moreweaponsthanyou | IC Inbox for savetheearth

Fil's SmartPhone:
Hi, This is Fil. Sorry I can't pick up right now, if you leave a message I'll get back to you as soon as possible!

Network Options:
Voice || Text || Video

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

youngestone

so uh

okay yeah no way to say this but bluntly but

we're cousins

my dad was your uncle

Hjalti or something idk how to spell it

call if you can this is probably not for texting

From:

moreweaponsthanyou

oh shit

are you serious?

i spewed my coffee all over the place.

Hang on, I'll call in five after I clean this mess up.

From:

youngestone

kay

sorry

From:

moreweaponsthanyou

[And 10 minutes later because he took 5 minutes to clean up, 5 minutes to settle his nerves.]

Killian? It's Fil.

I could have sworn you texted me saying you were Uncle Hjalti's kid.

From:

youngestone

Yeah, uh.

[He lets out a shaky breath]

I am. Not that I knew it before today but. Yeah. I went through Mom's stuff finally and...it's all there. Letters to him she never sent, stuff in her journals. Don't ask me where he is because I don't know. Mom left him in Ireland and as far as I can tell never got back in contact with him afterwards.

From:

moreweaponsthanyou

Oh.

I don't know much about him actually. Never met him and ma doesn't talk much about him. I heard something about a break in the family and well, it's not the sort of thing you bring up in family gatherings.

From:

youngestone

Yeah, from Mom's stuff I, uh, think I know what the break was. Mom was Catholic and Gran hates Protestants. Sorry?

From:

moreweaponsthanyou

Oh hell, of course it'd be something over religious. Old and stuck in her ways doesn't even begin to describe it.

Um. I think Ma might have some more pictures of Uncle Hjalti if you're interested? And childhood stories and all that.

From:

youngestone

No, it's fine. I mean I spent eighteen years not knowing a damn thing about him, why start now?

[He laughs, a little bitter, before sighing]

Sorry. I'm just...it's been a day, man, and I am too young to drink.

From:

moreweaponsthanyou

Well, the offer's there if you want it in the future.

[Fil winces over at his side.]

I can imagine. Ma's going to want to meet you, you know. So I'll have to drag you home with me one of these days. She's big on family. So's Uncle Thorir now that I think about it.

From:

youngestone

Yeah, Thorir's the one who told me that hey, I've apparently got a whole other side to the family I've never met and they're not Irish like I thought. I took him a photo asking if he knew the guy in it because it was labeled "Thorsson" and...well, yeah.

From:

moreweaponsthanyou

Oh! Thorrson's not a common name so I can see why you'd go to Uncle first.

Uncle's probably already planning on dragging you off to Iceland too, just to warn you. Probably me as well, since I haven't been back there in years.

From:

youngestone

God, I hope he's not. Let me figure this shit out first, y'know? I'm still trying to sort through all of Mom's belongings and now I've got this to deal with. I mean, it'd be cool to go sometime just for the hell of it? But. Yeah.

From:

moreweaponsthanyou

Don't worry, Uncle's sensible. Or I'll talk him out of it until you're ready.

But. You're not getting out of family dinner now. Uncle already said yes even before he knew about you being his nephew thing.

From:

youngestone

Yeah, he mentioned that you said something about that. You weren't kidding, were you?

From:

moreweaponsthanyou

Nope. Even got more reason to now. And I want to talk to someone about the Network business.

From:

youngestone

[Sounds like Fil doesn't know about Thorir, so it's safe to assume that Thorir doesn't know about Fil. That's gonna be fun]

So other than really freaking tall people, what can I look forward to at this dinner, whenever it is?

[Please give him a few days to recover. That's all he asks]

From:

moreweaponsthanyou

We're not THAT tall. Uncle's the tallest one. Lots of good food, since Uncle and Aunt are good cooks, kids messing around. You know, family dinner stuff.

A couple of days. A week, how's that? I figure you'd need some time to think things through.

From:

youngestone

Dude, I can't even reach the coat hooks without stretching. I have to be a good foot shorter than most of you. Have to be.

Maybe? This is all kind of a lot. New job, going through Mom's stuff, new relatives--which reminds me I should probably call the ones I already had and see if any of them want to explain why Mom never told me the truth. Ugh.

[He sighs and you can almost hear him running his hand over his face. Softly, like he's forgotten that Fil can probably hear him:]

God, Mom, why did you have to die?

From:

moreweaponsthanyou

Should I get a box ready for you then

[And Fil hears it and feels bad about dumping all this.]

I'm sorry. I can't say I know what it feels like because it's never happened to me, but if you need help cleaning or want to rant or anything else you can call me up?

From:

youngestone

[He snorts]

Dick. I think I've got it, mostly, though.

[It's all her papers, her visa and photographs and maps of places they lived in for however long. All the items were taken care of]

I feel bad for this, y'know? I triggered your numbers and three days later, whoops sorry guess we're related.

From:

moreweaponsthanyou

It's fine. I've got loads of cousins from both sides of my family...my da's got two brothers and they have kids too. So what's one more?

It's got to be way weirder for you, finding out you've got this huge family you never knew about.