Create a New Forum Admin Login Member Login Contribute to Voyager Search VoyForums Help Desk VoyForums Exchange VoyForums Directory/Categories VoyForums Homepage VoyForums News FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

Sat, May 16 2026, 12:52pm PDT

[ Login ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, [5], 6, 7 ]

• She didn't want to stay here but she didn't want to go home - not with the way that Breckin was being so volatile lately, and so she stood with her arms crossed, watching out the window. Aislinn toddled over, a marker in hand, and taking heed of Peter's warnings that "mommy, she's gonna draw on the walls.." and bent to take the marker from the little girl's hands, not unkindly, and press a kiss to her forehead. "Petey, would you take her and get her a cookie?" (NT) -- Ace, Wed, Sep 29 2004, 11:45pm PDT

  ---

• He swallowed thickly as he watched her, his own little boy in his arms. Well, not really his own - he had fought tooth and nail to be able to adopt him. It was hard to get a single male a child but he finally had and Zee was the light of his life. He didn't know what to do here, if he should approach, or just walk back out the door and not look back.... (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 12:05am PDT

  ---

• She turned to watch as Peter took his sister's hand and led her toward the kitchen - he was an industrious, responsible, almost too serious boy for five - he definitely took Breckin's side as far as personality went, where Aislinn was a little more like her - she could already see it in her toddler's personality. She put her hands on her hips, keeping a close eye out for creeps and crazies, and in that search, managed to allow her cobalts to fall on him. She stopped, nearly froze in her tracks when she saw him and had the same idea - run away, or talk to him. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 12:10am PDT

  ---

• He cleared his throat, Zee ducking his head into his daddies neck out of sheer shyness. his hand shifted to run over the boys back before he let out a slow breath, lips pursed as he took a step forward. "Ace...long time not see." His eyes drifted down to the children, forcing out thoughts of 'what if'. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 12:24am PDT

  ---

• She chewed her lip nervously as she watched his eyes drift to the children - she knew exactly what he was thinking - the same thing that she had thought - if she hadn't lost the baby, they would probably be happy right now, living off some island where the surf was too good to pass up, and raising a whole crew of little ones. She let out a long breath through her nose, nervousness knotting her stomach. "Yeah.. it's been a long time.." Over five years. She felt like an old lady. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 12:25am PDT

  ---

• He brought his eyes back from where he was looking at her children to meet her eyes once more - those eyes that had mirrored his own soul at one time. (NT) -- No name, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 12:44am PDT

  ---

• He brought his eyes back from where he was looking at her children to meet her eyes once more - those eyes that had mirrored his own soul at one time. He cleared his throat lightly, head tilting to the side. Small talk seemed so trite but he didn't know what else to say. "How have you been?" (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 12:55am PDT

  ---

• She nodded a little bit - how to sound like her marriage wasn't in shambles. "I've been alright..." She cleared her own throat when she realized what precious cargo he was carrying in his own arms - of course he had moved on, she was silly to think he hadn't found someone who could give him babies. "How about you?" (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 12:57am PDT

  ---

• "Good...good, really good." He smiled softly, tiling his head as Zee popped his head out, eyeing the girl who was speaking to his daddy curiously. "He's a little shy still." He explained, looking down at his son. He was still learning english so it was hard at times.... (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:06am PDT

  ---

• She smiled a little, feeling rather detatched as she watched the two together - she'd gone through more than one guy since ending it with Gabe - she was more than envious about the happiness he seemed to have. "Hi there." She offered her best to the child, but she felt so out of the loop, like she was watching this all from someone else's body. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:10am PDT

  ---

• "He um...he doesn't really do english to well yet...I've only had him about four months now...." He brushed his hand over Zee's back, the boy didn't even have a name when he received him, just a number assigned to him from the orphanage. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:16am PDT

  ---

• She raised a brow at that - then, Peter and Ais came back from the kitchen - the little girl's face smeared with chocolate and her dutiful brother following behind with a napkin in hand - she was running, thinking it was a game to get away from him, and smashed right into her legs, a pile of laughing, messy, blonde haired little girl. She scooped her up - Peter long since silenced by the seriousness of what he percieved to be happening in this adult conversation. "Only had him?" Of course her mind couldn't figure that out - obviously he was older than four months, but her brain just wasn't clicking. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:18am PDT

  ---

• He swallowed once more at the site of the little blonde beauty before he sighed softly, turning his attention back to Ace. "Uh, yeah, I adopted him through an over sea's agency...." He set the three year old boy down, letting him hide behind his legs as Gabe crossed his arms over his chest. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:23am PDT

  ---

• She felt much like she was at some awkward single parent daycare mixer and she had made a mistake and was hitting on the coordinator who actually wasn't a single parent - and neither was she, really. "Oh wow... that's awesome, Gabe - did you and your wife have any trouble with the paperwork?" So she had to slide it in - so sue her, she wanted to know, and if she knew him he would take the cue and correct her. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:25am PDT

  ---

• "I'm not married, thats why it took so long to get him. Not many people look to fondly on a single dad." He shrugged a bit, his eyes on her slowly. "You look good...different... but good." He smiled lightly, tilting his head to the side. It was just that either of them were kids anymore. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:29am PDT

  ---

• She pursed her lips lightly, and then wet them, looking down at Ais in her arms, completely forgetting about the ring on her finger. "I'm a different person." She nodded a little - it was true - she still surfed with the best of them, but she didn't compete anymore - she had lost Charlie a year and a half ago, and had yet to replace him, and she had taken on a look of domesticatedness - she was a watered down version of the brash, sassy girl she'd once been - she was now, afterall, someone's mother. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:31am PDT

  ---

• He nodded, looking down at the diamond on her finger and for a minute he wondered what happened to the one he had given her. He shook his head lightly, letting out a soft breath before he nodded. "So I see...congratulations." He didn't know what else to say. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:33am PDT

  ---

• She tried a little smile, but it was pretty weak while in her mind she was comparing everything about breckin to everything about the man standing in front of her - and she could understand why she wasn't having such a content marriage - because he wasn't what she wanted. And now she felt a little silly, knowing that he hadn't moved on the way she had - if you could consider that moving on at all. "About five years too late." She again tried the smile, then set Aislinn down, sending her off again with Peter - she couldn't think right now, couldn't balance both her children and Gabe. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:37am PDT

  ---

• "Wow...." He shook his head at that - she didn't wait long after they split to hook up and get married it seemed. His hand moved to rake through his now gelled and styled hair, mussing it as usual. "Sorry I am so late on that then." He offered her the same boyish grin he always had, his bright blue eyes just seeming a bit older but basically the same. Really, he wasn't sorry he hadn't known..... (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:40am PDT

  ---

• She nodded a little bit, her lips still pursed with that odd curve like she was still struggling to find sense and comfort in this somehow, even though she knew somewhere inside that she wouldn't. Her teeth grazed her lower lip again, her anxiety wearing very obviously on her features - not just from this meeting but from what was going on at home. "Yeah, me too." (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:43am PDT

  ---

• He frowned a little, unsure about her reply. "So, what are their names?" He tried to move to easier convo. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:45am PDT

  ---

• She dipped her head a bit, took a deep breath like she was making her way out onto a battle field and turned her cobalts back to the kids. "Peter - he came about the same way that your son did... and Aislinn... she's mine." 'She's mine' came with more than one implication - a natural birth had been something percieved to be impossible for her, but it had happened, somehow - and there she was, her mother's little miracle. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:47am PDT

  ---

• He nodded slowly, taking in the little girl who looked so much like her. "She's beautiful." He murmured, his voice low as he thought of their own lost child. He had been so torn up when she had told him about the loss of their baby...it had devestated them and their relationship. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:52am PDT

  ---

• It was true - the loss of the baby was what had ended it - her own foolishness, her own egocentrism, to be there at that place when everything happened, when she was pregnant. She frowned, but looked at the girl, and smiled. "Thanks, I made her myself.." Well, not by herself.. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:55am PDT

  ---

• He cocked a brow, looking up at her. "Well, I am guessing you had a little bit of help." He stated with a small smirk, tilting his head down once more to eye the kids. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 1:57am PDT

  ---

• She nodded a little, her mind wandering to Breckin - was she a horrible person for thinking the way she was about him right now? She didn't think so - he was probably doing the same thing. She remained silent for a moment, and then looked up. "I've been thinking a lot about stuff lately, you know, Gabe." (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 10:29am PDT

  ---

• He cocked a brow, letting out a soft breath. "Oh yeah?" He questioned gently, tilting his head to the side so he could catch her eyes - unsure of where she was goign with this. He gazed down absently, checking on Zee before he looked back to her curiously. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 11:13am PDT

  ---

• "Oh you know, Kelsey.. and Sarah... Charlie was put down a year ago.. but I was thinking about how, before all of that stuff, all of us were so happy.." It was mostly because of the trouble she was having that her mind wandered to these things, when it rains, it pours, you know. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 11:21am PDT

  ---

• He nodded a bit at that, letting out a low breath. "Yeah....I just got back from going over Mia's and Bo's...Least they are still happy." He smiled lightly at that, he liked to think at least a few of them got their happy ever afters. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 11:24am PDT

  ---

• She smiled a little, and feeling the weight of the situation, sat herself into a chair near him, almost crumpling there. "Yeah, they've got kids running around left and right, don't they?" (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 11:31am PDT

  ---

• He laughed at that and nodded, tilting his head to the side. "Yeah...the twins and then Dallas....Mia is three weeks pregnant and swearing up and down that this is the last one." He smirked lightly, tilting his head as Zee watched peter with interested deep brown eyes. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 11:49am PDT

  ---

• She followed his eyes to the two boys and raised a brow - Peter, though serious, wasn't an altogether unsocial creature and he was obviously trying to figure things out. She looked back up and shook her head a bit. "This is it for me. She was really it." (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 12:16pm PDT

  ---

• He smiled softly, nodding a bit. "Yeah, Zee's more then enough for me at this moment." He winked gently, shaking his head to the side. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 12:31pm PDT

  ---

• She smiled a bit at that and nodded, leaning back in her chair. "It's really good of you to be doing this on your own." She nodded a bit - she had never realized exactly how badly he'd wanted the baby - or a baby at all for that matter. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 12:35pm PDT

  ---

• He smiled lightly, shrugging his shoulders. "I've always wanted a kid of my own and as of yet, no woman to carry one for me." He said with a small laugh before he shrugged his shoulders lightly. "He's the best thing that could have happened to me." (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 5:37pm PDT

  ---

• It shouldn't have but his comment made her cringe inside, an unsettled knot beginning to grow once again, though she smiled a bit and nodded. "There's nothing like having children." Her voice faded off a little bit and her eyes grew slightly distant, replaying their problems in her mind. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 6:24pm PDT

  ---

• He cleared his throat again, his brow furrowed a bit. He didn't know what he was going to do here, or what to say. He had tried not to think about her over the years so he had never planned out their meeting like some people would have. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 6:32pm PDT

  ---

• She hadn't planned this out either - she had spent the majority of these five years trying to forget the way they'd accidentally come together and then complimented one another so well afterall. She furrowed her brow a little bit at that, and turned her eyes back to him, although she couldn't find anymore words, she just took in his visage. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 6:34pm PDT

  ---

• "You ok?" He questioned, his eyes on her for a moment before he knelt down next to her, his hand resting on her knee - brow furrowed. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 6:47pm PDT

  ---

• She knew she was coming off as a nutcase - it had just been easy to forget how much she had loved him afterall. She pursed her lips, trying a smile, but really all she felt was confused. "Yah... I'm fine..." She put her hand over his and met his eyes. "It's good of you to be concerned, though." (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 6:53pm PDT

  ---

• He nodded, then let out an 'oof' as Zee attacked him playfully from behind. He laughed, gently flipping the boy over his back and into hsi arms, nipping teasingly at his fingers. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 7:02pm PDT

  ---

• She was wavering - it was like waves ebbing in on the beach, the anxiety and melancholy coming, and then going, and then it went, as she watched him and his son. "You know, we should get together for coffee sometime, without the munchkins." In her mind it wouldn't be wrong, not at all, she deserved her own friends, right? (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 7:16pm PDT

  ---

• He flipped over the toddler into his arms before he nodded a bit. "Sure, that would be great." He smiled lightly, tipping his head back so that he could see her for a moment. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 7:20pm PDT

  ---

• "we've got a lot to catch up on." She noted, eyes still watching the boy with a bit of melancholy in them. She smoothed her palms down over her flat stomach lightly, and nodded as though to reassure herself that this was okay. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 7:58pm PDT

  ---

• He nodded at that, smiling a bit at her just so that she would smile in return. "Yeah, five years is a long time." He patted her knee as he stood up, sending Zee off to play on the couches. (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 8:12pm PDT

  ---

• "So have you been around here this whole time? Just hiding in the holes?" She certainly hadn't seen him at any of the surfing events that had taken place over the summers, so she had assumed that he had moved on, emotionally and physically. (NT) -- ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 8:15pm PDT

  ---

• He shook his head. "I was in germany the past year, getting him and then before that I went back to North Carolina for awhile." He shrugged a bit, letting out a soft breath. "It was just pretty random travelling." (NT) -- Gabe, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 8:19pm PDT

  ---

• She nodded a little bit, with a bit of a smile - she had an awful penchant for wishing that she could rewind five years and change things, do things over differently - she knew it wouldn't happen but one could only hope, and wish that she had been with him for the trip to Germany. "Wow..." He'd done more in that sentence than she'd done. (NT) -- Ace, Thu, Sep 30 2004, 8:31pm PDT

  ---

• He nodded a bit, a smile easing over his features as he looked back down to Zee. "Yeah, he's definately worth the trouble though..." He pursed his lips a bit.tilting his head back up to see her. "How about tomorrow?" (NT) -- Gabe, Fri, Oct 01 2004, 11:43am PDT

  ---

• She nodded a little bit - she decided she needed to leave now, though, to save herself any further heartache. She had to go back to the house, and make dinner for Breckin. She straightened a little and made to rise, scooping the nearby Aislinn up. "That sounds good - " She tugged a scrap of paper out of her pocket and scribbled her cell phone number on it. "I'll meet you at the commons tomorrow.. say three ish?" (NT) -- Ace, Fri, Oct 01 2004, 1:16pm PDT