My Pa

Shadowstalker · Post by **Shadowstalker** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:10 am

Shut up Belladrox, before someone decides you are worth the effort to remove from Konrad, and then destroyed.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:48 am

Or they weigh the balance and skip a step.

Logos, I've spent more or less the last 3 months doing that.

While I did, people died.

People I might have been able to save.

I can't sit around any longer.

Logos · Post by **Logos** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:47 pm

well then, we need to find someone who can protect Hannah while you're out saving the day. She's a tough girl, but she's still a kid. Ron, the thing is, you can't be everywhere, and you can't do everything. You've got a conflict, Ron, and until you've fixed this conflict, a child will suffer. I can respect your sense of duty, but your priorities are all screwed up. A misdirected sense of duty can be worse than being blind. Ron, I'm no psychiatrist, but I think YOU'RE the one twisting the knife, worsening your daughter's emotional state.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:05 pm

GhostSpider wrote:Summer Solstice. Damn, almost forgot about that one.

I have not little mortal. I have not. :twisted:

Hey, yeah, that's a great idea! I could use the energies from that day to get rid of your headache, Konrad!

What'cha think?

GhostSpider · Post by **GhostSpider** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:28 pm

Unfortunately, my little headache is here to stay for awhile. I need certain objects to remove him, and they unfortunately are not easy to find. However, that's why I'm in Italy. I know of a great library nearby, and I was hoping I could check out a few books. I appreciate the offer though. However, maybe we can discuss some form or way of shutting him the hell up.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:32 pm

That may be do-able... Fire me a PM. Tell me what's going on. I'd need to know what kind of entity he is, exactly... Need to know what makes him tick, and what kinds of items you'd need for him to be surgically removed. If I know that, I can learn a great deal about him from there, and sealing him away could then possibly be achieved...

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:20 pm

Logos, I know I probably ride the bottom edge of what may be considered a fit parent.

I also know that the alternative for her is far worse than what I am doing.

As for her continued contact with the Society - for now, eveyrone she knows in the outside world is a part of the Society - so cutting her off from that would be a far crueller fate. Hopefully, when I can get her into school this fall, she'll start to make more normalized friends.

As for proctecting her, I'm doing that the best way I know how - taking the fight to the other guy first.

GhostSpider · Post by **GhostSpider** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:39 pm

So what are you going to do for career day Ron? It's not llke hunting supnats is a normal career.

Hannah · Post by **Hannah** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:31 am

Hi Everyone,

I suppose I should explain the thing about the cup.

I knocked it off the table when I was clearin' the dishes. It broke and threw glass everywhere.

I tried ta clean it up fast before Pa found out, but he's got good ears and was there before I finsihed cleanin' up the mess.

"Are you alright?"

I nodded and tried to look as small as I could.

"What happened?"

I flinched, knowing what would happen when I told. "I knocked the cup off the table, I'm a stupid and clumsy girl and need to be punished."

Pa looked me up and down, I waited for what would come next.

"Did you mean to knock it off the table?"

"No."

"Then it was an accident. Be more careful next time and make sure not to cut yourself cleaning up the broken glass."

I was too shocked for words. He didn't scream and yell, he didn't beat me or lock me in the closet, he didn't tell me that the Lord hates disobedient children . . . he didn't do any of the stuff other Pa did.

All I could do was just run ta hug him and cry.

My Pa is the best father in the world, even if he does hafta go away on buisness a lot he still cares for me and treats me with respect and lets me be myself.

Hannah

PS: We had a great father's daya t the Zoo too.

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:38 am

That's great Hannah

Ron, you go about it the best way you can. So long as you don't mind a pointed question now and again from her concerned Aunts and Uncles :wink:

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:13 pm

GhostSpider wrote:So what are you going to do for career day Ron? It's not llke hunting supnats is a normal career.

I do own and operate a store.

Thomas Sheldon · Post by **Thomas Sheldon** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:18 pm

Your a lucky man, kiddo, real lucky. Sounds like you done a bang up job so far too.

concrete_Angel · Post by **concrete_Angel** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:15 am

Hannah, you don't even know how great you have it. The rest of you, forget it.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:39 am

I got the same sort of treatment growing up as she did and I know how messed up I was when I started having to make decisions for myeslf . . . can't do the same thing to her.

Can't hurt any child.

Hannah · Post by **Hannah** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:00 am

concrete_Angel wrote:Hannah, you don't even know how great you have it. The rest of you, forget it.

Hi Concrete Angel

Yes I know exactly how great I got it now.

I spent 13 years without my real Pa. I didn't even know he was my real Pa until this year.

I lived in a place where I had ta be scared of any grown up . . . well not my Ma, she was wonderful . . . the whole compound was in charge of raising all the children, and htey all beleived in the same approach. So it wouldn't have mattered if it had been my uncle or my cousin, they all woulda done the same thing.

But Pa . . . he trusts me and he lets me be me and all these other wodnerful things that never happened before.

I spend a lot fo time crying because it makes me so happy.

Hannah

PS: I miss my family in the compound - but I don't want to go back, ever.

Thomas Sheldon · Post by **Thomas Sheldon** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:15 pm

Don't know what to call that feelin you got there little one, but don't lose it. Reminds of why some of the things I have done were worthwhile.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:50 pm

Thomas Sheldon wrote:Don't know what to call that feelin you got there little one, but don't lose it. Reminds of why some of the things I have done were worthwhile.

Heh, it's called "love" and "joy"... One of the many varied levels of combinations of the two, mixed into one.

I can say that I relate to that exact same emotion, though I'm not sure whether or not I can relate to the level of intensity she's experiencing...

Hannah, Thomas is right. Don't ever lose that feeling.

GhostSpider · Post by **GhostSpider** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:12 am

I can't remember when I last truly felt that way.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:45 am

She has ways of totally tripping me up sometimes.

I'll come home and she's made a card for me or has dinner ready to go and I have to pend some time reminding myselfthat I'm awake.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:07 am

Hehe, I totally know how that feels... Lex called me up at work a few weeks ago to tell me that Julian had used the bars of his crib to pull himself up into a standing position. ^_^

Of course, after that, we had to lower the level of his mattress so he couldn't go toppling over the side... Fortunately, thanks to the hyperactive puppy of doom, we'd already invested in baby gates, and one is currently blocking him from leaving his room.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:15 pm

Evil hyperactive puppies of doom . . . Where's my shotgun.

Just Kidding!

It's always in reach.

concrete_Angel · Post by **concrete_Angel** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:11 pm

That sounds like some progressive rock band.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:20 pm

*chuckles* Despite everything we fight against, puppies and babies are still the two most destructive forces known to man...and I have one of each in my home. Gods help us all. XD

Prof. Rosecrest · Post by **Prof. Rosecrest** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:59 pm

Could be worse. You could have a triple play going and have a Kitten as well. :twisted:

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:00 pm

Prof. Rosecrest wrote:Could be worse. You could have a triple play going and have a Kitten as well. :twisted:

Oh, rub it in whydontcha... ^^; I want a cat, but no, my brother-in-law and my mother are both allergic...so I have to wait until we have a bigger house, and the cat can have a part of the house all to itself, and my allergic relatives don't have to get exposed when they visit...

Shadowstalker · Post by **Shadowstalker** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:15 pm

Hmm maybe we can find one of Mr. Fluffer's Progeny for you when the time comes. :lol:

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:24 pm

Just look for the little kittens that are ugly as sin.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:38 pm

Hey, he was probably a handsome cat, once . . . he just comes froma rough neighbourhood.

Logos · Post by **Logos** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:03 am

way to make me feel like the evil interloper here, Hannah... Just joking, and maybe I was getting into business that wasn't my own. Ron, I'm sure you're doing a great job, sorry that I got in your way, I'm sure I'll understand if I was a parent, yadda yadda.. . . It's clear that no one thinks that exposure to this stuff is unhealthy for children, so I'll just leave it alone for now.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:33 am

Do I want her exposed to this stuff? No.

Is thre anybody in the outside world Hannah knows who isn't involved with these boards in some way shape or form? Not really.

Am I a good parent? I don't know, but I'll do my best to be better than what I took her from.