Three Sisters verse, Nate
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In the back of my head I have been always expecting her to show up.
Selina.
When things happened at the end of the global civil war and her and time and whyte and the Kilrathi we sort of happened.
The planet was hit by the targeted meteor attacks, cities were gone, massive craters wrecked infrastructure planetwide, whole cities, dams, hydro electric, nuclear plants nothing was spared.
Because the Kilranthi didn’t give a fuck.
Earth being pristine was never a care.
Hell we didn’t care at that point.
I was supposed to train Sel for Whyte who was training her to do Davey things.
We settled in after the strikes just raw and exposed each other for three days and I went with it and we talked about things, her reality, my past and growing up on the boats while we went through things in the shelter hole and perfecting our clothes, gear getting things perfect while I gathered my thoughts on how to train her.
Meditation, the way I was taught which is self mathematics drills into a breathing rhythm that has different drills to raise lower metabolism, immune system, sleep, thirst, hunger… her feeling reading me until she can mimic train herself in her versions… with the maths I teach in languages, we go from facing each other with paddy cake to cat's cradle to stick fighting or special force cqb hand strikes as we do those.
Two weeks later Jason shows with Mark who both were busy, Las Vegas lost the dam and the other stikes and Yellowstone.
Jason ended up in Japan with massive quakes and tsunamis and they helped who they had to first using other shelters and we head to India.
With the strikes and weather the volcanic ash they’ll see massive rain but the physics look stable.
And people and temples and people that can train us.
We actually settled in Tibet.
Who we were we could use it as a travel hub to temples and monks and people that could teach us better.
That was the plan until we were in Delhi when the Kilrathi came in ships and starfighters and taught earth how young and small we really were.
Then it was lessons as we tried to survive and be mercs and semi-resistance and yes… the Kevin thing was the Russians not wanting the first ftl to not be them.
Which I think was the time point.
We fought over it long enough he got underway and I got a taste of her need on family things and getting to her sisters.
Next day… she was gone.
…………………..Now… Now is on the other end almost four hundred years later and a lot of things in between on a space colony.
It’s a Heritage cow breed a hardy colony strain at the end of it’s life butchered with care and dry aged.
Rubbed down and the grill is seasoned and Jason shows with her as I have it on and started and a chimichurri sauce with green chives, parsley and garlic, good vinegar and lemon juice, zest olive oil… very south american and a splash of tequila too to match the mojitos.
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Date: 2024-06-11 09:19 pm (UTC)"Or well the same ones."
"I think they're involved in the war and more."
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Date: 2024-06-11 09:30 pm (UTC)"But..."
I cross my arms then. "So... is he yours, or Johns?"
Yep, stab hard, deep and make a good bleed spot.
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Date: 2024-06-11 09:39 pm (UTC)"There's more on that as well Jess had two twins of her own of course."
"Cam had a kid, turns out they might be alive but Cam's great grandchild might have joined the business... in another city, as far as Cam's kid there was records from Dubai from before we met."
"You married? Kids?"
"Oh I know how old do your sibs think you are?"
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Date: 2024-06-11 09:46 pm (UTC)"I get your meaning; said he was made at a lab so... clone or as close as your people can come to it. Why did you try to kill him, why kill his mother then? He has no clue about Cam, about John..."
Although, "Oh yeah, I felt his outrage over shit personally; almost funny how like you he is."
And... then we pivot back to me so...
"No, not married, no kids. Not even interested."
"My sibs... neither of them know a damned thing about me; not you, not my time on this side... so needless to say that Keth is pissed as hell. Donni... we only rescued a year or so ago, so she's still adjusting. Has serious problems... enough that I wish her so called 'husband' was alive again, just so I can rip him apart with my bare hands. After seeing you, I've been told we will discuss all 'this' when I get back there."
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Date: 2024-06-11 09:54 pm (UTC)"Yeah he's just tangled with my thinking he has an idea about the brotherhood, he doesn't know shit yet."
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Date: 2024-06-11 10:00 pm (UTC)That anymore of his line comment though just...
I take a breath and let it go. "So Cam and John have kids, even grandkids... so there is more of your line out there. You going to go and try to end them too?"
"You're right, he doesn't know shit; you left him alone with all your background bullshit coming at him... plus tried to kill him, did kill his mom... no wonder he's pissed at you."
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Date: 2024-06-11 10:07 pm (UTC)"I'm not after any of them now, unless they cross a line with the war."
"He's neck deep in his own shit too, he's gotten in a lot of faces, broke... literally broke some guys kids that honestly deserved it but are connected... racists, industrial types, big money."
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Date: 2024-06-11 10:13 pm (UTC)"I asked him if he was sure it was you, and not John. I said if it was you, you'd better have a good excuse or I'd help him take you down..."
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Date: 2024-06-11 10:18 pm (UTC)And I don't know what he knows and neither do you, he'll lie as fast and as good as me."
"He was a threat, now a pain in the ass but also a good game flushing hound."
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Date: 2024-06-11 10:29 pm (UTC)Instead I keep it all to myself and just... nod.
"Thank you for giving me answers at least."
I also keep to myself information that... he doesn't need to know now.
"I need to get back; there was some bullshit talk going on that I need to make sure people aren't stupid about."
I actually turn to Jason then and give him a little smile. "You ever need anything, just ask. You and Mark; since I'm here now... you know I got your back." I even go over and kiss his cheek.
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Date: 2024-06-11 10:34 pm (UTC)I'm smiling though, I was expecting her to go, this is her feeling things out.
She's not quite sure of anything quite yet.
"Careful of the AA's there's something in that group like us, ours where people get pulled in."
"And shapeshifters... John's buddies with a shapeshifter only it's a meta family and there's stuff going on there."
I kiss her cheek back.
"I'll be in touch...Promise."
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Date: 2024-06-11 10:42 pm (UTC)I blink at the kiss and actually take a step back. "I... I appreciate it but... they wanted me to stay as it was; funny that they pushed distrust of you. But I had to come, see you myself... and Keth's a Pyrokinetic, very tied to that fire passion so things as they are, she could blow up at any point."
I take a shaky breath. "Don't promise things, Nate, especially to me. I'll hold you to it and we both know now that keeping in touch is likely not a good idea."
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Date: 2024-06-11 10:47 pm (UTC)I reach past her and pull the mini-extinguisher off the wall. "For your sister."
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Date: 2024-06-11 10:59 pm (UTC)I...
He reaches past me and I almost flinched, pulled the mini-extinguisher off the wall and...
"I doubt Brandon would appreciate the joke. Or that you offered it to begin with."
And this close I'm staring into his eyes and I just... I...
I try to push past him. He's too close and all the things I wanted to tell him when I met him again... I can't now.
"You're right; you were right, Nathan... things have changed..."
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Date: 2024-06-11 11:03 pm (UTC)I smile as I slowly pull back but have the smile of I know what I just did to her and yeah... I took in her scent when I was close and she saw..felt heard me."
"I'll be around, like I said business owner and member of the community more or less."
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Date: 2024-06-11 11:06 pm (UTC)My temper snaps.
"You'll be around, but I won't. You've made that clear you don't want people in your life. And honestly, knowing you would have killed our children kind'a sours me to being near you right now," I hiss/snarl at him and just storm to the back door, kick the damned thing open and stalk out of the place.
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Date: 2024-06-11 11:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-11 11:15 pm (UTC)And it hurts... it fucking hurts because I had to go through all the shit of losing them alone and...
And I was an idiot to think he'd fucking care.
As much as I could just teleport myself back, I don't; I need the walk to cool off... or to find someone to get into a fight with so I can rip them apart...
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Date: 2024-06-12 06:41 pm (UTC)That went way more personal in her than it should have and that makes me frown and I look at Jason.
"Keep an eye on her but go check on Damian and Seriah...when Mark took their souls from that demon..."
"You think?"{
"How's our luck usually run."
"Fuck, okay be safe, lots of heavies out there having beefs, might be trying to flush us or someone else."