Consequences 15C
Conversations get nasty.
Total Words: 10,000 approximately
Tags: Relationships, Polyamory,
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For the list of Characters fast forward to the end.
Author's note: All location information used has been obtained from online and map research or just imaginary, no opinion of real places is intended. The names and background of characters used are entirely fictitious and any similarity to a real person is entirely coincidental. This is a work of fiction and entirely the author's creation for the purposes of a story. The language, terminology or sayings used are intended to be International, this being the World Wide Web, but if any word or saying is new to anyone I would refer them to Google.
Before anyone gets uptight, in my story making a phone call is permitted in first class by connecting into the plane's systems. (See Picocell)
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Intro from 15B: David is on his way to England and finds himself in a conversation with Olivia. She clarifies some of the mystery surrounding her past behaviour. He is considering where he wants to go next with his life after the debacle of his homecoming.
A hoped for new beginning.
The first change he thought of was to stop going on the follow up adventures and let others who were qualified get on with it. He felt now that he should only be involved to sign off the schemes when the plans and investigations were complete. He needed to stop involving himself in the initial progress work. His second thought was to organise someone qualified to do regular staff health checks. He would have to talk to the others but it made sense, particularly if they could get a block deal and it could be done with complete privacy. Nothing was unsolvable he decided and then looked at Olivia and wondered.
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Back in the States, organised chaos ensued, three mothers couldn't stop thinking of their babies and crying, then they would get angry and rush around packing. They tried to get Honor back with the plane quickly but she was on her way to Florida. It had been a ruse, yes there were women to be moved but it wasn't urgent and it had backfired. Honor wasn't sure who to believe,in the end she called David's grandmother. That lady listened carefully then said "You are first and foremost under David's authority, but let me quickly speak to Jane and David first. In the meantime we are happy to keep the women here, we have room enough for a while, so turn around and head back if you have enough fuel."
She rang Jane first and got the whole story and came off the phone literally giggling with glee, thinking 'if only I had had the guts to do something like that to my husband.' But, then she called David, realising that he was her grandson and the light of her life now, so she had to be right with her loyalties. After pleasantries, she gave him both barrels, all the sage advice she could muster over the phone.
At the other end, after the call, David resolved to take all of his problems to her in future when he got back, she always seemed to be able to cut through the fog.
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The call refreshed his mind and something made him say to Olivia, "I think you love Daniel, I'm surprised you can give him up. I've known for a long time that I was a disappointment for you." She looked completely off guard and then another thought hit him. "How long had you been having an affair with the guy you sat next to at the conference?"
Until then, Olivia had been congratulating herself on avoiding several pitfalls. Now she is dumbfounded, 'Where did all that come from? Especially that last accusation?' She decided to avoid it as if she thought he was joking. "Why on earth do you think I love Daniel?"
"I knew there was something special between the two of you when you greeted him at the door for one of our parties. It was the kind of greeting that a woman gives her true love when he's been away for a while. You had no conscience about the disrespect, insulting and demeaning way you were treating me. It was obvious to me then that I didn't matter to you but for a long while I couldn't accept it. Then you reinforced your attitude by fucking him in my house and rounded that off by completely forgetting about me." As he now turned his head to face her he felt no pleasure in her horror that he had known these things all along. Even as she realised, he thought he saw her mind working fast, 'trying to spin it' he thought.
"Even today you are trying to pretend and I can't figure out why. Whatever your planning, don't even think of taking the baby."
"David, we just had a long conversation and you gave me the impression that we would try to work together. What did I say to bring this on?"
"My mind has been in a fog and the last thing I have been thinking about is you. Then I am being forced to think about you and it's not always easy to recall bad memories on the spur of the moment, especially when there are more important matters on my mind. The trouble is that you have too high an opinion of your deviousness and lying. You have always assumed that because I don't react to something that I have missed it, ignored it, or just forgiven you. I can assure you that's never been the case. As I said to Jane once, "What has always surprised me is that you are so intelligent yet you totally underestimate me."
"The only thing I am ever fully persuaded by are things I find out or see for myself, like that greeting of Daniel. That night I seriously thought of divorcing you there and then. You had had a near miss in the Ana incidents but the explanations were so unlikely they were laughable. Normal women who truly love their husband but get caught in an indiscretion go to extremes afterwards to assure their husband that they love them and take steps to ensure it doesn't happen again. Not you, you were just well, to be honest, fucking stupid. The only explanation is that you hated me and were looking for something more exciting that would get you away from me."
"Please don't blame it on your condition, you were having affairs before we decided to go for a baby so that was proof enough. You were so sure that I was too block headed to notice all the little signs and changes in your behaviour. Really Olivia, I expected better of you but like I say, you're not as clever as you think you are."
He thought he could see her starting to tear up so quickly stated, "Don't bother to cry, I won't believe what I see. I suggest you spend as much time as you can with Sean while you are still able."
"But if I was so bad, why did you keep me with you?"
"That little chap back there." He looked back affectionately. "I promised my Mum and Dad I'd make them grandparents, they adored and loved you. How could I disappoint them after all the sacrifices they made for me through University? I owe them so much, look at all the support they gave us when we first started out. I couldn't tell them about what you are, it would have broken their hearts. But now they can't not know, as they have at least four grandchildren. They love them all and this trip is about them spending time with the little ones as much as anything else, they so want to show them off to the extended family."