out the other side. And Revna and I and the rest of your family will be there with you.” He laid a hand on Mike’s shoulder, squeezed it once and then took a last pull off the bottle.

“You know our parties tend to last at least a week right?” Then he began to laugh, “Oh....Seamus is gonna kill us. A good chunk of the clan is camped on his door step. It would take days to move them anywhere else....that land is going to be....well his nice quiet secluded piece of paradise isn’t going to be so quiet for awhile. And at some point I’ve got to know what the bet between you and Revna was. There is ALWAYS a bet, and I’m a nosey old man.”

Cuyler

Mike laughed. “Yeah, there was a bet, actually. She had drug my best friend into my place on the Atlantis. He’d… well… he’d had a bad day. Anyways, they come in and start drinking. I asked her if she was single… because a gorgeous woman sits down at your bar, you ask. Not just for personal interest, mind you, which I was… but also to make sure you keep an eye on ‘em so the creeps don’t get ‘handsy’ and the like. Anyway, she says ‘Single? Yeah I’m single, but you couldn’t handle me, Mike.’ So I said ‘Oh, you think so? Care to put your money where your mouth is? Two dates. Dinners. I cook one, you the other. If you think after that I can’t handle you, I’ll go on my merry way. But if you don’t think that we can see where we go from there.’ ” Mike laughed as he remembered the look on her face. Shocked… but intrigued. “Me and my man Mardusk had to cajole her into taking the bet, but she did.” and he sighed. He looked at Cuyler. “Next day, I asked Mardusk… he’s the Security Chief… to let me read her personnel file. Just growing up and such. So I took that and programmed a holodeck program with a fjord, longship, cold weather, island in the middle of nowhere… and dinner in the forest on the island lit up by faeries. I guess she liked.” and he chuckled.

Mike

Cuyler shook his head and grin spreading across his face. What he understood of the order of things Revna had already known she was leaving for surgery when this happened. Mike must have made quite the impression. “Oh I bet Revna ate that up. I think you and Revna played yourselves, and I also think it’s a really good thing you didn’t put that question to Runa. So I gotta ask, if you two were on the same ship for almost a year…what took so d@%m long?”

Cuyler


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