full_arsenal (full_arsenal) wrote,
@ 2010-11-28 14:59:00

On the Subject of Dad...
Alex checked around the house for the fourth time in ten minutes. Dad was gone and he'd taken Fish-Face (codename: Mera) with him. They were probably going to visit Grandma Two and Grandpa Two down in Poseidonis for the weekend. Donna was waiting in the living room for the coast to be clear while Mom made lunch. She liked having them over more and more these days, despite the fact that she controlled all topics of conversation while they were there.

And she never told them the things they wanted to know.

Deciding that the coast was as clear as it was going to get, Alex signals to his twin sister to join him in the kitchen to begin the assault.

"Hey, Mom. Donna and I need to talk to you." he says simply.

"About Dad." he clarifies.

(Post a new comment)

	birdinfishnets 2010-11-28 09:59 pm UTC (link)
	"And by Dad, he means Damien," Donna said. Well...that was probably obvious. But the subject of their father was something that made Donna a little uneasy, even if she did have questions about him that she wanted answered. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	rightontarget 2010-11-28 10:06 pm UTC (link)
	Lian sighed. They'd been more adamant whenever the subject of Damien came up lately. She'd always been honest with the twins about who their father was. She'd been a little fuzzy when it came to certain details, however. "It really isn't that important," she said. "There's not much more I can tell you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

full_arsenal
2010-11-28 10:14 pm UTC (link)

"Really, Mom? We're not five anymore. We're not sixteen. We're twenty-three!" Alex protests, then stops. He takes a deep breath; he promised himself he wouldn't snap at his mother.

"Mom, if it was really not so important, why do you have everyone repeating the same lines like you're all reading off the same teleprompter?" Alex asks.

"You, Uncle Robbie and Aunt Rose. Uncle Tim, Uncle Max and Joey. Aunt Calypso, Aunt J'anna...everyone. Why is that Mera can know all about her dad and where she comes from, but youu 'can't tell us much more' about the guy who got you pregnant with us?" Alex asks.

"What are you so afraid of?"

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	birdinfishnets 2010-11-28 10:26 pm UTC (link)
	"When anyone mentions that side of the family, we don't get an answer, and people just freeze up? What's there to hide? Aren't we old enough to get answers to the questions we want answered?" Donna folded her arms over her chest. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rightontarget 2010-11-28 10:38 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't see why the sudden obsession to learn more about Damien," Lian said. "It was a long time ago." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	full_arsenal 2010-11-28 10:44 pm UTC (link)
	"I wouldn't call it 'sudden', Mom. We've been asking for /years/. We've even tried to bribe Aunt J'anna to read your mind and tell us and we /still/ don't get any answers." Alex says. "The easiest way to make us stop is to tell us what we want to know, Mom. We're not trying to hurt you or anything. We just want to know." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	birdinfishnets 2010-11-28 10:58 pm UTC (link)
	"We just have questions that need answers, Mom. Please." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rightontarget 2010-11-28 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	Damien was still a touchy subject, even after all these years. "Really? Even if they aren't the answers you want to hear?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	full_arsenal 2010-11-28 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	"Mom, will you stop stalling? Because if Dad or someone walks through this door and you clam up on us...I swear, I'll go find Damien and ask him myself." Alex says. "There isn't anything you can tell us that isn't crazier than the theories that Donna and I came up with." Alex says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	birdinfishnets 2010-11-28 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	Donna bit her lip. She hadn't expected Alex to go that route. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rightontarget 2010-11-28 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	Lian narrowed her eyes at them. "You wouldn't dare." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

full_arsenal
2010-11-28 11:14 pm UTC (link)

"Try us. Seriously, I've learned enough about digging for info from Grandpa and Uncle Tim. Uncle Robbie and Aunt Rose give away things when they don't mean to. We know enough to know where to start." Alex says, daring his mother to call his bluff.

The most they had was a name, really. It might not even mean anything, but then again, it might.

"Seriously, Mom. All you've got to do is tell us what we want to know, and we leave Damien out of it completely." Alex says.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	birdinfishnets 2010-11-28 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	"Please Mom," Donna said. "I think we're old enough to know things we want, no- things we need to know. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rightontarget 2010-11-28 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	Lian didn't say anything. She was just silent. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

full_arsenal
2010-11-28 11:32 pm UTC (link)

Alex waited, staring at his mother.

And he waited.

When it seemed that she really wasn't going to speak, that she was just going to stand there and deny them /again/, Alex just shook his head.

"You always stress how important honesty with your family is. You always tell us to trust our family, if no one else. Now, here Donna and I are, trusting you to be honest with us and you're not doing it for God-Only-Knows what reason.

Never again, Mom. I'm not trusting you again, Mom." Alex says, heading for the door.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	birdinfishnets 2010-11-28 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	Donna sighed. She knew that this was going to blow up in their faces. She turned with Alex, heading for the door with him. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rightontarget 2010-11-28 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	Lian sighed. "Wait," she said. "Maybe...it is time that I told you a little bit more. About your father." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	full_arsenal 2010-11-28 11:44 pm UTC (link)
	Alex stops, considering whether or not this was just another ploy for time. He wanted to believe that his mom would be honest with them, but she hadn't before. Why start now? He turns around, looking at her. "Okay. I think we're listening." he says quietly. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	birdinfishnets 2010-11-28 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm listening," Donna said, stopping in her tracks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rightontarget 2010-11-28 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	"Well...what do you want to know?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	full_arsenal 2010-11-28 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	"All right. How did you guys meet? Were you ever married? Why did you break up? Did Damien know about us? Why didn't he stay?" Alex asks. Then he decides that letting his mother speak would probably help in getting those answers, so he quiets. Donna might have questions, too. "You can answer those in any order you want." he says, sheepishly. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	birdinfishnets 2010-11-29 12:07 am UTC (link)
	"Did he ever love us? Or you?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

rightontarget
2010-11-29 12:41 am UTC (link)

Lian inhaled. Damn, this was going to be tough.

"We met when I was undercover in the League of Assassins, looking for your grandmother," Lian. "I caught his eye. As he didn't know about me, I tried to stay far under his radar as possible. But it wasn't meant to be."

A pause.

"We fell in love. I wasn't supposed to, but I did. I got pregnant.

It wasn't the same way that your father and I got married, but yes, we were. I didn't even know he had married until after the fact.

The reason we separated was simple- Uncle Tim found me out on a mission, and I told him I was pregnant. We decided that it was likely for the best that I didn't go back to him and the League.

He knows about you. Both of you. He wanted to stay. And at the time...I wanted him to, too. But circumstances being the way they were, our lives were just too different to make it work.

He loved you both. Very much. I'm sure he probably still does."

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

full_arsenal
2010-11-29 01:46 am UTC (link)

Alex listens to his mother, trying to understand her thought processes at the time. Uncle Tim was always very silent on the subject of Damien, but now more of the picture was becoming clear.

"So, you just left him?" Alex asks. It probably comes out more accusatory than he intends for.

"You said he's a member of the League of Assassins, right? You got out. Why didn't he?" Alex asks.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	birdinfishnets 2010-11-29 01:54 am UTC (link)
	"If you were in love...why didn't you stay with him?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)