I am going to follow the rules of this subreddit, but I have now fallen down the rabbit hole that I always do when I write stories for fun. I know that the word cap clocks at 1,000 on reddit so does anyone have a tips when making a multi-part story. Do you know when a good stopping point is before you break the story into the second and possibly third parts?
I know how the title sounds and I kinda sorta want to defend myself in this instance everyone around me says I'm not the jerk because of the situation we're in with the company, but I can't get the feeling of guilt out of my head. My team and I were tasked with a special mission that is supposed to help everyone after a tremendous tragedy so I (possibly 20s-30sf) sent people with state of the art equipment that we had to fetch the thing we needed.
We kept losing people and were desperate to collect the info we needed to help the ones who needed it the most. We recruited a Male (Possibly 20s) for a mission that has seemingly failed time and time again. As much as I wanted to be more honest with him.His sketchy past i was pretty hesitant because of the situation we were both in. I said some things I shouldn't have I'll admit and he did something he kept apologizing for. I did truly accept the apology and it terrified me that we lost communication with him at times.
We've been doing this mission so much that I thought I had become numb to everything, but in a moment of honesty I guess I gained back my humanity and promised him that he'd be back safe and whatever transgression he did would be forgiven.
We got what we needed in the end and though I'm grateful for it. I feel bad so I'm using whatever communication I can to ask anyone out there who's not in this situation. Am I the jerk?