A letter never sent-
Meredith-
How dare you! How dare you go and get yourself captured and leave me here to worry? How dare you, worse still, get captured as a WOMAN?! You, of all people, a woman! I was worried enough about you as a man, sure that they had you in some lab somewhere slaving day and night for some evil warlord, exposed to radiation and God knows what, maybe tortured for information, but THIS! This gives me the kind of nightmares I NEVER wanted to have about you. You don't have the slightest idea how to protect yourself as a woman, do you? You don't know how to keep yourself from being noticed, how to make yourself unattractive so that you don't draw the wrong kind of attention. Heck, you probably don't even realize that men are simultaneously turned on and aggravated when a woman is smarter than them. That's a BAD combination, Mer. And you won't know enough to keep your head down, will you? In fact, you'll probably rely on your 'smarts' to get you out of this jam you got yourself in. And that's the worst thing you can do. And now, now I have this image of you in my head, terrified, and the things being done to you… It makes me want to scrub my brain, okay?! That's how bad it is. And here I sit, unable to do anything but worry. Why did you have to go? Why did you have to get caught? Are you okay?
Love always,
Jeanie