01-18-2026, 07:13 AM
Alex tilted his head a bit as he tried to address the thoughts Jez was expressing, "Well, I won't get into the technical difficulties involved in attempting to change what you know about time, but I strongly suggest that you not give it much consideration. No matter how much you might regret some of your past decisions, what has happened has made you who you are now. Your only choice is to decide how to move forward. We also can't change what he has said in the past, but you can decide how you react to those words. If I were to say that your skin looks blue to me, you would think something was wrong with me. It would obviously be a false statement, unless there was something wrong with my eyes, and that is something wrong with me and not you. So, just as you would not give such words much weight, you should notlet yourself be impacted by his words to you."
He considered a moment and then said, "I know how it can feel. My wife was my Imzadi. She got to experience the connection with me, even though she was only human by that time. I had heard of such things, but experiencing it with her was very new for me. It was different than it is with Betazoids. Anyway, obviously he did not share your true feelings, which is sadly unfortunate...for him. If you want to fault yourself, then make it for making the honest mistake of having loved someone who did not really love you in return. When I was young, I once had a crush on a girl, but she only thought I was an odd little boy, so she did not love me in return. It didn't mean I was wrong to have a crush on her, it simply meant that we were not going to have the relationship my heart desired. Oddly enough, I seem to have gotten over it fine, but it remains part of who I am. I learned from it and moved on."
Alex took a sip of his drink as she spoke of Sun Tsu and he grinned, "Yes, his ideas of war are priceless, but might not always translate well into the battlefield of relationships. Your desire to make him feel some of the pain that you have felt is a natural thing. However, you should think on it carefully. For starters, you're letting him live in your head rent free right now. Personally, I hate letting that happen to me. If you can let that go, he holds no power over you. Once you are able to mentally deny him that power, then you can more clearly decide what you wish to do, or not do about him."
Narrowing his eyes in a sort of calculating manner, he continued, "Not all who have wealth and power are like this man you speak of. When a person finds themselves with power of any kind, they decide how they wish to use it. It can be wealth, information or any of a number of other forms that power can take, but it is a tool. Like all tools, it can be used in many ways, but for simplicity we'll reduce it down to good or evil. How it is used often is simply an extension of who is using it. Obviously, this man likes to hurt people and it is through his own flaws that he projects this. I have said before, I don't like bullies. This person and those like him are no exception. I won't waste any time trying to convince you to teach him a lesson, as his type never really learn how to change, but you can teach him to seek easier prey elsewhere. Through my access to money and lawyers, I offer you the tools by which you can more than adequately bloody his financial nose and show him that you are not someone he wants to mess around with. You have grown beyond him and have friends and family the likes of which he does not have. If I actually thought he was dangerous eneough, he would be dead already, but he seems more likely that he is simply a very entitled and spoiled gutter rat with a family that enables him to remain such. You can't rid the universe of all the turds, but you don't have to let them remain on your front porch either."
At last, he gave another sigh and patted her hand, but didn't linger enough to give her the wrong impression, "There's nothing wrong with you. You just need to decide how far you want him to stay away from you, and by extension, your potential family. Personally, I'm leaning towards sending him off to spend the remainder of his life stranded in some part of the Delta Quadrant, perhaps struggling to find his way out of some form of degrading labor that is relatively disgusting and maybe slightly dangerous, but I think this should be something you allow your own creativity to play with. I suggest that you start by imagining him never contacting you again, then add in how you would like to eventually discover he spent the rest of his life while never contacting you again. Mind you, prison is already a likely outcome for this person, given his habits, but you should think on it and maybe take a few days to really let your heart guide you on this special wish that you want to make."
He paused and raised an eyebrow, "I'm serious. right now, you can control what happens to him. I will make no judgements and there are no limits on what you can decide for his fate, but his life is in your hands. You tell me what you want. Take as much time as you need. It will take you a moment to let it sink in, that I mean every word I just said, and then another to really grasp the kind of power you actually have over his life right now, but it is real. I don't want to blow your mind with too many of my personal suggestions, as I have a protective streak in me that when paired with a very active imagination and an occasional weakness to try and test my hand at being a minor god, I can easily get carried away. Let's leave it at you having access to a wish and I'm sort of your fairy godfather. If you come up with something I can't deliver, I'll officially be impressed."
== Tag Mala ==
He considered a moment and then said, "I know how it can feel. My wife was my Imzadi. She got to experience the connection with me, even though she was only human by that time. I had heard of such things, but experiencing it with her was very new for me. It was different than it is with Betazoids. Anyway, obviously he did not share your true feelings, which is sadly unfortunate...for him. If you want to fault yourself, then make it for making the honest mistake of having loved someone who did not really love you in return. When I was young, I once had a crush on a girl, but she only thought I was an odd little boy, so she did not love me in return. It didn't mean I was wrong to have a crush on her, it simply meant that we were not going to have the relationship my heart desired. Oddly enough, I seem to have gotten over it fine, but it remains part of who I am. I learned from it and moved on."
Alex took a sip of his drink as she spoke of Sun Tsu and he grinned, "Yes, his ideas of war are priceless, but might not always translate well into the battlefield of relationships. Your desire to make him feel some of the pain that you have felt is a natural thing. However, you should think on it carefully. For starters, you're letting him live in your head rent free right now. Personally, I hate letting that happen to me. If you can let that go, he holds no power over you. Once you are able to mentally deny him that power, then you can more clearly decide what you wish to do, or not do about him."
Narrowing his eyes in a sort of calculating manner, he continued, "Not all who have wealth and power are like this man you speak of. When a person finds themselves with power of any kind, they decide how they wish to use it. It can be wealth, information or any of a number of other forms that power can take, but it is a tool. Like all tools, it can be used in many ways, but for simplicity we'll reduce it down to good or evil. How it is used often is simply an extension of who is using it. Obviously, this man likes to hurt people and it is through his own flaws that he projects this. I have said before, I don't like bullies. This person and those like him are no exception. I won't waste any time trying to convince you to teach him a lesson, as his type never really learn how to change, but you can teach him to seek easier prey elsewhere. Through my access to money and lawyers, I offer you the tools by which you can more than adequately bloody his financial nose and show him that you are not someone he wants to mess around with. You have grown beyond him and have friends and family the likes of which he does not have. If I actually thought he was dangerous eneough, he would be dead already, but he seems more likely that he is simply a very entitled and spoiled gutter rat with a family that enables him to remain such. You can't rid the universe of all the turds, but you don't have to let them remain on your front porch either."
At last, he gave another sigh and patted her hand, but didn't linger enough to give her the wrong impression, "There's nothing wrong with you. You just need to decide how far you want him to stay away from you, and by extension, your potential family. Personally, I'm leaning towards sending him off to spend the remainder of his life stranded in some part of the Delta Quadrant, perhaps struggling to find his way out of some form of degrading labor that is relatively disgusting and maybe slightly dangerous, but I think this should be something you allow your own creativity to play with. I suggest that you start by imagining him never contacting you again, then add in how you would like to eventually discover he spent the rest of his life while never contacting you again. Mind you, prison is already a likely outcome for this person, given his habits, but you should think on it and maybe take a few days to really let your heart guide you on this special wish that you want to make."
He paused and raised an eyebrow, "I'm serious. right now, you can control what happens to him. I will make no judgements and there are no limits on what you can decide for his fate, but his life is in your hands. You tell me what you want. Take as much time as you need. It will take you a moment to let it sink in, that I mean every word I just said, and then another to really grasp the kind of power you actually have over his life right now, but it is real. I don't want to blow your mind with too many of my personal suggestions, as I have a protective streak in me that when paired with a very active imagination and an occasional weakness to try and test my hand at being a minor god, I can easily get carried away. Let's leave it at you having access to a wish and I'm sort of your fairy godfather. If you come up with something I can't deliver, I'll officially be impressed."
== Tag Mala ==