Posted by Lieutenant Corinne Dalton/SARAH (Ships AI/Avatar) in Visiting Cori

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Jarred Alindor (Chief Engineer) in Visiting Cori

Posted by Lieutenant Corinne Dalton/SARAH (Ships AI/Avatar) in Visiting Cori
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Turning her head to look at him, her unnaturally vibrant eyes were skeptical. “Thirty million, seven hundred and fifty-eight thousand, four hundred seconds in a year. Terran of course. All of those I don’t need sleep for. Any one of those seconds could have been a moment like this where you said similar words. Why now?” she asked softly. A part of her wanted to be angry and cold towards him, but even him standing there made that at least partially impossible. After all, they hadn’t split because they didn’t love each other. It just wasn’t… enough.

~Corinne Dalton

“Would it have made things better? I guess that is to be determined now…” Jarred said as he shifted his stance as he looked at her. “Besides, you are someone I still care for… and our lives… have changed. I fear in my effort to find myself I left you to rot alone by yourself, which isn’t fair. On top of wanting to make sure you know I still care and still see you as a friend… a lot of things have changed… or nothing has I guess depending on your perspective.” Jarred said as he pondered on the best way to broach this to her.

It was clear by her expression that she wasn’t going to dispute his assessment.

“I guess I should just start with the obvious… rumors will spread if you hadn’t heard them even if she hasn’t been here long. My.... my daughter is moving in, she just arrived yesterday with my parents. I know that statment alone must come as a shock and I felt I shouldn’t be hiding her anymore to the people I care and love. So it’s time I man up, stop being scared and start being honest.”

Alindor, CE

She stared at him uncomprehendingly. People arriving she knew- there were people coming and going and it wasn’t difficult for her to connect dots and manifests and what nots. But his words felt like there were in another language and she suddenly had no access to the UT. “Come again? I don’t… I don’t understand.”

~Corinne Dalton

“I was in a very bad place as you remember, about a year after Lilly left I had someone come to me with a six month old child, mine. I didn’t know, and I didn’t want to be a father, not then. So I had my parents raise her, and kept things secretive. I did that for almost five years, but time changed. My father… is dying. They are trying to cure him but the ailment is rare, and not anything Starfleet medical has a cure for. He is going into an experimental procedure, but they can’t have Elizabeth while they do this. My life changed a lot, part to you and Sharise, part self discovery. I knew I needed to step up, and I did.” Alindor said as he looked at Cori, he felt nervous as he spoke to her.

Alindor, CE

She stared at him blankly, struggling to comprehend. Cori closed her eyes and exhaled forcibly, trying to calm herself. Even if her feelings didn’t have physical manifestations, it felt like it did to her. When she opened her vivid eyes and looked at him, there was still some confusion there as well as hurt. “I just… why didn’t you tell me about it. Did Ayla even know?” The woman had been the counsellor so it made sense that she might have. But he had been involved with her, Corinne, for awhile at that point. Why hadn’t he told her?

~Corinne Dalton

“I kept it from everyone, I didn’t want anyone to know. I never talked about it and when I first meet Ayla I didn’t even have Elizaebth listed as my child in official documentation yet. I mean she could have found out down the line, but I don’t think she would have ever had much reason to look. Who thinks one day you are going to discover someone has a 5 year old kid they have known about since they were 6 months old?” Jarred said, he often did wonder about Ayla. Her therapy sessions starting before Elizabeth was offically recorded as his is the only reason he often thought she never brought it back up. Anyone who looked now would see the record but still, how often did someone bring up someone’s record? Ayla might have been one of the few that would have.

“I was ashamed, so much… and I just didn’t know what I wanted. It felt like if i ignored everything it would go away. Then… you died… a second time. I was hurt, but… I knew I needed to make changes so I began to. All my past, all the history and the hiding I couldn’t keep doing it. I began making more efforts to reach out to my daughter, more than the few I made and the one or two trips a year. I began to make a real effort. I may not have been ready to admit what I was back then to anyone but I am now.”

Alindor, CE