Posted by Commander Shara Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Counsellor’s Office- The Requirements of Healing

Posted by Lieutenant Patrick ‘Paddy’ McMillan (CNS) in Counsellor’s Office- The Requirements of Healing

Posted by Commander Shara Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Counsellor’s Office- The Requirements of Healing

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Shara pressed her hands into her thighs. “It depends, but it’s usually some version of someone I care about being in danger and either I’m too late to help them, or forced to do something I don’t want to. For a really long time it centered around Faye, but lately it has expanded to including my husband and eldest daughter.” Shara hadn’t mentioned having a second child and it wasn’t in her official record.

~Shara Calloway, CIO

“I wasn’t aware you had a second child, was there a reason you wanted to keep that to yourself until now?”

-Lieutenant Patrick McMillan: Counsellor-

Shara drew in a deep breath. “She’s not on my official record because I was sixteen when I had her and gave her up for adoption. We only met a little while ago, before I came to the Asimov. And this knowledge is not something I want many people to know until this mission is over. She didn’t ask for a birth mother who was mixed up in classified and risky business and I won’t endanger her by telling every person I know she exists.”

~Shara Calloway, CIO

Paddy leaned in, “As understandable of a decision that is, the emotional strain you must go through knowing that you have a daughter out there must be difficult, did you know much about her before you met up with her?”

-Lieutenant Patrick McMillan: Counsellor-

Shara shook her head, feeling that strange feeling that would creep up now and again when she thought of the baby she named Lila, whose name was now Nadine. “Nothing. My husband was the one to reach out to her after learning that she had been looking for her birth mother. I legally wasn’t allowed because it had been a closed adoption. So Micah went out to see her while we were on Earth and make sure it was all legit, and then she came to stay with us. Until then I knew nothing more than that one month I had with her when I was sixteen.” She broke into soft smile. “But she’s a wonderful person and I’m so glad she’s in my life again, as complicated as that made everything. You have to understand that no one in my life knew about her. Not my late husband, not my daughter Faye. It wasn’t until I confessed her existence to Micah that I had ever spoken about her.”

~Shara Calloway, CIO

“The memories you could make with her now will have a positive impact going forward. Maybe, where you can, you should try and stay in more regular contact.” Paddy could see he was getting somewhere here.

-Lieutenant Patrick McMillan: Counsellor-