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Post by elizar on Jun 4, 2009 19:51:26 GMT -5
Christine blinked. She had heard several tales of people in not-quite-committed relationships sunder apart when one fell ill. The fact that Lewis was not going after his tail meant that he was more than halfway-decent. "Poor Lewis." She said. "Perhaps if he were to bring her here it could shame her for going after him, given that he's showing affections to a girlfriend that isn't even around him most of the time." She said.
Helen hung up and looked at the receiver for a moment. She hadn't told Lionel that the two were even a bigger headache. Of course they could accommodate them, but they wanted some perks that would set unreasonable precedent. They wanted to stay in their own rooms. But that way, it would even further endanger everyone if everyone got what they wanted. Better to set them in other rooms than theirs to minimize the spread.
She stood up and waited outside. One of them she would have convinced if she would get a one-on-one with them. It appeared their personalities profiles went with dominant/submissive. She sighed. If they were having a relationship, she would have to break it up. Get one of them away, it just didn't look like a healthy relationship, if they were having one. Perhaps they were meeting for real for the first time and their personalities just fit that way.
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 4, 2009 21:59:32 GMT -5
"That's exactly what Picard suggested." Amara laughed ruefully. "Though we don't quite know how to go about it without getting the girl's hopes up."
Lionel stepped into the front office. "Hey, Helen." He took a look over in the corner where the two in question were waiting. Such joy...
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Post by elizar on Jun 4, 2009 22:19:04 GMT -5
"Have him fly with someone else." Christine said. "Make sure that this is a social flight, not a personal travel. If she and Lewis share someone they know better than each other, it would give enough excuse for her to follow."
"Come with me." Helen said and stepped out with Lionel in tow, going out of earshot of the two.
"Their names are Samuel Hilton and Rodger Christ." She said. "Sam's the redhead. If I were to separate them, I could convince Sam that the ranch's a better idea. But Rodger is not a great influence on him. I don't know if they're together together, but the behavior is classic dominant/submissive combo, just a bit subtle.
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 4, 2009 23:17:56 GMT -5
"Well, I can do that." Amara said. "I know her sorta well. Her name is Megan, she's an L-1011 mix."
"Oh, brother." Lionel slowly scratched the back of his neck, fingers clenching and unclenching. "This is definitely gonna take some work. Maybe we can convince them that the ranch would be the better place for now?"
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Post by elizar on Jun 5, 2009 7:45:40 GMT -5
Christine nodded. "The hardest part for me is to show open affection." She said. "I know it sounds silly to a married person, but you already know that some things are difficult for me." She sighed. "And open affection is probably the only thing that could get across her."
"You may think that a horse or a cow killed Rodger's mother or father or something." Helen took a deep breath. "He doesn't like animals. I looked up his background. He grew up more technologically advanced than most. His family was into energy restoration. That made him good candiate here, but because of his status back home, he has a large ego to go with it."
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 5, 2009 17:51:12 GMT -5
"Well, this might be yours and Lewis' chance to see if it's really for real." Amara smiled. "You never know what might happen."
"Oh, I've already dealt with him." Lionel rolled his eyes. "Thinks his *ss is ice cream and everyone wants a bite. I've had to talk with him two times already. Here, he's nobody special among this class."
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Post by elizar on Jun 5, 2009 18:16:44 GMT -5
Christine felt smaller than Amara with those words, and that was quite a feat. "If I turn him down, all I've been doing since the crash was to yank his chain and teasing him."
"Not quite." Helen said. "He's good, even better than you when we were starting out. And it doesn't have anything to do with his youth. But I have the feeling he knows the answers to the psychology tests, so we can't boot him out both due to his accomplishments and to his apparent good balanced mental health."
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 5, 2009 21:08:00 GMT -5
"Well, I think he knows better than to push it." Amara backed up a bit, realizing that Christine was still a bit fragile emotionally. "I know it's hard to relax in this position, literal or not, but you have to give yourself a chance."
Lionel glanced back. "Just the same, it's his attitude that needs adjusting. He can't keep on with that in a team environment."
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Post by elizar on Jun 6, 2009 10:17:52 GMT -5
"I know." Christine sighed in defeat. "I would ask you how you handled it, but given your history -" She paused. It was perhaps not for the best to continue that train of thought.
"So, should we take them separately or you do them both?" Helen asked Lionel.
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 6, 2009 14:11:15 GMT -5
Amara shrugged. "I'm trying to put as much of that behind us as possible, for the kids' sake."
Lionel raised his shoulders in a limbering-up motion, as if preparing for work. "We might try it separately, at first. I wanna see if I can crack some sense into that hardhead."
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Post by elizar on Jun 6, 2009 14:42:03 GMT -5
Christine was relieved that Amara was not that sensitive, though she knew that she was far from it. "Yeah." She said. "Good thing for the agreement that you won't talk trash about the other when the kids are around."
"Alright." Helen said and headed in.
"So, you need some backup to argue a pointless point?" Rodger said.
"Lionel is second to me in the crew when it comes to medicene." Helen said. "We have to know each other's job in case something comes up. So yeah, he's the backup, but the better one. Samuel, come with me, I'll leave you two here." She said. Samuel stood up and followed Helen to her office while Lionel and Rodger were left in the examination room.
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 7, 2009 18:11:17 GMT -5
"I hope he keeps to it as well, though I can never be 100% sure that he will." Amara looked out towards the marshes, observing the herons feeding. Airplanes and birds didn't always coexist easily, but this was a species that she liked.
Lionel rocked back on his heels a bit as he regarded the young man. "Well Rodger, it seems we have some matters to discuss."
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Post by elizar on Jun 7, 2009 18:37:43 GMT -5
"I'm pretty sure you would notice." Christine said. "Either the kids would start to shy away from you, or they tell you what he has told them. Depends on where their loyalties lie."
"There is nothing much to it." Rodger leaned back relaxed and smiled slightly. "I'm asymptomatic, aside from coughs in the morning. I'm not going to dispute that test."
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 7, 2009 19:31:02 GMT -5
"I don't want them to feel like they have to pick one OR the other." Amara said. "I want them to have the best life possible."
"You have to consider, though, that Pilar's situation doesn't really allow her to move off the base, for certain good reasons. You don't have that kind of baggage to deal with." Lionel said. "You may not care for animals at all, but no one said you had to get close to them at the ranch."
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Post by elizar on Jun 7, 2009 20:00:47 GMT -5
Christine shrank a bit. "I can't really say I know the situation to be able to comment on it." She said. "Given my background and my current dating status. But understand, that from what I've seen and heard, kids will always favor one parent over the other. But it isn't absolute choice. One may rather go to the mother for the 'I love you' moments while dad is the one who helps with the homework without making a fuzz out of couple of Bs.
"And then again, I'm not speaking from experience."
"I had a dog, one of those sandy tan mutts. Loved him to bits." Rodger said. "A part of the problem is the animals that outweighs you." He shrugged. "The other problem is the non-ranch part of the ranch. I mind being poked and prodded in the name of science, which would happen when going into quarantine. They already have a nice number of people ready for that."
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