E-Mails to Sarah, Alison

[x-shinobi.livejournal.com]

To: [mine]
From: [yours]
Subject: Want company?

I have movies, I have chocolate, and I have me. If you want any combination of the above, just let me know.

Love,
-yours.




To: [ali]
From: [shinobi]
Subject: Support.

Ali,

I'm going to take a wild leap of logic, here, and guess that it was by your request that Sarah's company with the boys be restricted. Is this what you had in mind when you asked that I support you in whatever choices you make for Miles' future? Mind you, I can understand why it's necessary - believe me, I can - so I'm not angry or overly upset about it. I do have one itsy, bitsy suggestion, though I know it isn't likely to go horribly well.

Talk to her about it? At least an e-mail? Explain to her, as calmly and as nicely as you can, why you feel like the boys' visits with her need to be supervised? Don't try to come off like a teacher, or even a mother. I don't know if that would go over very well, with her. Just explain it - Sarah's killed people, and gotten killed herself, so people (I don't know how many) are more comfortable if someone's there to keep an eye on things. At least for now. Assuming it's temporary.. is this temporary? Or, wait - depends on Sarah, right?

If you don't want to do it, I can try - I have the added bonus of near-invulnerability on my side, at least physically, and have a better chance of getting back on her good side if things go south. I think.

If it does go south, however, and I can't get back on her good side, you owe me a drink, legal drinkng age be damned. I'll fly us to Europe so it'll be legal, if I have to.

Bloody hell. My head hurts.

-Shinobi

Comments

[x-marrow.livejournal.com]

to: [pretty one]
from: [the monster in the basement]
subject: RE: Want company?

I'm locking myself in the boiler room. At least I can do that without adult fucking supervision.

[x-shinobi.livejournal.com]

To: [mine]
From: [yours]
Subject: Re: Want company?

Is that a no for company? I think I technically count as adult supervision. Bloody birthdays.

If you don't want company, though.. you want me to watch Oscar, or would you like him with you?

-yours.

[x-marrow.livejournal.com]

to: [pretty-mine]
from: [the monster in the basement]
subject: Re: Want company?

Are you sure I can handle being around Oscar? What about you? Hell, since it seems to be the thing to do, let's question whether Sarah's capable of being around anything she cares about.

[x-shinobi.livejournal.com]

To: [mine]
From: [yours]
Subject: Re: Want company?

I was thinking of your bones, love, nothing more. When you're upset, you tend to armor up, and it can be rather sharp. I know you'd never hurt the puppy purposefully.

I'm just trying to offer space, if you want it, or company, if you want it. I'm kind of at a loss.

[x-marrow.livejournal.com]

to: [pretty-mine]
from: [the monster in the basement]
subject: Re: Want company?

That's probably best. Don't think I'm fit for company right now...

[x-shinobi.livejournal.com]

To: [mine]
From: [yours]
Subject: Re: Want company?

If you're absolutely sure, Sarah.. if you decide you want company, whether you're fit for it or not, you know how to get ahold of me. Okay?

I'll bring you breakfast in the morning..?

Love you.

-yours.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

To: Shinobi, Shaw
From: Blaire, Alison
Subject: Re: Support

Shinobi,

What leap of logic is there to make? Of course it was me. I made the request on Miles' behalf, being his legal guardian. The Professor made the decision regarding Artie, as the school is Artie's legal guardian.

I had in mind a lot more than that when I asked you to make that promise, Shinobi. But that would be part of it, yes. I wasn't certain what I'd do then, but I knew I was going to do something. I'm not sure my emailing Sarah now would be of any good - more like fuel to the fire if anything else. And your point is actually one you may want to consider strongly. Because yes, it does depend on Sarah. Everything does, really - and I'm talking about a lot more than just the boys.

If she actually wants to know, she can easily email or ask me in person. That's part of the "up to Sarah" stuff.

If you want to try, that is entirely your decision. But it might be a step in the not being blind about her, Shinobi.

I'll be here if you need to talk, or rant. Fair's fair, after all.

~ Alison

Re: Support

[x-shinobi.livejournal.com]

Ali,

It was a very dryly-phrased leap of logic. Text just makes it hard to tell - if I didn't feel silly every time I used an emoticon, it would probably help. Heh.

E-mailing her right this second likely wouldn't help, no. She's locked herself in the boiler room and changed the e-mail alias she uses with me to 'monster in the basement', so now is definitely not the best time for it. Receptive is not a word I would use to describe her right now.

But, she can only e-mail or ask you about it if she knows you're the person she needs to ask, and if she knows she's the one who needs to do the approaching. I know she's aware that you're Miles' legal guardian, but (and I love her to death to pieces like crazy a lot, but) thinking clearly when she's upset has never been one of her strengths. Out of curiousity.. how long ago was this arrangement made?

Someone needs to talk to her. Whether it's me, you, Charles, or somebody I haven't yet thought of. This is Sarah we're talking about, here. I don't think she's going to approach you or the staff on this one. She doesn't exactly have a shining track record when it comes to her relationship with the faculty, if I'm not mistaken.

Remind me which point I want to consider? I'm brain-fried enough tonight that I'm missing my own bloody points, and that's.. just kind of depressing. What are you talking to, in addition to the boys? Or is it a no-brainer, like her status with the school, and (at a guess) New York law enforcement?

I'm not blind anymore. Visually impaired, yes, but not blind. I'm just not sure this is something even I can discuss with her without being string up by various bits of me that belong on the inside, not the outside. Family is Sarah's reason for existing, and I think that in her eyes, she feels like the last family she's ever had has just been taken away.

Talking.. talking might be good. I don't know if I have the energy for ranting, though. Definitely some animated babbling, likely very disjointed in nature. Maybe I'll be up for something more coherent after I sleep.. but, at any rate, thank you for the offer. Once my head is slightly less rattled, I'll likely take you up on it.

-Shinobi