[ It's not what she expects to hear and it throws her a little. So for a moment, Naomi looks to where Yancy is listening in rapt attention to whatever it is that Mako Mori is saying and she feels the war in her heart.
Her parents don't know. They stopped asking after Yancy was born who the father was, didn't she want him in her little girl's life - her dad had actually taken her aside to say is it that you know he won't want her? is that why you won't say a thing? and she'd shaken her head and told him that she loved him and that he was the best father she could ever ask for. Her sister probably does know, though. Kara had been there in the hospital room when Naomi had insisted on turning the TV channel to the press con for Gipsy Danger's official release to active duty and when the introductions had been made Naomi had pressed a kiss to her child's forehead and kept her face still.
It's not like there hadn't been any opportunity to reach out. She'd been in San Diego to live with her sister roughly the same time the Beckets were assigned to the Los Angeles Shatterdome. Had been in town when Clawhook hit. Had driven past the place where the press conference for the boys had been held. Gary, my daughter has been having nightmares of that thing I can do a write-up on the Beckets later.
But she hadn't counted on loving little Yancy so much, couldn't bring herself to risk showing up in front of Yancy Becket to tell him remember that night in your truck two years ago, well there's something you should know because she'd heard about the fight at the bar from a friend of a friend, had heard how the Marshal Stacker Pentecost had personally come down to break the boys up.
( He confirmed it as much, years after, a year before Raleigh was reinstated to the PPDC you're the girl who nearly broke up my star team. She'd let Stacker pass judgement on her then, because she hadn't known the fragility of the Drift until it had been explained to her, though she'd known she'd been stupid as a girl.
She'd flown back to Hawaii after wrapping things up with Tendo Choi, had taken a cab from the airport to the home she'd grown up in, her parents out back with Kara and Yancy poking at the squid they had on the grill. )
She couldn't risk walking up to a man she barely knew to say this is your daughter only to have him back away.
So, she doesn't know what to do with Raleigh's offer. ] Shouldn't I be apologizing for intruding on yours?
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Her parents don't know. They stopped asking after Yancy was born who the father was, didn't she want him in her little girl's life - her dad had actually taken her aside to say is it that you know he won't want her? is that why you won't say a thing? and she'd shaken her head and told him that she loved him and that he was the best father she could ever ask for. Her sister probably does know, though. Kara had been there in the hospital room when Naomi had insisted on turning the TV channel to the press con for Gipsy Danger's official release to active duty and when the introductions had been made Naomi had pressed a kiss to her child's forehead and kept her face still.
It's not like there hadn't been any opportunity to reach out. She'd been in San Diego to live with her sister roughly the same time the Beckets were assigned to the Los Angeles Shatterdome. Had been in town when Clawhook hit. Had driven past the place where the press conference for the boys had been held. Gary, my daughter has been having nightmares of that thing I can do a write-up on the Beckets later.
But she hadn't counted on loving little Yancy so much, couldn't bring herself to risk showing up in front of Yancy Becket to tell him remember that night in your truck two years ago, well there's something you should know because she'd heard about the fight at the bar from a friend of a friend, had heard how the Marshal Stacker Pentecost had personally come down to break the boys up.
( He confirmed it as much, years after, a year before Raleigh was reinstated to the PPDC you're the girl who nearly broke up my star team. She'd let Stacker pass judgement on her then, because she hadn't known the fragility of the Drift until it had been explained to her, though she'd known she'd been stupid as a girl.
She'd flown back to Hawaii after wrapping things up with Tendo Choi, had taken a cab from the airport to the home she'd grown up in, her parents out back with Kara and Yancy poking at the squid they had on the grill. )
She couldn't risk walking up to a man she barely knew to say this is your daughter only to have him back away.
So, she doesn't know what to do with Raleigh's offer. ] Shouldn't I be apologizing for intruding on yours?