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[beautifullies]

The Questions and Answers Meme

➟ Respond with your character.
➟ Other characters can respond, asking questions (E.g., 'What are you afraid of?' 'What is your favorite color?' 'What do you like about where you live?' 'Who are your parents?').
➟ For reasons completely unknown, your character is forced to answer honestly!
➟ Have fun!

Comments

[thereporter]

[ It there is any indication to Julia that she may have just asked the most insensitive question in the universe, she doesn't seem to notice. ]

That makes complete sense. Your daughter knew about Jamie, right?

[beautifullies]

She did. Not until very recently, but. She did. She's the one who told me I should go back, once it was discovered he would still be alive in the past.

[ Twenty years had passed for both of them, time didn't stand still the way it does in Wonderland. Anything could have happened to him between Culloden and jail, but he'd been alive. ]

We so rarely saw eye to eye, Brianna and me, but she wanted me to have this again.

[thereporter]

I'm not that close to my parents but sometimes I think about, with the Dome, how I might never see them again.

[ It's the kind of thing you take for granted until you can't anymore. ]

How did you do it? That had to have felt like an impossible decision, leaving her behind like that.

[beautifullies]

[ This answer will take careful consideration - not because she's trying to lie, but because she's trying to figure out the truth of it. After a moment she finally speaks again. ]

I left a part of myself behind. I don't think I'll ever be completely whole again. It was the hardest thing I've ever done, aside from leave Jamie when I was pregnant, but to have my husband again, especially after I thought he'd died...

[ It wasn't an instant decision, and Claire lets out a breath. ]

Bree had to convince me to go. She told me she took me away from him, and she wanted to give me back.

[ Which was such a heartbreakingly beautiful thing for her to say. ]

[thereporter]

I understand.

[ If it was anything like how she felt getting Barbie back... And it had to be. She'd only known Barbie a couple weeks and only been separated from him for a month when he came to Wonderland, and seeing him again was like a gasp for air when she had been drowning.

(There isn't a lot she wouldn't do to risk never feeling like that again, and plenty that she will be forced to do to prevent it.) ]

I'm sorry.