Bad Choices (Hypernaturals 8)

Waiting Is ...

Morgan and I arrived at the office of 'Olsen and Sagan Investigations' early. We have absolutely no idea when Andrea is going to get here. The phone conversation with Angel was short and information free. We only know he is coming to the office, and we are assuming he knows where that is from the Internet.

Since Andrea screwed Angel over when they lived in Galveston, we are assuming that is his starting point, but who knows? She moved twice. He could have.

If Andrea is driving up all the way from Galveston today, he will more than likely not be here early. That is a three and a half to five-hour drive, depending on stops and routes, unless Andrea drives the way Han Solo flies the Millennium Falcon. On the other hand, it is the same amount of parsecs from Galveston to Austin no matter which way he drove. A parsec is 19,173,510,000,000 miles. Galveston is about 240 miles to where the office is and it could be more depending on where in Galveston his starting point is. A tiny little fraction of a parsec to be sure. 0.000000000012517 of a parsec. OK!

Morgan drove, and so I punched all that into my calculator apps to see what the answer is because as Morgan says, she is married to a nerd ball.

Morgan can be too literal about such things sometimes. I told her the results of my calculations. She sighed. "Yes: Parsecs are distance, not a speed. Why not just admit they made a mistake in the original Star Wars movie? Most people don't know what a parsec even is."

"3.26 light-years" I replied.

"I said 'most people', Love. You are not most people." Morgan told me.

"I know. I landed YOU. Carol may have beat you to the punch on DeWayne, but I got you before anyone."

That caused a glance my way. "Yes. Yes, you did. You might need to be a little definitional about the term 'got' however, given how many men, including DeWayne, I was romantically involved with before you."

"I had sex with and then immediately married you. In a pool." I said.

"By that lovely definition, I was and am in fact very much 'got', although the sex was very much my idea." Morgan agreed.

When we arrived at the office to wait, we stopped the banter and Morgan went to work and we waited. 

We are assuming that Andrea is coming. When a guy that is is a total stranger (these days, not counting the early dancing and romancing and impregnating part) calls you up out of the blue sky and says he is coming to take your daughter, that is going to be taken seriously.

We could call the cops about this. We have a serious 'in' there via DeWayne. That was not our first, second, or third instinct. Angel and Nakoma are OUR family, and we are fucking Vampires, so we can deal with a damn human threatening them.

I think that fathers should have the right to be involved in their children's lives. I believe that to the point where I told three Crew members that, even though I am the only way known this can happen,  if they want children, I have to be involved. They have to share their lives with me and raise the children together, whether they like that or not. Three Crew members who could turn me into Council or take me apart barehanded to get what they want.

Despite my strong feeling about that, at the same time, a father that abandon's his child as Andrea did Nakoma does not deserve ANY rights. I do not understand how any man can be that way. Everything I know about Andrea is stuff I infer from Nakoma and Angel.

Nakoma is sharp, very smart. Very studious. When she is a full-grown woman, she will be a heartbreaker. Her problem will be boys that want her for how she looks rather than how smart she is. To Angel and Morgan's credit in Nakoma's upbringing, Nakoma does not care that much about how she looks but is more interested in things like reading, games, cooking and spending time with her extended family. Us. From that, I conclude Andrea's genes are not total garbage.