[the muses within] "10.6 - Ten moments you wouldn't mind reliving."
1.
My first kiss when I was seven. Natalie Leroux and I were playing house, I didn’t really want to, but I had made her cry earlier in the day and wanted to make up for it. Anyway, we were playing and she pushed me against the wall and kissed me, and then giggled, saying that she did it because that’s what the Mommies and Daddies did on the movies that her sisters watched. Being seven I was absolutely horrified at the time, but thinking back on it, it was a nice first kiss.
2.
The first time I saw an episode of Star Trek. I think I was about nine or ten at the time. I couldn’t sleep, so I snuck out of bed and into the living room and turned on the TV. I had to keep it on low so Mom wouldn’t wake up, so I had to sit about a foot from the TV on a cushion. It was ‘Mirror, Mirror’, and after it was done, it was as though my life had found its purpose.
3.
Getting caught for kissing Natalie (same one as above) behind the school my Father Moretti and Sister Francesca. Of course at the time I was absolutely horrified and wanted to sink into a hole and die as we got pulled along to be spoken to in private, but what Father Moretti said to me then was not what I expected at all. I was expecting to get yelled at, but he simply patted me on the shoulder and winked, and told me to keep it off school grounds. And then, though at the time I didn’t understand why, Sister Francesca was struggling not to giggle when she saw me. I’m still not completely sure why they reacted the way they did, but they had always taken such care of me, I think it had something to do with the fact that I’d always been awkward and never really had friends or anything. They were pleased I was doing something somewhat normal.
4.
Meeting Benjamin Michael Hines. It was almost Christmas of our senior year. He had just moved to New York and started school. In the morning we were shoved into lockers next to each other. I didn’t say anything to him then, but we looked at each other. Later during lunch he came over and sat next to me and talked almost nonstop for the entire break, and then did the next the following day, and the day after that, and so on until I started talking to him too, and we’ve been best friends ever since.
5.
[Locked] The trip to Ben’s uncle’s cabin the following summer. It was something I never thought I would do, ever, but I would relive it anytime.[/locked]
6.
Graduation. I think it was the one time in my life that my Mom has said that she was proud of me.
7.
[Locked] The feeling I felt right after I had killed and taken Brian Davis’ ability. Right before the guilt hit me like a sack of bricks. The feeling of pure power, and that I held it all…it was amazing. [/locked]
8.
First time I restored a clock. I hadn’t ever had any formal training, but I sat down trying to fix one that had been broken for a few years. I was just sitting there poking around in it, not really knowing what I was doing or anything, but I just fixed and poked what felt right, and suddenly it all just clicked together and started running again.
9.
Seeing Star Trek XI. It had been so long since I was truly excited about something like that, so going to see it, and it being so much more than I could have ever imagined it to be, it was amazing. It still is. And getting to go at midnight, in costume and all, it was just so much fun. I couldn’t sleep at all when I got home and ended up putting on ‘The Voyage Home’ and watching that.
10.
The day Chandra Suresh came to see me. No matter how the outcome turned out to be, that day was one that fulfilled all my dreams. He came in and told me that I was special. That I might be able to do something that would make me different from everyone else. That would make me special, make me better than I was, and even though it didn’t turn out like I had dreamed, that day was still a dream come true.
My first kiss when I was seven. Natalie Leroux and I were playing house, I didn’t really want to, but I had made her cry earlier in the day and wanted to make up for it. Anyway, we were playing and she pushed me against the wall and kissed me, and then giggled, saying that she did it because that’s what the Mommies and Daddies did on the movies that her sisters watched. Being seven I was absolutely horrified at the time, but thinking back on it, it was a nice first kiss.
2.
The first time I saw an episode of Star Trek. I think I was about nine or ten at the time. I couldn’t sleep, so I snuck out of bed and into the living room and turned on the TV. I had to keep it on low so Mom wouldn’t wake up, so I had to sit about a foot from the TV on a cushion. It was ‘Mirror, Mirror’, and after it was done, it was as though my life had found its purpose.
3.
Getting caught for kissing Natalie (same one as above) behind the school my Father Moretti and Sister Francesca. Of course at the time I was absolutely horrified and wanted to sink into a hole and die as we got pulled along to be spoken to in private, but what Father Moretti said to me then was not what I expected at all. I was expecting to get yelled at, but he simply patted me on the shoulder and winked, and told me to keep it off school grounds. And then, though at the time I didn’t understand why, Sister Francesca was struggling not to giggle when she saw me. I’m still not completely sure why they reacted the way they did, but they had always taken such care of me, I think it had something to do with the fact that I’d always been awkward and never really had friends or anything. They were pleased I was doing something somewhat normal.
4.
Meeting Benjamin Michael Hines. It was almost Christmas of our senior year. He had just moved to New York and started school. In the morning we were shoved into lockers next to each other. I didn’t say anything to him then, but we looked at each other. Later during lunch he came over and sat next to me and talked almost nonstop for the entire break, and then did the next the following day, and the day after that, and so on until I started talking to him too, and we’ve been best friends ever since.
5.
[Locked] The trip to Ben’s uncle’s cabin the following summer. It was something I never thought I would do, ever, but I would relive it anytime.[/locked]
6.
Graduation. I think it was the one time in my life that my Mom has said that she was proud of me.
7.
[Locked] The feeling I felt right after I had killed and taken Brian Davis’ ability. Right before the guilt hit me like a sack of bricks. The feeling of pure power, and that I held it all…it was amazing. [/locked]
8.
First time I restored a clock. I hadn’t ever had any formal training, but I sat down trying to fix one that had been broken for a few years. I was just sitting there poking around in it, not really knowing what I was doing or anything, but I just fixed and poked what felt right, and suddenly it all just clicked together and started running again.
9.
Seeing Star Trek XI. It had been so long since I was truly excited about something like that, so going to see it, and it being so much more than I could have ever imagined it to be, it was amazing. It still is. And getting to go at midnight, in costume and all, it was just so much fun. I couldn’t sleep at all when I got home and ended up putting on ‘The Voyage Home’ and watching that.
10.
The day Chandra Suresh came to see me. No matter how the outcome turned out to be, that day was one that fulfilled all my dreams. He came in and told me that I was special. That I might be able to do something that would make me different from everyone else. That would make me special, make me better than I was, and even though it didn’t turn out like I had dreamed, that day was still a dream come true.