#𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸* ( c. adam landry )

[bldrdsh]

@poisonpicked / adam landry

"So like, were Grandpa Jackson & Grandma Rose...like good people, Aunt Sav?"

He knows about one side of his grandparents, and while Jamie didn't speak oft of his parents, he had come to the assumption that maybe that was better left untouched, however he couldn't help wondering.

"...cuz like dad never talks about Grandpa Malcolm & Grandma Dorothy and I kinda am wondering if maybe...maybe they weren't good people."

[bldrdsh]

Jamie's kids ( rose, dorothy, adam, wes, and roxie ) all have some ties to the Minutemen, EVEN if they don't fully join.

Rose, Dorothy & Adam do all enlist, with Rose winding up as a Lieutenant relatively quickly, Dorothy enlisting as a nurse, and Adam as a weaponsmith.

Roxie & Wes, while not enlisting directly, do actually contribute by Roxie performing across a couple of the Minutemen's settlements, and Wes being a sort of traveling merchant who uses his scavenging to help whatever Minutemen he comes across

[bldrdsh]

"I dunno, just...anything. Dad doesn't like talking about them, nor do they like talking about Grandma Dorothy & Grandpa Malcolm. What were they like?"

He isn't even entirely sure where to start. He wants to know about his family, and while he still feels rather guilty about dredging up pain for his aunt, none of his siblings save Rose had any real understanding of who they were as people. The most they knew was Grandma Dorothy passed before they were all a family together.

"Like...who were they as people? Pops never really tells us much and so we don't really have much frame of reference, so anything you wanna share please do."

"no, it's okay, adam, you don't have to apologize." she reaches for him, squeezing his hand and flashing him a smile. "i just... haven't talked about 'em in years. i actually wish i could talk about 'em more, but your dad... he's been through a lot, both of your dads have, but jax is my brother so i was there with 'im after our parents died and it really messed 'im up bad. it was just easier to not talk about 'em at all." it wasn't her place to talk to his children about his past — she wasn't sure what they knew, what they didn't, what he refused to tell them about given his troubled past — and she respected that. but she was allowed to talk about their parents to their grandchildren.

"is there anythin' you wanna know about 'em?"

[bldrdsh]

He frowns just a little, head canted to the side as he tries his best not to make her feel worse. He almost immediately regrets asking but his curiosity had gotten the better of him. He'd be remiss if he didn't at least ASK, but given the fact that she seemed at least somewhat willing to discuss them, he suspects she might be at least willing to elaborate a little.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you. Dad never talks about them...and well, we don't talk about Grandma Dorothy or Grandpa Malcolm ever so I had figured that maybe there was a reason. I wasn't trying to hurt you or anything."

Rose always mocked him for how tone deaf he could be, but he had meant no harm by it, and the last time he'd asked about Jamie's parents, the room fell deathly silent. He still vividly the looks of discomfort.

the question catches her off guard and it takes a moment to regain herself, glancing at her nephew, before her attention returns to the box of stuff she had been going through. it was mostly junk, some old books, a few trinkets she had picked up over the years, jackson and rose's holotags. of course he would ask about them so it wasn't that fact that caught her off guard — it was the ache she felt in her heart, both with the all too real reminder that they had been dead for decades at this point, and the way their grandkids would never know them.

she clears her throat, managing a smile as she holds the holotapes in her hand. "they were great people, adam. it's just... hard for me and your dad to talk about 'em. we were kids when they died." in a way, that almost made them harder to talk about, but she didn't want to get into that. "they would've loved all of you so much."