Reverie: IC Inbox

[donkeyballs]

 

IC INBOX
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Alright, go ahead and leave me a message, an' I'll get back to you soon as I can.

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[donkeyballs]

[ A few seconds later, because he realises there is literally no point lying to her: ]

Tryin' to wrap my head around things is all, I guess.

[marineris]

[Attaboy, Alex. This is the smarter choice.]

it's not an easy thing to wrap your head around.
i'm sorry, alex.

[donkeyballs]

[ There's a longer pause than there usually is, when he's texting. ]

Honestly we ain't even out as far as I was afraid of.

Three hundred years ain't much, in the cosmic scale of things.


[ But it's a hell of a lot, in the human scale. ]

[marineris]

you couldn't deflect any harder if you tried.
you don't have to pretend to be fine with this.

[donkeyballs]

[ He sighs, staring down at his comm for a few seconds. ]

I'm just sayin'.

I already knew we were a long ways out.

I knew hopin' was a fools errand.

[marineris]

it wasn't a fools errand. i would have thought you were nuts if you didn't hold out hope.

[donkeyballs]

It just don't make no sense, Gunny.

There's people here from other universes. Hundreds of years before us.

But I can make sense of that. Somehow. Some kinda - kinda portal, or - dimensional boundary -

But we can't make time go in reverse.

can we.

[marineris]

you don't know that.
if some kind of portal brought us here, maybe it can send us back.

[donkeyballs]

maybe

[marineris]

alex, come on. since when do you give up that easily?

[donkeyballs]

sorry, gunny

[ A little bit later: ]

It don't change anythin'. We still need to find how we got here, and take that back home. We were never close enough to make it the good old fashioned way.

[marineris]

and we will. maybe we can figure out a way to get you back to them.

[But she knows he's right, and there's a chance that might not be possible.]

i've got your back no matter what happens.

[donkeyballs]

it's not

that ain't even

i just want to know they're alright.

That's all.

I can deal with the rest. Even if it turns out that we really are three hundred years in the future, and there ain't no going back, I just -

Wanna know that they were okay.



... Thanks, Gunny.

I got yours.

You know that, right?

[marineris]

i know.
you want to tell me more about them?

[donkeyballs]

[ Yes.

No. ]

What do you wanna know?

[marineris]

anything you want to tell me.

[That might be too broad when he's this upset, though.]

what does melas want to be when he grows up?

[donkeyballs]

[ There's a pause.

A long pause.

A long pause. ]

i don't even know

don't even know if he'd recognize my face if he saw it

he wanted to fly, once

[marineris]

[Oh, Alex.]

you think he still wants to?

[donkeyballs]

no idea

never was all that interested in my stories

always wanted to hear about pirate raids and fightin the enemy

never had the heart to tell him i never did any of that

[marineris]

it doesn't matter what you did or didn't do in the mcrn. saving the system a few times tops that any day.

[donkeyballs]

yeah

just ain't compatible with bein' a father



if i'd been able to be his dad when he needed me too, i ain't never would have ended up on the cant

i was a shit father, gunny




maybe she ended up findin him a better one

[marineris]

hey, listen to me.
maybe you screwed up, but you love him. that's more than a lot of kids can say about their fathers.
everyone makes mistakes. sometimes things don't work out the way we plan. at least you want to make it right.

[donkeyballs]

only way to make it right is to go back

and even if i could

it wouldn't work
she's got every right to be pissed as hell, but i just ain't never gonna be what they need

i never was

[marineris]

forget about talissa for a minute. what about melas?
say we figure out a way back. you don't think you could make it right with him?

[donkeyballs]

If your dad ran off when you were barely old enough to remember him, you think he could ever make that right?