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[OOC: Millitimed to after this]

Kim comes into her room and sits on the bed.

She knows she should feel something - the last words she said should have made her react but instead she just feels...numb. Well, no, she doesn't feel numb exactly, but the anger's no longer there.

And after talking to Chase she was furious because he had been crushed by the news. She had wanted to give him a few days, a little time...and then gently lead into the truth. But she couldn't blame Chase, not really. He was just trying to help, to prevent bad things from happening, he thought he could change the future.

Well, he did change it, but not for the better. She could only blame one person for what happened and the truth of that became clear as she was talking to her dad, the truth she could not unsee. It was his fault. Because he didn't listen, because he was either addicted or having withdrawl symptoms from heroin and so wasn't thinking and didn't consider any bigger picture and he was so damn focused on the idea of being right that he never even entertained the idea that Chase was right, that he should have listened to the warning and not...snapped.

When she closes her eyes she can still hear that laugh - the one that said 'there's nothing more you can do to me'. And while she knows that's not *her* dad, she can't separate them in her mind. Even after Elaine's help she can't divide them (beyond knowing that he isn't dead) -- which makes her think that maybe that's really what he is and she was wrong and blind for not seeing it earlier.

He doesn't mean to hurt people, he just can't tell right from wrong, which means that he needs help but she can't help him, not with this, he needs much stronger help than she can provide.

She kept excusing it, thinking that his behavior was because of his job but now she sees...

And so she's not angry, or sad, or hurt...she's not sure how she feels -- maybe relieved because she's realized that no matter what she does she can't help him and that he might be alive but the man she remembers died a long time ago.

The words her mom wrote come back to her.

Please take care of your father, he still thinks of asking for help as a weakness, but sometimes I fear losing him to the other side. There are evil forces in the bar. Please try to keep him grounded and remind him of who he is, if he forgets.

"I'm sorry I failed you, mom," she whispers. And now she feels the tears begin to fall.

Date: 2005-06-04 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geeky-agent.livejournal.com
Chris is here, after deciding that she has to visit Kim and now would be a good time.

She knocks on the door to Kim's room.

Date: 2005-06-04 03:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geeky-agent.livejournal.com
"It's Chris," she calls out.

"I just wanted to see how you were."

Date: 2005-06-04 04:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geeky-agent.livejournal.com
"Hey," she smiles slightly.

Chris notices Kim looks like she's been crying. "Is everything ok?"

Date: 2005-06-04 04:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geeky-agent.livejournal.com
Chris shrugs. "I'm all right, I guess."

She looks at Kim with concern and hopes it's not that she has heard about the fate that awaits Jack on April 25th. "Do you want to talk about it?"

Date: 2005-06-04 04:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geeky-agent.livejournal.com
Chris nods, she's not going to push the issue.

"Well, if you ever need to talk, I'm here. I'm glad that you're doing better."

Date: 2005-06-04 04:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geeky-agent.livejournal.com
"At the Salazar compound?"

Date: 2005-06-04 04:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geeky-agent.livejournal.com
That hurts. She'd like to think she'd be a better person than that but then she remembers the way she acted about Tony's suicide.

And if she hadn't had to go along to prove her innocence, she wouldn't have. Chris tells herself it's because it was a job for a field agent like Chase but maybe that wasn't the entire truth.

"Your father and Chase thought that I was responsible for your disappearance. So, part of the reason I went with was to clear my name."

Maybe Jack and Chase weren't so far off in suspecting me.

Date: 2005-06-04 04:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geeky-agent.livejournal.com
Chris leans against the door jamb and sighs.

"You'd been gone for about three weeks and they were worried. A woman named Dina Araz told your father that she had overheard me bragging about having killed you. Dina Araz enlisted the help of a man in the bar named Rhalen Lyngar. He made a shell-casing burn appear on my wrist and erased a few people's memories so they wouldn't remember meeting Dina the first time and remembering how suspicious she was. He also gave Jack a vision where you appeared to him telling him that I had killed you and he may have given Chase a mental "push" to suspect me of having harmed you before your dad told him anything."

Such a happy time.

Date: 2005-06-04 04:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geeky-agent.livejournal.com
"Dina Araz is a terrorist. She has a run-in with your father and Tony Almeida in the future. I think she dies trying to help CTU capture Marwan. Maybe she blames them for that."

Date: 2005-06-04 04:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geeky-agent.livejournal.com
"Yeah," Chris says with a shrug. She doesn't believe that but she's not sure how she is really.

Date: 2005-06-04 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geeky-agent.livejournal.com
"No," she answers quickly. She almost feels like adding something else after it but can't think of anything that wouldn't seem like an obvious attempt at changing the topic.

Date: 2005-06-04 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geeky-agent.livejournal.com
"what he is?" Chris furrows her brows.

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