QM 30 - "If someone loved you very much..."
30 - "If someone loved you very much, so that your happiness was the only thing that [they] wanted in the world, but [they] did a bad thing to make certain of it, could you forgive [them]?" - 'Casablanca'
She lied to me.
Man, not only did she lie to me, but she lied to me about being pregnant. I mean, shipmates and maybe even "just friends", I could sorta understand keeping your mouth shut about something like that for a while, but we were in love! It was me, and it was Aeryn, and then it was the rest of the frelling universe, and that's the way we both liked it.
Me and her, her and me. Bonnie and Clyde. Fred and Ginger. Burns and Allen. Tighter than two peas in a transport pod. And she lied to me.
Yeah, she had her reasons, I know. In what'll probably be my usual failed attempt to make a long story short, it all had to do with biology. And no, I'm not talking about the biology of how a baby woulda gotten made in the first place-- I learned plenty about that kind of biology from Karen Shaw in the back of my pickup truck when I was sixteen. I got that part covered, don't you worry.
(And yeah, yeah, I know now that it wasn't Karen Shaw, it was actually Chiana who traveled back in time, but that's not important.)
See, for those not following along at home, while me and Aeryn may look like we land right on the same branch of the DNA tree, that's not quite true. I'm human, of the Earth variety, American class. Aeryn Sun, however, is a Sebacean, and there's a hundred million ways in which those two species are exactly the same, but there's a couple of pretty important differences.
One of those is that the gestation period for Sebaceans can last anywhere from one to seven cycles. Now, don't go squirrelly on me, ladies, at the prospect of spending seven years preggers-- 90% or more of that time, the fetus is completely dormant, and a lot of times, the female isn't even aware that she's carrying. Once the dormancy period is over, though, it's a matter of, like, days before the blessed event.
Anyway, I'm getting off topic (told you).
Aeryn found out she had a bun in the oven. However, given the possible spread of when she could've gotten knocked up, Mama Crichton's blue-eyed boy might not actually have been the father. So, to spare my feelings in case that turned out to, uh, be the case, Aeryn lied. She didn't say a word until I had to find out for myself.
Everything turned out okay. Little D'Argo Sun Crichton is the universe's first half-Sebacean/half-Human, and a bundle of joy.
I forgave her, and we're about as close to a white picket fence as you can get on a Leviathan. But that don't mean it didn't smart.
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She lied to me.
Man, not only did she lie to me, but she lied to me about being pregnant. I mean, shipmates and maybe even "just friends", I could sorta understand keeping your mouth shut about something like that for a while, but we were in love! It was me, and it was Aeryn, and then it was the rest of the frelling universe, and that's the way we both liked it.
Me and her, her and me. Bonnie and Clyde. Fred and Ginger. Burns and Allen. Tighter than two peas in a transport pod. And she lied to me.
Yeah, she had her reasons, I know. In what'll probably be my usual failed attempt to make a long story short, it all had to do with biology. And no, I'm not talking about the biology of how a baby woulda gotten made in the first place-- I learned plenty about that kind of biology from Karen Shaw in the back of my pickup truck when I was sixteen. I got that part covered, don't you worry.
(And yeah, yeah, I know now that it wasn't Karen Shaw, it was actually Chiana who traveled back in time, but that's not important.)
See, for those not following along at home, while me and Aeryn may look like we land right on the same branch of the DNA tree, that's not quite true. I'm human, of the Earth variety, American class. Aeryn Sun, however, is a Sebacean, and there's a hundred million ways in which those two species are exactly the same, but there's a couple of pretty important differences.
One of those is that the gestation period for Sebaceans can last anywhere from one to seven cycles. Now, don't go squirrelly on me, ladies, at the prospect of spending seven years preggers-- 90% or more of that time, the fetus is completely dormant, and a lot of times, the female isn't even aware that she's carrying. Once the dormancy period is over, though, it's a matter of, like, days before the blessed event.
Anyway, I'm getting off topic (told you).
Aeryn found out she had a bun in the oven. However, given the possible spread of when she could've gotten knocked up, Mama Crichton's blue-eyed boy might not actually have been the father. So, to spare my feelings in case that turned out to, uh, be the case, Aeryn lied. She didn't say a word until I had to find out for myself.
Everything turned out okay. Little D'Argo Sun Crichton is the universe's first half-Sebacean/half-Human, and a bundle of joy.
I forgave her, and we're about as close to a white picket fence as you can get on a Leviathan. But that don't mean it didn't smart.
(463)