Thread: Daddy's Girl (Attn: ST only)

"Like I said Lass, I dinae rightly know..." He pulls digs out a bag of chips from a bread box and begins munching on the contents. "But na that I am 'ere why din ya catch me up on yer life a bit? I wanna 'ear all about whatcha been up ta since we last spoke."

"Well, I went ta Africa and lived with gramps fer a few years. After that it was off ta Italy and France. Spent lots o time in Europe. Then again, none of that woulda happened if ya and ma hadn't of died."

She watches him to see his reaction.

His eyes narrow at the mention of her mother dying. He looks like he's been hit in the face for a moment and then his eyes find something low and to the left of her to look at.

"Yer... Ma..." He whispers the words, a frown pulls at the corner of his mouth. Anger rises in his eyes and slowly he shakes his head 'no.'

"How...?" He asks in a breathy tone.

She moves over to him and cups his face in her hands.

"Daddy...please calm down. Come with me. I want ta show ya what I've been working on."

"It wasnae good, was it?" His mouth hangs open just a little bit, and the lines of pain begin to show on his face. To his credit he bites it back and nods to your request for him to follow you.

Taking a hand full of chips with him he follows where you lead, his mind clearly still lingering on the question of what happened to your mother.

She takes his free hand, leads him to the recording studio, then has him sit down. She pushes a few buttons and plays back one of the songs that she and the band had been working on.

YouTube - Within Temptation - All I Need

She sits next to him and smiles, then shows him a pic of the album cover that she wants to use.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/...e8714f8d_o.jpg

She waits to see what he does.

She stands and moves around the sounding booth, still keeping an eye on him. She takes a deep breath, then moves over and takes his free hand.

"Daddy...Do ya know what year it is?"

When she still gets no response from him she moves up to him and looks him in the eyes, cupping his face she kisses his forehead.

"I cannot tell ya how much I've missed ya daddy. It's been too long. You really should stay 'ere...I'll make a room up fer ya."

(( Lauren, somehow I missed your post, my apologizes, I thought I was waiting on you still ))

Her dad nods, but continues to look thoughtful, as if he can't understand what's going on or how he got here. In the other room she can hear him groan in pain but he says nothing. A second later you hear him banging around looking for food again and in frustration he throws something. As you come back down to the room where he was searching for food you find him curled up in a ball on the floor rocking gently.

"What's wrong with me?" He cries without tears, looking at Corin for answers.