[Is there a way to make it kid safe? She doesn't know. But she'd eventually grow up and hear the stories anyway. Might as well tell her at least a sanitized version of the truth.
And then she sighs, because she hadn't told him this part of the story yet.]
We fucked up, in the sixties.
[More accurately, Viktor fucked up, but that's not really the point.]
We fucked up so bad that we were never born and so as a result, Claire was never born.
[A beat.]
Except for you. You're fine. You were alive when we got back, actually.
[Is it time to tell him this? She doesn't know. But she doesn't want him thinking he never got a shot at all.]
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[Is there a way to make it kid safe? She doesn't know. But she'd eventually grow up and hear the stories anyway. Might as well tell her at least a sanitized version of the truth.
And then she sighs, because she hadn't told him this part of the story yet.]
We fucked up, in the sixties.
[More accurately, Viktor fucked up, but that's not really the point.]
We fucked up so bad that we were never born and so as a result, Claire was never born.
[A beat.]
Except for you. You're fine. You were alive when we got back, actually.
[Is it time to tell him this? She doesn't know. But she doesn't want him thinking he never got a shot at all.]
Just with a whole different group of siblings.