Grandparents. They were more than happy to take her in after we explained the situation. All they had left of their daughter after the wife murdered her.
[And she means that strongly: personal feelings (or lack thereof) on children aside, protecting kids is still one of her core values. They may be annoying, but they're the ultimate defenseless innocents.]
[ They haven't talked about the future. John did say he doesn't want to know, which isn't entirely true because he has one burning question, but he hasn't found the right time or the courage to ask. ]
[ He's torn between wanting to hear her out and not wanting to know more. It must be lonely to have all these things she can't really share with him. Or, at least isolating. He's always hesitant to assign what he might feel to her, it feels... disrespectful. But after some hesitation he decides to give her this opportunity. Not shut her down. It still feels rare to him that Shaw would want to talk about anything with him and here they've had a whole conversation. ]
[No matter how he means it, it's easy to read it as a conversation-ender - mostly because it's where she would have ended the conversation herself under ordinary circumstances, even with the Reese of her own timeline. There's nothing she can tell him that will help him or her, so what's the point? Talking for talking's sake isn't something that either of them do.
But something in her doesn't want to just leave it, not while he's still responding. She doesn't really know what lonely feels like, but she knows isolation well. Usually, it's a neutral thing; a state of being with both benefits and detriments. Today, it drives her to pull the HUD back up after about fifteen minutes of nonresponsiveness.]
I got to be pretty good friends with Bear by 2015. But I was gone for a while, so I didn't get to see him. I'm thinking I can make up for lost time and borrow him a couple nights a week, if he's not on active guard duty.
[She'll fight John for shared custody, but she won't fight Harold. Next to a gun, he's the best protection that Harold's got, and if danger is afoot, then he gets priority.]
[ John was fairly confident she wasn't going to reply when his earpiece notifies him of a message. He's a bit surprised by the message he has gotten, but he understands what Shaw means by "guard duty." It makes him feel... good that she respects Bear's place is with Harold. And that she respects John as the handler of Harold's safety. ]
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etraya
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did you have to change diapers?
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but I wish I'd been around to see that.
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noooo my html
we all fall to the html gods some day
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and then i hit enter too early
[And she means that strongly: personal feelings (or lack thereof) on children aside, protecting kids is still one of her core values. They may be annoying, but they're the ultimate defenseless innocents.]
I used to check up on Genrika Zhirova sometimes.
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Her number would come up if she was in trouble.
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Small mercies.
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But something in her doesn't want to just leave it, not while he's still responding. She doesn't really know what lonely feels like, but she knows isolation well. Usually, it's a neutral thing; a state of being with both benefits and detriments. Today, it drives her to pull the HUD back up after about fifteen minutes of nonresponsiveness.]
I got to be pretty good friends with Bear by 2015. But I was gone for a while, so I didn't get to see him. I'm thinking I can make up for lost time and borrow him a couple nights a week, if he's not on active guard duty.
[She'll fight John for shared custody, but she won't fight Harold. Next to a gun, he's the best protection that Harold's got, and if danger is afoot, then he gets priority.]
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Should be fine. We moved here for the security.
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[In other words, her quarters look like a dog lives there already.]
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Just ask Finch whenever you want him.