Thank you to everybody who read or reviewed the last conversation. You're all absolutely fabulous. We're skipping a day because as we get farther and farther from Earth and major communications have these messages are going to take longer and longer to be received. Also, it means that I'm not going to have to write well over 1000 chapters. Although I bet some of you want me to do a 1000 chapter plus story. If you do please review.
Day 16: Kevin Kirk has No Patience.
From: Kevin KR
To: Spock's_cuddlebunny
Time arrived: 3/5/2260 00:00:01
Subject: Re: Tell your girlfriend and Sue thank you.
Okay, either we are still at code chocolate sprinkles or you're getting farther away and they're holding the emails for a little while and delivering everything to Earth at the same time as evidenced by the fact that Liz's sister got her email at the exact same time I got mine. I want to go with the latter, because poking around didn't yield anything new. Okay, it yielded some things that I am not at liberty to say, in case this communication is still being monitored. Let's just say that the dorm gossip problem has calmed down due to the wrath of Barnett.
Sue's mom didn't tell her anything. Ben told Sue that it took him two days to hear from his boyfriend, even though Sue knows that her baby's daddy sent the letters at the same time. At that point she was 99% sure somebody with screening the letters. That's when she had one of her friends take a look and they found something. That's apparently why I was told to tell you about chocolate sprinkles. We neglected to tell her about my computer skills, which is why she got outside help.
I'm not sure who was listening in, but my gut says your Admiral Rodriguez. She used to be friends with Nyota's mom, but they had a falling out. I don't know what happened, but apparently it's gotten worse in recent weeks. Sue has all the good gossip and she's not sharing.
Okay, it's also could be Nyota's mom. Apparently, she writes her mom even less often then you write mom if such a thing was possible.
I know it's hard for you to write to mom, but do try. I think it will go better this time around, if you talk to her every once in a while. You know she's scared about you dying like your dad. The fact that you almost died last year is not doing you any favors. It has been eight months. Liz's niece has only been alive slightly longer than your death.
So, I think it would put mom's mind at ease if you wrote to her.
Yes, I will write to Josephine. Liz wrote her last week, but we haven't received a reply. Of course, this is probably because the email system is severely screwed up. I'm just going to assume that is what happened.
Is she okay with you still calling her Jo Jo? I know she really wants people to use her new name. I think she's trying to, I don't know, forget about what happened to her in the new name as part of that process. Losing a parent is hard. But at least I had somebody to blame.
Talk to you later, big brother. It's too early to be this emotional and retrospective.
From: Kevin KR
To: kitten_loverJJMU
Time arrived: 3/5/2260 00:00:01
Subject: How are you?
Hey Josephine, how are you doing?
Liz wrote you last week, but we haven't heard back. She assumes classes are just that awful and you don't want to talk about it. I assume that your response probably got lost in the email. Who knows. It's weird. It's never a good sign when emails are showing up in my inbox at least a whole day after they've been written.
So what's been going on with you? Done anything cool yet? Feel free to torture my brother by whatever means necessary. I'm not there so you must do it in my stead. You know, make sure he does something other than work and make out with his husband. It's healthier that way.
From: Kevin KR
To: Spock's_cuddlebunny
Time arrived: 3/5/2260 00:00:01
Subject: Re: Tell your girlfriend and Sue thank you.
Okay, the email system is wonky on your ship.
Mom just called to tell me that you actually wrote her. Which is nice. She's really excited. And happy, especially because you just didn't send her song lyrics that time. I mean really you thought you were gonna die and you just send her song lyrics. Good song lyrics, but still just song lyrics. That may not have been the best thing. Now she's trying to figure out what to say to you, which is always problematic. She's coming over for dinner tomorrow. Just because the gossip is calming down, doesn't mean it's gone. Actually I don't think Liz is ever moving back because Sue needs all the help she can get now that she is firmly a single parent.
From: Mommy_Susan
To: SuluHG2260
Time arrived: 3/5/2260 00:00:01
Subject: RE: Sorry I haven't written you lately
Hey sweetie, joint email from me and your boyfriend. We are drinking coffee together as we ignore the other mom's in playgroup. They're stuck up little bitches with their perfect husbands' and their disdain for military service. Like it was our fault that Marcus was secretly building his ship for war because he was off his rocker. Sorry. The guy was a bastard. And so was the other guy and well, if it wasn't for me going into labor early, we would all be so fucked right now. I'm laughing uncontrollably over your moment of total insecurity. Seriously Ben loves you so much. There's one other gay dad in our group who keeps trying to ask your boyfriend for coffee and he doesn't even look at him. It's adorable.
I gave Ben your old username. Good thing you got better at having sex than writing about it. He totally finds it adorable. Total keeper that one. Like seriously, I'm so mad he's gay and not a little flexible like you. We could have had the best poly relationship ever.
I would ask your oldest sister for footage of their makeup tutorials, but I don't think she likes me (and the youngest said she had nothing). Every time I send her baby pictures or video. She just replies with a curt thank you and doesn't say anything else. It's weird.
That reminds me, Attached is a video file of our little darling, wiggling her butt around the blocks. Almost kind of crawling. She's trying. Yes, I will send this to your parents and your sisters, including the one that really doesn't like me.
Okay and now the other moms are talking smack about our kids. Yes, I'm going to have to go.
From: SuluHG2260
To: Mommy_Susan
Time sent: 3/5/2260 19:03:06
Subject: Re: Sorry I haven't written you lately
I think we might already have a poly relationship, kind of sort of. Our family is special. I kind of like that you guys are close. Although seriously, maybe it's time to find a better playgroup. Maybe one with people you actually like. Isn't there a Starfleet mommies group or something? There has to be.
My big sister being uncomfortable around you has nothing to do with you. It's more the fact that I managed to accidentally have a kid, even though I am at least 80% gay while she and the husband have been trying for years to get pregnant and all they've had has been miscarriages and stillbirths. I think there's a lot of anger there and jealousy that she didn't even know was there until the situation happened. I was the last one in the family who anyone would think would have a kid. You know, unless me and you came to an arrangement a decade from now because we are single and don't want to end up childless.
Big sis is going to be jealous because our baby is cute and here, and most importantly alive. I just want to cuddle all of you. Although maybe doing fencing lessons with Josephine will take the edge off of not being an active daddy. I really miss you guys so much.
Just try carefully with my sister.
From: Spock's_cuddlebunny
To: Kevin KR
Time sent: 3/5/2260 21:45:54
Subject: Re: Tell your girlfriend and Sue thank you.
I've checked three times, so I don't think we're being spied on now. It probably is. We are getting farther out of range which wasn't supposed to happen until after we left our next mission, but I am neither shocked nor surprised. I have a feeling that you may have did something to trigger the wrath of Barnett. I'm not going to ask because I want plausible deniability. Bonus points for not going to your future mother-in-law. I think Liz is like that. She likes to solve her own problems, I think.
Thank you for writing Jo Jo. I think she really needs a friend. It's becoming more and more obvious that maybe we should look at different teenagers to participate in this pilot program, only Jo Jo and Jay 2 (prefers Jay to his actual name, or so I've been told) are not totally awful. Yes, I can still call her Jo Jo. I just can't call her JoAnn or Joanna or anything too close to her old name. Sometimes I'm shocked she chose Josephine as her new first name instead of going with something totally different. But it's not exactly like she has shared with us why she wanted the name change so badly.
I think she's trying to distance herself from who she was pre-crash. Maybe it's less painful that way. I don't know if it's because of her mother's sudden death or because the situation before was so bad. I don't know if I should be telling you this, but Bones' ex-wife was abusive and his former father-in-law was worse which is why they managed to get full custody, despite the fact both of her guardians now live on Enterprise. So, congratulations Jo Jo has more baggage than both of us which considering my daddy died when I was four minutes old and what happened to your family on the planet of the damned, in addition to our Winona issues, That's saying a lot.
Okay I'm glad mom is venturing out to family dinners. I'm glad you're doing family dinners. Spock has kinda made them mandatory for us. Maybe we should invite Jo Jo sometimes to give her a break from the parents and maybe some of the other kids. Never know. Anyway miss you. Talk to you later. Eventually, chances are I probably won't hear a reply from you first, which I'm sort of excited for because the cabin fever is setting in.
To be continued