Date: 2009-02-26 04:48 am (UTC)
To:[de la Rocha, Manuel]
From: [Lennox, Morgan]

Blood relation doesn't make you family any more than Kurt and I both having blue skin makes us a different species or race. I've cared about Laurie longer than you've cared about your sister and it's invalid because we're not genetically related? That's why I am in Ireland making sure she's going to be okay on her own for this giant world travel thing she's doing and more or less begged LeBeau to okay me splitting and agreed to do massive amounts of work while I was here just so I could look after her, right? Because running around Ireland and the UK like mad working while juggling a civilian, more or less, is my idea of fun and I sign up for it for no reason, right? Just because I don't proclaim my attachments to people doesn't mean they don't exist.

You told me you intended to speak to every person who spends time with Valentia to keep her away from Laurie. I waited days and you didn't say anything to Laurie about it at all. There's no reason for me to think you didn't go and talk to people who are near your sister, though. Do you have any idea how hurt she was by the fact that you didn't trust her to keep her powers under wraps and assumed instead that she'd hurt a little girl? Maybe you got the annoyed and angry version from her but I didn't.

I didn't toss anything out the door. I'm so glad you make sweeping assumptions right after accusing me of the same. Hypocrite much? You and I were not going to have a calm, rational conversation about this topic so I was leaving it. I also moved out of the mansion, had a new job to work my ass to the bone, friends I was on good terms with to maintain and a new relationship to pay attention to. I haven't had loads of free time on my hands and we both needed time not dealing with each other to gain perspective and calm. I was going to go see you and talk to you once I was back from Ireland since the entire thing is a moot point with Laurie out of the country. But since you decided you wanted to have it out in an email here we are.

I didn't sever anything. How you handled things after the fact, or your lack of handling them to begin with, may have but it wasn't my doing. When you decided you didn't want Laurie near Valentia to stop powers-induced catastrophe Laurie should have been the first person you talked to about it. But you didn't. You talked to me and who knows who else and days later still hadn't spoken to Laurie. That was your choice. My choice was to inform her that you didn't want the two mixing because it was only fair for her to know that before the situation arose and so she didn't unknowingly go against your wishes.

As far as us, if you're going to hold my decision to tell her against me then that's your choice and right. Though keep in mind that the same thing that caused me to tell her is the same thing that causes me to defend you and would cause me to tell you if people were saying things about you to me that weren't getting back to you and weren't all puppies and rainbows. I am upfront and I am honest. Anyone I decide to give a damn about will know everything people tell me about them that isn't told in the strictest of confidences. This includes information or opinions that may hurt them but that they are better off knowing. It includes people being assholes and talking loads of shit about you behind your back. Because I believe in full disclosure and if people were skulking about whispering things about me into the ears of people who have decided to give a damn about me then I'd want them to tell me, too. That is why I told her. And that is why I would tell you if someone were saying things about you to me that they weren't telling you. Hold that against me if you will, but I'm not going to apologize for caring about people and trying to stop them from being more hurt when I could avoid it.

-Morgan
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