Maria exhales through her nose as she pours them each more than healthy measures of whiskey. She nods for the couch, sits down, places the drinks on the coffee table, and then pats the place next to her. They're not going to have this talk from separate sofas.
"Your dad... Okay, I can't believe I'm starting here, but I figure if you got the newspaper then you deserve to know the whole thing.
Your dad had people developing a bio-weapon that would kill anyone with a specific gene sequence. Like, say..." She spreads her hands and gives a pointed look, like, guess who. "Anyway, it's a long story, but Helena Ortecho found out about it. After Caulfield and your father getting locked out of Shepherd, I guess they needed her help, the money she had from her new family. Anyway, she worked with Flint to get it off the ground. Only she had her own version of the bomb that targeted Manes DNA."
She pauses in her story, feeling overwhelmed herself, and grabs a sip of whiskey.
"She was still pissed off that your dad effectively killed Kyle's dad, who was her lover. I think you know that. Anyway. Long story, your dad was going to stage an alien terrorist attack at Crash Con and then use the alien bomb to destroy the threat. Be a big hero. Whatever. Only Helena had gotten the Manes bomb into his hands instead of the alien one. You tried to warn him but he had a gun. You fought and...
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"Your dad... Okay, I can't believe I'm starting here, but I figure if you got the newspaper then you deserve to know the whole thing.
Your dad had people developing a bio-weapon that would kill anyone with a specific gene sequence. Like, say..." She spreads her hands and gives a pointed look, like, guess who. "Anyway, it's a long story, but Helena Ortecho found out about it. After Caulfield and your father getting locked out of Shepherd, I guess they needed her help, the money she had from her new family. Anyway, she worked with Flint to get it off the ground. Only she had her own version of the bomb that targeted Manes DNA."
She pauses in her story, feeling overwhelmed herself, and grabs a sip of whiskey.
"She was still pissed off that your dad effectively killed Kyle's dad, who was her lover. I think you know that. Anyway. Long story, your dad was going to stage an alien terrorist attack at Crash Con and then use the alien bomb to destroy the threat. Be a big hero. Whatever. Only Helena had gotten the Manes bomb into his hands instead of the alien one. You tried to warn him but he had a gun. You fought and...
Greg shot him."