I'm - [His voice caught in his throat, but he managed to keep it together. Barely.] I'm okay.
[It was a lie, and not a very convincing one. It was the reason he was here, after all. He'd barely been able to spend time with the baby, hadn't even been able to hold her before she died, but the second he'd saw her he'd felt fiercely protective of her. She was his daughter, and she'd been taken away before he'd even gotten a chance to love her. He couldn't stop thinking about the missed opportunities, all the things she'd never get to do because of the monsters who had brought her into the world only to rip her from it because they didn't give a damn about the baby except as a symbol of their xenophobic ideals.
He picked up the cat, scratching his ears in an attempt to ignore all of that. T'Pol didn't need him losing it right now, and he'd try to keep it together for her.]
Spam
[It was a lie, and not a very convincing one. It was the reason he was here, after all. He'd barely been able to spend time with the baby, hadn't even been able to hold her before she died, but the second he'd saw her he'd felt fiercely protective of her. She was his daughter, and she'd been taken away before he'd even gotten a chance to love her. He couldn't stop thinking about the missed opportunities, all the things she'd never get to do because of the monsters who had brought her into the world only to rip her from it because they didn't give a damn about the baby except as a symbol of their xenophobic ideals.
He picked up the cat, scratching his ears in an attempt to ignore all of that. T'Pol didn't need him losing it right now, and he'd try to keep it together for her.]