...This all keeps coming back to what forms a proper family, doesn't it? Whether it's the... eccentricity of the Gate-Joyce-Poissons, or Arthur's clear classical standards.
I don't know what the answer to that is for me. I didn't so much have a family as an edition. Did I ever mention that I was part of a limited run? Only one batch that year had both the RF antennas and the go-faster stripes on our thighs. I suppose it gave us a sense of kinship.
So for me raising a family is pretty much unprecedented on a species-wide level. I'm not sure quite how it should work for us.
And it's not so much that I'm afraid I'm not a good, erm, motherfather... it's that I know there's only so much I can teach them, because I'm still learning it myself. What can I tell them when they ask what they can be when they grow up? I'm still working out what I can be when I grow up. There are so many humanish things I've picked up, there's so much I still haven't mastered. But I can be sure they'll learn faster than me. They're already some part human, after all.
...And one thing I do know is that you do have the right to be as much of a parent as you feel you can be. You gave me custody -- that doesn't mean you renounced them. I think... you're still their mother.
and Jack Harkness may well be a real mother too
You want a family of your own with Arthur. I've got one with Teresa. But that doesn't mean our family has stopped being one... it's just a rather odd one.
my idea. ah. right.
...I was thinking... there might be a way to timeshare.
Not right away, obviously, not till you and Arthur feel secure. But if Teresa and I go off to my century... you wouldn't just have to drop in for a day at a time once in a while. You could time your visits so you return on your next trip the very next day. You could spend six months with us and go home the day you left. You could be completely and utterly a part of both our childrens' lives.
It all depends on how immortal you actually are. Did Jack give you any idea how long he's lived? ...Or how long our children might live?
Still, I know it would probably be a very bad idea, and emotionally very risky as well.
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Date: 2007-01-10 04:00 pm (UTC)I don't know what the answer to that is for me. I didn't so much have a family as an edition. Did I ever mention that I was part of a limited run? Only one batch that year had both the RF antennas and the go-faster stripes on our thighs. I suppose it gave us a sense of kinship.
So for me raising a family is pretty much unprecedented on a species-wide level. I'm not sure quite how it should work for us.
And it's not so much that I'm afraid I'm not a good, erm, motherfather... it's that I know there's only so much I can teach them, because I'm still learning it myself. What can I tell them when they ask what they can be when they grow up? I'm still working out what I can be when I grow up. There are so many humanish things I've picked up, there's so much I still haven't mastered. But I can be sure they'll learn faster than me. They're already some part human, after all.
...And one thing I do know is that you do have the right to be as much of a parent as you feel you can be. You gave me custody -- that doesn't mean you renounced them. I think... you're still their mother.
and Jack Harkness may well be a real mother too
You want a family of your own with Arthur. I've got one with Teresa. But that doesn't mean our family has stopped being one... it's just a rather odd one.
my idea. ah. right.
...I was thinking... there might be a way to timeshare.
Not right away, obviously, not till you and Arthur feel secure. But if Teresa and I go off to my century... you wouldn't just have to drop in for a day at a time once in a while. You could time your visits so you return on your next trip the very next day. You could spend six months with us and go home the day you left. You could be completely and utterly a part of both our childrens' lives.
It all depends on how immortal you actually are. Did Jack give you any idea how long he's lived? ...Or how long our children might live?
Still, I know it would probably be a very bad idea, and emotionally very risky as well.
...I'd still love it.