INBOX - NHD-C12-KRI-248 - IKARI, SHINJI

[forevalone]

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[paternalistic]

FROM: kurosaki.isshin@cdc.org
sometimes it takes us a while to find someone. if you wanted, you could be one of my own and i'll make sure you feel the love that a child needs from their father.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I don't deserve it. If I did, my own dad would love me. But he doesn't.

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

He hates me and I hate him for everything he's done to me and everything he will do.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Why?

_{[It's a legitimate question, Shiroe. He's tired and sore you better have a good reason.]}

[peterpanic]

[That question wasn't "yes." Shinji, get with the program.]

FROM: seki.shiroe@cdc.org

It's another mission.

It should be easier, if you're wondering.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I don't want to fight anything.

[peterpanic]

FROM: seki.shiroe@cdc.org

Good, because we're collecting plants.

[Someone else can be on animal duty. This other guy is supposed to be a wizard, or something?? He'll do it.]

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Oh. That's it?

[peterpanic]

FROM: seki.shiroe@cdc.org

More or less. Come!

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Okay. Why do you want me to come though?

[peterpanic]

FROM: seki.shiroe@cdc.org

Why not? You're not bad to have around.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I'm usually not people's first choice, that's all.

[peterpanic]

[Shinji... don't make him have an emotion. You are the saddest kid and his empathy is all wrong. Give him a minute.]

FROM: seki.shiroe@cdc.org

Congratulations, then.

[paternalistic]

FROM: kurosaki.isshin@cdc.org
o-oh i opened up a can of worms didn't i okay listen shinji-chan, is your dad here?

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

No, he isn't.

[paternalistic]

FROM: kurosaki.isshin@cdc.org
don't let your anger anchor you to a man that isn't even here. you are more than one man.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

...You're a father right, Kurosaki-san?

[paternalistic]

FROM: kurosaki.isshin@cdc.org
yep! i have three amazing babies! my ichigo is here, and then i have two girls that are waiting for me back home.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I have a question then.

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Why do people bother having children and becoming parents if they decide later they don't want them?

[paternalistic]

FROM: kurosaki.isshin@cdc.org
... i honestly don't know. children are the purest thing that you can find: you'll never find anything that loves as much as they do, feels as much as they do and that you'll love as much. your heart expands and swells when they're happy and it gets crushed when they're sad.

FROM: kurosaki.isshin@cdc.org
they are supposed to be things born out of love, and then some people have them for selfish reasons. when you become a parent, even though you wanted something to love you - it becomes something that you love.

FROM: kurosaki.isshin@cdc.org
to hate your own child is despicable, because they have no control whether or not they were brought into this world. they are innocent of that crime; if you hate your child, you must hate yourself more for doing such a thing to one that only knows you.

[forevalone]

_{[That's...probably one of the most moving things he's read or heard from an adult before, let alone a parent. Sure, Isshin isn't his parent, but hearing an answer like that makes him feel a little better about himself. Maybe it wasn't any fault of his own that his father decided to abandon him after his mother's death.]}

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

...You must be a good father, Kurosaki-san. I didn't know they existed.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Thanks?

[peterpanic]

FROM: seki.shiroe@cdc.org

That's better. Meet me tomorrow morning by the edge of camp. You'll see the jeeps.

Can you drive?

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I was a rover driver.

[peterpanic]

FROM: seki.shiroe@cdc.org

We'll take turns.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Ah, okay.