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]

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?

[marineris]

yeah, i do.
it would take work, but you're not a monster, alex.

[donkeyballs]

[ There is no reply, for a long time.

Until finally: ]

i don't know what to do if he's dead, gunny

I just don't know.

[marineris]

[God, he's breaking her heart.]

where are you?

[donkeyballs]

bar

[marineris]

stay there.

[Bobbie heads down as quickly as she can, spotting him easily enough. She joins him at the bar, giving his shoulder a gentle squeeze as she does, her voice soft.]

Hey.

[donkeyballs]

[ He's already a few cups in, when she gets there, and there's a very real sense of shame that comes with her finding him, but he hadn't moved. Hadn't attempted to disobey. He barely raises his eyes when they fall back to his glass. ]

Hey.

[marineris]

[It's a good thing he didn't leave—she's worried about him, and the concern is obvious in her voice.]

I'm so sorry, Alex.

[donkeyballs]

[ The emotion chokes in his throat, and he can't reply for a few seconds, even if he knew how the hell to reply in the first place. Instead, his head sinks a little, and he stares down into his cup. ]

... Sorry, Gunny. Thought I'd - thought I'd hold up better than this.