6 comments/ 12232 views/ 24 favorites Dave and Leroy By: kmillerk1 Leroy came home and dropped his things in his room, he hasn't been home for a year. He looked around, there was no one home. His brother must be out he thought and he knew Dave was at work. He looked in the fridge and there was little to nothing. He laughed to himself, he wished Dave would learn to cook, he could only fry eggs and Chris, Leroy's brother is no better. He started listing things that he would get from the grocery store and changed to civilian clothes. He left out and was hoping that the evening went by quickly because he couldn't wait to see Dave, he had missed him. Leroy made it to the store and started shopping, he wore headphones to block out anyone around him. He just wanted to get the food he needed and head back to the quiet house. ***** Dave saw Leroy from a distance and smiled, he was driving through the parking lot of the grocery store, his partner and he were going to take their lunch break and grab a bite at the restaurant that was in the same lot. "What did you see to make you smile like that?" Terry asked. "Just saw someone that I know." Dave replied. "Well, you look like you want to jump out of the car and run up to them." Terry explained. "I would love to but I can wait until I get off shift." "May I ask who it was that you saw?" Terry asked. "My Man." Dave smiled. "Oh, he is home? Why didn't you take today off if he was coming home? And why aren't you parking the car and running into the store to find him?" "Because we are not open about it, and he never knows the exact day he will be returning from deployment. So I will see him tonight when I get off shift." "Damn it, just go in and at least say hello to him. Or are you afraid you two will God forbid hug in public?" Terry was an out in the open gay, he doesn't know why people try to hide it. Dave laughed, "No, not afraid of that, we will hug in public, just we haven't seen each other in a year so I don't want to get emotional in public." "You are the girl in the relationship aren't you?" Terry chuckled. "Just go in, see your love." "Will you come in with me?" Dave asked. They parked the car in the fire lane, that was a bonus of being a police officer and walked into the store. They started looking down the aisles for Leroy. Dave spotted him in the frozen foods and just stood there watching him at first. Leroy was looking at his list and looking at the frozen veggies. He always does the store backwards. He knows he should start in the dairy or deli areas then work his way to the frozen section but he wasn't planning on spending that much time in the store. He looked up after getting some veggies out of the case and smiled. He saw Dave from a distance and he actually felt his heart leap. Dave started walking down the aisle and Leroy actually left his cart and walked up to him and gave him a huge hug and a kiss on the lips. "I have missed you." Leroy whispered in Dave's ear. "So have I. I love you Lee." Dave was a little shocked at the kiss. "Ditto." Leroy smiled and hugged him again and whispers in his ear. "When do you get off, because I can't wait to make love to you?" "I will be home a little after midnight. I will come straight home." Dave smiled when he pulled back from Leroy. "By the way Chris is staying at his girlfriends, since we didn't know the exact day you would be in he didn't want to come home to us being, well us." Dave and Leroy laughed. "Good." Leroy smiled, he planned on fucking his brains out. Dave smiled and turned around to leave then he realized he didn't introduce his partner to Leroy. He turned back and noticed that Leroy was still watching him. He smiled and then introduced his partner to him, they shook hands and then Dave and Terry walked out. Leroy finished shopping, but before he left the store decided to pick up some whipped cream, he didn't know if he would have the patience tonight to have fun with whipped cream but maybe over the next few days. ***** "He can't tell you he loves you in public? Just ditto? But he doesn't mind kissing you?" Terry asked. "This is how it always has been and the kiss is new, he has never done that." "But your families know don't they? How long have you two been together?" "Since sixteen officially and just mine family knows." "Why not his?" "His mother is very much against homosexuality. I didn't know how badly until a friend of ours came out to their parents and she found out and was just plain evil when she talked about it." "Wow, I am sorry." "Yeah, Lee and I were going to come out to his entire family the day she talked about our friend, and changed our minds." "Maybe she will be different since it will be her son?" "Maybe, we will see one of these days." Dave responded. "Maybe, I know Lee is thinking about telling them again but I know he would hate to be disowned, he loves his family so much. "Why do you call him Lee but introduce him as Leroy?" Terry asked. "In his families presence I call him Leroy, his is a junior. They call his dad Lee and him Leroy, but all his siblings call him Lee when their dad is not around. It is just to not to confuse anyone I guess." Dave smiled. ***** Dave walked into the house at a quarter after midnight. He found Leroy waiting for him in the living room. "Strip." "Excuse me?" Dave was smiling. "Dave strip, now." Leroy was waiting patiently. Dave took his gun belt off and sat it on the table, then he started unbuttoning his shirt, Leroy walked up to him and started kissing him. He removed Dave's tie and started working on his pants. Dave kicked out of his shoes off and was working on pulling off his t-shirt. Leroy pulled him towards the bedroom, he had it all set up. There was lite music playing, candles burning and rose petals on the bed. Leroy was kissing Dave all the way to the bedroom. Dave was extremely hard by time they reached the room, so was Leroy. Leroy was smiling as Dave started removing his clothes. They were kissing and hugging, then Leroy had Dave lay down on the bed. Leroy straddled Dave, their cocks were rubbing together. He lend down and was kissing Dave, grinding his cock into his cock and abdomen. "Will you please fuck me?" Dave finally said when Leroy started kissing on his neck. Leroy smiled and grabbed the tube of lube on the nightstand. He turned Dave over onto his stomach and poured some lube out on to his fingers, which he started to rub Dave's sphincter and pushed one finger in. Dave moaned because it has been a year since he had been touched there. Leroy withdrew the finger and added more lubricate and pushed it back in, once he was moving it in and out easily he added a second one. Again Dave moaned but it was feeling good, Leroy started scissoring his fingers so they were opening him up more, once he felt loose he added a third, Dave moaned and pleaded with Leroy to put his cock in him. Leroy turned him back over and lifted his legs up so he was spread open. He poured lube on his hand and started rubbing his cock and stuck the head at the entrance and slowly pushed in. Dave was trying to relax, when Leroy's cock made it through the opening, but he stopped until Dave was comfortable, then he slowly started pushing more of his cock in. Dave sucked in a breath and froze, it was hurting him. Leroy stopped for a moment and then pulled completely out, he squirted more lube and push it up inside Dave and rubbed his cock down with more. Leroy pushed back in slowly and pushed even further in this time. Dave was still in pain but not as much, Leroy started small thrusts and Dave started moaning because he was enjoying it, soon Leroy was completely buried in his lovers' ass. Leroy was still doing small thrusts in and out of Dave he wanted him to enjoy everything. "Fuck me, Lee. Please fuck me hard." Leroy smiled and started fucking him hard, his balls were slapping against Dave's ass. He slowed to a stop and lend down and kissed Dave. "I love you. You are my life, you know that." "Ditto." Dave responded and laughed. Leroy started his assault on Dave's ass again. Dave was rubbing his own cock and they both started to come at the same time. He laid down on top of Dave and kissed him, they laid like that for a long time until Leroy's cock slipped out of Dave's ass. They both laughed and Leroy rolled off of him and continued to kiss him sleepily. They end up spooning, Leroy reached down and pulled the covers over them both and they fell into a blissful sleep. ***** Late that morning, Leroy woke and went to the bathroom, he washed his stomach and cock. Then he went to the kitchen and got a glass of water before heading back to bed to snuggle up to Dave, Dave was laying there awake waiting to pounce. He kissed Leroy and got on his knees and started rubbing Leroy's cock and began to suck and lick it. "Give me yours, so I have something to do." Leroy stated, Dave was happy to provide his cock for him to suck. They were just teasing one another for a long while. They didn't hear the front door open. "OH MY GOD!" She screamed, and walked back out of the bedroom through the living room. "Lee we are leaving." Lee looked at her; he just walked in and was very confused. "LEE WE ARE LEAVING." She screamed again and walked out the door. Leroy rounded the corner as she walked out and looked at his father. "What happened?" Lee asked his son. "Dave and I were um..." Leroy couldn't finish the statement, Lee just nodded his head and walked out to his car to attend to his wife. "Sue come on let's go in and talk about this." "Why are you so damn calm about this Lee?" "Sue, I have known for a while now." He looked her in the eye. "I found Dave and him kissing in the kitchen once a long time ago." "But Dave was married for a few years. Please start the car and take me home." "Yes he was, but they love one another Sue." Lee started the car and head back to their home. Sue was quiet the entire way home. *************************** Thank you for reading. There is more, I promise, I just wanted to stick this part out to see how it does. This is my first time I am posting anything, I have a few stories written but been afraid to post. I hope that you like so I can finish more of this story and dish it out to you. Dave and Leroy Ch. 02 After Leroy calmed down a minute he went to take a shower, he needed to see his mother and try to set things right with her. When he came back into the room to dress, he looked at Dave sitting on the bed still naked and in a little bit of shock. "I am going to go see my mom, do you want to come?" Dave just looked at him with a look of remorse, he knew Leroy was going to tell his mother but he didn't want her finding out like this. "Yeah I will come." Dave stood up and hugged Leroy. "Let me grab a shower." Once Dave was dressed they headed over to see Sue. "How did your Mom know you were home?" Dave asked after Leroy had been quiet for a long time. "I called her last night after I came home from the grocery store; I told her I was tired that I would come by to see her today in the afternoon. I guess she wanted to see me sooner." Leroy shrugged his shoulders. "I guess I should have waited, until today to call her, but can't change what happen now." "Lee I am sorry, I should have locked the door last night." "Dave, it is not your fault and when do we lock that door, god forbid the person that wants to walk into this house when we are there." Leroy chuckled thinking about Dave, near six foot tall and two hundred pounds of muscle and a cop and him over six foot, muscle to boot and trained in hand to hand combat. "Yeah, still I shouldn't be leaving my gun just lying in the front room, just because I am horny that my boyfriend is home. I am amazed she didn't see my clothes." "I picked them up this morning and put your gun in the safe. Anyways, I think she would have thought that you were the messiest roommate on the face of the planet. I still don't think she would have thought anything was out of the ordinary even if she would have looked at your clothes." Leroy laughed. "Her baby boy was home, remember. Guess I am not her first born anymore, I can guarantee that I am disowned, but maybe Dad talked to her." Dave wanted to ask about that, he didn't know his dad knew, but he decided not to broach that subject at this present moment, they were almost at Leroy parents' home. ***** Once Sue was home she called Sarah, Dave's mother and asked her to come over right then. She went up to Leroy's room with a trash bag and started throwing things away. Lee was trying to stop her when Jewels came out of her room. "Mom what are you doing?" Jewels had heard her father try to stop her from throwing things away but she didn't know where they were until she walked out of her room to see her in Leroy and Aaron's old room. "Throwing Leroy's things away, I don't want them in my house anymore." As she picked up one of his trophies and threw it in the trash. Lee threw his hands up and walked out of the room because he heard the doorbell, he was thinking maybe Sarah could talk some sense into Sue. "Mom, stop, what happened?" "Either help me or get out of my way." As she pulled off another one of Leroy's football trophies from the dresser and threw it away, she was removing things as she came to them, tears were coming down her cheeks. "Mom, I don't understand." "Leroy is dead to me." "Mom, what did he do?" "He is just dead to me." "Mom!" Jewels was getting very worried and tried to stop her from throwing the next trophy away. "GET AWAY FROM ME." Sue screamed and threw the trophy across the room, it hit the way and busted into pieces. Jewels walked out of the bedroom and started calling all of her siblings, telling them something is wrong to just come now, they all started showing up. After a while Jewels and Sarah were able to convince Sue to stop throwing Leroy's things away, to sit and calm down a bit. Between everyone they were able to steer her in the living room, when Leroy and Dave walked in. "GET OUT." Sue screamed. "Mom, I am sorry, I should have told you." "GET OUT." "Mom please let me explain." The only three that knew what was going on was, Lee, Chris and Sarah. Sarah hugged her son when he was standing there. "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE, YOU ARE NO LONGER WELCOMED." Leroy just shook his head and walked out, Dave gave his mother another hugged and walked out after Leroy. "What happened Mom, please will you just tell us." Aaron asked. "Your brother... Your brother." She started to cry. "What she is trying to say is Leroy is gay." Chris told everyone. "How did you know?" Sue asked. "Mom, I live with them, remember? They tried hiding it at first but after a while of them trying to steal time together, I just asked them." "You are moving home, you are not going to live with that anymore." "Mom, you are overreacting, they love one another." Chris responded. "No, it is wrong, it is not right in the eyes of the Lord." Sue sat there for a minute and then got up. "Mom where are you going?" Allison asked. "Finished cleaning out that room, I don't want anything of him left here." As she was walking out of the living room she pulled his Military graduation picture off of the wall. "Mom, stop please. I will pack everything up, you will hate yourself later if you threw his things away." Allison replied. "Then pack them up and take them to his house, then no one is allowed to see him ever again." "Mom, please don't be irrational." Patrick commented. "No, I want Aaron, Jeff and you to go and help pack Chris up, he is not allowed to live there, drop all this shit off at his house while you are there." Sue started going around the living room and pulling all of the photos that had Leroy in them. "Mom, please stop, you can't erase him from our lives." Jeff tried to reason with Sue. "Just watch me." Sue continued to pull any photo that had him in it and put them in a pile. "Is there anything in the room that you want Mom?" Aaron asked before he walked upstairs with some boxes. "No, remove it all." Aaron, Allison and Jewels were packing everything up in the room and they took his trophies out of the trash and put them in one of the boxes. Jeff, Chris and Patrick were taking them down to Jeff's SUV as they were filled. "Dave and Leroy?" Aaron asks Chris during one of his trips down to the SUV. "Yeah, they really do love one another." Chris responded. "I knew they were always close, but I didn't realize that close." Aaron responded, Chris just nodded and headed back up to grab another box. Sarah was trying to talk with Sue, but she wasn't making any headway, Lee just shook his head and stayed silent. Sue gathered everyone in the living room before Aaron, Jeff, Patrick and Chris left to Leroy's home, to drop the things off and pack Chris up. "After today, Leroy is dead to us." Aaron started to speak but she cut him off. "NO, Leroy is dead to us, you are to have no contact with him." She motioned to the pile of pictures. "Take these too, I don't want them in my home." Allison started to speak again she cut her off. "If they stay here any longer, I will burn them." No one said anything, Aaron picked up the pile of pictures and the boys left and the girls sat down. ***** "I am sorry man. I didn't know your mom would respond this way, I just always assumed it would be your dad." Dave stated as he drove the truck home, he wouldn't let Leroy drive back. Leroy just stared out of the window. "Dad walked in on us a few years ago." Dave looked over at him for a second. "He didn't see what mom saw. We were in the kitchen kissing and he walked in and we looked at one another and he walked back out. Ten minutes later he came back in like nothing happened." "How did I not know this?" "I just continued to kiss you; I wasn't expecting him to come back. He never mention it and neither did I." Dave pulled the truck into the drive and they got out and went in. Once inside Dave pulled Leroy up into a hug and kissed him. "I am sorry." "Dave it is ok, I think this would have been the same reaction no matter how she found out. I am tired, would you like to cuddle?" "I thought you would never ask." They walked down to the bedroom hand in hand, laid down fully dressed and Dave spooned Leroy. It took Leroy a while to calm down enough to sleep but he was with the man he loved and not even his mother was going to change that. ***** Almost two hours later, the boys pulled into Leroy's driveway. They walked into the house and called out to Leroy. They sent Chris to his room to start packing his things, they didn't want to but they told him that Mom will drag him out of the house herself if he didn't. He stomped off. Leroy and Dave woke when Aaron called out for Leroy, they walked out to the living room. "Hey Man." Aaron looked at him. "Well?" Leroy asked. "Mom sent us here with all of your things, and we are to collect Chris's things, she is making him move back home." "Ok." "Where would you like us to put your stuff?" "In here is fine." Leroy and Dave walked out with them to start grabbing the boxes, they had everything in the house before Chris even packed a suitcase. Aaron informed Leroy that they are supposed to cut all contact with him, but they said they won't that it is stupid, they were all hoping mom would come around and see that she can't cut him out of their lives. "Aaron, just do as mom says, if no one is supposed to talk to me, just make it so. Don't need you all getting Mom upset." "But it is stupid Man, so you are gay, who fucking cares." Jeff responded and Patrick nodded his head. "I should have told her, it was my fault, I could have come out a long ass time ago, instead of waiting until I am thirty and her walking in on us." "Oh Shit, Mom walked in on you two doing what?" Chris asked as he was laughing. "Let's just say it isn't a position that you would want mom walking in on you and your wives or girlfriends." "Holy Shit!" Was all Chris could say. They talked some more while they helped pack up Chris's things and take them to the SUV. They all hugged Leroy before leaving and headed back over to the house. Once his brothers left Leroy looked at the pile of pictures that were sitting on top of the boxes, he looked at Dave. "She took down every picture that had me in it, I bet you anything she is going through the photo albums." Leroy sat the photo he was holding down and walked out of the room, he didn't feel like doing anything except laying in his bed. ***** It was June when this happened, Leroy thought eventually his mother would come around and start talking to him again, but by Christmas she had not. All his siblings wanted to have him over for Christmas but they didn't want to risk their mother finding out. Aaron and Allison's kids were wondering where Uncle Lee was, and they voiced it when they went over to grandma's while everyone was eating dinner, no one responded to them. So when Christmas presents were being opened they voiced it again. "Grandma, where is Uncle Lee?" Sade asked. Sue didn't responded to her, so Sade went up to her father, "Daddy where is Uncle Lee?" "He couldn't come for Christmas, Honey." Aaron responded. "He didn't show up for Thanksgiving either." Michael stated. "No, he couldn't come then either." Allison frowned at her son. "But I see his truck, he is across the street. Can we go see him?" Sade asked. "No, you are not allowed." Sue responded. "Why Grandma." "Just because, just leave him alone." They continued to opened their gifts and Sade cried a little because she didn't understand why she couldn't see her uncle. ***** Leroy looked over at his parents' house as they pulled into Dave's parents drive. He had presents and cards for his sisters and brothers and the kids. He told Aaron that he would leave them in his car. Everyone was still talking to Leroy but behind their Mothers back. Leroy walked over to Aaron's car and put them in the front seat and walked back to where Dave was standing. They hugged and went into the house. Sarah and Dan welcomed them inside when they knocked. The house smelled wonderful, it was decked out, and Dave's sister's kids were running all over the place. When Leroy and Dave walked in they screamed, "Uncle Dave and Uncle Lee are here." And they all run up to them and hugged and pulled them into the family room. Amanda was talking a mile a minute, she was the youngest, and she was hoping that Santa will leave lots of presents for her tonight. She climbed up on Leroy's lap and snuggled up to him. Harry climbed on Dave and did the same, the other three were just running from here to there. Leroy couldn't help but smile. Dave and Leroy stayed around most of the evening, when Dave sister Mary and her husband Ken started putting the kid's coats, hats and gloves on, they took their leave. They hugged everyone before they walked out and went to the truck. It was snowing so Leroy started the truck to warm up and then started cleaning off the snow. Dave picked up some and threw it at him. Leroy grinned and grabbed up some snow and ran over and put it down Dave's pants. Dave screamed loudly. ***** Sade was looking out the window and she saw Leroy outside of the neighbor's house, she ran over to the door and grabbed her coat before anyone knew what she was doing and ran out of the house over to him. "Uncle Lee?" She said as she flung herself at him. Leroy picked her up and swung her around and hugged her, he had a huge smile on his face. Aaron was already coming out of the house to retrieve her. "Uncle Lee, I miss you, why can't you come to Grandma's anymore?" "It is a long story Babe, love you." He said as Aaron came up and shook his hand. "You have to go back in Sade." "Come with us, can't he Daddy?" "It isn't a good idea, Grandma doesn't want Uncle Lee there." He picked her up. "Say goodbye to Uncle Lee." She stretched her arms out so she could hug Leroy and told him that she loved him. Aaron also hugged him and told him Merry Christmas and walked back to the house. Leroy and Dave got into his truck and pulled away. Inside Michael was crying because he didn't get to run out to see his uncle. Everyone was looking out the window watching. Sue went into the kitchen she was mad, but she was missing Leroy, she found herself staring out the window too. When Aaron bought Sade back in through the kitchen Aaron hugged his mom and Sade yelled at her. "Grandma, it is Christmas, Uncle Lee should be here." Sue walked out of the room. Aaron scolded her. When Aaron walked into the living room, everyone looked at him. "Did he say anything?" Allison asked. "He just told me to tell everyone Merry Christmas." He smiled and turned away to try to hide the tear that rolled down his cheek. "Well it is getting late, Bridget honey, did you want to get going?" She nodded and started dressing Tyler, Aaron told her that he will gather everything and get Sade. When Aaron came out to the car to warm it up, he found the presents and stuck them in the appropriate cars. He hopes that Chris and Jewels finds theirs, he didn't want to leave them in plain sight. He stuck all of his family's presents in the trunk and came in and gathered his wife and kids. ***** Leroy and Dave finally make it back to their house and Dave turned and hugged him. He reached into the tree and pulled out a box. "And what is this?" Leroy asked. "My present to you." Dave smiled. Leroy opened the box to find a neckless. "Since I know you can't wear more than one ring. I decided to get you a neckless." "Thank you, Hon." As Leroy pulled a box out of his coat pocket to hand to Dave. "And since you can wear more than one ring." Dave opened the box and took a thick gold band with several rows of diamonds out and stuck it on his right hand, his left hand ring finger was already taken, just like Leroy's. Dave hugged and kissed Leroy and then they went into the family room to see if there were any games on. Dave and Leroy Ch. 03 Dave woke up early on Christmas Day, he and Leroy had turned in the middle of the night. They had gone to bed with Leroy spooning Dave, but Dave woke with his head on Leroy's chest. He loves the feel of Leroy's chest hair under him and loves that Leroy doesn't believe in waxing or shaving. He will trim his bush, but other than that he always says that he was born with this hair that he will die with it. Dave himself is almost nearly hairless, he had the treasure trail down the stomach to his pubic hair, and of course a little ass fuzz but of then the hair under the arms, he doesn't have much. Dave could tell that Leroy was knocked out, there was no movement out of him, he was still breathing deeply, but Dave was going to changed that. Dave gently rolled away from him and crawled under the covers, he likes when he can wake Leroy up this way. He would do it every morning if he could but to wake before Leroy all the time would get tiring. Because he knows Leroy would make it into a game to see who could get up before the other and the next thing they would know, they would be getting up an hour after going to bed every night. Dave chuckled at that thought, but then his attention returned to the object that made him crawl under the covers in the first place. He didn't want to pick his cock up too quickly or it would stir him a wake sooner, so he started licking it lightly. It was soft and just lying there, Leroy had his legs spread ever so slightly and his nut sac was kind of hanging down between his legs. Dave carefully raised them up so he could lick and suck them into his mouth, as soon as he took one of his balls in, he could see Leroy's cock rising to the occasion and heard a moan escaped his lips. Dave continued giving his balls a tongue bath and then moved up to what he most desired. While cradling his balls in one hand he gently pull Leroy's now hard cock away from his stomach and licked the head, he loved the taste of his precum, hell he loved the taste of Leroy period. He sunk down on his cock, he took as much in as possible before he would gag, he always had to work up to deep throating. He knew Leroy was completely awake now because his hands came to rest on his head but Leroy never pushed, he would let Dave do what he wanted. "MMMMM, you know, I love when you do that." "Ah hah." Dave agreed around Leroy's cock, it made it vibrate, which caused another moan to escape Leroy. "Can I have yours?" "Nope." Dave pulled off and looked up a Leroy from under the blankets. "It is all about you this morning." Then he dove back down on his cock, he took it all in this time, no gagging. Dave knew what he was about to do would drive Leroy nuts, he started swallowing, which always massaged the head of his cock and felt so good to Leroy. When he did this Leroy grabbed for hair, he had fists full of Dave's hair in his hands. "You are going to make me blow." As he pulled on his hair to pull Dave off of him. Dave came completely off Leroy's cock and pulled the covers down so he could see Leroy. "That was what I had planned." He grinned up at him and began his assault, he swallowed again and caressed his balls in one hand and drove Leroy to the edge and then over it. Leroy grunted and became rigid as he spasm, volley after volley of cum shot from his cock to Dave's eager mouth, he swallowed most of it saving a little to share with Leroy when he came up for his kiss. Leroy loved the taste of himself in Dave's mouth; they kissed until all the seed that Dave wanted to share was gone. Leroy smiled and held Dave close to him. "Come on you, let's get up for the day. Remember I have to go to work in a few hours, so make me a wonderful Christmas breakfast that should make up for waking you up so nicely." Dave chuckled and jumped up quickly before Leroy could grab him and hold him down. Dave went to the bathroom and started the shower, when Leroy walked by the bathroom naked to the kitchen he winked at Dave. Christmas day was nothing special, Dave had to work his normal afternoon shift, so Leroy stayed home and cleaned up everything. He spent most of the evening cleaning up all the Christmas decorations in the other rooms. It was nearing seven when he decided to take the tree down since he knew he wouldn't have much time later to do it. There was a knock on the door, which he was amazed that he didn't notice them stepped up on the porch since he was standing in the window working on the tree. He smiled and opened the door. Sade wrapped her arms around him and screamed Merry Christmas. Aaron and Bridget came in after Sade, Bridget was carrying Tyler. "Merry Christmas, Brother." Aaron hugged Leroy. "I know Allison, Jeff and Pat are on their way. I just don't know if Chris and Jewels were able to slip out." "I don't want you guys getting in trouble for coming and seeing me. I am a tough guy you know." He smiled. "Yeah as tough as a bear but there is a soft side in there somewhere or Dave wouldn't love you." Bridget responded. Everyone laughed. "Why are you taking the tree down today?" "Well Dave and I already celebrated last night, and I will be busy at the base for a while so why not take it down today." "Because it is still Christmas, put those ornaments back on the tree and plug it in. Please." Bridget commanded. "Yes, Ma'am." Leroy smiled and put the ornaments that he was holding back on the tree and did what he was told, he plugged it back in, he was glad he just started working on the tree, that it was almost untouched. While they were sitting in the living room talking, all the brothers and sisters showed up with their significate others. Chris and Jewels said they told Mom that they had to run over to a friend's house that Jewels wanted Chris to drive her because she hates driving in the snow. "How are Dad and Mom doing?" Leroy asked. "Dad is Dad, you know he won't cross Mom. He told me to tell you Merry Christmas. Mom, I know she is going to cave soon, she looked weepy last night after Sade ran out to hug you, and I don't think it helped that Sade yelled at her." Jewels responded. "Sade, why did you yell at Grandma?" Leroy asked. "Because she won't let you come home. I love you Uncle Lee." She came and hugged and kissed him on the cheek. "I love you too." Then Mikey couldn't be left out so he ran over hugged, kissed and told Leroy that he loved him too. Everyone smiled. Leroy looked over at Aaron and Bridget. "You are going to have a real spitfire on your hands when she gets older." "We already have a spitfire, she is going to be hurricane when she is older." Bridget responded, while everyone chuckled. "Where is Dave?" Jeff asked. "Working, he may stop through on his lunch break." They sat talking for a bit and then Jewels phone started to ring. "Everyone be quiet, it's Mom." She picked it up and everyone shut up, Leroy lean over to her and whispered to go to his room to talk to her. "Hi Mom, yeah I am still over here at Lucy's, Chris and I will be leaving soon. No Mom, I am not lying to you. Why do you say that? No Mom, really I am at Lucy's. Ok Mom we will be heading home in a bit. Bye." "God she is so worried we are all lying to her." Chris responded. "You all are lying to her." Leroy hated to point out the obvious. Dave pulled up out front and smiled he was happy that everyone came over to spend some time with Leroy, he walked in and everyone greeted him. Leroy told him that his dinner is waiting for him in the fridge that he just has to warm it up. He did it and sat down with everyone in the living room. They talked for just a little while before Aaron got a call. "Oh God, that was Dad, we all need to get out of here now, Mom just took off in the car and Dad thinks she is on her way here to see if Chris and Jewels were lying to her." Everyone said the goodbyes quickly and grabbed their kids, things and left out. Aaron got halfway down the block before he realized that he forgot to give Leroy and Dave the present that everyone they had for them. He drove back up and ran in, giving it to him, hugging him and apologizing before he left back out. Dave looked over at Leroy, "Are you ok?" "Yeah." "You're lying." "Yeah. I miss them, but I don't need them getting Mom upset." Leroy had tears coming down his face he refused to look at Dave. "Please look at me." Dave asked, Leroy looked over. "Hon, I am sorry, I wish I could turn time back and we weren't in the same bed that morning." "It would have happened anyways, I knew she would have been the same way if we had just come out to her. It is ok. Honey, I love you, and I never want to sleep in separate beds again. We did it to keep Chris from knowing in the beginning and I hated not being able to hold you. I will be ok, it is just hard right now, because it is the holidays and you are supposed to be with family." "I know babe, I am sorry to do this but my time is up, I have to get going. I dropped Terry off at his house before coming here." Dave got up and kissed Leroy, went into the kitchen to drop off his plate and left the house. As he was driving down the street Sue passed him, she didn't stop she just drove down the street and turned down another one. Dave picked his cell up and called Aaron and informed him that his mother did drive by. Aaron asked how Leroy was holding up. Dave responded that he wasn't doing the best, especially because of the holidays. Aaron again apologized that they couldn't come over as much and then they ended the call. When Dave came home after midnight, everything that was Christmas related was put away. He stopped off in the kitchen for a glass of water before heading to the bedroom. Leroy had the nightstand light on, but was asleep. Dave started undressing and got on his side of the bed and snuggled up to Leroy which woke him. "Hi." Leroy smiled as he had his eyes barely open. "You must be tired if you couldn't stay awake till I came home, let's turn the light out and go to bed, Babe." "Ok." Leroy responded and turned the light out, he turned over to face Dave and Dave put his arms around him and Leroy fell back to sleep. The next morning Leroy was still being held by Dave, Leroy smiled and reached down and start stroking Dave's cock. Dave released Leroy and rolled over to his back, he wasn't really awake. So Leroy got on his knees and started sucking Dave's cock. Dave woke up moaning and smiled because Leroy was getting him closer and closer to a coming. "Oh God, Lee, that feels great." Leroy continued to suck and play with his balls and then it became too much for Dave and he thrust up into Leroy's mouth and started coming. Leroy swallowed every drop. "Would you like me to help you out?" "I would like to fuck you Dave, but later." Leroy responded as he laid he head on Dave's chest, closed his eyes, gently caressed his chest and fell back to sleep, Dave just smiled and fell back to sleep himself. Later that morning they heard the doorbell ringing. Both Leroy and Dave opened there eyes and were wondering who it was. "I will get up." Dave said as he swung his legs over the side of the bed. He grabbed up his sweats and a t-shirt and walked out of the room. Leroy just laid there and started to doze again. Dave came back into the room a few minutes later to wake Leroy. "Hey Hon, wake up." "Yeah." "Your Father is here." Leroy jumped up, grabbed some clothes and walked out to the living room. "Dad, what is up?" "I just wanted to see how you were doing. I am sorry that your Mother is still being stubborn, I figured she would have giving in by now." "I am doing ok, thanks for giving everyone the warning yesterday, Mom ended up driving by ten minutes after everyone left." "No problem. Aaron said he almost forgot to leave the present for you yesterday? Did you like it?" "Honestly Dad, I didn't open it yet." "Why? It was from all of us." "I just didn't feel like it. I will get it now and open it." Leroy got up and left the room and came back with the box in his hands. He started to unwrap it and opened the box, inside was a wedding ring pattern quilt and on top of that was a picture of all of them and printed across the bottom was Leroy we all love you. Leroy was trying hard to hold his emotions in check. "Your brothers and sisters wanted to know if you and Dave were free on Saturday night." "Yeah we are, why?" As he looked over at Dave to confirm, Dave nodded his head. "Your Mom and I are going to watch the grandkids and they wanted to all come over here if you don't mind. Of course your Mother doesn't know where they are all going." "What do they have planned?" "Nothing, they just want to learn more about your relationship, they thought it would be better without the kids there." Lee informed his son. "Ok, I guess." Lee stayed for a while talking with Dave and Leroy then he took his leave, he hugged both of them before he left, telling Leroy that he loved him. Dave picked up the quilt, "This is handmade." "Yes it is, my grandmother gave this to Allison when she turned sixteen." Leroy smiled and turned and hugged Dave, he was trying hard to hold the waterworks back but was failing miserably. The few days that it took to get to the weekend felt like ages to Leroy, he was actually happy, he hadn't been in a while. He didn't care what his siblings were going to ask, he was just happy that they were coming over. He even had called Aaron to see if he needed anything for them, Aaron told him no, that they were bringing everything that was needed for the night. They all showed up at six that night. Everyone pulled up at the same time, and walked in carrying everything to have as a Christmas dinner. All the wives or sisters sat up everything in the kitchen so they could eat to their hearts desire. Then they all sat down in the family room, Leroy pulled some furniture from the living room so everyone would have a comfortable seat to sit in. Dave and he were sitting on the loveseat holding hands. "Ok, Dad said you all wanted to know some information, what is it?" "Well first we wanted to know when you two fell in love?" Aaron was the spokesperson of the group. "For me, I have always loved Dave. I don't remember not loving him. But because we were always told it was wrong I didn't act on anything. I though Dave was straight because he kept dating girls. I just refused to date and dropped myself into my studies and football." Dave chuckled. "I was a little slower, I loved Lee but because I was going against societies norms I was trying to resist and I dated a lot of girls and I mean a lot of girls. I joined football so I could be with Lee and I didn't know that Lee felt the same way until his sweet sixteen." "So what happened that day, how did you tell him?" Allison asked. Dave looked over to Leroy and smiled, then looked at Allison. "I was through trying to resist my feelings for Lee, I asked him if I could stay over that night. So after everyone went to bed, we were sitting in the basement, playing video games. I told him that I am probably going to kill our friendship but I had to do this, and I lend over and kissed him. I was expecting Leroy to hit me but he grabbed me and started kissing me back, I will leave it at that." "No, we want to know everything." Allison said. "We made love that night or at least what we did was making love to us." Leroy filled in. "I am not going to give you details, I have never asked what you guys do with your girl or boy friends, wives or husbands." "Ok, ok." Aaron smiled. "So you two have officially been together since the age of sixteen?" "Yes until I joined the Marines at eighteen." "What happened?" Again it was Aaron asking. "I told Dave I couldn't do it anymore, that it was wrong. I told him I needed to leave for a while, to find myself, that is why I joined the Marines. It wasn't to toughing me up, I was already a hard ass." "Yeah we know that Lee, a bear as I told you a few days ago." Bridget laughed. "I thought maybe if I was in the military that it would knock some sense in me and I would become straight, all it did was just make me want Dave even more. But when I finished basic training, I found out he was getting married. As you know I refused to come home for his wedding. Then after my year of training, I came home and we ran into one another and he asked me if I would go somewhere with him to talk. We ended up at a motel and professing our love again to one another, but he was still married and had to find a way out of it." Dave then spoke up. "The day that Lee and I had together, changed me, I was happier and when I came home Cindy knew something was up. She asked what was going on, and I told her that my best friend was back in town for a few days, she asked who and I told her. She sat there dumfounded for a few minutes and then told me that I was in love with him, and I didn't deny it. She told me that I would say his name sometimes when we were making love and a lot when I was asleep." "So how much longer were you and Cindy together, and how could you marry her after just getting out of the relationship with Lee?" Jeff asked. "Not that long, she moved out that weekend. But Lee was only home for another week before he was due back at his base. We spent as much time as possible together, then he left. How I could find someone just after Lee left me was easy and hard at the same time. I was devastated that Lee left me, I went to the clubs every night, and that is when I met Cindy, we just started talking and one thing led to another and I asked her to marry me. I did it more because I wanted to hurt Lee but I was just hurting myself and Cindy even more." "And then we were back in the same boat of when I originally left." Leroy added. "So what did you two do?" Jewels asked. "Because I was living in the barracks, I saved all of my money, and when Dave and I had some time off at the same time I paid for his plane ticket down to see me and we stayed a few towns away from the base together. We tried to do this at least one a month. Then I finally asked my Sergeant how I can get stationed at a certain base. He told me after living two years where they stationed me and doing one to two years of deployment that then I can request where I would like to be stationed, it wasn't a guarantee but I can request it and possibly get the base I want. I was already in two years so I asked when I can be deployed so I can put in my request. As you know I was deployed for two years to Iraq and Afghanistan, when I came back I requested this base and they allowed it." "You bought this house right after you were assigned here." Jeff responded. "Yeah, it wasn't like I could take Dave on base and make love to him there, so I bought a house. I didn't want to be caught, it was a 'Don't ask, Don't tell' military, I knew everyone in my unit was straight and I didn't want to get beat. Even now gay's in the military is still a bad thing, but they are accepted a little bit more. Then Dave move in, it just looked like two buddies living together." "Yeah it did." Aaron said. "I thought this was the greatest bachelor pad. When you two were at work, I would bring Bridget here." "Yeah we know. We found enough evidence of you having sex in every room of this house. At least when we found Allison and Jason here they only used one room." Leroy responded. "That you know of." Allison smiled and Jason smacked her leg. "I think I was the only good one when we were coming over here when you two were out. I used the basement." Jeff chuckled. "No, you weren't just in the basement, and don't even tell that lied Jeff." Dave responded. "How would you know?" "Because we walked in on you too, but we decided to walk back out because we saw who you were with and knew she would be more than embarrassed." Leroy responded. Dave and Leroy Ch. 03 "Can I ask you a question?" Chris asked. "You just did." Leroy smiled. "Yeah, what is it." "I have always wanted to ask you this, who is on top?" "Christopher!" Allison yelled. "Well I have always wanted to know that, I thought it was question and answer time for Leroy and Dave." "Yeah but that is getting a little too personal." Allison stated. "Lee, tell me please." "Later Chris." "No, I want to know, if they can ask their questions, why can't I?" "We both top and bottom." "Who is more on top?" "If you must know, I am." Leroy responded. "But really it all depends on our mood." "That does explain it, though. It is why Dave kissed you first. It is always the girls that tell the guys they are really in love with them." Chris laughed. "Thanks, man. Just be glad that you aren't my brother." Dave smiled. "Other than Cindy, have either one of you been with someone else, since age sixteen?" Patrick asked. "I haven't." Dave responded. "I have never been with anyone else." Leroy responded. "I have never wanted anyone else, it has always been Dave." "How about when you are deployed what happens to your relationship, do you think about straying?" Jewels asked. "Jewels no, Dave is my life, I love him." "Same here, I patiently wait for Leroy to come back." "Would you get married if it was legal here?" Jeff's wife Peggy asked. "Yes." Both Dave and Leroy said in unison. "We did have a commitment ceremony though." Leroy responded. "A commitment ceremony?" Allison asked. "Well since marriage between two males or females is not legal here, we had a commitment ceremony. Only our closest friends and Dave's parents were there." "When did you do this?" Allison asked. "On January first it will be four years." Leroy responded. "Did you exchange rings?" Peggy asked. Both Dave and Leroy held up their left hands. "I have not noticed you ever wearing a ring before." Aaron responded. "I wear it all the time now, but when I would come around all of you before Mom disowned me, I would slip it off." "So what did you two get one another for Christmas this year?" Jewels asked. Dave held up his right hand to show off the beautiful ring and then he pulled down Leroy's shirt to show them the neckless. "Since Lee can't wear more than one ring while on duty, I got him a neckless and he knew I could wear more than one ring." He smiled. "You are the woman in the relationship aren't you?" Chris asked. "Yes Chris, I am, and I am proud to admit it. Your brother treats me wonderful." "And I always will." Leroy replied and all the women smiled. "Neither of you are very feminine, do you have many gay friends?" Peggy asked. "We have a few, but not very many, mainly most of our friends are straight and most don't know we are a couple. Yes neither one of us are feminine, just because you are a bottom doesn't mean you have to act so feminine that you drive everyone nuts." Dave responded. "Do you know anyone like that?" "We tend to avoid men like that. Not that we don't want to be friend with them it is just easier not getting detected when you are not around that type of a gay man." Leroy responded. "I love Dave because he is wonderful, he is a lot of the time what I can't be, he does have a soft side, he cares more or I should say shows more than I do. I tend to bottle up things and hide them from everyone, where Dave doesn't and he knows how to get them out of me in private, before I explode with the wrong emotion later, which is generally anger." "Again Leroy you are the bear with the soft side that Dave knows and loves." Bridget responded. "Yeah yeah Bridget." Leroy smiled. "And Leroy is what I need, because he is my rock, because I do tend to show more emotions, he helps me through some tough times, and I help him through tough times." "Why do you love Dave or why did you fall in love with Dave?" Allison asked. "Again, I have always loved him, always. He is my soulmate, he completes me." Dave looked over at Leroy smiled and lend over and kissed him on the cheek. "Still not quite ready to see that." Jeff responded. "I am sorry, I can handle that you are gay, but it is still weird seeing you two kiss." "That is understandable." Leroy responded, but then lend over and kissed Dave on the mouth and smiled. "I don't care anymore who sees us, I am not going to hide my love for this man." "Jeff you have to realize that Lee has been hiding this forever, and he wouldn't even say he loved me in public." "He wouldn't?" Erin said, which is was Patrick's wife. "Anytime I told him I loved him in public he would always say, ditto. He still says ditto, but I think it is so, I don't mean to say ingrained into him but he is so use to not telling me he loved me." "But he will when you are in your house or car or whatever area he deems is private?" Peggy asked. "Yes, he will." Dave looked at Leroy and smiled. "I am not that much of a hard-ass, I will tell Dave that I love him, he is the love of my life. It is just I tended not to display public show of affection. I did it more to not be seen as gay, but I have hugged Dave in public." "Yeah probably the 'I'm not gay hug.'" Jeff stated. "The what?" Leroy asked. Jeff told Aaron to get up he went to hug him and patted him hard on the back while saying with each pat. Both Aaron and Jeff said it at the same time "I'M (pat) NOT (pat) Gay (pat) BREAK." They both quickly let go of one another, everyone laughed. "You guys are asses." Leroy said with a smile. "I will hug Dave and I have even been known to give him a kiss in public." "Has he Dave?" Bridget asked. "Yes, Lee has kissed me in public. Usually when there is no one we know around us, but he will hug and kiss me in public." "Oh so he will kiss and hug once and then you don't get another one until you are in a private place?" Erin asked. "I was trying to keep the news of Dave and I being gay from reaching Mom, ok. We were going to tell her a few years ago, but do you remember when Lev came out to his family and mom found out and went off the deep end." Everyone nodded. "We were going to inform everyone then but I got scare once mom was saying all the bad stuff about Lev. I knew she was going to disown me, but well, I didn't think it would be this bad." "We still love you Lee." Bridget said everyone was nodding their heads. "I know, but I tore the family apart and I hate having to see your guys torn. I am going to restate this, you should stop seeing me, you are only going to make it worse on yourselves when Mom finds out you all have been going behind her back." "Lee you're our brother, we love you." Allison stated. "But I am going to apologize because we do have to go, it is getting late and Aaron and I told Mom we would pick the kids up when we got out of the movie that we were going to. We love you Lee." "Thanks for coming by guys." Everyone started getting up and everyone took turns in hugging Leroy and Dave. "Lee, you two make a great couple. I love you two." Jewels hugged Leroy and Dave at the same time. When they all filed out, Leroy closed the door and turned around and Dave was waiting to give him a hug. They went back into the family room and started cleaning up anything that wasn't supposed to be there, and returned any furniture to the living room. It wasn't too late but it was a little after ten, so they plopped down on the couch together to see what was on TV. Over the course of the next few weeks, Sarah was telling Dave that she and Lev's mom Carol were trying to get Sue to forgive Leroy, but they haven't been able to completely convince her in doing so. Dave informed his Mom that it still maybe a rough road because Leroy isn't ready to forgive his mom for disowning him. They both agreed to work on their ends. The days turned into weeks, the weeks turn into months and then it was summer. Sue still hasn't forgiven Leroy and Dave was still trying to find out as much information through his mother. Leroy and Dave had some buddies over to watch a baseball game. Their buddies didn't know that Dave and Leroy was a couple, they just thought they lived with one another. They were talking about woman and how much they need a good fuck that they were both without girlfriends. Leroy and Dave didn't comment, they were happy when the doorbell rang. Leroy got up to get it. All Leroy's sisters and wives of his brothers were standing there. "What is going on?" Leroy asked with his eyebrows raised as they walked in past him. "We came here to talk to Dave and you." Allison stated. "But I see you have company." The guys looked at them from the family room, the two hooted. Leroy gave them the dirties look he could muster up, they shut up. The girls came into the family room and sat down, Allison whispered in Leroy ear before coming into the family room and sitting down. She asked him if the two guys knew, Leroy shook his head. She let the others know not to say anything. "Hey Mark and Jeff, can we cut this day short, I am sorry, but it seems that my sisters would like to talk with me about something." "These are all your sisters Man?" Mark asked. "Some of them are my brother's wives. Anyways, sorry to push you out before the game ended." "It is ok, not like our team is doing the greatest anyways. We will see you on base have a good one." Mark said and Jeff just nodded as they left out. "Ok, what is going on?" Leroy looked at them all and sat down in his chair. "We are tired of this stupid shit between you and mom and we are making you two get together and talk." Allison responded. "Oh no you're not, Mom doesn't want me it is ok. I will survive." "We are not taking no for an answer, if we have to have Dave handcuff you we will." Leroy looked over at Dave and smiled. "No, Dave won't do that, he knows better." "Leroy, please, we are all going to be there too." "Lee, please don't make me have to handcuff you, because I will." Dave looked at him. "I am not going." Leroy went to get up and walk out of the room and Dave was on him. Dave pushed him against the wall. Leroy knew Dave was strong, but in their relationship if anything Leroy was the Dominate and Dave was the sub. "I know I am going to pay for this later hon, but you need to go. Please." Dave said in Leroy's ear as he clipped the handcuffs over his wrists. "I love you, please forgive me." Leroy's eyes were wide open when he felt the cuffs tighten on his wrists. Then he was tugged to the side and led out of the house to his truck and put in the passenger seat. "Dave?" "Lee I love you, please don't be angry with me." The girls piled back in the van that they were driving and Dave followed them to the restaurant. Dave left the handcuffs on Leroy because he knew he would resist him when he got Leroy out of the truck. Leroy didn't speak the entire way to the restaurant. They parked and when they walked up to the door, the owner unlocked it for them to come in, the doors said they were closed for a private function. Inside the boys were all waiting with their dad and mom, if looks could kill Sue would have killed everyone there. Dave's parents were standing there as well. Aaron and Jeff had their hands around Sue wrists to keep her in her seat at the table. The girls pushed Leroy forward with Dave's help. "I don't know why you are doing this, she isn't going to change her mind. She hates me, please get over it and let me be." "Are you still gay?" Sue asked. "Yes Mom, I am and Dave is my partner. I don't know why at this moment." He gave Dave an evil eye. "Then I don't want to see you." "Fine than, Dave uncuff me. Please." "Not that fast." Aaron said. "Lee please sit down." Bridget pulled out a chair for him to sit down and he walked forward and sat, Dave sat down next to him. He lend close to his ear, "Lee I love you, please hear everyone out." "Fine, just uncuff me, please." Dave pulled the key out of his pocket and undid the cuffs. When Leroy was free he turned to face Dave, because he knew it would hurt his mother even more, he put his arms around Dave and pulled him close and kissed him personally on the lips. When he released him, he whispered in Dave's ear that he was going to pay tonight. "Really did you have to do something that gross, two men should never kiss like that." Sue spat out. "Mom, they love one another, we have gotten over it, and you can too." Aaron stated. Sue just turned away from Leroy and looked at the other end of the table. "We are going to have a nice family dinner, we decided not to have the kids here because we knew things may be said that is inappropriate for children's ears." Allison stated. "I am glad Jason was able to get his family to close the restaurant for us. This is neutral ground, it isn't mom's house and it isn't Leroy's. Please let's be a family." Everyone started talking and the food was being sat out on the table. The food was being passed around the table to everyone. Leroy was being civil and Sue just looked at the wall she was facing, she didn't look at Leroy and Leroy didn't look at her. "Mom, please will you talk with him?" Allison asked. "I have nothing to say to him." "Allison is it ok. She doesn't have to speak to me." Leroy states. They started eating again, but Allison wasn't finished. "Mom he is your first born." "No, Aaron is." At that Leroy stopped eating, stood up and started to walk out, but Aaron and Dave stopped him. "Let the faggot go." That was what made Leroy snap, his fist balled up, Dave could see the angry in his eyes and knew he better get Leroy out of the restaurant. Dave grabbed Leroy's arm and lead him to the door but Leroy was pulling back at him. "Lee come on, don't do it, just come with me." Aaron was clueless he didn't know that Leroy had snapped. "Lee please." "Go faggot, you aren't wanted here." "Mom, stop that." Both Allison and Jewels said at the same time. Leroy turned around, walked toward his mother and looked her in the eyes and went off. "FUCK YOU. You want to know why I never told you, it is because you are a fucking no good use of a mother that can't love anyone that is not perfect in your eyes. You don't want me around, fine, it has been a year, I don't need you Mother. Have a wonderful life in your fucked up perfect world." Everyone was stunned. "You were my first born, you were supposed to give me grandbabies, and you were supposed to carry on your father's name." "WHY? So you can ruin their lives too. With your high and mighty attitude. No, fuck that Mother, fuck all of this. You don't have to worry I am not your first born like you said a minute ago. Aaron is, you have six children, which will give you all the grandkids that you need, and I am not one of them. Have a great life Sue." At that he walked out of the restaurant with Dave on his heels. "Mom, why did you say that?" Allison asked. "Because he is a faggot." "Damn it Mom, he still loved you even though you think that and now I don't know if he will ever want to talk to you again." "Good, he is not my son." She took the glass of water that was in front of her and tried to drink it her hands were shaking. "Mom you are lying to yourself, look you are shaking. Why can't you just tell Leroy that you were wrong, that you love him." "Until he is fucking women, he is no son of mine." "Mother." "And none of you are allowed to associate with him." "Mother, he is our brother." Aaron responded. "No he is a faggot and this family will have nothing to do with him." "Sue, please stop talking, now." Lee finally had enough, he got up from the table and went into the kitchen of the restaurant a few minutes later he came back out. "Sue, you are a terrible mother, your son has done nothing wrong." "Nothing wrong! He is going against God's way." "Sue, please stop that he is our son. Our Son." Lee walked out of the restaurant. "Lee, wait up, please." "Dave get in and drive, I can't drive right now. Please." That is all Leroy said for hours to come. Dave drove them home and they got out of the truck in silence. Leroy just sat in the family room the rest of the evening not saying anything. Dave was worried and called Aaron, when he stopped over, he tried to get Leroy to talk to him, but Leroy just sat there staring at the blank TV. Aaron stepped outside and called Allison and told her that Leroy was just sitting in his chair and not talking, she told Aaron that she would be over in a few minutes. Allison arrived and she was able to snap Leroy back into reality, he still didn't talk but he finally closed his eyes and lend his head back on the chair. "I am sorry Lee, I shouldn't have put you two in the same room, I thought if you two were looking at one another you would start talking. I didn't think I am sorry." Leroy opened his eyes and looked at Allison. "Well Mom is a bigot, she will never accept me as I am. It is no problem Allison, just do as she wishes, I am sure she asked you all to cut contact with me again." "Leroy we would never do that." "But she did, didn't she?" "Yes, but we are going to continue to talk to you, you are our brother, Lee. Dad even told Mom, that you were their son, before he walked out. Leroy, I am sorry." "Yeah Allison, where did Dad go?" "We don't know, when I dropped Mom off at home he wasn't there." "Ok, hey I know it is getting late, you both need to go home to your kids, hug them for me, will you?" "Yeah Lee, we will." Allison responded and Aaron just nodded and then they left. Dave looked at Leroy and Leroy opened his arms for him and Dave smiled and sat down on his lap. "Lee, I love you. I am sorry, I... we all were hoping that your mom would change her tune. I am sorry Hon." Leroy kissed Dave on the lips, "It's ok, I didn't expect her to change. I love you, and thank you for trying." Leroy motioned for Dave to get up and Leroy stood and grabbed Dave's hand and took him off to the bedroom. Nothing happened, Leroy wasn't mad at him for handcuffing him today, he just asked Dave to hold him. Leroy cried for a long time and fell to sleep late in the night, Dave was trying to soothe him. Dave and Leroy Ch. 04 A few months trickled by, Leroy started to come out of his depression, Dave didn't know what to do other than be there for Leroy when he wanted to talk. Leroy woke up one morning and said fuck it, he doesn't need his mother to make it in this world. It bothered him for the longest for what he had said to her during their last meeting but he can't dwell on it any longer. He has his father, brothers and sisters love he will have to live with that. He was waiting for Dave to come home from work, he just made it in himself and waited for Dave in the living room. When Dave walked through the front door he smiled when he saw Leroy sitting there, he was too use to finding him already in the bed or in front of the boob tube. "Hey Sweetie how are you tonight?" Dave asked. "I am doing quite well Hon, was wondering if you would like to sit with me for a bit." Dave looked at Leroy and was wondering what was up, but went over and sat next to him. Leroy put his arm around Dave and pulled him into a kiss. "Babe, I am sorry that I have been down for the last few months, I shouldn't have let my Mother get to me as bad as it did. I love you, can you forgive me for my behavior?" "Lee, of course, but there is nothing to forgive." "Oh there is, we haven't really made love since then, and I have yelled and screamed, I know I have brought you to tears more than once over these few months. I have been wholly hell to live with. Babe, I love you and I am so sorry for letting myself dip into depression." "So are you coming out of it then?" "Yes Babe, it decided it was foolish to blame myself for my Mothers reactions, we are doing nothing wrong but loving one another. I am sorry that it has taken me this long." "I love you Lee." "Ditto Dave." Leroy smiled and lend over to kiss Dave. "I love you Dave, more than you will ever know." Leroy pulled Dave up and they walked down the hall together towards the bathroom, Leroy pulled Dave into the bathroom and started undressing him, as he was doing this he reached into the shower and turned it on so it would start to warm up. When he finished undressing Dave, he kissed along his collar bone and down his chest, he had to stop himself before he knelt in front of Dave and started sucking him, he wanted to do this in the shower. So he quickly undressed himself and opened the shower door and guided Dave though. Leroy picked up the soap and immediately started to lather Dave up and wash him, as he was washing him he was kissing Dave passionately on the lips, neck, chest, and down his stomach. Leroy got down on his knees and started licking and sucking on Dave, as he was doing this he was putting a very soapy finger inside of him, soon it because two and then three. Dave's moans were getting louder and louder, Leroy decided he better stop sucking him or he was going to go off before he was able to enter him. So after removing his fingers from Dave's ass and removing his cock from his mouth, Dave gasped audibly, he didn't want it to end yet, he was so close. Leroy stood and turned Dave around and pushed him up against the wall as he was entering him, "Oh Fuck, Leroy. Oh Shit, Fuck Me Babe." Leroy smiled and started fucking him. "Harder Babe, Please." Leroy put one hand on his hip and the other on his shoulder and power fucked him, before he knew it Dave was shouting his name and cumming all over the shower wall and Leroy was shooting his load deep inside his lover. Leroy held Dave to him for a while before he let his cock slip out of Dave's ass, he was kissing lightly over the back of his shoulders. Dave had his eyes closed he didn't want the feeling to end, but then Leroy slipped out and he slowly turned him around so he could kiss him. After a bit they parted and started to wash themselves so they could get out of the shower. Once out, Dave grabbed a towel and dried Leroy first then he grabbed one for himself and dried off. Once they were completely dried Leroy pulled Dave to the bedroom and Leroy laid down and Dave cuddled up to him with his head on Leroy chest and they fell peacefully to sleep. Aaron, Bridget, Allison and Jason walked into Leroy and Dave's house unannounced, they were about to call out when they heard Leroy. "Oh God Dave, Yeah, Oh Shit, Yeah." They also could hear grunting. Allison turned red and hid her face in Jason neck. "Let's leave, shit, I knew we should have called." Aaron whispered. Then they heard the end of Leroy's and Dave's love making when they heard both of them come with grunts and foul language. Before they could turn to leave they heard Leroy scream from the bedroom. "Who in the hell came into my house." Sheepishly Allison responded. "It is Aaron, Bridget, Jason and me." All they heard from Leroy was laughing after that. "Have a seat we will be out in a few." "We could come back. When it is less embarrassing." Allison responded. Leroy chuckled. "Just wait in the family room, it going to be embarrassing later if we don't confront it now." Dave looked at Leroy, "You heard someone come in and you let me continue?" Dave whispered at Leroy. "Hey, I don't get you to fuck me that often, so whomever wants to walk into this house unannounced then it is their fault." Leroy was smiling at Dave. At that moment Dave's cock popped out of his ass and that just made him chuckle even more. "Let's get cleaned up." Dave and he walked into the bathroom with some clean clothes, Leroy jumped into the shower first and showered as quickly as possible, then he got out and Dave got in. Leroy dressed and headed to the family room. "Hey, why do we deserve this visit?" Leroy looked at the four of them sitting there and smiled, Allison and Bridget both turned red. "Lee if you heard us come in, why didn't you stop what you two were doing?" Aaron asked. "Hey, I don't get fucked that often, as I told Dave, I wasn't going to stop it." "Dave was fucking you?" Allison asked. "I thought he was mostly the bottom?" "God Allison don't ask questions it is bad enough that we know what they were doing." Aaron responded. "To answer your question, yes he is usually the bottom as we have discussed this before, but everyone once in a blue blue moon he will be the aggressive one, and I like when he is. So I wasn't going to stop him, he was fucking me something awesome." Dave walked around the corner when Leroy said that and almost died. "Shit Lee, will you please stopped saying things, and I wish you would have told me they walked in." Dave was a little red himself. "I told you, I wasn't going to stop you. Just live with it, they will have to with what they heard." Leroy chuckled again. "Anyways, why are you four here?" "We wanted to know if you would like to go to dinner with us." Aaron chuckled. "Looks like you have your date backwards, sex first then dinner." "What do you think Dave, would you like some dinner?" "Yeah sounds good." They went out to a nice restaurant and had a wonderful time, the six of them came back to Leroy's for a bit, they all sat around drinking a beer or two, both woman didn't drink they grab up water from the fridge. Allison informed them all that they were all going to be uncles and an aunt again that she hadn't even told anyone else other than of course Jason. Leroy got up and hugged his sister and congratulated her and Jason. Dave, Aaron and Bridget got up as well and hugged them. A week went by and Dave had to work one night and Leroy had it off, he had a couple of buddies stop by and they were drinking a lot and watching a baseball game. Once it was through his buddies left and he staggered off to the bedroom to sleep. Dave came home, it was after two in the morning, he should have been home just after midnight, but he was dealing with a major car accident. He walked straight to the bedroom. "Lee, wake up please." Leroy's phone was on silent so he didn't know that he was being called every few minutes for the past four hours. "Lee, please." Leroy started to stir he was still a little hammered from drinking last night with his buddies. "What's up? What time is it?" "It's after two, Lee, there has been an accident." Leroy sat bolt straight up in bed. "Lee, your mother has been in a bad car accident, she is in surgery now. Everyone has been calling you." Leroy looked for his phone and didn't know where it was. He still hasn't said anything, he stumbled out of bed towards the family room and he found it on the floor in the kitchen. "Lee, talk to me." Leroy looked and saw that he missed about a hundred phone calls. "Where is she?" As he ran back to the bedroom and started to put his jeans and a t-shirt on. "Come on I will take you, she is at St. Luke's." Leroy grabbed his wallet, shoes and headed out with Dave. Leroy didn't speak he just listened to Dave. "She was coming home from a friend's house and a drunk driver hit her head on, she didn't even have time to swerve. They had to cut her out of the car. The drunk driver died at the scene." Leroy had his head in his hands, even though he wasn't talking to his mother he didn't want her dead. "All I know is what I saw at the scene and when I was at the hospital. She has lots of broken bones and head injury. She is in surgery now, they are trying to set the bones and some will be done with plates and screws. For her head it is a wait and see game. I am sorry hon." Dave was driving as fast as he could to the hospital, Leroy didn't even notice that he was sitting in Dave's patrol car. When they walked into the ER, everyone was standing there, a few we sitting but mostly everyone was pacing the floor. When they looked over at Leroy they seem to come down a bit, this to them proved the Leroy still loved their mother. "Any news?" Leroy looked at Aaron, Aaron just shook his head. "Dave tends to get the most information for us, they aren't talking with us much. After we couldn't get a hold of you, he said he would go get you for us. Lee, Mom didn't look good when they had taken her to surgery." Allison cried. Leroy looked over at Jewels she was crying, he sat next to her and put his arms around her. "Where is Dad?" "We don't know, we haven't been able to get ahold of him either. He has been so mad at Mom since the day in the restaurant that he has been staying over at Aunt Maggie's. I tried calling there but no one is answering the phone there either. "I will go and see if he is there." Leroy stated. He got up and then looked at Dave. "I don't have a car here do I?" "Here take mine, I am sorry, I... I... I don't know why I didn't go over to Aunt Maggie's looking for Dad." Jeff replied. "We just figured he would answer his phone, like you, we were expecting you to answer." "Ringer off and I was drunk." That was all Leroy said as he grabbed the keys from Jeff and head out to the parking lot. "Are you going to be ok to drive? When was your last drink love?" Dave asked. "Fine to drive, it was at about eleven. I will be fine, I love you." Leroy got into Jeff's car and pulled out of the lot heading towards Aunt Maggie's. Dave walked back into the hospital and told Aaron that he will be back in a bit, that he was going to turn in his cruiser. Before Dave left he went up to the desk and asked if there was any more information on Sue, they stated no and that they will keep the family informed. Dave left for the station after telling Aaron. Leroy made it over to Aunt Maggie's and found his father's car in the driveway, he rang the doorbell and waited. He had to ring it a few more times before his uncle came to the door. "Leroy, what are you doing here at this hour?" "Uncle Dan I need to talk to my dad, something has happened." Dan let him in and told him which bedroom Lee was staying in and he went up to it. Leroy knocked on the door and then opened it. "Dad, you awake?" Lee stirred and woke, "Yeah what is it Leroy?" "Dad just get dressed and come with me please." Lee sat up in bed and threw his legs over the side and grabbed for his pants. "What is going on?" "Mom, got in serious car accident tonight. Apparently no one could get a hold of either one of us." Lee stood up and dressed quickly. "Dad, it isn't looking good, but I don't know everything. She was hit by a drunk driver, she is in surgery. That is all I really know, I walked into the hospital and then came to get you." Leroy took his father to the hospital to wait with everyone else, the doctor finally came out and said they have her in the ICU, that two family members at a time can see her. So Lee and Allison went in, Allison asked if Leroy wanted to but he just shook his head. Sue was laying there, she was barely awake, she was in a lot of pain, they had her almost in a full body cast. She started to cry when she saw Lee, he bent his head to kiss her cheek. Allison held her hand as they talked a bit. Allison said she will leave so someone else could come in. Every time when someone came out they would asked if Leroy would like to go in and he would tell them no. Finally when Jewels who was the last came out and left Lee in there, Leroy got up and walked into the ICU, he didn't go into the room, he just looked in from a far. Lee looked up from talking to Sue and saw Leroy looking in and motioned for him to come in, but he shook his head and walked out. When he came back out to the waiting area, he told them he was going home, that he had to get ready for work, it was already almost eleven. Dave followed him out. "Did you see her?" Dave asked. "See yes, I didn't go into the room. Don't need her getting all pissed off that I am there worrying about her. Let's just go home so we can get an hour of rest and head to work." Dave took him home and when they were in the house Leroy turned and fell to his knees and cried, Dave got down and held him. "I am sorry hon, I so am sorry." Dave was kissing his neck as he was holding him tight. After a while Leroy came back to his senses and got up and went to take a shower. He really did have to go to work and so did Dave. Dave waited until he was out to jump in himself, than they both laid down for a few hours before heading to work. Leroy went to work and then on his way home he stopped off at the hospital, he went to the ICU waiting room and found his father and Allison there, the siblings were taking shifts staying at the hospital. He just sat down with them, not saying anything. Allison grabbed Leroy's hand and held it. "I told her that you were here, that you had to leave to go to work. She didn't say anything. Leroy please go in and see her." "I can't, I will be here but I can't go in, she doesn't want me remember." "Leroy she didn't say that she didn't want you here." "And she didn't say she did. I will stay out here, it is fine. When is the next visiting hour?" "It is coming up in a bit. If you change your mind, I don't mind staying out here." Leroy just shook his head and they sat there just talking and when the time to go in again came, Lee and Allison got up and went in. Leroy lend his head back against the wall and fell asleep. When the hour was up they came back out to a sleeping Leroy, Dave and Patrick were sitting next to him. They were talking low when Lee and Allison walked in. "How long has he been asleep?" Allison asked. "Don't know I found him this way when I walked in." Dave responded. "I probably should wake him and get him home. Did he go in?" "No, he refused. Has he said anything?" "When we got home he broke down, but he didn't say anything." "But he cares for her still." "Allison, he never stopped, it is killing him that she doesn't want him around, hell it killed him to say what he said to her in the fit of anger." Dave responded. "Leroy never opens up to us, so we can never tell when he is hurting." "Allison it took me a long time to figure that out, when he would blow up I knew something was bothering him, but now I know the signs. I knew that day in the restaurant that he was going to blow, I was trying to get him out the door before he started yelling at Sue. When I got him home, and he wouldn't move or talk, it killed me that he was hurting so bad. That night, I held him for the longest time before he stopped crying." "Stop talking about me like that, no one needs to know when I am weak." Leroy woke up. "Yes we do, it is nice to know that my brother does cry, that he does have feelings. It doesn't show that you are weak, it is quite the opposite." Allison responded. "Nope it shows I am weak." Leroy said as he stood up. "I need to go to bed, call if you need anything, and if you all want to use my house as a napping zone or food source, since I am the closest, please do. You know where the key is or I will just leave it unlocked." "Leroy, please go in and see your mother, I don't think she will strike out against you." Lee asked him. "Dad, I can't, I am here, and this is all I can be. You know she is not ready to forgive me, and she will stay quiet only because she doesn't want strangers to know that I am gay. I need to get home and get some sleep before my shift, I will try to stop by before I head to the base today." Allison gave him a hug and then Dave and he walked out. "Your Dad is right, she won't lash out at you." "I know, but she doesn't want me here either. Anyways, where are you parked?" Leroy walked Dave to his car first because it was closer than his, he kissed and hugged him before he drove away. When he walked to his, he dropped into his seat and felt exhausted. Once he was home, he found Dave in the shower and decided to join him. Leroy striped as he was coming down the hallway to the bathroom. He walked in and asked Dave if he would like some company, Dave smiled and held the shower door open for him. Once Leroy was in the shower he pushed Dave up against the wall and started kissing him, Dave was holding Leroy to him, he had his hands on his shaved head and neck, and then they would roam down his back and then back up again. Leroy was doing the same but he had a handful of Dave's hair in one hand as the other hand roamed. Dave slid down to his knees and kissed all around Leroy's pelvic region, before taking Leroy's cock and balls in his hands and kissed, licked and then started to suck his cock. Leroy now had both of his hands full of Dave's hair and he was pumping lightly into Dave's mouth with his cock, he was moaning softly. Dave was more in control right now then Leroy was, Leroy did pump in and out of Dave's mouth, but Dave was running the show, he was licking and sucking and then he would move down to his balls and lick and suck on those. He reached for the soap and lathered up Leroy's ass and started sticking a finger inside, as he started sucking his cock again he was brushing two fingers against his prostate, which caused Leroy to moan even louder and buck his hips more. It was bringing him closer to an orgasm. Dave stood up, he didn't top that much but he turned Leroy around to face the wall and he pushed up inside of Leroy. "Oh god Dave." Dave started with small thrusts and then started to come all the way out and shoved it back in. Leroy was moaning. "Dave, shit." Dave kissed the back of Leroy neck, he reached around and grabbed Leroy's cock and started jerking him off as fast and he was thrusting into Leroy's ass. When it became too much for Leroy to handle, he erupted and when he did this he tightened his ass around Dave which cause him to come. Dave pushed Leroy against the wall and they stayed like that for a bit before Dave softened and slipped out of Leroy. Leroy turned around, hugged and kissed Dave and they finished their shower and went to bed naked, Dave spooned Leroy. Dave woke before Leroy late that morning, he was dragging his fingers lightly over Leroy's hip which made him start to stir. Leroy could feel Dave's cock up against his ass, he likes when Dave takes control but he will never tell him that because Dave likes it more when Leroy is in control. Leroy smiled and turned over to face Dave. "I love you Dave." Dave and Leroy Ch. 04 "I know." He smiled. Leroy smacked him on the ass. "Ok, ok, I love you too. Let's get up, we don't have much time before we have to get ready for work, it is already eleven-thirty. Were you going to stop by the hospital before you headed in?" "Yeah, was going to see if anyone needed anything. Before you say anything, no I am not going to go into the room to see her, she doesn't want me. I am there for her and my family but I will stay out in the waiting room. Please don't push it, Dave." "Ok, I won't, I love you with all my heart, please always remember that." "Ditto." Leroy smiled and got out of bed, he grabbed up some underclothes out of his dresser and BDU's, he retrieved his boots out of the hallway and picked up his clothes that he took off as he was walking to the bathroom and put them in the clothes hamper. Dave just laughed at him, "Just leaving a trail of your clothes for possibly your family to find to lead them into our room with us spooning each other naked, huh?" "Yeah, I forgot that I offered our house up as a resting zone, sorry." Leroy smiled and laughed. They decided to grab a bite to eat at a restaurant near the hospital before stopping up for a bit. Lee looked tired. "Dad, why don't you go to my house and sleep awhile, I am sure Allison or Aaron or one of the others could take your spot to see mom for a bit." "I don't want to leave her by herself, Son." "Dad, Allison is here, Aaron is here, you aren't leaving her alone, she knows you have to get some sleep too. Please have Jeff take you to my house, sleep a bit, take a shower and eat something." Then he turned to Jeff, "Please take him to my house." Jeff nodded. "Come on Dad, Leroy is right you need some sleep, a shower and food." After some convincing from Aaron and Allison, Lee finally left with Jeff. They all talked for a bit, until it was two and both Leroy and Dave said they had to leave for work, it was visiting hours again anyways so Aaron and Allison went in to visit Sue. When Leroy walked Dave to his car, Dave hugged Leroy tight, "Thank you, Lee." "What for?" "Letting me take control last night." "I have never said you couldn't take control before, have I?" Dave laughed, "No, but you know I was a born bottom." "Yeah I know, but occasionally it is nice to toss it up a bit, right." "Yeah it is." Dave hugged and kissed Leroy one more time before getting in his car and pulling away. Leroy walked to his and drove to the base for a long eight and an half hours. Leroy stopped back by the hospital on his way home and Patrick and Chris were sitting there. "Where is Dad?" "Jeff took him back to your house for the night, he asked us to stay and visit mom when it was time. Hope you don't mind." "Nope, hope he is getting some rest than. Ok, well, I think I will head out as well. Do you need anything before I go?" They both shook their heads and Leroy left back out, he called Dave to see where he was, Dave had a late start heading home from the station. Leroy told him that he would meet him at home that that his father was in the house, Dave thanked Leroy for telling him, Dave was thinking about jumping Leroy at the door. For the first time in a very long time Dave and Leroy went to bed almost completely clothed. Mostly they slept in the nude and sometimes in boxers, but they hardly ever slept with sweatpants and t-shirts on. They tried to fall asleep without touching one another, because they didn't want Lee to walk in and see them, but sometime while they were sleeping they gravitated towards one another and Leroy was spooning Dave. In the morning Dave forgot all about Lee and started rubbing his ass on Leroy morning hard-on, Leroy moaned as he was waking up. "Dave, Leroy, I know that you would probably love to have sex, especially in the morning but if you would mind, not in front of me." Lee spoke from the corning of the room. Leroy closed his eyes and Dave stopped grinding his ass against him immediately. "Good morning Dad. What's up?" As Leroy and Dave was about to separate while looking at the chair that Lee was sitting in. "You two cuddling doesn't bother me, I have seen guys doing what you wanted to do before I spoke up." "What?" Leroy responded. "Leroy, I worked on a ranch after I turn eighteen for about four years before I met your mother and moved here. There were no women for miles around, I saw everything son, and I would be lying if I said I never had my dick sucked by a guy. Maybe that was my punishment that my oldest is gay and my youngest is bi..." "What?" Both Dave and Leroy said at the same time. "You didn't know about Jewels? I would have thought of all people she would have told you." "No didn't know about Jewels and holy shit Dad, you can't just drop that on me like that." "About Jewels, I would have thought she would have told you because you are gay." "No that you worked on a ranch and experimented, and Jewels is probably scared to because of how Mom is treating me." "Well it was thirty plus years ago and I was just trying to make my point that seeing you two together, kissing or hugging doesn't bother me. I have seen the act of two guys going at it, if I could see that, seeing my son and his lover hugging and kissing shouldn't bother me but I don't want to see you two having sex." Leroy chuckled. "No problem Dad, I am not an exhibitionist. Why don't we get out of our room and sit in the family room?" Dave and he got up and head out of the room after Lee walked out. Once everyone sat down Lee looked over at his son and Dave. "Thank you." "What for Dad?" "Trying to show your father some respect by sleeping fully clothed." "Well even with being fully clothed I forgot when I woke up why I was, and thank you for speaking up because if you didn't right then I would have had Dave undressed in a second flat." "Well then I am glad I did. Now for the subject that I wanted to talk about before Jeff or Aaron comes and picks me up. I would like you to go into the room and visit your mother for me, please." "Dad, you know she doesn't want me, you know she will just be pissed off that I am there, I love her and I love you Dad, but I can't, I will sit up at the hospital but I can't go into the room." "Ok Son, I wish you would but I won't and can't push you." "Would you like me to shower and take you to the hospital, we could get some breakfast." "That would be nice, I will call your brothers and tell them not to bother picking me up." Leroy showered and then took Dave and his dad out for breakfast before taking him back to the hospital, Leroy had dressed in his work clothes so he didn't have to leave the hospital before he needed to be at the base. They had dropped Dave back by the house, he was going to come up to the hospital later." Sue was only in ICU for five days before she was downgraded to a regular room. After a few weeks she was sent to a nursing facility until her bones were healed and they could start rehab on her, which was close to five month. Leroy didn't come back up to the hospital after she was downgraded, he knew she would be ok, and since everyone could go into the room at any time now, they didn't need him around. Dave and Leroy Ch. 05 The New Year brought new changes for Leroy and Dave. The Leroy's family was over more, his mother was coming around according to his siblings and his father, saying she has asked about him a lot but he wasn't going to put much thought into it because until he physically sees her and she is not vulgar towards Dave or him, then he will believe it. His birthday was coming up and he wondered what Dave had planned. A week before his birthday he finally couldn't take it, Dave had said nothing about it and he wanted to know if they were doing something so he could plan. He walked up behind Dave in the kitchen and hugged him from behind and kissed his neck just behind his ear. "Honey, what do you have planned, I know you have something." "Don't have a clue what you are talking about Hon." Dave smiled. "Come on you know I don't like surprises, just tell me if you are planning anything big." "It isn't me this year, actually I am not even going to be with you most of your birthday this year. Your brothers have asked if I minded if they take you out for the day." "My brothers, really." Leroy was surprised. "Where are they taking me?" "That I am not going to tell you, you will just have to find out on your birthday." Dave turned to Leroy. "I love you Lee." Leroy looked disappointed and Dave laughed. "I love you too Babe." He kissed Dave on his lips and walked off to the other room. Leroy was sitting in his family room, he was tired, Dave and he had had sex most of the night, it is one of the few times a year that Leroy gets to be a bottom. It was Leroy's birthday, his wish that Dave grants him every year is to have Dave dominate him. Anytime someone asks, Leroy always says that they share top and bottom positions, because Dave is a little self-conscious about being labeled the woman in the relationship. It really doesn't bother Leroy to be the top most of the time, he does enjoys it, but occasionally he does love to be dominated. Leroy was drinking coffee waiting for his brothers to show up. His brothers finally called him a few days earlier and ask if they could take him out for the day, like how Leroy would take them out on their birthdays when they were younger. Leroy said, how he could refuse an offer like that. To get to spend his birthday with his family, that is a gift in itself. The day before Leroy's birthday, Dave called Jeff and asked while they were together if he could watch Leroy. Dave informed Jeff that he has been worried about Leroy lately because he has been losing his balance. He asked him not to let Leroy know, just to watch and make sure that it wasn't him thinking too much into a situation. Jeff said no problem that they would assess Leroy. The brothers all showed up, they knocked and walked in, they were about to call out to Leroy when they saw him sitting in the family room. Dave was coming down the hall when they came in. They all greeted one another and sat down for a bit talking. "Dave you could come if you would like." Aaron stated. "No, it's a brother thing, I don't see you asking Allison's husband to go. You guys have a fun day whatever you have planned." "We would tell you, but we are trying to surprise Lee, he use to take each one of us out on our birthdays it is about time we took him out for his, before he gets too old for us." Jeff responded and everyone laughed. "We should be back by dinner time." They headed out, first they went to breakfast, then they took Leroy to a nearby town to a natural history museum, they knew Leroy always loved museums but he could never get anyone to go with him. So they spend a good portion of the day there. Leroy was walking around like a little kid in a candy store smiling up a storm as he walked through and looked and read everything. The guys were getting more pleasure out of watching their big brother then they were from looking at everything themselves. Jeff was watching Leroy and did notice the unbalance issues. It didn't happen all the time, but every once in a while Leroy would start to take a step and he would have to step sideways to stay upright and to keep from being noticed. Jeff stepped away from the group and called a friend of his that is an intern for a neurosurgeon, Jeff was an intern too but just in a general doctor's office, he would do rounds at the hospital but nothing surgical related. The friend said he would asked the doctor and call him back when he had some time. Jeff patiently waited. When it was after one in the afternoon, everyone decided to head out and have lunch. Leroy thanked them because he always wanted to come back here as an adult but just didn't have the time, and he knew it wasn't Dave's cup of tea. They had lunch at a dinner and started heading back towards Leroy house but they had one more birthday stop to do. On the way to the next place Jeff's friend called back and Jeff asked Aaron if he could pull over so he could talk to this person in private and stepped out of the car. Jeff's friend told him that the surgeon highly recommends a C-scan, that if he wanted they could pull some strings and get his brother in today or tomorrow. Jeff asked if he could call them back in a few minutes, that he needed to talk to his brother, of course he said it was fine. Jeff went around to Aaron side of the car and knocked on the window and asked to talk to Aaron alone. Jeff told him what was going on, and asked how they should approach Leroy about it. Aaron just stated we tell him that he is getting the scan and leave it at that and told him to call the friend back and get it scheduled for today if possible. They had an hour to get to the hospital, Aaron told Jeff to text Dave to have him meet us there. "Leroy we are deviating from our birthday plans for you today, I am sorry man, but we need to run up to the hospital for a bit." Jeff informed him. "No problem, is there an issue or something." Leroy asked. "Jeff just needs to stop there for a bit, if that is ok." Aaron responded. "Again no problem, I have had a wonderful day so far." Leroy smiled. They drove straight to the hospital, on the way they informed Dave where to meet them. They walked straight to the testing area of the hospital and Jeff's friend and the neurosurgeon met them outside the scanning room. "Hey Jeff, of course you know Dr. Blake Harding, he wants to assess him before they do the scan." Jeff nodded as Dave rounded the corner to the testing wing, Leroy looked right at him. "What's going on?" Leroy asked. "Sorry Leroy, Dave asked me to watch you today that you were losing your balance a lot lately and I agree there is something wrong that is why we are here at the hospital." Leroy just looked at everyone, Pat and Chris didn't know anything. "Leroy, have you noticed that you are losing your balance?" Dr. Harding asked. "Not really." Leroy started thinking back, he couldn't remember ever losing his balance. "Headaches?" Dave was nodding, Leroy wasn't looking at him. "Yeah, I have had a lot of headache lately." "Any stress going on right now?" "Just the normal that has been in my life for a few years now, but nothing out of the ordinary." "May I asked what your stress is and how many years?" "Three years come this June, my Mother stopped talking with me, which is really the only thing that stresses me. Other than that, I generally let things roll off my back." Dave again nodded to that statement. "I take from this man's nods that he is your partner?" "Yeah how did you guess? Other than him nodding or shaking his head to every statement I make." Leroy smiled at Dave. "This is the reason my Mother stopped talking to me, she found out our secret." Dr. Harding told him that he would like to scan his head anyways that there may be nothing but they should check anyways. Leroy ok the procedure and was taken in right then. They did the scan and asked Leroy to wait in the waiting area so that Dr. Harding could look over it. When he walked into the waiting area, Leroy looked at everyone. "What the fuck was that? I am fine, I don't know why you think I have something going on?" He almost shouted at Dave and Jeff. "Leroy, I am just worried about you, really you have been losing your balance. I would catch you stepping sideways to regain it and at first I didn't think much of it, but then you were doing it more frequently. I love you, I am just worried, so I told Jeff to see if it was just me or if he noticed it too." "Lee, you really don't notice that you are catching yourself by stepping sideways?" Jeff asked. "No, really I haven't." "Well, then maybe this is nothing, but at least we are getting it checked out." Jeff responded. They were silent for a bit and then Dr. Harding walked in carrying a few pictures, "Well there is always good and bad news to almost every situation." He said as he sat down facing everyone. Leroy looked at him, "What is the bad news?" "There is a reason why you have headaches and balance issues. You have a walnut size tumor. The good news is that it was caught early so we can go in and get it." Dave was stunned and grabbed Leroy's hand, Leroy just looked at the doctor. "I can't tell you if it is cancerous until we biopsy it, so the next thing is when would you like to do this?" "I have to go through the VA, or it will not be covered." "Well, now you have two good things on your side, I work with the VA too. So I will call my office over there and get you set up with an appointment." He looked over at his intern and he immediately called and it was set up for Friday. "I want you to come in for a full body scan, I want to make sure that you don't have any other tumors in there." His intern said it was set up for ten that morning, that he has him scheduled for the scan at eight. Dr. Harding said he would see him then and left out of the room. Leroy just sat there for a few. "This doesn't leave this room." Leroy looked at all of his brothers and Dave. "I mean it, do not tell your wives or girlfriends and not Allison, Jewels, Mom or Dad." "But Leroy, they should know." Aaron responded. "Please for me, don't tell anyone. Thanks for the great day, Dave take me home." "Leroy we were going to meet everyone at Jason's family's restaurant tonight. Everyone is going to be there, at least everyone but Mom, she still refuses to come, but Dad is going to be there." Pat stated. "What time? Can we just meet you there later; instead of finishing what you all had planned I am sorry." "Yeah, seven at the restaurant, we will see you then." Everyone headed out and when Dave and Leroy got to the car Dave hugged Leroy. "Thank you Dave, but shit man, a tumor." "Lee... Lee...." He couldn't even finish, Leroy hugged and kissed Dave and told him everything will be alright. Leroy ended up driving them to home, Dave was too broken up about it. The family dinner was ok, all the guys were a little out of it and the women and Lee noticed it. Dave looked like he was about to cry every time he looked at Leroy finally Allison had enough and looked at all the guys and asked what the hell was going on. All the guys at once said nothing was up. "Well is that someone feeling guilty or what? Dave looks like he is on the verge of crying, all my brothers look like they are lying to me." She looked right at Leroy. "Tell me Lee what is going on?" "Nothing Sis, really." Leroy knew he made a mistake right there and dropped his head. "Leroy, are you a Dave breaking up?" Allison asked. "NO, HELL NO." Leroy responded. "I love Dave." "Then why does he look like he wants to cry every time he looks at you." Leroy looks at Dave and holds his hand. "It is nothing really." "Damn it Leroy, just tell us. Aaron, Jeff you seem to know, what is it?" Allison respon "Fine." Leroy responded before Aaron could say anything. "One of my birthday surprises was a scan of my head, and apparently I have a tumor." Everyone that didn't know mouths dropped open and no one could say anything, Sarah Dave's mother grabbed Dave's other hand and held it. There were fifteen people sitting at the table, the grandkids were withs. The rest of the patron's in the restaurant looked over to their table because all of a sudden the entire table was quiet. Finally Leroy spoke up, "I have an appointment with the surgeon on Friday, he wants to give me a full body scan to make sure there is no other tumors, then I don't know when he will perform the surgery, but he seemed happy that it was caught early." Allison got up and came around the table and hugged Leroy. "Cancer?" "He won't know until he gets in there. Come on everyone, it is my birthday, it is supposed to be a merry occasion." Everyone started talking again but they kept drifting back to the conversation. When the night was done, Leroy was happy to walk into a quiet house, he took Dave in his arms and kissed and hugged on him and started walking him to the bedroom. Leroy decided he was going to make love to Dave and try to push the worry out of him, it worked until they were laying there cuddling. Dave silently started to cry, Leroy felt the tears on his chest and held Dave tighter. "Everything will be ok, the Doctor was happy it was caught early, I love you Dave." "You are only thirty-three, I want us to be so old that all we can do is hold hands, I can't live without you." "Dave, I am not dying, it is just a tumor, it won't be cancerous, I will be fine, I love you." Leroy held him tighter to him and they laid there the rest of the night in silence and finally fell asleep. The next day they both had to report to work and when Leroy arrived he walked into his commanders office and told him what was going on and that he has an appointment the next day at the VA with the surgeon. The Major told him to take care of himself, if he can't make it for his afternoon shift tomorrow to call. Leroy's shift flew by he was hoping that it wouldn't because he wasn't looking forward to the morning. The next morning Dave insisted on going with Leroy, he didn't care if no one knew that Leroy was gay, he wasn't going to be left out, which was more than fine with Leroy. He liked that Dave was making a fuss of it, but he couldn't believe that he really thought that he wouldn't want Dave there. They arrive at the testing area of the VA and Leroy was called in and the technician was a little upset, he even came out and told Leroy he didn't know how Leroy got on his schedule this morning that he already had a full schedule, but he did the full scan and sent the pictures up to the Doctors office. When Leroy arrived at the doctor's office, they weren't going to let Dave come back to the room with him but he insisted that Dave had to be there. When the Doctor came into the exam room he had a smile on his face. "Well it is just the one, so when would you like to do surgery?" "I guess as soon as possible." Leroy responded. "Ok, well I will have my assistant come in and she will set it up, I am not sure but there may be an opening next week, but we will see." Leroy looked at Dave, Dave squeezed Leroy's hand. Dr. Harding noticed it and smiled and shook Leroy's and Dave's hand and walked out. The assistant came in and set it up for the Monday, telling Leroy that he will get a call later today telling him when to report to the hospital. He had lots of papers to fill out and sign, the last paper was a medical advocate form, and he automatically filled in Dave's name and Dave signed it in front of the assistant. Anywhere on any form, which asked whom the emergency contact Leroy put Dave's name. Dave was happy to see this but he was afraid that it would get out to someone, after they left Dave asked Leroy about it. Leroy responded, he didn't care, that he love him and if he has to fight people he will. Leroy told Dave he would like to stop over at his commander's office while they were nearby. He stopped in and they talked and he was given the rest of the weekend off to prepare himself for Monday. Leroy called Aaron once they got home and told him it was set up for Monday. Dave asked for a quick time off, he couldn't get FMLA but he took two weeks of vacation starting Monday. That weekend everyone came over to Leroy's to spend time with him, when Dave came home after midnight Monday, Leroy was waiting in the living room for him. Dave saw him as soon as he entered and Leroy stood up and Dave went right to him and they hugged. They had to report to the hospital in just a few hours. Leroy took Dave by the hand and led him to the bedroom and started kissing him, as he was kissing Dave he was removing Dave's clothes and gun belt. He laid him down on the bed and kissed him, kissed and licked his neck down his chest. Stopped to sucked each of his nipples for a few minutes before continuing downwards. Dave was rock hard and so was Leroy. Leroy continued to kiss around Dave's pelvic area, avoiding his cock and then he licked and kissed down one leg and up the other. When he got to Dave's cock there was so much precum leaking that he smiled, he licked up what had leaked out on Dave's stomach and he took the head of the cock in his mouth, Dave let out a loud moan. Leroy knew it would be a while before he would be able to please Dave again, so he wanted to make this one the best he could. "Lee, please." Leroy smiled and removed his mouth from Dave's cock. "Please what?" Leroy suck back down on Dave's cock. "Oh God Lee, please fuck me." "You want to be fucked or made love to?" Leroy said in a commanding voice, he knew Dave was so easy to control. "Ah Fuck, make love to me Lee, please." Leroy smiled and continued to suck Dave's cock a little more and then got off the bed and undressed and got the lube out of the bedside drawer. He got back on top of Dave and kissed him, he sucked on Dave's upper lip and darted his tongue inside, Dave stuck his tongue into Leroy's mouth and Leroy sucked on it hard, Dave moaned. Then Leroy broke the kiss and started kissing down his neck again, he ground his cock against Dave's before going back down his body to start getting him ready for him. Again he was sucking his cock as he would trace around Dave's entrance with his finger, Dave was pushing back against Leroy. "Lee, please." Dave was begging, Leroy loved when he begged. Leroy then entered him, he pushed one finger then two and then he was pushing three up inside Dave and when he knew he was ready he rubbed lube on his cock and put it at the entrance and stopped he looked at Dave, Dave was arching his back and pushing his ass towards Leroy. "Leeeeeeeee. Please." Leroy pushed into him. He made sure he was slow with every stroke, he wasn't fast or hard, he was going to make love to Dave. Leroy bent down and kissed Dave, he felt Dave rock hard cock between them. Dave was moaning loudly, it was making Leroy lose it, he wanted to start fucking him faster and harder, but he maintained the slow and steady assault. When Leroy felt he was getting close he sped up and was grunting and he felt and saw Dave lose it. Leroy came just two seconds after Dave, he collapsed down on Dave, they were both panting. Leroy rolled off of Dave and pulled him up to him and snuggled for a bit, he knew they needed to sleep a bit before they left to the hospital. They ended up holding one another, kissing and crying a little before they got up and took a shower to head to out. When they arrived at the hospital, Leroy wasn't expecting all his siblings and father to be there, but they were all waiting for him to show up. He told them they didn't have to be there, but they said they had to be, and that Dave needed someone to be here for him as well. Leroy was called back, Dave wasn't allowed to go with him, but they said when they get Leroy all set up, that two people could come back and wait with him until he is taken into surgery. Dave and Leroy Ch. 05 Leroy was taken into a curtain off room with a bed. On the bed was a plastic bag, socks with those rubber grips and a gown, he was told to remove all his clothes, any jewelry and his dog tags. The nurse left out of the room and pulled the curtain closed. Leroy removed his clothes and dog tags, he waited to remove his ring until Dave was back with him, which he wanted to give that to him to hold. He stuck everything in the bag and put the gown on and sat on the edge of the bed. The nurse came back and asked if he was dressed before she opened the curtain. She had him sit back on the bed and took all his vitals, temp, blood pressure and heart rate. Then she started an IV on him, it relaxed him a lot. Once she was finished she asked who was waiting for him, he told her his family and that he would like his boyfriend Dave and whomever else to come in with him. She smiled and told him that she would have them sent in an a few minutes. Leroy laid his head back and closed his eyes, he knew they must have something in the IV to be relaxing him, because he was feeling sleepy. The next thing he knew was Dave was sitting there next to him and his father. "Hey Sweetie." Leroy said when he opened his eyes. "They seem to have you very relaxed right now." Dave smiled at him, Leroy just nodded. "Son, I am going to go out, you and Dave can have some alone time together, we will see you when you come out of surgery. I love you, Son." "Thanks, Dad, love you too." Leroy looked from his father back to Dave and but never saw his father leave the area. "Dave, will you hold this for me." Leroy took off his ring and handed it to him. Dave put it on the same finger that the matching ring was on. Leroy smiled at him and Dave bent down and kissed him. "I love you, more then you ever will know." "I know Lee, I love you too. Please don't leave me." The nurse was right outside the curtain she didn't want to interrupt but she had to come in and asked a few questions before the anesthesiologist came in. "I am never going to leave you. I..." The nurse came through the curtain, she told him that she had just a few questions before the anesthesiologist comes in, which would only be a few minutes from now because he was in with another patient. She asked the questions she needed and as she was leaving the anesthesiologist came in. He did his assessment, checking to make sure Leroy had a good clear airway, asking if he was allergic to anything or had surgeries in the past. Then he let him know it would only be a few more minutes before someone would be coming to wheel him back. Dave hugged Leroy, and Leroy pulled him into a kiss. "I won't leave you, I will go to sleep and then I will wake up with you holding my hand, right?" Dave smiled at Leroy. "Yes Babe, I will be holding your hand as soon as they let me see you. I love you." A few minutes later the transport team came to collect Leroy and take him back to the operating room. Leroy pulled Dave back into a hug and kissed him in front of the team, he didn't care anymore who saw him. They wheeled him back while Dave watch him go, Dave walked slowly out to the waiting room. The nurse caught him just before he got to the door, "They will keep you informed, it will be ok. If you watch the progress board it will show when they start the procedure and depending on how long it is, the doctor may send a nurse out to tell you how it is going." She looked him in the eye and told him everything will be ok, Dave smiled at her and walked out into the waiting area. The wait was excruciating Dave was pacing back and forth, Allison would get him to sit down for a bit, but then he would get back up and start again. His surgery started at seven that morning and it was now nine and no word about what was happening. A nurse came out and called out for the Standish family and Dave and everyone stood up, she walked over to them. "I am sorry, that I couldn't make it out sooner, he is doing fine, they finally were able to get to the tumor, and it is out. The doctor was doing a few motor tests on him, so they had to wake him up while they had him open." Everyone cringed at the thought of that. "The doctor is closing him up now, there is already a room for him and everyone can go and wait for him there. We will be bringing him up shortly." She handed Dave a piece of paper with a room number on it. He smiled and thanked her, then she turned around and went back into the pre-op area. Everyone headed to the room that was assigned to Leroy, it was small but at least it was a private room. Everyone stood or sat down while they waited for Leroy to be transported up. It was maybe twenty minutes later when they rolled him in, they asked if everyone could step out while they get him into the bed, every started to leave but Dave. "Sir, please you can come back in after we get him settled." "I am not leaving him." Dave responded. They didn't push it further and started aligning the beds so they could transfer Leroy to the other one. Leroy's head was completely bandaged, he was still asleep when they pulled the pad that he was laying on with him to the other bed. They had him propped on his left side, they told Dave that when he does wake completely that it would be best that he doesn't lay on his right because it will hurt him more it was the side of the doctor open up. They hooked him up to the heart monitor and blood pressure cuff and left the room. Dave immediately pulled a chair up to the bed and held Leroy's hand. Everyone and the nurse came in, she checked everything and then told them the doctor will come in later after the rest of his surgeries. She emptied his catheter bag and recorded all his vitals. "When he wakes up, please put his light on and I will come down and check to see if he needs any pain relief." Then she left out. It wasn't long before Leroy woke, he could hear mumbling but he couldn't open his eyes right away. He could feel someone holding his hand. After a while, he could open his eyes but he couldn't keep them open for long, he was staring at Dave when he did open them. Finally after a bit longer he was able to keep them open, he was watching Dave talk, Dave was still holding his hand. Allison cued Dave in that he was awake and he turned and his smile was huge. "Hey Babe." "Sweetie." Leroy said and closed his eyes for a minute. "Lee, are you going to reopen them? Honey, please." Leroy opened his eyes and stared again at Dave, everyone else was starting to come into view, he looked around. "Is it supposed to hurt just moving my eyes? Holy hell." "Let me put your light on and we can ask the nurse." Dave reached for the call light and pushed the button. "I love you honey." "Ditto." Leroy and Dave smiled and after a minute or so Leroy spoke again. "Dave?" "Yeah." "I love you too." Which made Dave a little teary eyed because Leroy doesn't tell him that much in front of people or his family. "Oh God, you are the woman in the relationship." Chris blurted out and laughed. "I told you that a long time ago and I am still proud of it Chris." Everyone smiled at Dave. "Baby the doctor will come by later to talk with all of us, but they did get it all." Everyone talked and Leroy went in and out of consciousness for a while until the anesthesia was completely out of his system, he woke up in pain. Leroy had tears coming out of his eyes and Dave didn't know how to soothe him, he put on the call button and waited for the nurse to come in again. They told her that he was in pain and she went to get a shot for him. She came back a little while later to administer the shot and told him it should be working very soon, before she walked out Leroy was starting to calm down. Dr. Harding came in later in the evening. "Well, it wasn't cancerous, we did get it all and we will have to watch him in the future to make sure nothing grows again." He did some preliminary exams on Leroy, asked him a few questions and told him he would see him the next day and left out of the room, Dave and everyone thanked him. When visiting hours were over everyone hugged Leroy before they left, Dave stayed he wasn't going to leave Leroy alone, the nurses didn't even try to push him out. When Leroy finally fell to sleep after another pain shot, Dave laid his head down on his bed he was still holding his hand. Sometime in the middle of the night when Leroy was woken to get his vitals, he woke Dave up and told him to lay with him. Dave got in front of him and let Leroy spoon him. When the nurse came by later, she wasn't happy about it but she didn't tell Dave to get out of the bed. The next morning, Lee and Allison came back up. They came right when visiting hours started, they were surprised to see Dave cuddled in bed with Leroy and them both sleeping. They sat there just talking quietly together until the happy couple woke. Dave smiled at them and went to get out of the bed so no one would feel uncomfortable, but Leroy held tight to him. "Leroy, come on let's not make your family uncomfortable." Leroy didn't answer him, he tighten Dave to him even more, Dave couldn't figure out what was going on until Leroy started shaking and it was Allison that said she thinks he is having a seizure. She jumped up, pushed the nurses call light and tried to help free Dave from Leroy and then all of a sudden Leroy stopped shaking and loosen his hold on Dave. They didn't realize until he was gasping for air that he had also stopped breathing. Dave was standing beside the bed trying to get Leroy to talk to him, when the nurse came in. They told her what had happened and she told them she will get a hold of the doctor now and left out immediately, telling them that she would be right back. Leroy was looking at Dave but he wasn't completely focusing in on him. Dave continued to try to get a response out of Leroy and then Leroy finally spoke up, "What, I kept saying what." "No Leroy you haven't, we think you just had a seizure." Dave responded. ********************* Author Note: This is not the last chapter but it will be for a week or so, because my partner took me to Disney World and I am going to run around for Valentine's Day and my 41st birthday next week, like the biggest kid in the place. I hope that you are enjoying my story. Thank you for reading. Dave and Leroy Ch. 06 It has been four months and Leroy still has seizures, he was warned before having the surgery that it was a possible side effect. The seizures through medication are coming less frequently, but they are still playing havoc on his life. He can't go back to work or drive, he feels useless. Dave or one of his family members take him anywhere he wants to go but he hates relying on someone. ***** Leroy woke from a nap and heard voices coming from the family room, he knew one of them was Dave's but he couldn't place the other two, one seemed familiar but the other didn't at all. He sat up and threw his legs over the edge of the bed, he looked over at his sweats and t-shirt. He grabbed them up and put them on to go and see who was there. Leroy's hair was growing longer now, he use to make sure he grabbed up a ball cap to cover his head. Now that it was growing and covering the scares, he doesn't grab for the hat anymore. He rounded the corner to the kitchen and look into the family room. "Hey Lee, sorry if we woke you." Dave went to get up off the couch and Leroy motioned him to stay put and walked over and sat next to him. "Lee you know my partner Terry, and this is Terry's love Shane." "Terry, nice seeing you again, and nice to meet you Shane." Leroy went to get up to shake Shane and Terry hand but they stopped him. "Don't get up. It is nice to meet you too Lee." Shane spoke up. Leroy looked at Shane, he was the definition of a twink, he was small, looked like five three or so. He had blonde hair which Leroy couldn't believe it, Shane had about an inch of a very light shade blue tips throughout his hair. Leroy was sure the guy was hairless, he even noticed that he plucked his eyebrows. He was also white, oh my god was he white, Leroy wonders if he ever goes out in the sun. He could tell that he was older than the standard twink age, he must want to stay youthful looking. He is so glad that he doesn't go for that look, he had to pull himself from staring and look back at Dave. "Honey." Dave said and Leroy looked at him. "Not to put you on the spot, but they have come to ask us something. I told them I couldn't agree to it until you were up and agreed." "Well if it is a foursome, no." Leroy laughed at his own joke, they all smiled. He looked at Dave and then Terry. "What is it?" "We were wondering if... if we could stay here for some time. We had a fire at our house and it will take some time to repair." Terry was looking a Leroy, he could tell he was digesting the information and looked like he was going to refuse them. "It is no problem, we can look for an apartment, we should have, but living out of the motel room the last few days has been a little rough." "How long are we thinking here?" Leroy asked. "That is the problem, we don't know. The insurance company is giving us the run around, I am hoping that it won't take long once the repairs are started." Terry responded. "That is fine." Leroy looked over at Dave, Dave gave a slight nod. "It might be nice to have someone else around for a change instead of just the two of us." "Thanks man, I really hate sleeping in a motel and I can't fathom living in an apartment again." Terry responded. "No problem." Leroy held Dave's hand when they were sitting there talking. Terry and Shane decided they would go and grab their things from the motel and move in to the room that they will be using. While Terry and Shane were gone Leroy and Dave talked. "Is it going to be a problem Hon?" Dave asked. "No it will be ok, really it might be nice having another couple around for a change. What does Shane do?" "He is an intern at the hospital, Terry and he have been together for a year now, but they flirted for six months before he finally got up the nerve to ask him out." "He is a twink though, wow, what is he thirty?" "Yup, I know, I was amazed that Terry was into him, he always dated." Dave laughed. "Guys that looked like me. When they started their flirting, I was amazed to see Terry head over heels for him." "Well I am glad the twink type can move someone, but it never made me hot. I love what I have." Leroy reached up and pulled Dave to him for a kiss. "Well I would prefer them in the small bedroom but I want to be able to paint it, so they will have to take the one across from ours." Leroy was quite for a few minutes. "Which will sucked because I know you will try your hardest now to not make noise and I love to hear you moan." "We can tone it down for a little while, I don't expect them to be here that long." Dave laughed. "How bad was their house destroyed?" Leroy asked. "Kitchen and living room was destroyed, but the smoke and water damage is even worse." "So they will be here for a bit, which is ok." "Wow, I am amazed that you are saying that Babe, I love you Lee." "I love you too and this better not affect our love life." Leroy said with a grin. ***** Over the following month, the pair did get to know one another well. Leroy and Shane were actually getting along great. In the beginning, Terry and Dave thought that they weren't going to hit it off because they tended to butt heads a lot. Dave was constantly telling Leroy when they were alone in the bedroom to be nice to Shane, that he was being rude. Leroy didn't know what he was talking about saying that he was being nice, Dave would just shake his head and laugh at him. One evening Shane had come home from a twelve hour shift at the hospital and Leroy was working on getting the small bedroom painted, he finally figured out what color of paint that he wanted and had everything prepped and ready. Shane walked into the house to music blaring and all the furniture from the bedroom in the living room, Shane was thinking to himself, 'well when he decides to do something he does it thoroughly.' Shane walked and stood in the doorway of the small bedroom. Terry and Dave were at work, so when he looked at Leroy in shorts and a t-shirt he had to smile and laugh. "Hey." Leroy turned around when he heard someone laugh. "You are one hair guy, shit." Shane smiled. "So you finally decided on a color than?" "Yes I am and yes I did." Leroy smiled. "You want to help, or is your doctor hands too precious to do manual labor?" Leroy jeered. "Yeah I will help, let me get some old scrubs on, then I will cut in for you, if you want to roll." "Sounds good." ***** When Dave and Terry came in, Leroy and Shane were still working on the room, they were talking and laughing. Dave and Terry stood at the front door listening to them, Leroy would crack on Shane about being small or weak or something and then Shane would come back with a remark like not every guy can be a huge dumb military type. Then they would both laugh and go back to talking about anything and everything. "I've got on Leroy about making fun of Shane, but it seems that is how their relationship is built, they make fun of each other and are fine with it." Both Dave and Terry laughed and walked down the hall to look into the small bedroom. ***** Dave woke, showered and dressed. He came down the hallway to find Terry standing in the kitchen looking into the family room. "They are getting along better than I thought they would." Terry exclaimed. He was looking at Shane asleep on the loveseat and Leroy asleep on the couch. The two had fallen asleep there last night after finishing the spare room. "Yeah I missed getting cuddled last night, I was going to come out and get Leroy but I could still hear them talking and laughing. I really didn't think they would get along this good either." Dave walked over to the couch and bent down and kissed Leroy on the lips and sat on the very edge to finish waking him up. Leroy stretched and look at Dave and smiled. "Hey Babe." "Honey." Dave lend down and kissed him again, Leroy grabbed him and pulled him over to lay on top of him. "Take a shower with me?" Leroy asked. "You are a little late, I have already had one." Dave responded. "OK, take another shower with me?" Leroy asked. Dave got off Leroy, pulled him up and lend him to the bathroom, they kissed as the water was warming up and stepped in. "Ok, what is going on, you look like you want to talk?" "Honey, Terry and I think, you and Shane are getting a little close." "MMMMM, you are getting a big ass reward now." "What? Huh?" Dave responded. "My Davey is jealous of a twink, I love you." Leroy sank to his knees in front of Dave and started kissing Dave's cock, Dave moaned and Leroy looked up at him. "Honey I only have eyes for you, you never have to worry about that." Leroy sunk down on Dave's cock and started sucking him, Dave reached down and grabbed Leroy's hair and pulled him off. "Let's go to the bedroom." Dave turned off the shower and opened the shower door, they dried off and headed to the bedroom, Leroy went to kiss on Dave and Dave stopped him. "Honey, it is just I didn't think you two would become this good of friends." "Oh my god you are jealous, Babe I am being nice because they are staying here, I thought that is what you would want. Shane is a great guy once I got to know him, he bugged the shit out of me in the beginning and I didn't know how I was going to make it with him being here all the time. But he is a twink, I am not into twinks. I am and only have been into you." "But." "But what Babe, I am not into him, he is what five three, maybe a hundred and ten pounds. He is fragile, I like my man solid. I love your five eleven, almost two hundred pounds of muscle. I love your green eyes, your sandy brown hair. I love when I can do this." Leroy lend down and licked one of Dave nipples and he moaned instantly. "And get that reaction out of you. Honey you are mine and you are never going to get rid of me. You do this to me." Leroy pulled Dave's hand down to his hard cock. "You do that, no one else can. I meant to come to bed last night, but I closed my eyes for a second and was out, I am sorry. I will be in our bed every night if that will prove to you that I only have eyes for you Babe." "I am sorry Hon, I guess I was getting a little jealous and I think Terry is as well, he has been commenting that you two were getting close, a lot lately." "Well than maybe it is time that they stop using our house as a refuge and get them an apartment until their house is completely repaired. I like Terry and Shane, but they are not going to mess up what we have, if you are feeling jealous, I don't want Shane here babe. I love you too much to have you feel those feelings." "Maybe I am just overreacting, I am sorry Lee. I love you, please forgive me." "Forgive you for what, for speaking your mind Babe. You did nothing wrong, maybe I am the one that needs forgiveness, I didn't notice maybe I am being too friendly or something, but really Hon, I am just being friendly. I can distance myself from Shane if you need me to." "No that is not necessary, maybe all the fears are really on Terry. I know you love me and you wouldn't do anything." Dave pushed Leroy down on the bed and cuddled up next to him. ***** A few nights later, Leroy was thinking back to when he was eighteen, when he decided to leave Dave and go into the Marines. At the time he told Dave that he couldn't do it any longer that he had to find himself and what they were doing was wrong. In fact, he had never thought they were doing anything wrong at all, he was afraid that he loved Dave too much. He was afraid that Dave was going to think that it was wrong and leave him and Leroy was jealous of Cindy. Dave and Leroy were going out to the club when they turned eighteen and Cindy showed interest in Dave and maybe that is why Cindy got him after Leroy left. Leroy knew that Dave liked woman too, he always would check them out when they were out together. Dave had dated girls before he had kissed Leroy when they were sixteen, Leroy was always afraid that Dave would get tired of him and return to woman. Leroy himself has never been interested in the opposite sex, he never thought they were sexy or anything. Dave has always been what he wanted, he hasn't even looked at another man, hell if you counted all the years from sixteen on, Dave and he have been together seventeen years, minus the two that he left, so really fifteen years. The day they ran into one another when Dave was married was completely by accident, Dave pulled Leroy over for speeding. Dave thought he was pulling over Aaron because it was Aaron's car, of course he was only going to give Aaron a hard time. When he walked up to the window and it was Leroy sitting there both Dave and his mouth dropped open. They talked and Dave begged Leroy to meet up with him after his shift, Leroy agreed. Leroy met with Dave at the mall parking lot, they were older than the teens that were doing the mile loop and talking with one another in the middle of the night, but they pulled off to the opposite side and talked for a bit. Another police office did pull up and asked what they were doing, but when the officer saw it was Dave, he just let them be. Dave asked Leroy to go to the motel so they could talk without being noticed, Leroy followed him to the motel and went into the office and got a room and Dave followed him around the back to the room. When they walked in, they both took a seat on opposite beds and talked. Dave wanted to know the real reason why Leroy left. After being silent for a long time, Leroy finally told him that he was afraid that Dave was going to leave him and he couldn't face it, so he wanted to be the one to leave first. Dave told him he was an idiot that he loved him more than life itself. Leroy pointed out that Dave got married as soon as he left that it was just a matter of time before the opposite sex would catch his eye. "Leroy, I loved you, I was devastated when you left me. I was stupid and married, I am not happy with Cindy and she isn't with me. I am sorry Leroy. Please forgive me." Dave told him as he stood, moved to the other bed and sat with Leroy, he lend into Leroy and kissed him. "I need you Lee and I want you." Leroy wrapped his arms around Dave and kissed him back. Before they both knew it, their clothes were scattered around the room and Leroy was looking for something they could use as lube, he grabbed the little bottle of conditioner out of the bathroom, he was amazed the motel even provided it. Leroy had Dave on the bed and kissed him before he started kissing down his body, when he reached his cock he sunk down on it and took the whole thing in at once, Dave moaned loudly. While he was sucking Dave's cock he opened the cap to the conditioner and poured some in his hand and rubbed it in the crack of Dave's ass and inserted one finger, Dave was out of his mind in pleasure. Leroy inserted two fingers and once he was pushing them in and out with ease he added the third and made sure he found Dave's prostate. When he pushed against Dave's prostate, Dave moaned and thrashed around. "LEEEROY, PLLLEEEEASSE." Leroy knew he was ready for him, he took the conditioner and rubbed his own cock with some and picked up Dave's ankles and put them on his shoulders and lined his cock up and slowly pushed in, inch by lovely inch. At first he could tell Dave was in pain, he couldn't stop himself from sliding into him, when he was buried completely, then he held tight until Dave started grinding against him. Once he knew Dave was ready he started his in and out movements, Dave was moaning and still thrashing about. Leroy picked up speed and that is when Dave found his voice, "Fuck me Leroy, fuck me hard." Leroy obeyed him and was going to town, he fucked him as hard as he could, then he pulled completely out and turned Dave over and pulled him up to his knees, grabbed ahold of his hip and shoulder and started slamming into him. "Yes, yes, yes, yes." Dave was screaming each time Leroy hit his prostate. Than Dave started to come and his ass clamped down on Leroy which caused him to go over the edge and slammed one last time into Dave. "FUCK." Leroy screamed as rope after rope of cum coated the walls of Dave's bowels, Dave could feel the warmth when Leroy finally released, Dave was out of his mind, he collapsed on the bed and Leroy collapsed on top of him. They stayed like that for a long time, until Leroy soften and popped out of Dave, than he rolled off him and pulled him into a his arms. "Leroy, what are we going to do?" "I don't know Dave, I love you." "I love you too Leroy." They laid facing one another for hours, Leroy was holding Dave and he was stroking Dave's hair and face, occasionally he would let his hand move along his arm to his side down to his hip. Leroy truly loved Dave. Dave reached up to run his hands through Leroy's hair. "I miss your hair." Leroy laughed, "You miss my hair?" "Yeah, I don't have anything to grab a hold of now. Will you ever get to grow it back?" "Not while I am in the military, I miss it too. It sucked to go from a full head of hair and the first day of basic, get it all shaved off." Leroy did love his shoulder length brown hair, he knew Dave loved his curls. "At least I still have all my body hair." "Yeah, thank god you do, I would have died if that was all gone. I love how hairy you are, please never shave it." "I was born with this hair and I will die with it, I am not going to shave or wax just to look good, what for, you love me the way I am." Leroy looked at Dave with a serious look on his face now. "Dave, I love you, I have been depressed since I left you, I didn't know how to talk to you. My mom told me you and Cindy were happy and were thinking about children." "Children? That is news to me." Dave responded. "Well you are married Dave." "Leroy, I told you marrying Cindy was a mistake, we haven't really gotten along as husband and wife, we are more friends than anything. She keeps thinking I am in love with someone else, I have told her that I am not, but I am Leroy, it has always been you. I love your brown eyes, your hair." Dave chuckled, "Well when you had hair, I love your cock. You don't have to worry, I don't think I am bi, I don't think I was ever bi. I think I looked at woman more to make my mother feel better and I think she knows." "What do you mean you think she knows?" "She pulled me aside a few months ago and told me that I haven't been happy since you left. She noticed that Cindy and I act more like roommates than a married couple. I think she was hoping I was going to open up to her, but I didn't take that chance, I just told her that I was fine and Cindy and I were just going through things. Mom let it drop and she never brought it up again." "Sounds like your mom will take you coming out a little better than mine." "We don't have to tell her Leroy, if you don't want my mom to know, I won't tell her. I promise, but what are we going to do." "Well the question is, do we want to be together or do you want to stay with Cindy?" "I want to be with you Leroy, I don't want Cindy, I will go home today and tell her." ***** Leroy was laying on the couch in the family room with Dave and Terry walked in from their shift. There was music playing softly, Dave and Terry noticed it was on repeat, that once the song ended, it started again. They stood in the kitchen talking and then it dawned on them that Leroy didn't even noticed they were there, they could see his eyes open but nothing registered that they were even there to him. Dave went immediately to him and sat on the edge of the couch. "Leroy!" Leroy blinked his eyes but didn't look at Dave. "Leroy!" Still no reaction from him. "LEROY." He screamed and touched Leroy on the face, which got a reaction out of him, he blinked several times and then focused on Dave. "Leroy?" "Yeah, I am here." "Leroy, I am sorry." "For what my seizures, there is nothing you can do about them Honey. What time is it?" Dave and Leroy Ch. 06 "Twelve-thirty, what is this song that you are listening to?" Dave asked. Leroy laughed. "I was reading a story and they mentioned this song and it had been ages since I had heard it, I didn't realize I put it on repeat. Hell I don't even remember listening even the first few lines, it is Inside Out by Eve Six. I must have had my seizure just after I flopped down, I did feel like one was coming on but I don't get the feeling until I am just a minute or so before the seizure." "Well at least you get a little warning, maybe you will start noticing other signs to give you a better warning." Dave stopped and listened to the song a minute. "Did it just say put my heart in the blender? And how do you know this song?" "Yes it does." Leroy laughed. "I played it a lot when I was going through boot camp and the first year of training when you were married. As you know I knew the first day of boot camp that I made a mistake leaving you Dave. That is how I felt, that maybe if I put my heart in a blender, then maybe I could forget you. Then I wouldn't feel anymore." "Babe I am glad you came back to me, I am so glad I pulled you over that day." "Yeah I was thinking about that tonight as well. I don't know what would have happened if you didn't pull me over that day. I was avoiding your mom and everyone we knew, I only came home to see Aaron graduate high school, I told them not to tell anyone that I was home." "I know, but my mom told me you were here, your mom told her that you were coming. But I am glad that I pulled you over, I don't know if we would have gotten back together, if fate didn't intervene." Leroy pulled Dave down and kissed him and Terry left out of the kitchen to give them some privacy. Dave and Leroy Ch. 07 Well, I have to laugh. One I have always shared all of my stories with a few on my students. I work for a college, so all my students are of age, so no one is underage hearing about my stories. Because I was having people state that I need an editor, and I know I can find one on the site. Today one of my students asked what was going on in my Dave and Leroy story and I just printed it for her to read and she started editing it for me. So I am hoping an English major does a good job. LOL I hope that you enjoy this next installment of Dave and Leroy's story. ***** The day finally came that Terry and Shane were able return to their house, all the repairs were done and they pretty much had a brand new house. Leroy and Dave celebrated by having sex all night in the family room after Dave came in from work. An hour after their last sex session that morning, Dave drug himself off the floor of the family room to make himself some coffee, Leroy came up and wrapped his arms around him. They both were still naked, they had slept in the family room on a pallet of blankets. Dave felt Leroy thrust his cock between his ass cheeks, hitting his entrance. Dave leaned his head back onto Leroy's shoulder, "MMmmm, you aren't tired yet?" "I missed doing this to you, I missed being able to fuck you anywhere in this house. So why not here on the counter, or standing here in front of the counter?" Leroy placed the bottle of lube in front of Dave and Dave laughed. "Oh my god, are you a horny bastard." Dave said as he turned, pushed Leroy back a little and dropped to his knees and started to suck him. Leroy instantly moaned when Dave took his entire cock in. "I love you Dave, but I want to fuck you again, and again and possibly again." Leroy pulled on Dave to stand. "I am not going to get any sleep before my shift, am I?" "Can't you call in sick or tell them you are being fucked senseless?" Leroy said with an eat shit grin. Then he turned Dave away from him and grabbed the bottle of lube and coated his cock and Dave's entrance and slowly entered him. "Fuck me Lee, just fuck me and shut up." Dave laughed and then moaned. Leroy smiled and started fucking Dave, he reached around and pinched his nipples. Dave fell forward over the counter and Leroy grabbed for his hips and rode him hard, after a bit he slowed down and reached for Dave's cock to jerk him off as he was fucking him. The next thing they heard was someone knock at the door and Allison calling for Leroy from the living room. "Allison stop, don't walk in." Leroy yelled out to her. Allison grabbed ahold of her son and stopped Jason from coming in. "Leroy, do we need to step back out of the house." "If you don't want to see Dave and I doing something or walking through to grab clothes, yeah." "Ok, we will go back out to the car, come get us when you are able to see someone." They heard her pull Mikey back out with her, even though he was screaming that he wanted to see his uncles. Leroy and Dave laughed. "We really need to start locking that door." Dave shook his head. "Yeah, since my family just walks in, yeah we do." Both of them went instantly soft when they heard Allison come in. "Go grab a shower I will clean up our mess and then I will grab one." Dave turned around and Leroy hugged and kissed him. Dave didn't say anything he just headed straight for the shower and Leroy grabbed up the lube and toys that they had in the family room. After taking them to the bedroom and came back for the blankets and all of their clothes. He did another search to make sure he didn't forget anything and spotted a dildo sticking out from under the couch, thinking that it could have been bad to miss with Mikey coming in, and then he walked back to the bathroom to get in the shower as Dave was getting out. "I will let them in, everything is cleaned up?" "Yup, but double check for me, because I found a dildo under the couch as I was about to call everything cleaned up." Dave just laughed and went to get dressed and headed back to the kitchen, he noticed that there was some drops of precum streaking down the cupboards so he wiped that off and then he checked the family room again. When he was satisfied that there was nothing to be found, he walked out on the porch and told Allison and Jason to come in. "I am sorry, I did try to call before I came, maybe I will start calling both of your phones." Allison said. "No, it is ok, we were just celebrating last night and this morning, sorry." "Celebrating?" Allison questioned. "We have the house to ourselves again." Dave smiled as Leroy rounded the corner and Mikey plowed right into him, knocking him off balance. "Wow kid, you need to slow down a bit." Leroy picked Mikey up. "Uncle Lee Mommy said I could come over here for the day if it is ok with you and then maybe we can watch movies all day and then we could do other things and did you know my birthday is coming up and I want you to come I don't care that you and Grandma don't want to be in the same room I want you there will you buy me a really cool present..." Leroy had to cover his mouth to stop him from talking. "Whoa there kid, slow down. Let us take one thing at a time." Everyone was laughing at Mikey and Leroy. "Lee, we stopped by to see if you could watch Mikey today for me, Jason and I need to take Tiff to the specialist. Sorry for the short notice, Jason Mom is sick and I asked Mikey before calling if he wanted Mom or you to watch him, and of course he said you. We did try calling." Leroy looked over at Dave and Dave smiled at him. "Yeah it is no problem I would love to spend the day with my nephew, you can leave him here the entire day, I got nothing else to do. Maybe if he is good, Uncle Dave will take us to the store before he goes to work and we can get some junk food." Mikey ran over to Dave, "Can we Uncle Dave, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee." Dave chucked and nodded his head. "Thank you Lee, just call when you can't handle him anymore." Allison responded. Leroy pulled her off to the side before she walked out the door. "If I have a seizure, will he be ok?" "I told him about your seizures, he saw you have one before, he knows to try to get your attention after you stop shaking. I told him if he needs, to call me." "Ok, I will leave my cell phone out for him to use if he needs and show him how to get to your number." "Thanks Lee, I love you." Allison kissed Leroy on his cheek, and then walked out with Jason and Tiffany. Dave did end up taking Leroy and Mikey to the store and they loaded up on chips and ice cream and other items. Leroy told Mikey he would order a pizza later for them and they could rent movies on the TV. When Dave left for work, Leroy was running around the house wrestling with Mikey, after a while they settled down to watch a movie and Mikey was ready for pizza so Leroy ordered just a pepperoni pizza and had it delivered. Leroy was tired when the pizza finally came, so he sat it in front of Mikey and told him not to eat it all, that he was going to lay on the couch for a bit. Mikey told him ok and turned back to the movie that they were watching. Leroy laid down on the couch and he knew he was going to have a seizure, he felt the weird sensations he always gets but he didn't have time to warn Mikey before it started. Mikey heard something drop and looked back at Leroy and saw him shaking, he knew it was a seizure but he didn't remember what his Mommy told him to do, and he ran for the phone. He was looking at the numbers and called him Mom, but she didn't answer, so he scrolled further in the list and saw, Mom, as one of the options to call. So he pushed it, he knew it was going to be Grandma. It rang four times then Sue picked up. "Hello Leroy." "Grandma?" "Mikey is that you?" "Grandma, I am scared, I can't get a hold of Mommy and Uncle Lee had a seizure and I don't remember what to do?" "Where are you?" "Uncle Lee's." "We will be there as soon as we can Mikey. Stay on the phone and I will get Grandpa to drive me." Lee was looking at Sue and realized that he was going to be taking her somewhere. "Lee, you need to take me to Leroy's, Mikey is scared, we need to go pick him up." "What happened?"` "Apparently our daughter thought it would be ok to leave her son alone with Leroy and he had a seizure and Mikey is now scared." Lee didn't respond and got up right away and left the house, Sue didn't have much time to catch up. She talked to Mikey as they were driving over. When they pulled in the driveway Lee looked over to her. "Are you going to be nice to our son or am I leaving you out here?" "Just bring my grandbaby out here please." Sue said as Lee got out of the car and walked in. Mikey ran to his Grandpa when he walked in and pulled him into the family room, Lee automatically sat down on the couch and called Leroy's name and touched his face and Leroy started blinking and coming out of the fuzziness of the aftermath of the seizure. Mikey had laid the phone down on the couch while Lee was talking to Leroy. "I forgot what I was supposed to do, Grandpa, I forgot that I was supposed to call his name and touch his face that that would bring him back quicker." "It is ok Mikey, you were just scared." Lee responded. "Leroy, are you ok now?" Leroy was still coming out of the funk of the seizure, "Yeah, yeah I think." "Do you want us to take Mikey?" "No, I am fine, I generally only have one, I knew I over did it this afternoon with Mikey, he tired me out to much and I felt it come on." Then Leroy looked at his Dad in confusion. "What do you mean by us?" "Your Mother is in the car, Mikey called your Mother from your phone." "And she answered?" Leroy was shocked. "Leroy, I told you she is coming around." "Coming around, but she will not walk in here?" "Do you want me to take Mikey?" "No Dad, he is fine, unless he wants to go with you." He sat up and looked at Mikey. "Do you want to go with Grandpa and Grandma or stay with me?" "I want to stay with you Uncle Lee, but are you going to have another seizure?" Mikey asked. "No Mikey, I shouldn't have another seizure, but it is ok, if you want to go with them, or do you want me to call your Mom, they should be done with Tiff's appointment by now." "Can you call my Mommy?" "Yeah Mikey, I can." Leroy saw his phone on the couch and picked it up, he saw it was still in a call with his Mom, he exhaled and put the phone to his ear. "Mother, I need to hang up so I can call Allison." He removed the phone from his ear and was in the process of hitting end when he heard his mother say, "Leroy wait." but it was too late he hit the button. Leroy felt a little bad that he hung up on his Mother, but he didn't feel that bad. His mother disowned him a little over three years ago now. He isn't ready to forgive and forget what she had said to him, but he decided that she will have to make the first move, not him and he is not going to call her back. Leroy looked for Allison's number in his phone and called her, she answered. "Hello Leroy, tired of Mikey already?" "No but he is scared now, he would like to go home." She asked what happened and Leroy informed her what had happened and she said she was on her way. Lee stayed with Leroy and Mikey, Allison parked behind her Dad's car, but didn't realize at the time that Sue was in the car, she rushed in and found Mikey laughing and Leroy and him playing. "Hey Dad." "Did you talk to your Mother out there?" "No, is she in the car?" "Yeah, I figure she would have gotten tired of sitting out there by now, but guess not." Lee chuckled. Mikey saw his Mom and ran over to her. "Mom, can I stay here longer, please. I am not scared anymore." "We can stay for a little longer, but since I am here, when I leave you will be coming home with me, so you can let Uncle Lee rest a bit." At the same time Mikey and Leroy said, "Ohhhhhhh." "You are just a big kid aren't you Leroy." Allison said shaking her head and laughing. "I am going to go out and talk to Mom for a minute." "I will come with you, Son have a good night and I will talk to you later, are we still up for Saturday game?" "Hell yes, I'm looking forward to it." Lee and Allison walked out to talk with her mother for a minute and move her car. "Mom, why didn't you come in?" "He doesn't want me here, he hung up on me." "When did he hang up on you and he does still love you, I don't know if he is ready to forgive you but he does love you Mom." "Sue, he told you he had to hang up to call Allison, he didn't hang up on you." "I started to say something when he ended the call." "Well you could have come in Sue." "I am not ready to face him yet." "Mom, you have been saying that for over six months now. You are just going to have to do it and get it over with, if you want Leroy back in your life, but if you don't Mom, then don't mess with him. It took a long time before he came out of depression when you first disowned him." "I know you have told me, I just can't yet. I am not ready." "Ok Mom, I am going back inside. I love you, please work on it, I would love our family all back together." "I am trying, Allison, I am trying to come to terms with Leroy loving a man, but it is hard." "Mom, it isn't hard to come to terms with it, Leroy and Dave love one another, they have since they were kids. Anyways Mom, I am going inside. See you later." Allison went back into the house, she sat and talked with Leroy when he and Mikey weren't rough housing, then she decided it was time to go. Of course Mikey didn't want to leave but after a while she told him that they would come back in a few days, so Mikey left quietly. Once Allison and Mikey left, Leroy went straight to his room and laid down on the bed, he was tired and he truly hoped that he didn't tire himself to another seizure. One of the ways the doctor told him that he could accidentally induce a seizure was over tiring himself, which he knows playing with Mikey early that day did that. He fell asleep and before he knew it, Dave was waking him up and it was twenty after midnight. Leroy just pulled Dave into the bed so they could go to sleep, Dave was more then willing to just go to bed, considering that he didn't get much sleep because of their celebratory sex session. Allison called Leroy and asked if Dave and he would like to come over for a little dinner party and possibly watch a movie or just talk or whatever afterwards. She was having another couple, Aaron and Bridget. The kids were going to Sue and Lee's for the night, so everyone was going to have a night free of kids. It worked out perfectly because Dave had the night off so they were able to make it. Dave and Leroy went to his sisters the night of the dinner party, unfortunately two of Aarons kids were sick they didn't show, so it left just the six of them; Allison and Jason, Dave and Leroy, and Allison's friends, Carrie and Mike. After dinner, they all just decided to watch a movie. Dave and Leroy decided to sit on the floor in front of one of the chairs so they could cuddle a bit. Allison and Jason were on the couch and their friends were on the loveseat. During the movie, Carrie was watching Dave and Leroy more than the movie. Leroy changed positions a bit; he went from leaning up against Dave to laying his head in his lap. When he would notice Carrie watching him he would sit up for a bit but would forget and want to get comfortable again and go back to either leaning or laying on Dave's lap, Dave would caress Leroy's head or rub his back. Carrie and Mike could tell they loved one another, but were shocked because they didn't know Leroy was gay. When the movie ended, they all sat around for a bit talking then Leroy and Dave said their goodbyes, but before they could leave Allison reminded them about Mikey's birthday party that coming weekend and they both told her they wouldn't miss it for the world. Carrie and Mike stayed behind to talk. "I didn't know Leroy was gay, and I take it Dave is his boyfriend." Carrie spoke up. "Yeah Leroy is and Dave is his partner they have been together forever." Allison responded. Carrie giggled, "So Leroy is the bottom in the relationship?" "I don't think it is any of your business." Allison stated. "Sorry, it just seemed like he is." Carrie giggled again, "the woman in the relationship, because he was leaning against Dave and Dave was holding him, not the other way around." "That's not right Carrie, just because Dave was holding him doesn't mean that he is the bottom. Hasn't Mike ever laid across your lap or anything like that? If you wanted to ask questions you could have asked Leroy and Dave while they were here, they usually have no problem answering." "I am sorry if I am being rude, it's just that they are the first gay couple that I have met. I just can't believe that Leroy is gay because I had the biggest crush on him when we were younger, but it seems wrong though. I'm just not sure about the fact of two guys or two girls loving one another." "Well, you are being rude or I should say naïve, Carrie. I am sorry if I am taking offense so bad, but we are dealing with my mother because she disowned Leroy because he was gay. But really Carrie, if you had any questions, you should have asked them while they were here, they would have answered them. "Well, next time I just may. Again I am sorry." Carrie stated. Mike didn't say anything because he grew up with Leroy and Dave, he always thought Leroy was gay, he didn't know about Dave though, but it wasn't a surprise to him. It just finally confirmed his thoughts about Leroy and Dave, because he did think they were too close when they all were growing up. Dave and Leroy pulled up outside Allison's house, they had to park in the street along with a lot of his other siblings, they had run late and everyone including Jason's family were already there. "You doing alright Lee?" "Yeah, just still worried how Mom is going to react, everyone keeps telling me that she is coming around but we will see." They got out of the car and headed up to the house, when they walked onto the porch, the door opened and Allison was standing there smiling. "It is about time you two got here, he was about to ask me to call you again. Why don't you ever answer your phone?" Before Leroy could answer her, Mikey ran up screaming, "Uncle Lee." He grabbed Leroy's hand and pulled him into the house, Leroy laughed as he was pulled through the house by a seven year old. He was pulled right past everyone in the living room, including his mother. "Uncle Lee, will you sit here with me, to help me open my presents, please." Leroy smiled, he loved his nephew but he was full of energy. "Yeah Mikey I will." He looked over at everyone they were all smiling, then he looked at his Mother her mouth was in a hard thin line, he didn't look at Sue for too long before turning back to Mikey. Sade left Leroy Mother's side when Leroy turned back to Mikey and came up to sit with them too. "Today is my birthday Sade, I get Uncle Lee, you can have him on your birthday." Mikey was trying to be possessive of Leroy. Before Allison could say anything, Leroy spoke to Mikey, "Mikey, Sade can sit here too, and any of your other cousins, I am not going anywhere." "But I wanted you to help me." "And I will, just be nice to your cousins." As Tyler, Sade's brother walked over and sat with them too. Dave sat down on the couch next to Allison after sitting the present that they brought next to Mikey, it was the biggest box there. "Mommy, can I open presents now?" Allison nodded. "Can I open yours first Uncle Leroy?" "Of course you can, but it is also from Uncle Dave." Mikey ripped off the wrapping paper and it went flying, Leroy had to smile at the little boy's enthusiasm. He opened the big box only to find there were smaller wrapped boxes inside. "All of these are for me?" Leroy nodded. Dave and Leroy Ch. 07 Allison got curious and stood up to look in the box and was amazed to see there were quite a few presents. "Dave why so many?" She whispered when she sat back down. "I think Leroy felt bad for having the seizure and scaring Mikey, I told him we had enough gifts after the fifth one but he kept finding more and buying them. I also think he is bored out of his mind, he is already thinking about repainting the spare bedroom, even though he painted it just five months ago." "He was the type that never could stay still. How controlled are his seizures?" "The medication is doing a pretty good job, but when he tires himself out too much it will cause a seizure. He really felt bad for scaring Mikey." "But the funny thing was when I came to get Mikey they were just rough housing it again, he doesn't know his limits." "No he doesn't." Dave looked over at Leroy who was staring at the two of them, and they ended their conversation. Mikey had opened a skateboard, a book on folding paper airplanes, crayons and coloring book on his favorite cartoon, Legos, remote controlled truck, a multipack of hot wheels cars, and a nerf gun with extra ammo. Mikey got excited over everything he opened; he was getting louder and louder as he would take another item out of the box. "Oh my god Leroy, you and Dave bought him too much." Allison laughed. "He only turns seven once." Leroy smiled. "Thank you Uncle Lee and Uncle Dave." Mikey jumped on Leroy to hug him before he was prepared and was knocked backwards and hit his head against Leroy's Father's knees, they both said ouch at the same time. Then Mikey ran over to Dave and hugged him. "You ok Son?" "Yeah, going to have to remember he is a strong little guy." Leroy and Lee chuckled. Mikey opened all of his other gifts just an enthusiastic as he opened Leroy's. Leroy was happy that he didn't duplicate anything but the hot wheels, at least they weren't the same cares. Everyone started talking and Leroy got off the floor and went to sit next to Dave on the couch. "How is your head?" Dave was concerned. "Really it is ok, but I am getting the weird feeling so will you come with me to Allison's bedroom." They both got up and headed off into the room, Leroy was starting to not overlook the first few signs that he was about to have a seizure, so he could be in a safe area. Over the last month since he had the seizure in front of Mikey he was trying to detect other signs, and he started realizing the fuzziness feeling was very light in the beginning, but Leroy used to only realize it a minute before the seizure began, and really if that, sometimes he didn't pay attention and it was just a few seconds before the seizure would start. Now that he was paying attention, he was getting close to five minutes of time to prepare. Sue followed them, but they didn't notice, Leroy was intent on getting to a safe place to have his seizure and Dave was worried as usual. When they reached Allison's room after going around everyone and the kids, Leroy didn't have time to even lie down and seized, Dave grabbed him and gently laid him on the floor as he was having his spasms and backed away, because he knows he can't restrain him or help in anyway. Sue eyes widen, "Help him Dave." She screamed, which caused more people to come to the bedroom. "There is nothing I can do Sue, I have to let him have the seizure and then comfort him when he is finished so I can pull him out of it faster." Dave looked at Sue, Lee was behind her and so were Aaron and Allison, which was all Dave could see through the doorway. When Leroy stopped seizing Dave got down on the floor and cradled Leroy's head in his lap, he was stroking his face and head and bent down to kiss him on the forehead. Sue turned around at the moment and left the room. After a while Dave and Leroy came back out of the bedroom, Allison walked up to them. "Leroy, how often do you have seizures?" "Not as often, but it was my fault on this one, I worked myself into this one. I was worried about coming here today. Sorry I didn't mean to create a scene." "Leroy you didn't create a scene, I love you." She pulled him back to her bedroom. "Mom was worried about you." "She wasn't in the room when I woke up, only Dave, Dad, Aaron and you." "Just give her time Leroy." "I have and I have decided that she is going to have to make the first move, and I will tell you Allison, I am not ready to forgive and forget." "That is understandable, Leroy." They both walked back out into the party and few hours later everyone was laughing at Leroy and Mikey. Mikey had gotten some paper from the computer and was having Leroy fold paper airplanes. Mikey kept making Leroy make them and Leroy was laughing because he knew he would get tortured to do this, but he was hoping not the same day that he opened the present. Leroy was hoping that Mikey and all the kids would play and he could get a break but Mikey wanted his Uncle Lee, Leroy had to chuckle at that one. After the twentieth airplane, Leroy finally calls it and walked over to Dave and sits down next to him. Dave takes Leroy's hand in his and they just sit there watching everyone, Allison was walking through with Tiff in her arms and Jason calls for her from the kitchen and she looks around and drops Tiff in Leroy's lap and walks away. Tiff looks at him and Leroy smiled, he was thinking to himself that he wouldn't mind having kids one day, but it would be a little hard to get Dave pregnant, he chuckled to himself. "What are you laughing at?" Dave asked. "Nothing, just thinking and it made me laugh." Dave looked at him. "I will tell you later." Leroy chuckled again while he held Tiff and looked around at all the kids. Dave and Leroy Ch. 08 As I wrote in a comments section of Chapter 7, I wrote Chapter 8 in around four hours on Thursday. This was sparked by how the last chaptered ended and it took this story in a direction that I never had thought of before. This chapter was supposed to deal with Sue and Leroy, but now that will be a later chapter. Of course things are unrealistic but this is fiction so you can do anything right. :) FYI - This is a shorter chapter. *********************** After returning from Allison's, Dave was sitting on the couch with Leroy, they were holding hands and kissing. Dave remembered that Leroy had chuckled tonight and asked what it was about. At first Dave was trying to remind calm when they were talking about the subject but he couldn't believe what was coming out of Leroy and where it came from. "But, you want KIDS!" Dave raised his voice on the kid's part. Leroy was looking at a very pissed off Dave, he didn't think he would take it that way. "I was just thinking it would be nice, I am home now all the time." "You have seizures Leroy, what would a baby do if you have a seizure and no one else is around?" "I just had the thought Dave, never mind." Leroy went to their room, he decided to take a shower, he didn't know what else to do, he would have drove away just to get his frustrations out, but he is not allowed to drive, so he walked into the bathroom and started the shower. Leroy didn't realize that Dave would be so against the idea, he actually wanted to cry, he didn't know what to do with himself now. It wasn't like he wanted them this minute, but just looking around the family room tonight at Allison's he actually wouldn't mind being called Dad. Maybe it was just bad timing, it didn't help that he had a seizure tonight, maybe Dave will think about it for a while. Leroy finished his shower, dried off and walked back into the bedroom and laid down, he could still hear Dave in the kitchen. When Dave stopped picking up the kitchen and the family room he finally had calmed himself enough, he didn't realize that Leroy would ever want kids. He heard Leroy get out of the shower and go to the bedroom, he was expecting him to come back out to the kitchen but he didn't so Dean went to the bedroom. Dave in a calmer voice spoke from the doorway, "Leroy, I just never thought you would want any, you were always against it in the past." "Forget it Dave, it was just a passing thought." Leroy continued to lay on the bed he didn't turn over to look at Dave or anything. "Am I a burden now to you, Dave?" "NO, GOD NO, where is that coming from, Leroy?" Dave walked around the bed to look at Leroy. "Because of my seizures, because I am not working, because I am not contributing to the household any longer. I am sorry Dave." "Leroy Honey, I love you. Please don't think that. Is this all because I am not into the kid idea right now? I am sorry, but you were always against kids before. I just never thought I would ever hear even the thought of kids come out of your mouth." Dave tried to get Leroy to look at him but Leroy closed his eyes and refused to open them, Dave undressed, got on his side of the bed and spooned Leroy. "Honey, I love you, never think that please." Leroy didn't responded he did feel every bit of a burden at that moment. Dave woke the next morning to an empty bed, he sat up and he didn't hear any noise in the house so he got up to look for Leroy. He looked in the living room, kitchen, family room, and both spare bedrooms, no Leroy. He went down stairs, still no Leroy. He walked outside and Leroy's car was gone, Dave's heart sank. "Oh shit." Dave looked at the time it was after nine, so he started calling all Leroy's family asking them if they had seen Leroy, everyone had said no. Both Aaron and Allison said they would be right over. They both pulled up at the same time and came in without knocking, they saw that Leroy's car was gone. "What is going on Dave?" Aaron asked as they saw him in the family room, he had just gotten off the phone with his family to make sure Leroy didn't go over there. "Leroy left and I don't know where he went." "What happened?" Allison asked. "We came home from your house last night and he asked if I would like to have some kids." Dave looked at Allison and Aaron they looked as shocked as he was last night. "I wasn't nice about it, I told him how he would be able to take care of a kid when he has a seizure. He took it as I thought he was a burden to me." Dave looked like he wanted to cry. "He isn't a burden to me, I love him too much, I was just shocked that was all, Leroy never wanted kids before." "He didn't leave a note or anything?" "No, how am I going to find him, what if he has a seizure while driving. Allison, I can't lose him." "Dave calm down, can you..." Lee walked in. "Dad!" "Where is Leroy, why is his car gone?" "Dave and he had a small misunderstanding, and Dave doesn't know when Leroy drove away or where he is." Leroy had been parked in a little parking lot of a closed business all day, he drove for a few hours and pulled into this little parking lot. He was depressed, he hoped he wasn't a burden to Dave but he very much felt like one. He watched a cop keep driving by, he knew the cop would eventually ask what he was doing in the middle of nowhere. Leroy thought about driving home, but one, he really didn't know how he had gotten there and two he had had the odd feeling of a seizure for hours now, but it has never developed into one. Leroy couldn't sleep at all once Dave came to bed, so he waited until Dave was completely asleep before he got up, grabbed his jeans and a t-shirt, he walked out of the house after grabbing his car keys. After driving for two hours, which he never took the freeway, just streets and roads, he wasn't paying attention to where he drove. He wished he would have brought his phone, he was so intent on getting out of the house, he forgot it on the dresser. The police office drove by again, Leroy watched him drive down the road turn around and come back and pull into the parking lot. After calling in Leroy's license plate, the cop got out of the car and walked up to his window, Leroy had already had it down. "License and registration." "Yes Sir." Leroy pulled his wallet out, retrieved his license and grabbed his registration out of the glove compartment. "Mr. Standish, I have noticed that you have been sitting here all day. May I asked why?" "Kind of lost, and actually been thinking this entire time, Sir." Leroy didn't mind to call this officer Sir, because he was an older gentleman, if it would have been someone younger than he, he probably would have just called him officer. "Do you know there is an APB out for you and your car?" "It figures." "Because it was more of a favor for another cop in another town, I didn't call in that I had seen you here all day. The bulletin stated you were just a friend of a cop that they needed to find, that you weren't wanted for anything. I figured sometime you would have left, but you stayed here." Leroy decided to tell the truth. "I am not supposed to drive, but my partner and I had a fight. I didn't pay attention to where I was driving. I really don't know what town I am in and I am afraid that I am going to have a seizure because I have had the funky feeling for the past few hours. It doesn't help that I forgot my phone at home and I know my partner is going to be pissed." "Well what is his number, I will give him a call." Leroy looked at him, the cop wasn't fazed at all about him basically saying he was gay and he had a fight. Leroy gave him the number and the cop said he would be right back. Dave was sitting with Lee, Allison and Aaron, they wouldn't leave him. Dave was beside himself and he jumped when his phone started ringing, he looked at the number he didn't recognize it at all. "Hello." "Hello, this is Officer Pete Meyers, am I speaking to Dave Ayers? "Yes, did you find him, is he ok, where is he?" Dave's panic was showing through his questions. "Yes he is fine, he is in Coldwater." "Coldwater is like four hours from here. Will he be taken to the police station there?" "No, I was going to sit here and talk with him, just get here, he said he feels like he is going to have a seizure, so bring someone with you to drive his car home." The officer gave the address of the closed business and hung up. The officer went back over to Leroy's car. "I called him, he is on his way, it will take him roughly around four hours to get here." "Four hours?" "You drove longer then you thought, Son. Since it will take them a bit to get to you, why don't you come with me and we'll get you some food." "Sir, you don't have to babysit me, I will stay here and wait for Dave." "Not babysitting a grown man, just a worried citizen that is all. Come on, I will drive you back here in an hour or so. You have to be hungry or at least thirsty, I don't see any water." The officer looked concerned. "Ok." Leroy rolled his window up and got out of the car and followed the officer to his. The officer told him to get in the front. "You can call me, Pete. Do you mind if I call you Leroy?" "No Sir." Leroy looked at the officer. "No Pete, I don't mind." "I am going to go out on a ledge here Leroy, I don't normally tell people, but I am gay as well. I am not going to say that I know what is troubling you and what your fight was about, but if you want to talk to me, you are more than welcome." Pete paused for a second. "Dave sounded worried about you, I don't know if that was what you were aiming at." Leroy started to interrupt him. "I don't see that, I was just checking to see if you did mean to worry him, you seemed lost. How long have you two been together?" "No, I didn't mean to drive as far as I drove and I am lost, this year completely changed my life. Dave and I have been together since we were sixteen, except for a few years from eighteen to twenty." Pete took him back to the police station and he did a few things and then they were walking out to his car, he took a minute while they were in the parking lot to call his partner to inform him what was going on, if he wanted to meet them for dinner or not, of course he partner came to dinner. "Don't mind my partner, he is nice and anything you want to talk about will not go beyond him either." Pete pulled up to a little diner in the town and his partner was already waiting in the parking lot, Leroy and Pete walked over to him. "Leroy I would like you to meet my partner Chris, Chris this is Leroy." They all greeted one another and walked into the diner. After small talk Pete returned back to Leroy fight and asked if he would like to talk about what had happened. Leroy exhaled and started to tell them it was stupid really, then went into telling them how the past year has affected his life and how last night seem like a puzzle piece finally was put in place that he really wanted to have a kid or two and that Dave was against the idea. But the biggest fear that Leroy had was he was now a burden and Dave would get tired of taking care of him and leave him. "Leroy, the man that I talked to on the phone was worried to death about you, I don't think he will be leaving you anytime soon. You two have been together too long to think that because you got sick he is going to leave you. Son, you can't be just running off in the middle of the night because you had a disagreement. Life is full of disagreements, if Chris or I did that every time we got in a major fight, hell we wouldn't be together after these thirty plus years." "Leroy, it is tough, I don't know how many fights you have been in, I am assuming enough over this past fifteen years." Leroy nodded his head. "You will just need to sit down with Dave and talk to him about your feelings, as you said a lot has changed in this year. Did you want kids before?" Chris asked. "No, I was living my life, living my life with Dave; I didn't want to share him with anyone or anything. I don't know what changed inside of me, I was just sitting in my sister's family room with the baby on my lap and I could see Dave and me with a little one, to complete our family. I don't know where it came from, it was just all of a sudden what I wanted." Leroy sat silent for a minute. "I know Dave is right, how could I take care of a baby when I can't drive or do anything." "Don't sell yourself short Leroy." Chris said. "You drove here, you didn't drive back because you were afraid that you were going to have a seizure. So it is possible to drive." "But I am not supposed to drive." "In this state you can as long as you have been seizure free for a period of time. Your medicine will help you, it might never take the seizures completely away but it will help." Chris responded and Pete nodded. "The medicine has helped out a lot; I used to have a seizure almost daily, now I am down to once to twice a week. It has taken some time but I am seeing the signs of one coming on, but again today I have felt it most of the day and it still hasn't come." "Well, I can't tell you to stop worrying that is on you. All I can say it give it time, you never know what tomorrow will bring and talk with your Dave." Leroy nodded. They finished up their meal and Pete decided it would probably be best to get Leroy back to the meeting spot, Chris decided to ride with them. They talked about anything and everything, Chris and Pete talked about how they had met those many years ago. Three hours after Pete called Dave, Dave pulled into the lot. "That boy must have broken every speeding law out there." Pete chuckled. Leroy got out of Pete's car as Dave got out of his, he walked towards Dave and Dave ran towards him and threw his arms around him and kissed him, he put his forehead to Leroy's and just stood there for a few minutes. Pete and Chris had gotten out of their car and Aaron had gotten out of Dave's. "Leroy, I love you. You are not a burden to me, if you want ten kids, we will adopt ten kids. I am sorry, I love you Babe." He kissed him again, and Leroy had tears streaking down his face. "Leroy, I am sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you, I know it has been a bad year for you, I just didn't know how much this meant to you." "It's ok Dave, I am sorry as well. I shouldn't of driven away, I knew it was a mistake and I was scared to drive home, I didn't even know how I got here. Hell I still don't know where the hell I am." Dave placed his forehead back to Leroy's and again they stood there for a bit, until Pete cleared his throat. Both Leroy and Dave turned to Pete, "Dave this is Pete and Chris, and this man over here is my brother Aaron." They all greeted one another and Dave thanked Pete for finding Leroy. They all talked for a bit and exchanged numbers. Before they parted ways, Chris pulled Leroy to the side. "Leroy, I was like you, I didn't want kids for the longest time and then one day out of the blue I wanted them and Pete didn't. Give Dave time and yourself time, it will happen." "Did you end up having kids then?" "Yeah, my sister donated the eggs and we found a surrogate to have the kids for us. We ended up having one of each; they are living their lives and doing well, we even have grandbabies on the way. Just be patient it will work out for the best. Please give us a call when you need." Leroy actually hugged Chris and walked back towards Pete and shook his hand, Dave and he drove home with Aaron following in Leroy's car. The drive home took the four hours, Dave didn't speed going home, they did call Aaron to see if he wanted to just take Leroy's car home and switch them the next day, but he told them he might as well pick his car up tonight. It was after ten when they pulled in the driveway, Aaron said his goodnights and walked to his car and drove away. Dave took Leroy by the hand and they went to the bedroom. They undressed and got into bed and Dave cuddled up to Leroy and laid there for the longest before talking. "Babe, I love you. You scared me so much when I woke and couldn't find you." "I know Dave, I was stupid, I just needed to get away and think, I didn't realize I drove so long, I really thought I had only had driven for two hours, and I am glad that I didn't start seeking my way home, because I would have been even more lost. Dave forgive me please, I won't do it again." "No, I am the one that needs to be asking for forgiveness, honey I know things have changed for you and you were trying to ask me about kids. Whatever you would like, Babe we will do, I don't want to lose you." "Dave I don't want them right this minute, I was just bringing up the idea. I don't know when and if we will or if you want them, I was just thinking about it. I don't want to be a burden to you, and I feel like I am." "Leroy you have never and will never be a burden to me, I love you. Please never think that again." Dave pulled Leroy to him and held him tight. "I love you too Dave, always and forever." *************** Let me know, should Dave and Leroy have kids or just leave the subject untouched? Dave and Leroy Ch. 09 Dave laid behind Leroy, he was snuggled to him. "I love you Leroy." He could feel him tense, Dave knew Leroy was retreating, plain and simple, he could feel it. He could tell that Leroy was falling deeper and deeper into depression and anything that Dave did to help pull him out, just cause Leroy to fall even further. It didn't help that the holidays were coming up fast. "Leroy, please look at me." Leroy slowly turned over, Dave looked him in the eyes. "Leroy do you still love me?" "Yes Dave, I do, I just don't love myself right now. I am so tired Dave, I am tired of just being here, day after day, I can't stand it anymore." "Babe, once we can get a handle on the seizures then you will be able to do more, the doctors even told you this. Honey, just give it another month, you haven't had a seizure in a few weeks now, hopefully this will all be behind us soon." "I know, but I want my old life back and I will never have it." "Leroy?" Dave looked at him and held his face in my hands; Dave wanted him to look at him. "Babe, will you do me a favor, please?" "What is it, Dave?" "Come with me to see a counselor, please. He works with couples, I believe we need some help too. This didn't just change you Babe, it changed us. I love you and I want to help you." "Can I think about it?" "Yes." That discussion happened earlier in the week, Dave was worried about Leroy, he never knew what he was going to come home to. Leroy was either angry, crying or sleeping, every once in a blue moon he would come home to his Leroy that he loved. One night Dave came in from work and found Leroy sleeping in one of the spare rooms, he was shocked to find him there. He didn't say anything, just climbed into bed with him and cuddled up. Leroy woke, "Hi babe." "I love you Leroy." "I know Dave, I love you too." "Why are you in here Leroy?" "I just felt like lying down in this room and then I thought about." Leroy grinned a devilish smile. "We have not once in all our years in this house, fucked in this room." "Oh no, you don't." Dave laughed. "What?" "You try to fix everything with sex Leroy. I love you, but I would like us to go see a counselor." "Why? I am fine, just a little off that is all." "Leroy, you think that you are a burden to me, as much as I keep telling you that you aren't, you keep dropping deeper into depression. I love you, Hon. Please, I don't want anything to come between us, we have been through too much for anything to come between us now. Please will you come to see one with me?" Leroy looked at Dave for a few minutes, he knew he needed help but he didn't want to admit it. "I know, I have to find something to do Dave, I feel useless. Dave, it is killing me just sitting here day after day, losing time when I have a damn seizure, scaring the hell out of everyone that I love, including you. I see how you look at me when I come out of the fuzz of a seizure Dave. I see the torment in your eyes Dave. I hate it, I hate all of it. I want my life back. I wish that I never had that tumor, I hate everything now." Leroy started crying and Dave held him. "It's ok, Babe, it's ok." Dave was trying to soothe Leroy. "Leroy, Honey, I am always here, you can talk to me, share your feelings with me, I know you have been through a lot this year. Are you willing to go with me?" "I am not ready to open up to anyone Dave, will you give me some time?" "Yes, Leroy I will." Dave could see an improvement in Leroy, at least he hope he was seeing an improvement. He came home one night from work and Leroy was sitting in the living room waiting for him. "Hey Babe, you are up and waiting for me?" "I wanted to talk to you Dave, please sit down." Dave sat down; the look in Leroy eyes scared him. "Dave, I love you." "And I love you, Leroy." "Dave, I am going to be straight to the point, I need to leave for a while. I need to work on myself, I need to find myself, if you will. I am miserable right now; I hate how I am towards you, towards my family and to myself. Please will you let me go for a bit?" "Where will you go?" "I don't know, just please let me." "Ok Leroy, I don't like it, but I love you and I know you need to do this." "Thank you." What Dave didn't know is Leroy had a bag pack and was leaving that night. They head off to the bedroom and they laid down to sleep, but sleep didn't come to Leroy. Leroy hugged and kissed Dave as he got out of the bed; Dave rolled over in his sleep and didn't wake. Leroy left the house on foot to the train station; he didn't know where he was heading but needed to leave. Dave woke to next morning to a note on his bedside table with Leroy ring sitting on top. 'Dave, I know you love me, and you say that I am not a burden to you, but I feel like one. I don't know where I am going, I am sorry. If you can forgive me when I come home, please give the ring back, but if you can't I will understand. I love you. L.' Dave just sat there in a haze for a while and then he called Aaron and told him what happened. Aaron didn't know a thing and said he will try to locate Leroy. Leroy's phone was turned off, but Dave knew he had it with him. Aaron stopped over almost every day and after a few weeks of everyone in the family calling everyone they and Leroy knew to see if they had seen him, they came up empty. "Has his bank account showed any activity?" Aaron asked. "Yeah cash withdraws, but in different city and the ATMs seem to be located in train or bus stations. He seems to be crisscrossing the US, occasionally there will be a motel charge but I am always too late to catch him there." "I am sorry Dave; I don't know what is going on in Leroy's head." "He doesn't have a clue himself, he seems so lost since the tumor." Aaron gave Dave a hug and left, they talked or saw one another every day, along with Jeff and Allison. They rest of the family called every few days because they didn't want to bother Dave too much, since he was already worried about Leroy they didn't want to add to his worry. The weeks went by without a word from Leroy. Finally Aaron called his Aunt Stella out in San Diego, and she confirmed that Leroy had been there a little over a week now. Aaron told her not to tell him that he called and that he was going to fly out in a few days to hopefully bring him home. Aaron flew out to San Diego, rented a car and drove to his Aunt Stella's house. He had informed her that he would be in at an early hour, and she told him that she would be up and the door unlocked for him. True to her word she was sitting in the living room when he arrived, they talked for a few minutes before she told him which room Leroy was in. He walked down the hall to his closed bedroom door, Aaron opened it and there laid Leroy curled up around a few pillows sleeping, he sat on the bed and watched him for a few minutes before he decided to wake him. He looked at the six foot two man, hugging and wrapped around the pillows, it made him look so small. His hair was growing out a little more, he had a full beard, and from what information he received from Aunt Stella he was crying a lot, not in front of her of course but she would see how red his eyes were in the mornings. She informed Aaron that he was a broken man that she recommends Leroy to see a counselor when he gets him home. "Leroy." Aaron called out his name lightly, he stirred a little but didn't wake. "Leroy." He said a little louder, he grunted and moved again. "Leroy." Again a little louder. "What the hell are you doing here and how did you find me?" Leroy never opened his eyes, didn't uncurl from the pillows he didn't move a muscle but to say that one sentence, he was hoping he really hadn't heard his brother but he could feel him shift on the bed. "You are a fucking asshole, do you know that Leroy. You left Dave in the middle of the night, he has been beside himself for the past month. If you wanted to torture Dave you have succeed in that. Why haven't you called or anything, Leroy everyone is worried about you." Leroy finally opened his eyes, Aaron could see that they were very red. "Leroy, talk to me, I want to help you, but you can't run away from us." "I am sorry, Aaron." Leroy did something unexpected that Aaron never thought he would ever see his big brother do, he wrapped his arms around Aaron midsection and put his head in his lap and cried. Aaron put his hands on Leroy head and back and tried to soothe him, it took a long while before he spoke again. "Do you think Dave will ever forgive me?" He whispered. "Lee, Dave loves you, you might be in the guess room for a while, but he will forgive you. Are you ready to go home?" Leroy nodded his head. "Come on, let's get you in the shower, our plane leaves in a few hours." "You weren't screwing around, what if I wasn't ready?" "Oh you would have gotten on the plane I was armed with other things to get you on, but I am glad that I didn't have to use them, I am just glad you are ready to come home, Leroy." He helped Leroy get up and pushed him toward the bathroom, he looked around the room, he saw Leroy's bag he never put his clothes in the drawers he just lived out of the bag. He had talked a bit with his Aunt on the phone before he came, she told him that Leroy was hiding in the room, that he wasn't doing anything while he had been there, he would gave her money to help out with food. He didn't drink or leave his room much other than to eat or help out cooking and cleaning. When Leroy finished his shower he looked at himself in the mirror, he would shave but he didn't have anything with him to shave with, he dried off and went to the room in his towel. "Aaron..." He just looked at the floor and didn't finished. "Leroy, we all love you, we are just glad that we found you before Christmas." He looked at Leroy. "Lee I didn't tell Dave, I didn't want to get his hopes up and not bring you home. He is going to be pissed at you at first, but he loves you, he asks all the time if I think you would show back up." "Aaron I am not worthy of his love, I walked out on him and didn't tell him where I was all this time, how long have I been gone?" "Leroy you don't even know do you?" He shook his head. "Only a month, I didn't think you would come all the way out to Aunt Stella's, but I am glad I finally called her. Come on let's get you packed and say goodbye to Aunt Stella." Leroy nodded, went to his bag and grabbed out some clothes, dressed, shoved his dirties in, zipped his bag up, looked at Aaron and told him he was ready. They sat in the living room for a bit with their Aunt and had some coffee. They said their goodbyes, Stella told them that she loved them both and pulled Leroy into a hug, told him to take care of himself, to kiss Dave's feet and do everything he can to win his heart back. Leroy nodded, then Aaron and he were walking out the door and drove to the airport. The flight home was long, Aaron talked some more with Leroy, telling him that he needs to see someone about his problems that he can't just run away. Leroy told him he knew but was just so depressed and he hated being so helpless. A few layovers and ten hours later they walk out of their airport and Jeff was waiting for them. When Jeff saw them walk out of the airport he got out and walked up to Leroy and hugged him, "Missed you, Lee." Leroy just nodded and got into the car. They took him home, Dave wasn't there, they didn't know if he was at work or just out, Leroy told them not to call him, that either he will be home after midnight or sooner. Jeff told him no and stepped outside and call Dave. "Hey Jeff." Dave answered. "Dave, are you at work or just out?" "Work, why what's up?" "Aaron and I have dropped off a package for you, we are still at your house." "I am not far away, did you want me to stop by?" "Yeah, it wouldn't be a bad idea. See you in a few." Jeff hung the phone up and walked back into the house. Dave looked at his partner Terry and looked confused. "Do you mind if we make a run by my house?" Terry shook his head and they made the turn to head that way. Leroy was just sitting in the living room he really didn't look around the house, he was looking down at the ground while his brothers were talking, than Dave and Terry walked in. Dave just stood there for a minute looking at Leroy, he hadn't looked up to see who entered yet. When he finally looked up Dave could see that Leroy was on the verge of crying and he walked over and pulled him up in a hug. "I love you Leroy, but you are in the doghouse." All Leroy could do was nod, the others left the room. "Damn it, will you say something to me." Dave pulled Leroy away from him and saw the flood of tears coming down his face. "Leroy... Lee." Dave's expressions soften. "Lee, talk to me." Leroy kept shaking his head and then he finally could get out, "I am sorry, Dave." Dave pulled him back into a hug and kept telling him he loved him. They stood hugging and not talking for a while longer until Terry had to interrupt to tell Dave they had a call they had to leave. Dave told Leroy he would see him in a few hours. Jeff and Aaron ask if he needed them to stay, Leroy told them to go home that he would be ok. Once everyone left Leroy, he didn't know what to do with himself, he would sit in the living room, then the family room. He would stand in the kitchen he was nervous to be alone with Dave, he knows Dave will be angry with him, but he also knows that Dave will forgive him, not tonight but one day. He was sitting on the couch when Dave walked through the door a little after midnight. "Hi." "Hi." Leroy looked up at Dave. "I made the guest bed, I am sure you don't want me in our bed." "Yes and no. No, because I have missed you so much Leroy that I want you in my arms, but yes, I would prefer you in there to punish you, you can't expect me to forgive you for running out of me so quickly." Dave sat on the coffee table across from Leroy. "We have a lot to talk about Lee, and we are going to go to counseling, you can't just disappear when you feel like you can't handle life." "Yes, Dave, I am sorry. I know that I need help." Leroy was looking at his hands. Dave stood up pulled something out of this pocket and sat down next to Leroy, he grabbed Leroy's hand and held it in his and sat there for a minute and then he slipped the ring on Leroy's finger. When Leroy was alone waiting for Dave he looked for his ring and couldn't find it, he was hoping that Dave didn't get too mad and throw it away. "We said in sickness and in health, until death do we part. We committed ourselves to one another Leroy almost eight years ago now, I love you Lee." He pull Leroy into a hug and then pulled him up and they walked to towards the bedrooms. "Let's get some sleep and we will talk in the morning." "Where do you want me to sleep?" "In the spare room Leroy, I love you, but for the time being I think it would be best for us to sleep in separate rooms." Dave told Leroy while they were standing outside of one of the spare rooms; Dave hugged Leroy and then turned and went into his room. Leroy walked into the spare room and undressed and laid down, sleep didn't come quickly and he did end up crying himself to sleep again. Dave laid in his room awake for a long time as well and around four that morning looked in on Leroy, he could see from the moonlight that Leroy was asleep and was hugging his pillows tightly. The next morning Leroy was laying there awake he got up and went to the bathroom and when he came out he looked into Dave's room. He watched Dave, he looked so sweet laying there sleeping, Leroy knew he was stupid, he was miserable the entire time he was gone, he literally cried himself to sleep every night. He walked away from the room to the kitchen, he made some coffee and sat down in the living room on the couch. Dave come strolling out of the room rubbing his eyes, he sat down next to Leroy on the couch. "Would you like some coffee?" Dave nodded and Leroy went into the kitchen for coffee and brought him back a cup and he had warmed his up. They sat in silence for a bit then Dave finally spoke up. "I have to work the next few days, but I am going to call someone for counseling, please don't argue with me on this one Leroy." Leroy just sat there and stared at Dave. "We will go as a couple if you want, but I really also think you need individual counseling too. I love you Leroy." "I will do anything that you want me to do Dave and I love you too." Leroy was telling the truth, he didn't want to lose Dave he didn't want to be away from Dave any longer. "Leroy what have you done this past month?" "I left not knowing where I was going, I didn't make it out to San Diego until two weeks ago, and before that I was just aimlessly roaming. I am sorry Dave, I should have never left, I knew it was a mistake the first night, but I couldn't bring myself to come home." Leroy looked down. "I will go to counseling to individual and couples, I have missed you Dave, and I want you in my life." They talked more that morning, Dave called a few different counselors and found someone that had some openings for both individual and couples, he sat up the first initial appointments back to back on Friday. They will do the couples consult first and then Leroy will have his individual session. Over the following days, Dave watched Leroy, not afraid that he was going to leave but worried that he was thinking too much and was worrying that Leroy thought Dave didn't love him. Dave was dying inside though, he wanted to pull Leroy into a hug and tell him that he has forgiven him the moment that he saw him the other day, but he wants to show Leroy that he can't be walked on too. So he hasn't asked Leroy to come to their bed yet. Leroy was still unshaved, every morning when they get up, Dave can tell that Leroy had been crying. Finally it was Friday and they were heading to the counselors office. When they arrived of course they had all the normal paperwork that had to be filled out, and then they had just a short wait until Dr. Frank Watts called them in. "Dave and Leroy, why have you come to see me today?" Dave spoke first, "I love my partner and I am afraid that he is going to leave me, because he doesn't realize how much I love him." "Has he left before?" "Yes, twice." "How did that make you feel?" "Devastated." "Why did he leave?" Dr. Watts didn't look at Leroy at all during this question and answer stage. "First time, we were eighteen and he thought he could find himself and realize he wasn't gay or something like that, this last time, he thinks he is a burden to me." "Why do you think he thinks he is a burden to you?" "Because, a lot has happened in this last year to Leroy and he is temporarily disabled and he feels that he isn't contributing to the household, where I am just happy that I have him still in my life." "Are you hearing that Leroy?" "Yes, Doctor." "Leroy, why did you leave when you were eighteen?" "Honestly?" The Doctor nodded. "Not only to find myself, I did want to see if there was a possibility that I wasn't gay even though I know whole heartily that was, but I was always afraid that Dave was going to leave me." He looked over at Dave. "Hear me out please." Because it looked like Dave was going to say something. "Dave when we would go to the clubs just to be able to get out from under our families watchful eyes so we could be together, you would look at the girls in the clubs, I always knew you were bi. I know you had your eye on me but I had always noticed how you look at Cindy and what killed me the most was that is who you ended up with when I did leave." "I am sorry, Leroy. I didn't know you noticed that, you know I only have eyes for you now, yes I think when I was younger I was bi, or tried to be, but I am and will always be yours only." Dave and Leroy Ch. 09 "But you married her even, that is another reason I didn't want to come home after I graduated boot camp and started my training. Aaron begged me to come for his graduation and that was the only reason I did come home. I stayed in the house all the time I didn't want anyone to know I was in town. Mom asked me to take Chris over to a friend's house that day you pulled me over, that wonderful day Dave. I am so glad fate intervened because I was so miserable without you. I couldn't even bring myself to date anyone else Dave, I tried, I never told you this, I tried to have sex with a guy that I met and when it came down to it I couldn't, all I could think about was you and I couldn't even get it up for the guy. Then getting pulled over by you that day, inside I was screaming I was so happy to see you, but I didn't show it on the outside, even with you begging me to see you when you got out of work that night, I didn't want you to realize how bad I wanted you. They both forgot the Doctor was even there. "But you left me again Leroy." "And I was miserable the whole time, the only way I could go to sleep at night was to cry myself to sleep. I missed you so much Dave. I was feeling bad for myself, plain and simple. I whole heartedly believed that I was a burden to you, I felt like one and still feel like one. The seizures were keeping me from feeling like a man that could take care of you. And don't say it, I know you can take damn good care of yourself but I liked that I felt that I could do it too. Before this tumor, I was working and I helped support our household. Now..." Leroy stopped for a minute, to rein in his emotions. "Now, I am medically retired, yeah I have what the military gives me every month and I know it is more than enough but I am not working and I hate it. I can't drive, and I know that will change the longer I don't have a seizure. But I hate it, I hate my life, it hurts me every time I look in either yours or one of my family's eyes and see the pity there." "It's not pity, we love you Leroy, we hate that we can't do anything to help you. I hate seeing my Baby hurting. I wish the tumor never happened, I wish that so much so you could go back to doing the things you love, but it did happen Babe. I know you don't like the idea of me taking care of you, but Leroy, when we went through the commitment ceremony almost eight years ago, we said in sickness and in health until death do we part. I don't want the death any time soon, but I love you Lee and I will take care of you if you would just let me." "Could you handle that Leroy?" The Doctor asked. "I haven't handled it well so far." "Why?" "Because I am not use to someone taking care of me. I have always taken care of myself, even since a young age, I have helped take care of all my younger siblings. I have never been without a job since I turn sixteen and it really sucks to be medically retired, I loved being a Marine and I can't do that anymore." "But isn't the slogan, 'Once a Marine, always a Marine.'" The Doctor asked. "Yes, but it was taken from me sooner than I wanted it to be." Leroy hung his head. "It is taken from any Marine that is injured." "I wasn't injured I had a fucking tumor, a tumor that was the size of a walnut, and it fucked up my life." Dave was looking at Leroy, he didn't know it had affected him this bad. "I think I could handle being shot or losing a limb if it was in the line of duty, but this was just a fucked up thing that pulled me out of my job and my life before I was ready." "You talked about fate earlier, the day that you were pulled over by Dave after you left for the Marines. Have you even thought that this was fate for you too, that maybe it was a way to get you out of the Marines to be around for Dave, so you didn't get killed or injured? How often were you deployed?" "More often than Dave would like, and I also hated it." "Why, when you say you love being a Marine?" Leroy chuckled; it was the first time in a very long time that Dave had even heard Leroy remotely laugh. "I guess I was in a catch 22, I love being a Marine but I hated being deployed because I was away from Dave too much." "Leroy, I am sending you home this week with some homework, next week, Dave will not be able to stay in your individual session, I didn't tell you that your time was up, because you two were opening up to one another, and I could see in Dave expressions that he didn't know everything that was going through your mind." "We have been here two hours?" Leroy asked. "Yes, see when you two actually communicate time can go by. Leroy, I need you to sit down and list out the good and the bad of what this tumor has done to you. Can you do that for me?" "I guess, I never really thought about anything good about it." "You just stated something good, that you are not being deployed anymore, you are home with Dave." Leroy nodded. "Now for the couple's side of it, I would like you two to try to communicate more this week. I really think you two need to discuss the first time that Leroy decided to leave, yes it was for a career in a way, but there are underlining things there and Cindy seemed to be a big factor, or maybe it wasn't but she fits in there somewhere." He looked at Dave and Leroy. "I would like to hear a little about what you two discuss, please write a few things down that seem to bother you more than most items you discuss. I will see you next week." Dave and Leroy thanked the Doctor and left out after making their appointments for the following Friday. They walked out to the car, not speaking to one another, when they reached the car, Dave turned around and stopped Leroy. "I love you, Leroy. I want you always in my life; I don't want anything to come between us." He hugged him. "Leroy I want you to move back into the bedroom, on one condition though." Dave smiled when he pulled back out of the hug. "What is the condition?" Leroy asked, he wasn't smiling but he was happy that Dave asked him back into the bedroom. "You have to shave, I love your body hair, but I don't like the beard and mustache." Leroy chuckled. "Consider it done, I love you, Dave." "Lee, I want you back in my arms, but you are still in the doghouse, we will not be making love." "I understand Dave, I know I have to earn your trust back. I am just happy that you are letting me." They drove home and Dave pushed Leroy off to the bathroom to shave. "Ok, ok I will shave. I was kind of getting used to it." He chuckled he was lying of course, he just didn't have the oomph to want to do anything since he has been home. When Dave would leave for work he would just sit on the couch or lay in the bed, his family didn't come over at all, he was wondering if they were mad at him. Dave followed him in the bathroom and sat on the vanity while Leroy used the clippers first to trim most of the beard and mustache off then he put a longer gage on the clippers and ran it through his hair. Then he pulled out his razor and shaving cream. Dave pulled him over and so he could shave Leroy, "Mmmm, you haven't done this for me in a long time." Dave got a wash cloth, soaked it in warm water and wet Leroy's face with it. Then he sprayed some shaving cream in his hand and spread it over Leroy's cheeks, chin and upper lip. Dave started to shave Leroy, Leroy couldn't help but smile. "You need to stop smiling, I don't want to cut you." Leroy leaned in and kissed Dave, leaving Dave covered in shaving cream. "Really." Leroy laughed. Dave started to shave him again and Leroy stopped smirking so he wouldn't accidently get cut. When Dave finished shaving Leroy, he was completely erect, he couldn't believe how turned on he was, he knew Leroy was too, because Leroy had humped his knee a few times. But he knows that he needs not to give into the urge because he needs Leroy to know that he can't keep hurting him by leaving. Leroy could tell that Dave was thinking too much and took the opportunity to lean in for another kiss. "Leroy...." Dave had to push him away. "I have let you move back into the bedroom, but please don't break my resolve about not making love to you. Please." "Sex?" "No sex either, that is still making love. Anyways Leroy, we have homework we need to discuss." "Yeah I know, can we go and have some lunch first before we dive into that can of worms?" "That is fine Babe, I didn't realize that it bugged you as much as it seems." "I thought it was water under the bridge until we were asked about it. But it is ok, Dave. Not to change the subject though, but have you heard anything from my family?" "Yeah I have talked to Jeff and Aaron every day this week." "Oh ok just was wondering." "No one has called you since you have been home, Leroy?" "No, they haven't, I am just sure they are busy or upset with me. It is ok, I was just wondering. Lets get out of here and have some lunch." Leroy and Dave had a good afternoon, they ate and enjoyed themselves, Dave did wonder why no one has contacted Leroy, he decided the next time he talked to one of his brothers that he would ask them about it. They mutually agreed to work on their homework over the following days because they didn't want to broach the subject to ruin the good moods they were in. That night they were watching TV while snuggling on the coach, when Dave got to the point that he wanted to go to bed he pulled Leroy up and they headed to the bedroom. Both undressed down to their boxers, normally they wouldn't be wearing them but Dave reminded Leroy that there will be no hanky panky for a while, but Dave allowed Leroy to spoon him. This was the first night that Leroy didn't cry himself to sleep, he was happy to be holding Dave again, he was happy that he didn't screw up too bad. Saturday was interesting, they both slept later then their normal waking time, Dave woke first, he almost made the mistake of pushing his ass back on Leroy's erection. But he caught himself and got out of bed. When he looked over at the clock it shocked him, he only had an hour before he needed to leave for work, so he grabbed his stuff and went to the bathroom to shower. Leroy woke when he heard the shower, he stretched and when into the bathroom, he took his boxers off and got in the shower behind Dave and put his arms around him. "Hey." Dave said when Leroy hugged him. "Morning, Honey." "It isn't morning, it is early afternoon." Leroy looked at his watch. "That sucks I was hoping to spend some time with you this morning, guess I am going to have to wait until you get home. I can't believe we slept so long, don't get me wrong it was really nice, I haven't slept that well in a long time." "Yes, it was nice." Dave smiled at Leroy and continued to clean himself so he could get out of the shower. Leroy pulled him back into a hug. "Can you call in tonight?" "Leroy I would love to, but I really need to go in tonight. I will be off again in a few more days, and you will see me just a bit after midnight." He finished up and exited the shower to get dressed, Leroy finished washing and went into the bedroom to grab clothes. Dave didn't have time to eat, so Leroy made him a sandwich to take and asked if he was coming home for dinner or wanted him to pack something. Dave said he didn't know and if not he would pick something up. When Dave left for work he immediately called Aaron. "Hey Aaron, how are you doing?" "Good Dave, what's up?" "Why hasn't anyone called Leroy since he has been home?" "We didn't want to interrupt your time together, and then some of us are still a little upset with him on how he just left you. I should have called him, but I don't know why I haven't either." "I was just wondering because he is worrying that no one has contacted him." "Dave, we love Leroy, I will stop over there tonight, I should have already. I am sorry that he feels that way." "Just don't mention that I asked, ok." "I won't, have a good shift." Dave headed to work and Aaron called Jeff to see if he wanted to go and hang with Leroy, Jeff told him sure and they made plans just to stop over with a pizza in hand. A few hours later Aaron and Jeff showed up to be with Leroy for a while. "What are you doing here?" Leroy asked. "We thought we would come and see our big brother and see how you and Dave are doing." Aaron stated. "Dave call you?" "No, Lee." "Yeah Dave called you, if you two really don't want to be here, you can leave, I have noticed not one of you have called or came by since I have been home." "It's not that Lee, we wanted to give Dave and you some space." Jeff responded. "Yeah whatever." Leroy walked out of the living room and headed to the family room, they followed. "Lee, you didn't talk to us that night we brought you home, I will be honest, I was mad at you." Leroy looked at Jeff. "You up and left us, you didn't even consider us, you were being selfish. You wanted to destroy yourself and not let anyone help you out of your problems. You destroyed Dave, Leroy. Dave hid quite well what he went through this past month from you, but you didn't see the Dave that was beside himself, worrying about you. He thought he wasn't good enough to help you Leroy, that you didn't love him as much as he did you." Aaron was trying to get Jeff to shut up, he could see that it was hurting Leroy to hear this, he didn't want him to shut down. "How do you expect us as your family to react, you said maybe five words to me that night. You don't think we are also mad at you Leroy? We called everywhere looking for you during that month, when you finally showed up at Aunt Stella, I am glad that Aaron recalled her to ask, or we wouldn't of been able to send Aaron to get you." Leroy had long since sat down and was quietly saying he was sorry over and over, during Jeff's tirade. Jeff finally looked at Leroy and saw that he was broken, he didn't see it that night they brought him home. "Lee, I am sorry." "No, I am not worth spending time with, it is ok to be mad at me, when you are over it come back, but get out of my house now, please." Leroy got up and walked into the bedroom and shut the door and cried. Jeff looked at Aaron, "I tried to stop you." "Is he ok?" "I told you he is broken, Jeff. I told you that I didn't think Leroy could handle much right now, and you go and rant on him." "He needs to hear what he put us through this past month too, I am sure Dave didn't tell him completely what he was going through." "Dave may or may not have told him, we don't know, because we have been keeping our distance from Leroy. Anyways, why don't you leave, I am going to see if I can get Leroy to come back out." Jeff nodded, but followed Aaron down to Leroy's room and knocked and opened the door. They could see he was crying. "Just go, please." Leroy said as he turned away from them. Aaron shut the door and ushered Jeff back down the hall, they didn't leave they sat down in the family room and waited for Leroy to come back out, they waited a few hours. Dave came home for dinner and saw them sitting there. "Hey what's going on, where is Leroy?" "To be honest, Jeff went off on him and Leroy has been hiding in his room." "Shit, and I just got him talking." Dave's mood went down, he looked at Jeff and shook his head. "I hope he doesn't turn back in on himself. "Sorry, Dave, I just wanted to tell him that he hurt everyone and especial you when he left. Did you get him into counseling yet?" Jeff asked. "Yeah, our first two sessions were yesterday. Let me look in on Leroy." Dave went down the hall and into the bedroom, Leroy was still laying on the bed. His eyes were open but they had the glazed over look, like he just had a seizure. He walked over to him and called out his name, when that brought no reaction he sat down and touched Leroy and sure enough Leroy had had a seizure. Leroy started blinking and focusing in on Dave. "Hey Sweetie." Leroy when he finally focused on Dave, more tears came to his eyes and all he said before hugging Dave around the waist was that he was sorry. Dave was trying to soothe him. Aaron and Jeff could hear him crying again since the door was open and Aaron just looked at Jeff. "I should have come alone, I knew he was fragile right now." "I am sorry, I didn't realize." Jeff responded. "Leroy, it is ok. I love you, did you eat anything today?" Leroy shook his head. "Come on, get up and I will make us some sandwiches before my break is over." Leroy got up and followed Dave out of the bedroom, he wasn't expecting to see his brothers still there so it surprised him when he turned the corner, and he stopped. Dave looked back at him and then over at his brothers and Leroy looked like he wanted to turn back around. "Oh no you don't Leroy, you need something to eat, did you take your medicine today?" Again Leroy didn't speak he shook his head. "OK, well let's get that into you, and I will turn the numbers back to zero." Hearing turning the numbers back to zero made Aaron and Jeff feel bad. They knew they were the cause of Leroy to have a seizure and then they didn't know they caused one and were sitting in the other room while he was in a daze for god knows how long. Dave had bought one of those counting calendars, like so many days before Christmas or whatever. Dave used it for counting how many days since Leroy's last seizure, it had been on fifty five days, Leroy had sworn up and down that he didn't have a seizure the entire time he was gone. Leroy only needed to make it over ninety and he would be able to drive, now he is back to square one. Leroy walked over to the cupboard where he keeps his meds, takes the bottles out, gets one out of each one and grabs a glass of water and takes them. Then he headed to the fridge to start making Dave something quick for dinner. He just made him two ham sandwiches and opened a bag of chips for him and sat down at the table with him, he still hadn't talked. "Leroy, why didn't you make yourself something?" Leroy just stood up, grabbed two slices of bread, some ham and sat back down. He didn't put any condiments on or lettuce and tomato like he did Dave's. Dave decided not to say anything and eat, he didn't have too long before he had to leave back out. Dave talked with Aaron and Jeff but Leroy didn't join in on the conversation. When Dave announced that he had to leave, Leroy followed him to the front door and kissed him. When he came back through the living room he went to turn down the hallway when Aaron stopped him. "Leroy please, I know the truth hurts. Please come and sit with us, we do want our brother back." Leroy sat down and then after a while joined in on the conversation. A few hours later Aaron and Jeff said they needed to go home and they would be back in a few days, they all hugged and then Leroy was alone again. He cleaned up the pizza he noticed there were a few pieces left so he put them in a plastic bag and in the fridge. He didn't have to wait long until Dave was home, he was sitting in the living room when he came in. Dave looked at him and smiled. "Please say you talked with your brothers and didn't go back to the bedroom." "Yeah I talked with them. I am sorry, Dave, I am so sorry that I hurt you, by leaving." Dave sat down next to Leroy and hugged him, he could see all the remorse in his eyes. "You are back with me now that is all that matters, Leroy." He could feel Leroy shaking and he felt the tears running from Leroy's cheek down his neck. Dave wishes that he didn't call Aaron, he was hoping that they would just pick up where they had left off. He didn't know they held a lot of resentment and was going to air it to Leroy. "Come on Babe, let's take a shower, so I can get out of this uniform." Dave got up and put his hand out for Leroy, which he took and they walked down the hall to the bathroom. Dave turned the shower on and started to undress, Leroy started to as well, then they both got into the shower. Dave took the lead and started washing Leroy, he started with his hair then used body wash on him. Dave had just got down on his knees when Leroy eyes roll up and he dropped and seized, Dave couldn't get out of the way and Leroy fell on top of him. Dave and Leroy Ch. 09 Dave had to force Leroy off of him and get off of the tub, he turned the water off and felt so bad because he was banging his head hard on the tub he held his head the best he could but he knew Leroy had already cut himself because there was blood everywhere. He hated head wounds they bleed so much and it could be just a little scratch, he will have to wait to see when Leroy stopped seizing. Dave grabbed his cell phone and called Aaron, he was the closest, he knew he would be waking him up but he didn't care. Aaron answered and Dave just told him to get here now, and dropped the phone back on the floor. Aaron didn't even get dressed he grabbed his keys and went straight there. When he walked into the house he called out to Dave and Dave told him they were in the bathroom. This was the longest that Leroy had ever seized he seized for over three minutes and Dave was just finally getting Leroy to come around, there was still blood everywhere. "What happened?" Aaron didn't even noticed both of them were naked. "We were showering and he had a seizure, I am just finally getting him to come around, I don't know how bad the cut is." Aaron stepped out of the bathroom and called Jeff and told him to bring his bag and come right now. Jeff didn't hesitate, he grabbed his medical bag and drove as fast as he could to Leroy's. When Aaron came back into the bathroom, Dave finally had Leroy to talking, he had grabbed a towel was holding it to Leroy's head and it was already soaked with blood. Aaron stepped in and told Dave to get dressed, Dave just put back on his uniform. "Let me up." Aaron backed up a little out of the shower and Leroy tried to get up but he was too dizzy and had to lay back down. "That wasn't a good idea." He was holding the towel to his head and looked like he was going to pass out. "Leroy just stay put, Jeff is on his way." "Dave, I am sorry, I didn't feel it come on, I am sorry." "Leroy it is ok, you have been through a lot, today. It probably didn't help having a seizure earlier, but it is ok, I am just sorry that I didn't think to hold your head so you didn't beat it so bad on the tub floor." Jeff came rushing in and could see Dave kneeling at the shower and Aaron was leaning against the sink. He walked in and saw the blood and at first thought that Leroy try to commit suicide then looked at Leroy and realized that he was bleeding from the head. "What happened, were you two having sex and slip?" "No, he had a seizure, and I didn't respond fast enough." "What did he hit when he went down?" "I don't know he fell on top of me, he may have hit the faucet or knobs but the shower was still running so I don't know." Jeff pulled the towel away to look at the cut. "Shit he is going to need stitches." Then they all heard a police radio and it made them all jump. "Oh, I kind of got pulled over on the way here." Dave looked at Jeff and Aaron shook his head. Dave walked out of the bathroom to the living room to see who had pulled Jeff over. "Ray?" "Dave, you live here?" "Yeah, my partner and I do. You pulled Jeff over?" "Yeah, what's going, he just said he had a medical emergency at his brother's house, so I didn't give him a hard time and followed him here. Is it the truth?" "Yeah, my partner Leroy, had a seizure in the shower and hit his head bad." Jeff came out and interrupted. "Dave, we really need to get Leroy to the hospital, he is going to keep losing blood until he is stitched up. He doesn't want to go." "Why today is he being a pain?" Dave said under his breath as he walked past Jeff and back down the hallway, Ray followed. Aaron was now kneeling by the tub. "Leroy, you are dizzy and bleeding, we need to get you to the hospital, or would you prefer us to call an ambulance?" Dave leaned down again and Ray came in behind. "Shit, do you want me to call an ambulance?" "No, Leroy responded. Just let me take a minute to not be dizzy and I will get up and dressed and you can take me Dave." "Honey, I think it maybe for the best if we did get you an ambulance, you have been dizzy since you came out of the seizure and it has been almost twenty minutes. You have lost a lot of blood, Hon." Dave nodded to Ray and he stepped out of the bathroom and called in for an ambulance. Of course the fire department had to show up with rescue. Dave was answering all their questions as they were lifting Leroy out of the shower and onto the gurney. They covered him in a towel, they didn't bother trying to redress him. Since they wouldn't allow Dave to ride in the ambulance with Leroy, Dave packed Leroy a change of clothes and followed. Aaron and Jeff came up to the hospital as well, they felt bad because they know they stressed Leroy out to the point of having two seizures in one night. Amazingly the ER wasn't too busy and they had Leroy stitched up and released within two hours, with directions to wake him every few hours to make sure he didn't have a concussion. Dave walked Leroy out to the car once he was released and Aaron and Terry bid their farewells and said they would be over in the afternoon. Leroy was quiet on the ride home, they walked in and went straight to the bedroom. "I am sorry, Dave." "For what, Babe?" "For having the seizure and causing you to worry and not get your needed sleep, so you can work again today." "Leroy it is ok, as long as I have you in my arms, everything is fine. Let's go to bed and we will talk about this when we wake. I love you." "I love you, Dave." They stripped and crawled under the covers and Dave spooned Leroy and they quickly fell to sleep. The last thing that Dave thought about before falling to sleep was if he should open the can of worms that they are supposed to work on before their appointment at the end of the week. He knew they would, but he didn't want to cause Leroy more emotional pain since he dealt with quite a bit that day. The next few weeks went by fast, Dave and Leroy had worked through when he left when he went into the Marines. Leroy was working through his feeling that he is a burden he did have a list for the Doctor to go over for the good and the bad things the tumor caused. They didn't have an appointment the week of Christmas. Christmas was going to be interesting, everyone including Dave and Leroy were invited to Leroy's parents' home. This will be the first Christmas in three years that he was able to step foot in his parents' home, his mother agreed to be civil and allow the entire family to be together. Leroy was nervous, the last time he had seen his mother was at Mikey's birthday. They were civil to one another and he knew from Dave that she worried about him when he had his seizure, but she still didn't try to talk to him. As usual, Dave and Leroy were the last to arrive. Leroy didn't feel comfortable just walking in like he would have before his Mom disowned him, so they rang to doorbell. Lee answered the door and hug both Dave and Leroy as they pasted. "Everyone has been waiting for you." "Not everyone, Dad." Leroy responded. They went into the living room and sat down; the family had saved them the love seat. The kids each took turned hugging Leroy and Dave and they went back to begging to open the presents, they were told not until after dinner. Tiffany crawled to Leroy and he picked her up, he still wishes that Dave will give in one of these days to having a kid. Everyone talked with one another until the women declared that everything was set for dinner so everyone headed towards the dining room. The dinner was wonderful, everyone talked and laughed the kids begged to open their gifts, but all the adults decided to keep telling them that they had to wait for dinner to be over with, they were drawing out dinner. They were sitting there drinking coffee and eating dessert when Leroy asked if he could hold Tiff again, Allison smiled and handed her over, Dave was watching Leroy and smiled, he could see how happy he was holding the toddler. Dave could see why Leroy now wanted to be a father, but he knows that they had to work on themselves first before a baby or a child can be brought into the picture. Finally the kids pulled all of the adults back into the living room so they could open presents. "Uncle Lee, you didn't bring us anything?" Sade asked, Mikey was also looking at Leroy. "Oh, was I supposed to bring you something?" "Yes." Sade and Mikey both said loudly. Leroy laughed. "Well I had to beg your parents to let me give you the gift that I wanted to this year." He pulled out a card for each of them and handed it over. "A card, you had to beg to give us a card, that is all, nothing to unwrap?" Sade looked sad, everyone smiled and laughed. "Why don't you open the card Sade." Bridget told her daughter. Mikey took his card to his Mom, Allison laughed. "You have completely confused them this year Leroy." "Yeah it seems that doesn't it." Leroy laughed. The kids opened their cards and looked at them, they looked confused. Allison, Bridget, Jason and Aaron laughed at their children, waiting for it to kick in to what the card was saying. Finally Sade looked up at looked at Leroy. "You are taking us to Disney World?" "Actually your parents are I am just paying for you all to go." "But why can't you come with us?" Sade asked. "Sade, Dave and I don't have any kids. You will have more fun with your parents, your brother Tyler and your cousins and Aunt and Uncle. I have everything set up, where your rooms are right next to one another, you don't need your uncle there ruining it for you." Leroy smiled. "But you gave us the present you should at least enjoy it." Sade was always the logical child. "Well we still have time if Dave and I change our mind, it is not until spring." Dave was amazed that Leroy had approached him about giving his sister and brother the trip, it wasn't like they didn't have the money, but he was still amazed. Dave squeezed Leroy's hand after Sade and Mikey hugged both of them, Tyler and Tiffany were still too young to understand what they would be doing in a few months. Leroy even asked Jeff but he declined because their kid, Chad is too young to even remember going. Allison leaned over to Leroy and whispered in his ear. "You know Leroy, if you did come, you could baby sit Tiff and Zack when we didn't want to take them to the parks or when we went on rides with the older kids." "Playing on my weaknesses, huh Sis?" "Think about it, you would know for sure if you wanted a kid if you could handle ours." Leroy laughed. "We will see, Sis, it is still a few months away." Dave was listening to the conversation but decided not to put his two cents in until Leroy brings it up to him. The evening went well, the kids were all excited with the presents that they had received and all the adults were happy spending time with one another. Sue and Leroy ignored one another but they didn't go out of their way to keep at opposite sides of the room, there were times that they were sitting or standing next to one another. Dave and Leroy were the first to leave, they hugged everyone before they left, when Leroy hugged his Father he looked at his Mother and told her Merry Christmas, only Dave and Lee had noticed that Leroy spoke to his Mother. When Dave got out to the truck he hugged Leroy. "I am proud of you." "I can be pleasant, when I want to be. I know she wasn't going to talk to me, but I at least told her Merry Christmas. Don't know if she liked me talking to her or not, but all I can be is nice. I am tired of hating her, but she isn't ready to ask me to forgive her, so nothing is going to come out of this. I am just happy that we can be in the same room without her insulting us." Dave hugged Leroy again and they got in the truck and headed home. The holidays went well, Dave had Christmas off for a change and so they snuggled in bed until a late hour in the morning. Dave was finally ready to forgive Leroy completely for disappearing on him. He had planned to make love to Leroy that morning, but they were both just happy to be holding one another. Leroy was the first one to attempt to get out of bed that morning, when Dave pulled him back. "What are you doing, Babe?" Leroy asked. "I don't want you to leave me just yet." "I will be right back, I am about to burst here." Leroy also wanted to go and get Dave's present he knows he probably spent too much, but he wanted to show Dave how much he loved him. After going to the bathroom, he quickly went down the hall to grab the gift, he had it in the spare bedroom. He went back to the bedroom and Dave had candles lite, light music on and Leroy mouth dropped open, Dave was laying on his stomach on top of the covers naked. The only times in the past three weeks that Leroy has seen Dave it was in the shower or when he was getting dress, they didn't sleep naked anymore because that was Leroy punishment of not getting to make love with Dave. But there he laid on top of the bed covers, he looked back at Leroy because Leroy went to say something and stopped. "Leroy, what is wrong?" Leroy shook his head trying to clear out the fuzz. "Nothing.... Nothing, I was... just not... wow, you are beautiful Dave." Dave laughed at Leroy's ability to not be able to put a sentence together. "Come here, Babe." Dave turned over and reached out for Leroy, which he walked over without a second thought. Dave pulled him into the bed and they started kissing right away, Leroy still clutched the box that he had for Dave. "Put the box down Leroy." "The what?" "The box that you are holding." "Oh, yeah I forgot." Dave laughed at Leroy as he pushed the box away from them and continued to kiss and touch. Dave pulled down Leroy's boxers, Leroy was so hard, that when Dave touched his cock he almost came right that second, he had to take Dave's hand off of him. "Leroy if you don't get your cock in me, in the next few minutes I am going to find someone else." Dave laughed and Leroy jumped up and grabbed the lube out of the drawer and had Dave turned back over on his stomach in a heartbeat, Dave continued to laugh as Leroy was getting him ready. Dave moaned when Leroy pushed in his first lubed finger, when that was going in smoothly he added another finger, by time Leroy added the third finger Dave was thrashing on the bed. "Leroy, please don't let me beg for you." That is all it took for Leroy to pull his fingers out and lube his cock and slide it home. "God you are tight Hon. Oh shit, it feels great." Leroy couldn't believe he was inside Dave, he had given up even trying are the first week of being home. Leroy pulled back out of Dave and helped turn him over and pushed his legs wide and reentered him. He bent down and kissed Dave while he was going in and out of him. "Faster Leroy." Leroy didn't have to be told twice, he started fucking Dave fast and hard. Dave was rubbing his own cock as fast as Leroy was pumping in and out of him, and then he exploded and Leroy was just two seconds behind. They were both grunting and having spasms. When they came down, Leroy wasn't finished, he started kissing Dave, he kissed down his neck, along his collar bone and stopped at his nipples. He licked and sucked both nipples until they were rock hard then he continued downwards. Leroy licked up Dave's cum the he came into contact with as he was kissing and licking his way down Dave's torso, he could see that Dave was getting hard again, but he avoided his cock and continued down his legs to his feed, he sucked on his toes and licked the bottom of his feet, which made Dave laugh and jerk his feet away from Leroy, which he grabbed and continued to lick them. By time he headed back up Dave's other leg, Leroy was rock solid, he pushed Dave's legs up and forced his ass in the air and lick at his cum coming out of Dave's ass, he started tongue fucking him. Dave had a hold of Leroy head and just holding it down to his ass, Leroy had his hands on the back of Dave's knees pushing them to keep his ass up. "Oh god, Leroy, you are going to make me cum again." Dave changed from pushing Leroy head towards his ass to pulling on it, but he couldn't pry Leroy from his ass, and he started shooting his cum, it was shooting all over his chest and would splash a little on his face, he was just wiped out. Leroy smiled and let his ass down dropped back to the bed. Dave looked down at him. "Did I keep you from sex for too long?" Leroy smiled an evil grin and began licking Dave's balls. "Leroy, please not yet, I am too sensitive. Leroy licked along the underside of Dave's cock, up to the head and took the head in his mouth just to clean it of the last bit for cum, then he licked his stomach and chest clean. Leroy laid on top of Dave and kissed him. "Oh god Lee that was wonderful." Leroy rolled off of Dave and pulled him up to him and they snuggled, Dave was looking right at the box that Leroy had brought back into the room before they started making love. "What's in the box?" "Your Christmas gift." "I thought what you did to me what my Christmas gift." "I thought that was mine from you?" Leroy smiled. Dave reached for the box and pulled it into this arms. "What did you get me?" "Open it and you will find out." The box wasn't that big, it was about a foot cubed, Dave unwrapped it and inside were smaller wrapped boxes. "Is there any order?" "Not really." Dave took out the first one and opened it, it was a very nice watch, Dave had been looking at it at the jewelry store for at least six months or longer, he just couldn't bring himself to spend over four hundred dollars on something he wouldn't wear that often. He didn't recall ever looking at it when Leroy was with him, but he must have. He thanked and kissed Leroy. Then he pulled out the next box, it was handcuffs. "Handcuffs?" "Look at the engraving." "'Handcuff me to the bed, when I think about fleeing.' I don't understand." "If I ever think about leaving you again, just cuff me to something solid to keep me grounded." "Are you going to run away again, Honey?" "I don't plan on it, but if I ever try, I give you permission." "Well, I might use them for other things." Dave kissed him again and reached into the box for the next little box. "I know exactly what this is." He smiled and opened the little box, it held the two silver rounds that he collects every year, a US Silver Eagle and the Chinese Silver Panda, they were both incased in airtight capsules. "Honey you have spent too much on me." "I would have to spend my last cent to spend too much on you, actually I would go into debt to make you happy, Dave. I love you." Dave looked in the box and pulled out what he thought would be the last box but there was another one underneath. He unwrapped an envelope of paperwork, Dave unfolded it and it was Leroy's will, deed to the house and other paperwork. "I should have done this a long time ago, I started to, and just never finished. I have changed my will so that you get everything that I have, as you know I had part of my family receiving part of my things, you are my life you deserve everything of mine. I need you to come to the bank with me to sign the paperwork to have access to my accounts. The house is paid for, you knew I did that years ago, I asked you to sign the paper a few months ago. I don't even think you looked at it, but I was sending it in to put your name on the deed. You are my life Dave, you should get everything of mine if I did pass away, I know it isn't like I am going to pass away tomorrow. I know it was more of a possibility when I was in the Marines but you never know what will happen tomorrow, and this is the only way I could think of that I would be taking care of you." Dave just looked at Leroy, he had tears in his eyes. "Dave, I know you said I take care of you just fine, and you know that I still think I am useless, but this will help me feel useful and less of a burden. I love you." Dave and Leroy Ch. 09 Dave hugged and kissed Leroy, he wasn't expecting to have full access to everything that Leroy owned. He always knew Leroy had included him in his will and he also knew that if Leroy was killed in action that his family would never throw him out of the house, but he never expected this. "Thank you Leroy, I have been wanting to do the same with everything I have too, I love you." Dave pulled the last box out of the box, he opened it and it was a heart shape locket with a key, for his key chain. This was also engraved, 'Now you have the key to my heart, always and forever.' Dave could see the .925 of the locket and he turn the golden key over and it was marked 10k, so he knew the locket was sterling silver and the key was gold. "Leroy, thank you for the gifts, you spent way too much on me Babe." "I love you, Dave. I could never spend enough on you." Leroy pulled Dave up closes to him and he snuggled in and they laid there holding one another and fell into a blissful sleep. They sleep until early afternoon when they hear the doorbell, Dave is the first to wake up to the sound, Leroy stirs but doesn't completely wake. Dave gets out of bed and dresses and goes out to see who was interrupting their Christmas together. He opens the door with a smile, all of Leroy's sister Jewels was standing there with a friend. "Hey Jewels." She was smiling up a storm, "Hi Dave, is Leroy around?" She bounced in the door and hugged Dave. "This is my friend Alissa." "Nice to meet you Alissa." Dave held his hand out to shake, she smiled and replied shyly that it was nice to meet him. "You brother is asleep I will get him." "I can." "No, I better, he isn't dressed." Jewels laughed and said they would wait in the family room. Dave went down the hall, when he walked in the bedroom, Leroy was dressing. "Jewels?" "Yeah." Leroy walked down the hall, through the kitchen to the family room. "Hey Sis, what's up?" "Leroy, I love you, you know that." "Yeah, I know and I love you too." Jewels looked so excited and she looked over at her friend and then grabbed her hand. "Lee, I want to introduce you to the love of my life Alissa." Leroy smiled, "Nice to meet you Alissa." He looked at Jewels. "I am glad you could finally trust me with your secret." "You knew?" "Dad told me a few years ago." "Dad knows?" Leroy laughed. "Apparently Dad knows a lot more then he lets on. But I am proud of you Sis, but do me a huge favor and keep it from Mom, I love you, but you shouldn't go through what I am." "I want to come out completely Leroy, I don't want to hide anymore." "I know what you are saying Jewels, look how long I kept the secret from Mom, and I am paying for it, well I know she would have reacted this way no matter what, but if I would have come out at twenty like you, all this bullshit that Mom has put me through would have been done and over with." "Mom's coming around Leroy, I am not sure how well she is going to take that now her youngest is in love with another woman, but you know what, she is going to have to deal with it." Jewels smiled and looked at Alissa. "I have Alissa for support, you have Dave." "Well, if you need a place to stay, you know you always have our home. Are you planning on telling the rest of the family soon?" "Yeah, I wanted to tell you first, I was going to give Mom her heart attack later today." She laughed. "But I don't think it will faze her too bad, as I said Leroy, she is coming around." She jumped up and hugged Leroy and then Dave, she whispered in Leroy's ear, "You two smell like sex, you need to take a shower." Leroy laughed, "You are the one that interrupted after coitus snuggling." Jewels just shook her head. "It was nice meeting you Alissa, I hope we get to see lots more of you." Leroy and Dave hugged Alissa and they bounced out the door. "Do you think she will tell, Sue today?" "Knowing Jewels as well as I do, yeah, I am sure she will spring it on Mom at the dinner table." Leroy laughed. "I really hope that she changes her mind though, I don't want her to get the shit that we have gone through." "Well, it is all up to her and we do really stink so let's go take a shower." Dave responded. Dave and Leroy Ch. 10 "Lee?" "Yes Sue." "Take me to Leroy's house." Allison head snapped up on that, she was holding Tiffany and helping her with her new sippy cup. "Mom?" "I want to see my son, please take me." Sue again pleaded with Lee. "Allison can you come too?" "Yeah Mom, I would love to." She looked over at her husband Jason. "Can you take Tiff, please Babe?" He didn't say a word and took the toddler from her. Allison stood up, as did Lee, and they walked with Sue out to the car. Lee drove them over to the house, it was after dark, and he parked out front of the house. "Can we just sit here for a bit, I don't have my nerves completely ready for this?" They could see Leroy in the front window he was taking down his Christmas tree, he always tends to take it down a day or two after Christmas, he doesn't follow tradition and wait until New Year's Day to take it down. Sue was just watching him through the window, she was smiling. "What is he doing?" "Lee is just like you Mom, he puts the tree up in the same way and takes it down the same, he keeps every box to every ornament and if he doesn't have the box he wraps it in tissue paper to put it away. You two are so similar, if a stranger would come and watch the two of you, they would know you two were Mother and Son." Allison smiled. Sue just continued to watch Leroy, it was getting later and later, they had been sitting in the car for an hour, Lee had to keep turning on the car to keep everyone warm. "Mom, why don't we go in?" "Please not yet, I like watching him, just give me a little more time." Leroy was done taking the tree down, he was dancing around in the front room cleaning up the mess and listening to music. Dave pulls up to the house and notices Lee car idling at the curb. He parks and walks over to it, he was home for his dinner break, he could see Leroy in the front room but he knew Leroy didn't see him pull in, he always kills his lights before he pulls in. Lee rolls his window down as Dave approaches. "Good evening Lee, oh Sue, Allison, how is everyone tonight?" Dave was shocked to see Sue in the car. "We are good Dave, Sue asked me to bring her here, but she hasn't gotten the nerve to get out of the car yet." "Leroy doesn't know you are here?" "No, I don't think he can see out of the house." "How long have you been here?" Dave asked. "About an hour." "Sue come on, come inside." Dave asked her. "I can't yet David." She paused for a Moment. "David, I am sorry I was so mean to you. But I don't know if my Leroy will accept my apology." "Sue, why don't you come inside and see for yourself. He still loves you Sue, he has never stopped." "I know he can tolerate me in a room, he has been doing that for every occasion that we have been together, but the last time we spoke I was so mean to him, and he snapped back, he was so bitter to me." Dave crouched down on his heels next to the car. "And it killed him Sue, it took both Aaron and Allison to bring him out of his shutdown that night, it took everything I had to get him in the house and then called Aaron to come over, he had to call Allison and finally they were able to break through to him. Sue he loves you, he hated himself for the longest time for saying what he said." "Are you home for your dinner?" "Yes Sue, I am." "Go in David, but please don't tell him we are out here, I will get my nerve up, I just need some time. Please." "Yes Sue, I will not tell him, please come in when you can." Dave nodded his head at both Lee and Allison and got up and went into the house. Dave walked into the house and the music was blaring, he saw a glimpse of Leroy as he was taking the Christmas boxes down to the basement. He walked over to the MP3 player and turned the music down, when Leroy came back upstairs he grabbed Dave in a dance and danced him through to the kitchen, Dave was laughing at Leroy. "I love you, Dave." "I am glad you are in a great mood today, Leroy. I love you too." "You dinner is in the microwave, it just beeped as I was taking the last of the boxes down." "Did you see me pull up?" "Yeah, Babe, I did." Leroy looked at Dave, he was taking his dinner out of the microwave. "Yes I know they are out there. I think Dad forgets that his running lights come on every time he starts the car." "Do you know who is in the car?" "My Dad and I am assuming Sue, or Dad would have come in by now." "Yeah, she is out there Leroy, are you going to be nice when she gets her nerve up to come in." "Depends on how she approaches me." Leroy knew he would be nice but he was still not sure on if he would or could instantly forgive Sue for how she has been towards Dave and him. "Dr. Watts and I have been talking a little about Sue, in my sessions but as you know we been dealing more with my wanting to run away and feeling like a burden." "I didn't know you were talking with him about Sue, I figured you would work on it eventually but I didn't know you started talking about her." "We haven't talked on the subject much but as I said a little. Dave, I need to be honest here, I don't know if I can forgive her." "You don't have to do it today Leroy, forgiveness comes in time, along with being able to trust someone again." "Yeah, I know." Leroy knew because he knew that Dave was still working on trusting and forgiving Leroy for running out on him this last time. They have been talking about it in the few sessions that they have had with Dr. Watts, and they will be working on it for a while. "Dave eat before you run out of time." Dave was standing up at the counter eating and Leroy came up behind him, held and kissed on his neck. Dave relaxed back against Leroy, it felt good to be held by him, since Christmas which has only been two days ago, they have made love at least two times a day, before work and when Dave had come home. Dave realized that Leroy has been paying more attention to his orgasm or pleasure than Leroy's own. Dave wants to please Leroy but Leroy keeps telling him that he is ok, that he doesn't need to get off right then. Dave knows he is feeling guilty for leaving and will bring it up in the sessions if it continues, because it makes Dave feel guilty for only receiving and not being able to give. Leroy continued to hold Dave as he finished up his dinner. "I love this Leroy, it is like when we first started living together when you finally were stationed here. Only difference is that, I am eating dinner with you instead of breakfast, I thank god every day I am not on third shift anymore." "Me too Babe, I did like getting to hold you for a bit before I left for work, but because I was working six to three thirty, you would be still sleeping when I come home and I hated waking you by accident." The music was still playing so neither Dave nor Leroy, heard Lee, Sue and Allison enter, Leroy was still holding Dave, but Dave had turned around and they were swaying to the music. Dave had his head resting on Leroy's shoulder when he saw them enter the kitchen. "Babe, we have company." Leroy stiffen a bit but kissed Dave's neck before he straighten up and released Dave. Allison was smiling she was happy that Dave and Leroy were able to get help and stay together, Lee was thinking the same thing. Sue stiffen when she entered the kitchen she is still not ready to see her son loving on another man, but she wants Leroy back in her life if he will let her. Dave went over to the MP3 player and turned it off, Leroy stared at everyone for a second. "Dad, Allison, Sue, how is everything tonight?" Leroy knew he should have called his mother, Mom but couldn't bring himself to doing it to her face. When he is talking about her to his siblings and his Dad he will call her Mom but standing there in front of her, all he could think about was all the hurtful things she last said to him. "Good Son." Lee responded and Allison agreed, but Sue just stood there not saying anything. "Do you mind if we sit down in the living room Leroy." "No, not at all. Give me a minute, I would like to say goodbye to Dave before he leaves back to work." Lee nodded at him as he pushed Sue to follow Allison back into the living room. Leroy turned to Dave and Dave hugged him. "Honey, let her talk, ok." Leroy nodded his head and kissed Dave. "I love you, I wish you could sit beside me." "I wish I could too, Leroy, you will be ok. I love you, just don't blow up, and stay calm." Leroy nodded again, they kissed and walked out into the living room. "Lee, Sue, Allison it was nice seeing you, have a good night." Then he turned to Leroy. "I will see you a little after midnight, Hon." He squeezed his hand before leaving out the door. "Would anyone like some coffee?" "I will get it Leroy, you have a seat." Allison said as she got up from the chair, Lee and Sue were sitting on the loveseat, so Leroy sat down on the couch. They sat there in silence for a bit, Allison brought the coffee pot with four cups, and the fixing on a tray and sat it on the coffee table. Leroy filled himself a cup of black coffee and sat back, he didn't offer anyone else anything but they all took turns pouring themselves a cup and adding either sugar and or milk to it. Allison and Lee both knew not to push either Sue or Leroy, which they would start talking eventually, it took a while but finally Sue cleared her throat. "Leroy." Leroy looked at Sue. "Leroy, I know what I have done is unforgivable. You felt you could never tell me truly who you were because you knew I wouldn't love you the same." Sue looked down at the floor. "Leroy, I still am not sure about this... this love that you have for David, I don't understand it and in my eyes it is still not right. But, I want my son back, I miss you Leroy." Tears were falling from her eyes as she was talking. "Leroy, I don't expect you to forgive me, I was truly horrible to you and David." Leroy sat there and didn't respond for a few minutes. "Sue, it will take a while before I forgive and trust you again. I am trying to earn that back with Dave, and it is a slow process, mind you what I did is completely different than what you did to me. A parent's job is to love their children unconditionally and you failed on that, you turned your back on me because I am gay and you wanted everyone else to follow suit." "But maybe one day you will forgive me?" "Yes, Sue, one day." Leroy looked her in the eye. "But don't expect it tomorrow, it has been over three years, and a lot has happened in these three years. I hope one day we can have a relationship again, I don't know it if would ever be like it was before. But I hope when we do have one, that the reaction that I saw when I held Dave's hand just a bit ago will not cross your face, that you will understand, Dave is who I love, like Jason is who Allison loves." "Yes, but you forget how I found out." Sue burst out. Leroy took a few breaths before he responded sternly. "You came over unannounced into MY house, down MY hall, into MY bedroom." Before Sue could counter that response Lee put his hand over Sue's wrist, to make her think, she took a few minutes before she responded a little calmer. "Yes, Leroy you are right, I came into your house unannounced, I wanted to see my son, I was glad to see that he was back from Afghanistan." "You were glad to see that your son was back from Afghanistan but you can't call him, me." Leroy looked at Allison and then at his Father. "I think the pleasantries have worn off, before one of us gets mad, you might want to take Sue and we can try again another day." Lee and Allison agreed, they could see, Leroy was trying to stay calm. "But wait a minute." Sue was trying to stop everyone from getting up. "Leroy." Leroy left the room, he was trying his hardest not to counter what she just said. Then Lee spoke to Sue, "Sue, you don't know what you just said to your own son. He is not ended this forever, just for tonight, so it will be a possibility for you two to rekindle something." "What did I say?" Sue asked. "Sue, you said you wanted to see your son because you were glad he was home from Afghanistan. You didn't say to Leroy just now, I wanted to see YOU because YOU were back from Afghanistan." Lee emphasized, the you part. "Sue, you have disconnected Leroy from being your son, so much that you don't realize what you are saying." "But." "Sue, it is enough for tonight, we can invite Leroy over or I can bring you back here when you two can agree on another day to talk. I am proud of the two of you, you started to talk, which is a start." "But, I want to talk to Leroy, I want to tell him I love him, that I want him back in our lives." "You just did." Leroy was standing in the doorway. "But Sue, you need to leave before one of us says something that we will regret, please let Dad and Allison take you home." "I AM YOUR MOTHER, DON'T CALL ME SUE." She screamed, she was getting angry. "You became Sue to me the moment you said Aaron was your oldest son." Leroy said calmly, Sue just looked at Leroy, she didn't say anything to counter it and Lee looked at Leroy and nodded and they ushered Sue out. Leroy took a few breaths to calm down, he was happy with himself that he didn't blow up, but Sue did piss him off some. He looked over at the time and it was just a little after ten, he was amazed that it was that late, he can't wait to see Dave, he needs some stress release and he just knows how to get it. Dave came in a little after midnight, Leroy was waiting for him on the couch. "So how did it go?" "I had to ask them to leave a little after ten." "Why?" "So I didn't blow up, you asked me to stay calm, Dad knew to get her out of here." "Well I am proud of you that you were able to talk that long." Dave sat on the couch next to Leroy and put his arm around him and hugged him. "I love you Leroy." He leaned in for a kiss. "I love you too, Dave. Would you like to go to the bedroom with me?" He smiled. Dave laughed. "Not right now Leroy." Leroy stuck his lip out to fake pout. "Oh, damn it Leroy, I love you, but let me rest for a bit before we think about doing that, if you need a stress reliever I will be happy to suck you off." He knows Leroy will decline that offer, because of how he is feeling guilty. "No, I want to make you feel good, if you don't want me to make love to you, than I will not make love to you." But he did get down on his knees and take his shoes off and massage his feet for a bit. "Would you like something to eat or drink?" "I can get it Leroy, you don't have to wait on me hand and foot." "Dave, I have nothing else to do." "Ok, we need to get you a hobby or something. I love you, Honey, but you are not going to feel guilty for leaving and feel like you have to please me." "It isn't that I am feeling guilty all the time, I just really have nothing else to do, I am stuck in this house day after day, I can't drive anywhere and how far could I get on foot. I don't like running anymore, it makes my head hurt." Leroy looked at Dave, he saw something in his eye. "What are you thinking?" "Why don't you sign up for night or even a day classes at the College or University?" Leroy started laughing and leaned back away from Dave's feet. "And do what with these classes; fail them, Dave I haven't been in school since I was eighteen." "Leroy haven't you ever wanted to be anything other than a Marine?" "I have never really thought about it, yeah I knew I would have to do something one day after leaving the military but I just figured I would become a cop or something, but I can't drive, so can't do that." "Well there are other things that you can do, we can talk with admissions at the college, I am sure they still have placement tests to tell you what jobs you are a fit for." "I will think about it." "Please do Babe, I think you would love to do something other than sitting around here, even if it is just taking classes." Leroy got up and retrieved a beer for each of them and sat back down and massaged Dave's feet again. "God Babe, that feels good." "I could massage something else." Leroy said with a grin, when Dave didn't respond, Leroy got up on his knees between his legs, unbuckled and removed his gun belt and placed it on the floor next to him. Then he reached up and unbuckled his belt and uniform pants, he unzipped them. Dave was already hard, Leroy could see and feel him when he was undoing his pants, he was about to take Dave out when there was a knock on the door. Leroy dropped his head in Dave's lap after he zipped him back up, while Dave told whom ever to come in. Jeff and Aaron walked in. "Hope we weren't interrupting anything." They said with a smirk. "Fuck you." Leroy said. "Dave don't you get tired of having sex?" Jeff asked. "It makes your brother happy." He looked down at Leroy. "And it feels good." He smirked and looked up. "You two could have sex every day couldn't you?" Aaron asked. "Hell yeah and we do, at least once a day if not more; we are guys as long as I can get it up and Dave up, why not?" Leroy stated. "Shit maybe I am missing something, maybe I should have become gay instead of liking girls, shit." Aaron responded. "What? You don't get to have sex every day, Aaron." "What do you think, I am married to a woman, that would be fine if it was once a month." "Me too." Jeff agreed. Leroy laughed, "Sucks to be you." Dave spoke up. "Leroy does, I think have a little above average sex drive though, but I have never complained about it." "Oh, shut up, both of you. Now I am glad we interrupted." Jeff responded and Aaron nodded. They both plopped down in the chairs. "I heard that Mom came over?" "You heard correctly." "What did she say?" Aaron asked. "I am sure you know from Allison." "No, she didn't say much, she was just so surprised that Mom ask to come over, then it took her forever to actually come into the house. She also said you were actually staying calmer than she thought, that instead of blowing up, you decided to end the conversation." "Yes, I tried my hardest to not blow up at her, when she yelled at me." "She yelled at you?" Dave interrupted. "Yeah, cause I kept calling her Sue. She told me she was my Mother that I shouldn't call her Sue. I took a moment before I responded to her." "What did you say?" Dave asked. "I told her the moment she said that Aaron was her oldest was when she became Sue to me. She just looked at me and Dad knew to get her out of my house." "You didn't yell at her?" Dave asked. "I stayed calm, Dave, I really did." "He did, Dave, Allison did stress that she was amazed that he didn't blow up at Mom. That some of Mom's responses had gotten loud." "Hey, it just dawned on me, what the hell are you two doing out so late. Don't you have families that require their fathers to be around?" Both Aaron and Jeff grinned. "When Allison called me, I had to come see you and Jeff just happened to be coming home from the hospital and called me, so he picked me up to come over." "You guys are just too damn nosey for your own good, that is what it really is." "Plus when we looked through the window and saw what you were about to do, we decided it was a perfect time to come over." Jeff laughed. "Fuck you." Leroy just shook his head. "Do you want a beer?" They sat around for a bit, shooting the shit and drinking a few beers a piece, than Aaron got a text from Bridget wondering when he was coming home. So they decided to wrap it up for the night it was well after three in the morning. Dave and Leroy cleaned up the empty bottles and Dave picked his gun belt off of the floor when they headed to the bedroom to go to sleep. Once in the bedroom, Leroy hugged Dave from behind when Dave was taking his clothes off to crawl into bed. "Leroy, I love you, but not this morning. Let's go to bed, I am tired Babe." Dave and Leroy Ch. 10 Leroy pouted but let go of Dave so he could undress and get in as well. But before he laid down he texted Aaron and Jeff. 'Fuck you, you interrupted something I am not going to get now.' 'Use your hand.' Was the response he got back from Jeff. 'I am sure you will get some before me.' Was the response from Aaron. Leroy chuckled and Dave asked what was going on, so he showed his phone to him, then Dave laughed. "You know, maybe not, maybe I should be more like Bridget." Leroy decided not to respond to that and turned over, Dave spooned him and started humping his ass and Leroy just smiled as they both drifted off to sleep. Dave had his head lying on Leroy's chest one morning later that week, again Leroy was just pleasing Dave and he wouldn't let Dave reciprocate. So Dave decided that he was going to try this morning before Leroy could stop him. He lightly got up and crawled under the covers and started to lick and suck Leroy's cock. At first he wasn't getting anything out of Leroy, he was amazed that he wasn't getting him hard, then it finally happened, Leroy was rising to the occasion, Dave knew he was still asleep because he hasn't grabbed hold of his head or tried to push him off yet. After a bit he knew Leroy was starting to stir because he moaned and then moved his hands down to Dave's head and grasped his hair. "Oh god, Dave." Dave smiled, thinking he was going to let him finish what he was doing, but when Leroy woke completely he started pushing Dave off of him. "Dave, please I don't want to cum like this, let me get you up and help you." Dave pulled off of him for a minute, "No, it is all about you this morning, Honey." "No, please Dave, let me help you please." He was really trying to pull Dave off of him now, which was making Dave mad. "Damn it, Leroy." He got up and left the room. Leroy got up and followed him. "What is wrong, Hon?" "Leroy, why won't you let me please you? You haven't allowed me to please you since you have returned." "You have pleased me, just letting me make love to you, is more than enough Hon." "Leroy, shit, that isn't what I want, I want to be able to suck you or touch you, to just get you off without me getting off. You haven't let me since you have come back, Honey, stop feeling guilty, please." "Dave, I don't deserve it yet." He sat down on the couch next to Dave. "Why?" "Dave, I just don't deserve it yet, please just let me please you for a while?" "No, Leroy. I love you, I wasn't going to bring this up in counseling but I think we are going to have to discuss this. You have to stop feeling guilty about leaving me." "Have you fully forgiven me? Do you completely trust me again?" "Honestly Leroy?" Leroy nodded. "No, I want to Babe, but there is just still a little part of me that is afraid that when times get tough again that you will run." Leroy looked defeated, "And that is why I don't deserve to be please, Dave. I hurt you, more than I thought I had. But I will not leave you again, I will promise you this. If I even think about it again, I will talk with you and with Dr. Watts, I think I will be seeing him for a while." "Leroy, thank you that does help a lot. I still think it would be a good idea to bring this up to the doctor, I don't want you giving in to me, and really you still think you don't deserve me reciprocating." "I understand, I really wish we could work this out ourselves but I know you are correct." They sat there just holding one another for a long time, but never went back to bed to try to make love that morning. Later Leroy's father called to see if Dave and he would like to come over for dinner with some of the siblings, they agreed and were told to be there around six that evening. When they showed up, they saw that Aaron's and Allison's cars were in the driveway, along with Chris and Jewels, which still lived there. They walked up to the door and Jewels opened it and run out to them. "Hey Sis, what going on?" "I just wanted to catch you, I should have told you earlier. I chickened out." Leroy laughed, "I don't blame you Jewels, I chickened out every time I wanted to tell her too. Then look how she found out. Hell I thought about telling her when I was sixteen, she didn't find out until I was thirty." "I know, and I wanted to so bad, but she was talking about you at the dinner table on Christmas, it wasn't all bad, but it wasn't all good either. She wants to try to forgive you for being gay." "Forgive me?" Leroy just stared at Jewels for a minute. "Was that her exact words?" "I know it sounds bad, Leroy but she doesn't understand." Leroy repeated his question. "Yes, Leroy, but please don't take it that way, she really doesn't understand." Leroy just stood there and shook his head. "She wants to possibly forgive me for being gay, she thinks it is my fault that I am gay?" "Leroy don't get mad, please." Jewels said. "Jewels just give me a second with Leroy, go back into the house." Dave turned Leroy to face him. "Leroy please calm down." "Oh, I am calm, Dave." Jewels went back inside and went straight to her father and whispered to him what she said and Lee just looked at his daughter. "Jewels why did you tell him that?" "It slipped out, I didn't realize until I said it, what it meant." Lee got up from his chair, Aaron and Allison both looked at him as he went to the door. "Do you need me Dad?" "Maybe." Aaron got up and went to the door, they stepped out. Leroy's back was to the house but Dave could see Lee and Aaron walking towards them. "Dave you can stay, I will leave." Leroy started to walk away and Dave jostled to get in front of him again. "No Leroy, you know Sue doesn't realize what she is saying, please stay. It is going to take time for her to realize you didn't choose to be gay." Lee put his hand on Leroy's shoulder it was then that Leroy realized that Aaron and he were standing there. "Son, please for me, come inside." "Dad, she is never going to completely understand that I am never going to change. That I didn't choose to be gay that I was born this way." "No, I don't think she will ever understand that, Leroy. I love you, I hope that helps some." Leroy very rarely hears his father tell anyone that he loves them, and then Lee pulled him in for a hug. "I love you too." Leroy whispered in his ear as Lee held him in the hug. "Come on lets go inside, it is colder than hell out here." While still holding Leroy in the hug, Lee spoke into his ear. "I do love you, please come in for me and stay calm and when you need to leave I will let you, ok." Leroy nodded his head. Dave held his hand out to Leroy and he took it, and they all walked into the house. Sue had been in the kitchen working on getting the food ready for dinner, so she didn't know anything was happening outside. When they got in the door, Leroy looked around, Aaron and Allison's families were there, the kids ran up to Leroy for a hug, then they ran back to where they were playing. Allison was carrying Tiff when she came to hug Leroy and Dave. "Leroy, what commotion were you causing now?" "I don't think you want to know Sis." Allison looked at Aaron and he just shook his head for her not to press. Leroy and Dave sat down on the loveseat while everyone else took their seats, then it was just normal. Everything just settled down and everyone was talking about anything and everything, just shooting the shit. When Sue came in and sat down with Lee, Leroy did tense up a little but Dave started to rub his back and he loosen back up and started talking again with everyone. "Allison and Jewels, will you help me get the food on the table, please." Both the girls said yes and they went to get up. "All you men, can get to the table and find your seats." When everyone was filing past Sue into the dining room, she stopped Leroy. "Leroy, in my house could you not hold David's hand." Sue walked into the kitchen and Leroy turned, walked to the door, grabbed his coat and left. No one noticed at first they thought he went to the bathroom. When everything was set out on the table and the kids were served they food, Lee turned to Dave. "Where is Leroy?" "I assumed he went to the bathroom." Dave got up and went to the bathroom and no Leroy then he looked where his coat would have been and it was gone. "He left, I need to find him." "No David you do not, you can have a nice meal without Leroy." Lee looked at Sue. "What did you say to our son?" "Nothing." "Sue you held him back when we all first walked in, what did you say to him?" "I told him I would appreciate that he not hold David's hand while he was in my house." "Damn it, Sue." Lee went to get up. "Sir, I will go find him, he couldn't have gotten far." Dave went to get up. "No Dave, it was my fault, I asked you two here, I thought Sue was going to be nice but apparently not." "I was nice, I just don't want to see that in MY HOUSE." "DO YOU WANT A RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR SON OR NOT?" Lee raised his voice, even Aaron could never remember his Father ever raising his voice, he was always a patient and relaxed man. "Yes, I do, but I don't want to see that Lee." "They aren't having sex in front of you, they were holding hands. Allison and Jason hold hands, so do Aaron and Bridget." "That is different." "NO IT ISN'T." Lee got up and left out of the room, grabbed his coat and went to search for Leroy. Dave went to get up to leave he didn't want to be there any more, Allison grabbed his arm. "Please stay Dave." "No Allison, Sue isn't ready." He got up and head for the living room to grab his coat, he walked back into the dining room. "Thank you for inviting us." Dave left, he just sat in his car for a few minutes and then decided to go and see his mother, so he pulled across to his parents' driveway, so if Leroy did come back he would know that Dave wasn't in the house. As always his mother was welcoming and when she saw the look on his face she immediately asked what was wrong. "World war three at the Standish household." He laughed. "What did Sue do now?" Dave proceeded to tell his Mother what all had happened and then just sat back and relaxed on the couch. "Where is Leroy?" "Lee went to find him, I didn't want to look for him too. His father was adamant that I was to stay and enjoy the meal, but I couldn't once I knew why he left, and I don't blame him." "Honey, it is going to be an uphill battle with Sue, nothing is going to be easy with her." "But she approached Leroy, it wasn't the other way around. I figured because she took the first step that she wanted to accept us." "I know Babe, and I have talked to her quite a bit about this. I love you." Dave sat with his Mom for a while longer and when Leroy didn't show up he decided to head home, he noticed that Lee's car wasn't in the driveway, so he was hoping that Lee had found him. When Dave pulled onto his street he knew that Lee found him, because his car was sitting out front. He walked in and both of them were just sitting on the chairs in the living room, they weren't talking, but they both looked up at Dave. Dave didn't say anything, he just bent down and kissed Leroy on the lips and sat down on the couch, Leroy got up from his chair and sat next to him on the couch and took his hand in his and they just continued to sit there in silence. Dave was sitting in the counseling office waiting for Leroy to finish with his session, they had talked about Leroy denying himself pleasure to try to fix his relationship with Dave. The Doctor dove into it for a while with them and of course it stemmed from Leroy feeling guilty, so they talked that through and not in these words basically said if Leroy continues that Dave should withhold sex from him, at least that is what they think he meant by what he concluded. Dave knows that Leroy was going to bring up his recent activity with Sue and what went on during both meetings. He hates that Sue is this way but until Sue is ready to change herself, she will always make it Leroy's fault. Leroy and Dr. Watts came out into the waiting area. "I will see you both next week, I believe today went well in both sessions, please continue to talk to one another because you never want to close it off or you two will be in the same boat as before. As always, it was a pleasure." Both Dave and Leroy said their goodbyes and they would see him next week and left out to their car. When they were walking they both turn on their cell phones, Leroy had a few missed calls, so he called his voicemail. 'Hey Lee, call me when you get this. Mom and Dad would like to come over to your place tonight, Mom asked me to call. I love you, Big Brother.' He pressed seven to delete the message from Jewels. 'Son, call me back.' Leroy pressed seven to delete that message. 'Leroy....' Was all Sue said in the phone and then hung up. Leroy deleted that too. "Boy aren't you just Mr. Popular." "You are home tonight right?" "Yeah, why what is up?" "Apparently Sue wants to try talking again, that was Jewels, Dad and Sue calling." "Sue called, what did she say?" "Nothing other than my name and hung up." "Oh, so what time tonight?" "Don't know was going to call Dad." While Dave drove them home, Leroy called his Father and found out that they would like to come by after seven, and that Sue said she would be on her best behavior. Leroy asked if they wanted dinner, but he said no that they will have eaten before they come over. "Can we make love?" Leroy asked. Dave looked over at him and smiled. "Are you a little stressed, Babe?" He grinned back. "Can I lie and say I am?" "Nope." "No, just want to make you and me feel good for a bit before she comes over, and would you like to do dinner?" "That sounds wonderful." Dave said as they pulled into the driveway. Leroy got out of the car and walked around to meet Dave at the porch, when they went in they only had eyes for one another. Leroy was walking backwards down the hallway as Dave and he were kissing and removing clothing, when they turned the corner to go into the bedroom they had already removed everything above the waist. Leroy pushed Dave down on the bed and took his shoes and socks off, then he unbuckled, unbutton and unzipped his pants and pulled them down with Dave's help. Leroy quickly kicked his shoes, socks and jeans off. "Leroy, you are going to let me please you right?" "Yeah, but I want your cock in my mouth, so can we sixty-nine it?" Dave smiled and nodded. It had been a long time since they have sixty-nine it, Dave was happy that Leroy was possibly going to let him please him. When they got into position, Leroy started sucking on Dave, but Dave decided to take another approach. Dave leaned over and grabbed the lube out of the bedside drawer and poured some on his fingers so he could finger Leroy's ass while he licked and sucked on his balls and cock. At first he wasn't getting much out of Leroy, oh Leroy was hard, but he wasn't getting any humping actions or moans, then after finger fucking him with three fingers and sucking on his cock, Leroy moaned and Dave's cock fell out of his mouth. Dave knew he had him now. Dave got up on his knees, pushed Leroy over to his back while still sucking him and finger fucking him, he didn't lost contact at all. He slowly twisted around so he was between Leroy's legs. He opened the snap cap on the tube of lube and poured some lube single handed into his palm and greased up his cock then he removed his hand from Leroy's ass and lifted up from his cock. Dave lifted Leroy's legs and plowed into him. "Ohhhhhhhh, Dave." Dave smiled and started pumping in and out of him, he was getting wonderful moans and groans out of Leroy. Leroy was clawing at Dave's hips and back as he was getting fucked. Dave reached down and took Leroy's cock in his hand and started stroking it, he was rubbing it up and down as fast as he was fucking him. "Dave... Dave.... Shit.... Dave I am going to ... Oh shit." He started jerking as his cum started erupting from his cock, his ass clamped down on Dave's cock which pushed him over the edge. Dave slammed once more into Leroy, let go of his cock and shot his load in Leroy. When his spasms subsided he collapsed on top of Leroy and Leroy put his arms around Dave and kissed him. "I love you, Dave." Dave was panting too hard to respond; he just kissed him again and laid his head on his shoulder. Leroy never minded when Dave would lay completely on top of him, he could always breathe just find, so when Dave fell asleep while still lying on him, Leroy just smiled and closed his eyes as well. Dave woke a few hours later, when he looked at the time, he couldn't believe that he slept that long, he had shifted in his sleep he was now half draped over Leroy. He started lightly rubbing Leroy's chest, he like the feel of his hair under his hand, he would get caught up in a mass of dried cum and hair quite a bit, he knew they needed to get up and take a shower soon. Leroy turned his head and kissed the top of Dave's head. "I love you, Honey, thank you." "It feels good to be pleased too doesn't it?" "Yeah it does." "Come on, we need to get up and shower, you promised me dinner before your folks come over." Dave smiled at him as he leaned up for a kiss then rolled over to the edge of the bed to get up. Leroy reached out and grabbed him around the waist and pulled him back. "Leroy, you know I get cranky if I don't get fed." He smiled. "I love you, Dave. You are my world; I am never going to run from you again. I promise you this. I may run away from my Mother but I will never walk out on you again." "Honey, I didn't blame you for walking out the other night. Your Mom was out of line there, you should have heard your father." "Yeah Aaron said that he raised his voice to her that night, before looking for me." "How far away were you when he found you?" "Almost home, he came up to me about two miles from here, then we just sat and talked for a while and then pretty much sat in silence and then you showed up." He kissed Dave and then pushed him back to the edge and sat up on his side and got out of the bed. "Let's get cleaned up and go to dinner. "Sorry Dad, Sue, we were out at dinner, we didn't think it would take so long." Leroy said as he got out of the car and walked up to the house, where his parents were standing waiting when they got the call that they were just around the corner. "We asked to be here at seven..." Sue started to say more but Lee cut her off. "It is ok Son, it was good that you and Dave went out, we weren't completely on time anyways." Sue looked at Lee; she was upset that he told them that they weren't here on time either. They all went into the house and Leroy went to put a pot of coffee on and came back to the living room. "Apparently Leroy, I was being rude to you the other day. I am sorry if I was." "Sue you asked me not to hold my husbands' hand, because you don't like it." "Your husband?" Sue asked in shock. "Dave is basically my husband, when we can get married we will, we already had a commitment ceremony eight years ago, come this January." "I just don't understand how you can like other men, Leroy. I didn't raise you to be this way and you are so masculine." "It is not other men, it is one man, and it will only ever be one man, Dave. Did you ever notice me date?" "No, but you were busy with football and your studies." "There was a reason I was busy with those, I was in love with Dave." "Please don't say that." "That I am in love with Dave, it is the truth and it always has been the truth. I fell in love with him when we were little kids." "I don't believe that." "I was born this way, Sue, I didn't choose it, Dave didn't turn me, if anything I turned him. He was bi-sexual, he could have continued on with girls and not even thought about me." Dave and Leroy Ch. 10 "You were my baby, I should have known, I... I... I would have taken you to a doctor." "Sue, I don't have a disease, there is nothing to cure. I am gay, plain and simple, I will always love a man and that man has only been Dave, there will be no other." "David was married, you are telling me, you are the one that mess that up for him?" "Yes, I am the reason for Dave's divorce." "So you committed him to Hell? So I have to apologize to Sarah for you sending her son to Hell?" Leroy closed his eyes for a moment, Dave squeezed his hand. "I am not sending anyone to Hell, Sue. Dave and I were together before he got married and we got together after he was married. Yes, I was his main reason for divorcing Cindy. Do I regret taking him away from Cindy? Yes and no. Yes because he could have had a normal life with kids and a wife and no because I love him and I had missed him the entire time we were apart." "But you damned him." Leroy dropped his head. Dave finally spoke up. "Sue we are not damned, yes Leroy was the reason that I am divorce now, but I wanted Leroy just as much as he wanted me. I don't blame him for my divorce, it would have happened eventually, I was and always have been in love with Leroy. He has been my life since we were kids, and since we truly declared our love for one another at sixteen." "SIXTEEN?" Sue screamed. Leroy's head snapped up. "Yes Sue, sixteen. Dave and I have been together in all aspects since we were sixteen. I told you, I have loved Dave since we were little. If I wasn't told all my life that it was wrong to have those feeling for another boy, I would have told everyone when I was ten or younger. But I think at the age of ten I really knew that I was gay, that I didn't like girls at all, I never looked at them before or after that age. Not that I thought they were gross, it was just the site of Dave made my heart skip a beat. It has and will always be Dave that I love." Dave squeezed Leroy's hand when he said that his heard skip a beat, Leroy looked at Dave and smiled. "What if God forbid, David is killed?" "Then I go through life without my true love and be lonely until I die." "So you don't look at any other men?" "I tried once, when we were separated and I couldn't bring myself to do anything. Dave is my life there is no other man that I want." "You never looked at a woman, Leroy?" Sue was hoping. "No." "Leroy, have you ever tried to get to know a woman, maybe you just think you love David." "Sue, no, I love Dave and that will never change." "You're going to go to Hell." "That is your interpretation not mine." They sat there in silence for a bit, Leroy got up and went into the kitchen and grabbed the coffee, cups, cream and sugar and returned to the living room. He poured everyone a cup and then he sat back and drank his. "Why?" Sue asked. "Why what?" "I had seven children, why is God punishing me? Can you go and see a doctor about this, maybe you can change." Leroy sat his coffee down. "I will be thirty-four in a few months, I have been gay all my life, there is nothing a doctor can do. This is not a disease, how many times or ways can I tell you, I WAS BORN THIS WAY." "No, I don't believe it, maybe it was David, maybe I have it wrong and he is the one that damned you." "GET OUT!" Leroy stood up and Dave grabbed his hand. "Don't you dare blame this on Dave, he didn't do anything but love me. Sue until you can understand that I didn't choose this, I don't think we can make any headway here. I am going to state the facts for you, and please listen to them. I AM GAY, I HAVE BEEN SINCE I WAS BORN. It is NOT a disease or anything that can be cured. I am NOT going to Hell. I HAVE LOVED Dave all my life and he has me." He looked down as Dave when he said that he loved him, Dave squeezed his hand. "Sue, when you want a relationship with me, the gay me, not the in the closet me, and it will never be straight me. I will be here. In the meantime, we can go back to be pleasant to one another during family events and if you want we may even talk to one another. BUT until you are ready to accept me and Dave as we are, a gay couple that is in love with one another, than I don't think we have much to say to one another." "But..." Sue started to speak. Leroy turn to his father. "Dad I love you, but please take her out of my house." "But..." "Yes Leroy, I love you too." Lee sat his coffee cup down, stood up and hugged Leroy, than pulled a stunned Sue up out of the chair, help put her coat on and usher her out. "But...." Was all Sue could say as she was ushered out the door. Dave and Leroy Ch. 11 Leroy was sitting in the family room drinking coffee one morning while the news was on in the background. It was a few days before his birthday, he wasn't really paying attention to the news but when he heard that a judge said that the ban on same sex marriages was unconstitutional, it perked his ears up. The reporter stated that it would probably be a while before the ban would be lifted, but there was hope that it would be within the year. Dave and Leroy had always contemplated going to another state and marrying but they knew it wouldn't be recognized if they did, so they were content with just their commitment vows. Leroy was waiting for Dave to get ready so they could go to their appointment with Dr. Watts. They have now been seeing the doctor for a little over two months. They started seeing him in the beginning of December and now it was mid-February. He actually likes the doctor and is glad that Dave and he are going, they have established a lot of boundaries in their relationship, they didn't realize that they were stepping all over one another. In the beginning of January, Leroy started thinking more about Dave saying that he should take a class at the Community College or University. Leroy had his Dad drive him down to the Community College, and the college quickly registered him for a couple of classes. He signed up to take an Intro to Business and a History class. They were to start the following week, so when Dave came home from work that night he told him what he did, and Dave was proud of him for taking the steps of getting out of the house more. When Dave came out to the family room from showering and dressing, he sat next to Leroy and kissed him. "Hey Babe, are you ready?" Leroy smiled at him. "Yeah, Dave I am ready." They left for their appointment with Dr. Watts. When they arrived, they only had to wait in the waiting room for a few minutes before they were called into his office. "Good morning, Dave and Leroy. I hope all is going well since our last appointment." Both of them agreed that everything was going well. "Is there anything new you would like to discuss this week or are we diving back on how you are doing with your families, particularly Leroy's." "I would like to discuss something new this week, Doc." Dave responded and Leroy looked at him, he couldn't think of anything that came up between them this week, which would be needed to be discussed in their sessions. "Ok Dave, what would you like to discuss?" "Kids." Leroy then just stared at Dave. "Leroy had brought up us having kids over four months ago, then a month ago and I would like to now discuss it." "There is nothing to discuss, you were dead set against it, Dave. Remember you asked how I would be able to take care of a baby when I couldn't take care of myself." Leroy went to get up and Dave put a hand on his arm. Dave knew it was a very sore topic with Leroy and he knew it was what started Leroy to feel like he was a burden to Dave. "Leroy, I love you, and I would like to try." Leroy just looked at Dave. "What do you mean by try?" "Leroy, you have worked through a lot over these past few months, and I see and difference in you." Dave was watching Leroy's expressions. "Leroy, you have started taking classes, you haven't had a seizure in over seventy five days. You will get to drive soon; you're getting your life back." "And again, what do you mean by try?" "I have thought about it more and more over these months and especially this last month, Babe. I think it is time that we expand our family, I know it's not going to be easy, having a baby or child around, it will test us." "Have you really thought this through, Dave?" "Leroy, no not completely, but I know I love you, and I see how you look at Tiff, Chad and Zack, and how Sade and Mikey have this wonderful effect on you. I love the spark that happens in you, I love seeing you happy. Leroy I love you and I want to try this." "Dave, this isn't a puppy that you can just give back." The doctor responded. The doctor knew about Leroy wanting kids, because Leroy had brought it up in his individual sessions but apparently Dave didn't know this. "I know it isn't, but I know I want to do this though. I know I am ready now and I am hoping that Leroy is ready." Leroy seemed to soften once Dave said he was ready. "Are you truly ready?" Leroy asked. "Who is truly ready when they are having a baby? I love you Leroy, and I want to make you happy and it will make me happy to start a family of our own." Then he grinned. "Plus you aren't getting any younger." Leroy laughed at Dave. "If you are sure, I would love to start a family with you, but Dave, if you have any concerns about this, maybe we should hold off?" "I have no issues or concerns; I want to do this Leroy." "Doc, I am sorry if this makes you uncomfortable but I have to do it." Leroy reached for Dave and pulled him towards him and kissed him, it wasn't a peck, it was an, I love you so much kiss, which curled toes and made cocks hard. When Leroy finally broke the kiss, the Doctor was the one clearing his throat. "Again, sorry Doc." Leroy pecked Dave's lips once more and sat back on the couch. "I guess Leroy, the kiss you shared with Dave, means that you really want to have a child?" "It has been the only thing on my mind since I held Tiffany in late September. I feel like a woman right now saying my clock started ticking hard and I was afraid I was going to run out of time before I would get the chance to be called Dad or Pa or anything like that. To hear them call Dave that, to see Dave smile when he was holding our child." "Our child." The Doctor said. "So does that mean you want to find a surrogate?" "Not necessary, I know there are tons of children that need a loving home." "Your thoughts on that Dave? Would you prefer a child that was part of Leroy or you, or would you be ok with someone else's child?" "Honestly, I have never thought about it that way, would I love a child that was part of us, yes, but I think I would be fine with adopting." "Well, because time is up for your couple's session, I am going to have you discuss this over the next week. I hope that you two don't just jump into this and head straight to the adoption agency. I think it was a good idea that Dave brought it up here, and I hope that you talk it through more and more before you act on it. I would be interested in what you discuss, come next week." "Yes, Doctor." Dave and Leroy said in unison, Leroy was looking at Dave with so much lust in his eye, but he knew he was going to have to wait a while before he could act on anything, because he had his individual session next. Dave pecked Leroy on the lips and left out of the office, Leroy just sat there for a few minutes while the Doctor changed file folders and tablets of paper. "Ok, Leroy, what would you like to talk about today? Would you like to continue the discussion about children or would you like to continue on last week's discussion of your mother?" "I would like to continue on Sue, I would like to discuss with Dave this week about children." When Leroy walked out into the waiting room, Dave looked up from the book he was reading. "Hello, fancy meeting you here, do you come here often?" Leroy just smiled at him and walked out the door, Dave got up and followed. Leroy didn't speak even when they got to Dave's car, they just got in and he started it up and started heading towards the house. But on the way home, Leroy told Dave to pull into a little diner. "I don't have too long you know Hon." "I know, but let's get you some lunch before you head into work and then when you come home for dinner I will have it ready. You can bring Terry if you like." "We aren't going to talk a little when I come home?" "We can talk any time that you would like to." They sat down in a booth that they were directed to. "Leroy, are you mad at me?" "No." "Then what is going on?" "Just trying to figure out where this is coming from? We just had this discussion a month ago and you were still dead set again kids. What has changed your mind?" The waitress came over to take their order and Dave asked for a few more minutes. "As I said in the office, I see how you look at all your nieces and nephews, and I want you to have that Babe. I want you to be happy, and part of me wants it too, am I ready to become a parent, no, but I love you and I think it is time we grow as a family." Leroy didn't comment he just continued to look at Dave. "Honey, I have been thinking about it a lot over this past month. I know if we adopt it won't happen tomorrow, and if we end up getting a surrogate, it will at least be a year before we are bring a bouncing baby boy or girl into our home." Again the waitress walks up and Dave just picks something off the menu, Leroy cancels what he orders and orders for the both of them, he knew Dave wouldn't like his choice when he had it in front of him. Dave looks at Leroy. "That is why, Leroy." "What?" "That is why, I want to do this. You knew I wouldn't like my choice and you corrected it for me, I have watched you this past month and I know you would make the Best Father out there, and that is why I want to do this." "Correction, not the Best Father, we will become Great Father's together. But Dave." "Yeah Hon?" "I want you to think about it more, we are not going to do this just yet. I love you and I can't begin to tell you or show you how happy I am, but we are going to wait a few months. Then we are going to contact an adoption agency, as much as I would love our child to share DNA from one of us, there really are a lot of unwanted kids out there." "And that is why I love you Leroy." Leroy's birthday was good; Dave had everyone including Sue and Dave's parents there. Dave took Leroy away for the weekend to D.C. so they could go to the monuments and museums; he wanted to do something Leroy would like, even though it isn't his cup of tea. Leroy loved every minute of the trip; they went out to dinner every night and had wonderful sex until the wee hours of the morning. When they came back, Leroy was dreading his doctor's appointment; it will be his one year follow-up. The six month CAT scan was clear, and he hasn't felt weird so he is hoping this one will be clear of tumors as well. Dave and he were waiting to be called into the exam room, when they were; they were lead to an office instead and told that the doctor would be with them shortly. "Mr. Standish as always it is a pleasure to see you." Doctor Harding shook Leroy hand than Dave's. "Dave, how are you doing?" "Why do I get my Father's name and you call Dave, Dave?" Leroy said smiling. "Just trying to keep it a little professional, Leroy." The Doctor laughed. "How have you been feeling, seizures still under control?" "Yes, I haven't had one in about seventy five days and in all honesty I have been feeling great." "That is good to hear, now let's take a look at your scan." The Doctor logged into his computer and pulled up the scan and report. "Well, good news again, no sign of a tumor." Dave exhaled a breath he didn't realize he was holding and smiled. "That is wonderful news, Doctor. You had me scared for a minute by bringing us to your office." Leroy nodded, he was shaking a little when he was waiting for the results. "Well, I am sorry, I didn't need to perform any exams on Leroy, so I didn't want to have my nurses clean a room when you could just sit in here. I would like to do the scan every six months for at least another couple of years." "That is fine Doctor; I will have Leroy here every six months than." "Oh, I don't get a say in it huh?" Leroy smiled. "Nope, Babe, you don't." Dave chuckled. "So see the check-out nurse on your out to set up your six month follow-up and scan. Have a wonderful summer you two." "Thank you, Doctor." Both Dave and Leroy responded. "You have a good summer as well." They got up and left, stopped at the check-out nurse and made their next appointment. "It is wonderful news, Babe." Dave kissed Leroy when they made it to the car. "Can we celebrate when we get home?" "Wow, are you feeling well, Dave?" "Why?" "You never ask for sex, it is always me." He chuckled. "I do too, but you always beat me to it." Dave leaned over in the seat and kissed Leroy and rubbed his cock though his jeans. "Or I could just blow you right here." "We don't need to be arrested, Dave, it is only an hour to home, and if I can wait that, than you can." Dave started the car and backed out. "And I am hoping that we don't get pulled over because I am going to break every speeding law, so I won't have to take you in the back here." Leroy laughed as Dave pulled away. They made the hour drive in forty minutes, Dave didn't speed much, but they happen to make it through a lot of traffic lights. When they arrived home, they didn't even make it past the living room, they were naked and Leroy had Dave bent over the couch, getting him ready for him with a bottle of lube that they keep under the couch. "Fuck me, Leroy, stop teasing." "As you wish, Dave." Leroy stood up and from his crouched position, lubed his cock and slid it home, Dave moaned loudly and pushed back for more on Leroy's cock. "You like that huh, you like my big cock Dave?" "Oh god, yes Leroy I do." Leroy started his thrusts in and out of Dave, at first they were long and slow, then they become frantic fast and hard. Dave was moaning and yelling out to fuck him faster and harder, not too much longer he was yelling that he was cumming. When Dave clamped his ass muscles down on Leroy while he was cumming it caused Leroy to go over the edge, he thrust into him a couple more times and started spraying his hot cum deep inside Dave. Leroy collapsed on top of Dave, they were still laying over the back of the couch when Leroy sank to the floor, pulling Dave with him. Dave chuckled and then curled up next to Leroy and they fell to sleep for a bit. Dave woke when he heard his phone ringing, he let it go to voicemail, he was feeling wonderful in Leroy's arms as he drifted back to sleep. His phone rang again and he thought he better see who it was and crawled to his pants to retrieve his phone, he looked who was calling and swore out loud, which woke Leroy. "Hey Terry." "I covered for your ass, now take a quick shower, dress and get your ass out here." "Oh shit, I'll be out in a sec, you want to come in and wait?" "No, don't need to see anymore of Leroy and you than I have already seen a minute ago. I will be in the cruiser, just come out when you are ready." "What going on?" Leroy said as he sat up. "I am late to work; Terry is outside, waiting for me." Leroy laughed and got up to make Dave a sandwich to take with him. "Really Dave, I knew you had a cute ass, but you two were on display for anyone that walked up on your porch." Terry laughed at him. "We were too horny to make it to bedroom, what did you tell the Sergeant?" "I told him that you called and were late coming from Leroy appointment and that I would pick you up here. He wasn't happy that you didn't call yourself, but said ok. So I clocked you in as I was walking out to the cruiser." "Thanks, I will talk with the Sergeant when we finish for the night." "You were too horny to make it to the bedroom? How the hell did you guy make it when Shane and I were staying there?" Dave laughed. "We didn't always make it to the bedroom than either, we were a hell of a lot quieter than, but we didn't always fuck in the bedroom." "Ok, I don't want to know." Over the following months, Dave and Leroy talked a little in counseling about adopting a child; they talked a lot out of counseling and they decided to contact the Virginia Department of Social Services about starting the adoption process, it was mid-June. When they sat down with the social worker they were told because they weren't married that only one of them could actually start the adoption process. But they had a while before they had to actually apply so they could decide which one would like to start the process. They were also informed that they have to go through the steps, which there are two before actually filling out the application to adopt. The first one was to show up for an orientation meeting, and since they had missed the one at the beginning of June and the next one was full, that they would have to wait until the first July meeting. Once they went through orientation, they would begin the ten-three hour sessions of training, which would take ten weeks, and they couldn't miss a week or would have to start over again. Dave and Leroy talked more and more about it because the orientation meeting was coming up on the eighteenth of July, Leroy seemed happier then Dave. Dave was happy to see the change in Leroy, so was Dr. Watts. Leroy actually talked more and more about it in his individual meeting with Dr. Watts. Leroy wasn't completely happy when he talked about it, he had many concerns, the ones normal Father or Mother would have. He was concerned with, was he really ready to become a Father? Was it the right time in his life? Will the child they choose, like them? There were many more questions he would bring up in counseling. Dr. Watts had him direct some of them to Dave, which they really needed to grow together on this, because he is sure that Dave has the same questions running around in his mind. On the morning of the orientation, they had just the couples counseling session; they talked more about their fears and also about how exciting it was. But they still had a long road ahead of them, which it would be October before they could even fill out the application to adopt. They still didn't know who would be the better candidate, being Dave having a job and great health, or Leroy being retired from the military but having the health issues. Leroy was leaning towards Dave being the one to apply because he believed he would get turned down because of his health. The orientation went well, they had a few couples that were adopted parents and were explaining the process and also answering anyone questions. They had a social worker there to answer anything that the experienced couples couldn't answer. At the end of the meeting, they could sign up of the training classes that would begin the first Saturday in August and would end the first weekend in October The summer flew by, Dave and Leroy didn't realize how much information that they didn't know was involved in adopting a child. That depending on the child or children if they decide to adopt a set of siblings, there could be health or mental problems, they may need to deal with. Which it really takes a special person to care for an adoptee. On the last weekend class on October fourth they were told to take a week or two before filling out the application, to let all the information they have learn to sink in, so they can make an informed decision. Dave and Leroy went home with the application in hand, it is long, they decided that they would start working on it on Monday and let everything sink in over the weekend. Dave had to work the entire weekend, when he came home after midnight on Monday morning, Leroy was sitting waiting for him. He was a little randy, he wanted to make love to Dave, he didn't want to talk about the adoption stuff, just wanted to lose himself in Dave, literally. Dave didn't come right home it was closer to one when he walked in the door, it didn't bother Leroy he just sat there waiting. "Hey, I didn't think you would be waiting up for me." Dave said as he walked through the door. "I am sorry, I wouldn't have jaw-jacked as much after work." "It is ok, Hon, you can do whatever you would like, I am never worried, you should know that." Dave and Leroy Ch. 11 "I know, Love you, Leroy." Leroy smiled, because he knew he hasn't said this in a long time. "Ditto." Which made Dave laugh, he sat down next to Leroy and Leroy put his arm around Dave and they just snuggled there for a bit. "How much energy do you have or are you tired?" "Is this your way of asking if I would like to have sex?" Dave asked with a smirk. "Caught me." Leroy turned towards Dave and started kissing him on the neck, mouth and he started opening his work shirt. He pulled it out of his pants and off his arms and also pull his t-shirt out and lifted it above his head, Leroy discarded them in the floor besides the couch. "Do you work tonight?" "Nope." Then Leroy unbuckled Dave's gun belt and laid it aside and started undoing his pants. "Babe I should tell you before you get any further, it is that time of the month for me." Dave started laughing as Leroy slide down into the floor between his legs and Leroy nipped him on his inner thigh. "Ouch." "Then don't tease me." He pulled out Dave's cock and sunk down on it in one move, which brought a loud moan from Dave. Leroy started going up and down on Dave's cock and Dave was in ecstasy. "Honey if you keep doing that, I am going to cum." Leroy didn't stop he just continued and Dave grabbed his head and pushed up into his mouth and came. After the initial high wore off Leroy crawled up and straddled Dave lap and started kissing him. "Can we go into the bedroom and cuddle now?" "Yeah but let me put away my gun first, I need to start getting into that routine if we want to adopt." "Please do, and then come to the bed, Hon." Leroy and Dave made love many times over that morning, they would rest for a bit and even sleep but then they were back at it. They were lying in the bed when their phones started to ring, they decided to ignore them that what anyone had to say could wait. What they didn't know was Aaron, Jeff and Allison were standing on the porch waiting to come in, they didn't want to just walk in. They had their share of walking in on Dave and Leroy going at it. They tried calling Leroy again. "What?" Leroy sounded upset that they interrupted their time together. "We are outside and want to come in." "Why didn't you just come in?" "Didn't want to interrupt anything." Leroy could hear them coming in the living room. "Leroy, where are you two?" "We are in the bedroom, be out in a minute." Leroy shouted, Dave and he got out of bed and put some sweats and t-shirts on and walked into the living room. "So when is the big day?" Aaron asked. "We haven't turned in our application to adopt yet." "No, to get married." Allison responded. "Still hasn't been ruled on, yet, has it?" Leroy asked. "The Supreme Court rejected requests to review lower courts decisions, so as of one o'clock today you can marry." Dave and Leroy both closed their eyes, they knew it was coming but assumed that the courts would uphold the law and they wouldn't be able to marry. They held one another's hand and kissed, and the joy that they felt, knowing now that can apply for adoption together. Aaron, Allison and Jeff were happy that they brought this news to them. "So, when do we get to plan a wedding?" Allison asked. "Oh shit, we could actually do that now. We can have the whole thing." Leroy responded. "Or we could just go down to the courthouse and elope." "Oh no you aren't, Dave. If I have any say in any of this, and I better for being Leroy's wonderful sister." She smiled. "We are going to have the whole thing, a chapel wedding and a wonderful reception for you two. Then you two are going to go on a real honeymoon." "And which of us do you have walking down the aisle?" Dave asked. He didn't want to be the one to walk the aisle. "I want to." Leroy responded, which shocked everyone including Dave. "What? I am secure enough to do it. I actually always wanted to be the one to walk down the aisle, to look up at Dave waiting for me. I don't know if that is my inner woman speaking to me, but I want to do it." Dave looked over at Leroy and smiled. "Then that is what we will do Leroy. I love you." "Ditto." Leroy grinned, Dave hit him. "I love you too." "I guess we have a wedding to plan, wow, I am so excited for you, Dave and Leroy." Allison exclaimed. Both Dave and Leroy looked from Allison to Aaron. "Did we just make a huge mistake by not agreeing to go to the justice of the peace and marrying?" Leroy asked Aaron. "I don't want to get hit and you know all the wives are going to want in on this one, and of course Jewels." Aaron responded, Jeff agreed and laughed. Dave cell phone was ringing so he got up, to answer it. "Leroy, please let me plan this for you. I think it will be great, unless you don't want it." Allison asked. "Just don't go huge ok, Sis. We don't know that many people, and might just want a small intimate wedding." Leroy sat there for a second. "And maybe without Mom." Dave walked back in on the without Mom. "Without Mom, what did I miss?" "Thinking maybe a small affair without Sue. Don't need her ruining our special day." "We will discuss that later, Hon." Then Dave turned in his seat and looked right at Leroy. "I just got off the phone with the social worker, she told us to wait a week before submitting our application as a couple, since the ruling today they know their system needs to be changed to allow two males or females to be submitted together. I told her that we will submit once we marry. I hope that was ok." "Yeah more than ok." Leroy was smiling. "Dave do you work tomorrow?" Allison asked, she had her phone in her hand. "Yup." "Good cause I was texting the woman, and we all have agreed to come over here tomorrow and start planning with Leroy." "Do I get a say in this?" Leroy asked. "Nope, we are going to bring dinner with us, so all you have to do is provide the drinks. Now you two need to sit down and think what date you want to marry. We will see if we can get a chapel or anything but more than likely it will be at one of our houses with the party in the backyard. Aaron, Allison and Jeff decided to head home after they talked for a while longer. Allison made it clear that Dave and Leroy had to sit down and discuss a date for the wedding. Once they left Dave turned to Leroy and they hugged and kissed. "Babe, we are going to be able to marry now." "Yeah, Dave, so when do you want to do this and can you stay home tomorrow and I will take your place at work?" Dave laughed. "Not on your life, will I sit through having six women planning our wedding. You are the one that didn't care that he walk down the aisle." "Yeah, I know." Dave and Leroy Ch. 12 Author Note: I know it has been a while, but I am working on my other stories, :) I promise, (have 10 pages of Adam and Steve and only 3 for Jake and Toby, but the fireman next chapter is finished just need to edit it.) No I don't know when I will put that one online, :) (I know I am a tease) Again I need to thank k5vreed for his input on this chapter, he questioned areas and helped direct me, :) Big Jon comment to it was - "post it as is now i think it's PERFECT" - LOL I will not put all the threats he threatened me with. LOL :) Hopefully everyone likes how this chapter goes. For the Edit Police: This is a free story, so if it is in past/present tense or there is an error in spelling somewhere, I am sorry. As someone commented one time, I am not publishing it or looking for a noble prize. (I have dyslexia and I didn't learn to read until the 2 time I was in the 3rd grade) So I am happy that I can write and keep people entertain as it is. Again, I thank everyone for their public and private comments (I never delete any of them, even when they bitch at me), as always I do respond to the private ones and people are amazed. :) *********** Chapter 12 - The Wedding The wedding was driving Leroy insane. All his sisters, plus the sister-n-laws and girlfriends, were driving Leroy nuts, they wanted this type of wedding and then that type, they weren't taking any suggestions from him of what Dave and he would like. They just wanted to get married, now he wished he wouldn't have opened his big mouth of saying that a traditional type wedding would be fun, he should have went with Dave up to the courthouse, married and got it over with. They decided on Saturday, October 25th to get married. They have filed for the married license, found a friend that can officiate over the ceremony, so everything was falling in place if Leroy could just get his sisters to listen to him. Dave and Leroy both decided right away that they were writing their own vows, they had been dreaming of this for so long. They wanted it to mean something more to them, than to just recite off the tradition vows. Dave walked into the family room and smiled, he could see how frustrated Leroy was becoming, he was hoping that the added stress that his sisters were putting on him, wasn't going to cause Leroy to have a seizure. Leroy looked up at Dave, threw his hands up in the air, gave up and walked out of the room. Dave followed him. "Babe, just tell them, you don't want help." "And piss Allison off, along with the others and your sister. Hell, just be glad they don't have one of us in a fucking dress." Dave pulled Leroy into a hug. "I love you Leroy, calm down we don't need you getting too worked up about this. Let me talk to them, let me see if I can get through to them, on what we want." "Have at it, I'm going for a walk." Leroy kissed Dave and walked out of the house. Dave walked back into the family room and sat down; he watched them all bicker for a bit and then he spoke up. "Can I please interject?" Dave waited a minute until he had all their attention. "Have you even listened to Leroy?" "Dave, we have, but we want to make this special for the two of you." Allison spoke for the group. "Allison, even if we stood in front of a doll and expressed our love to one another, knowing we are getting married is more than special enough. Please simplify it, we love everything that you all are doing, but it doesn't need to be that elaborate. Also, I'm worried about Leroy, I hope he isn't stressing too bad about this." "Sorry Dave, I know you two want it simple, I promise we will try, but..." "Please Allison, simplify it and don't stress Leroy out, I don't want him having a seizure." Dave looked at then again. "I'm going to go look for Leroy, and take him to lunch. Then please can you listen to what we want." "We will try." Allison responded. Dave left the house, he drove up and down the streets until he found Leroy and asked him to get in the car. When Leroy settled in the seat beside Dave, Dave reached for Leroy's hand bringing it to his mouth and kissing it. "I love you, Leroy. I'm sorry that I have left you with dealing with the women, I should have helped a little more than just today." "I love you too, but they're going to be the death of me. You won't have anyone to marry, if they push me just a little further." Leroy smiled at Dave. "Who am I kidding, I would drag myself up the aisle, just to marry you." Dave just smiled and squeezed Leroy's hand as he headed towards the diner. "I thought we could have some lunch alone before I headed into work." "Thank you, for keeping me out of the bitchfest for a bit longer." Leroy lean over and kissed Dave before they both exited the car. ******* With lunch finished, Dave showered and dressed for work. Leroy had been staying away from the family room but when Dave walked out the door, he knew he couldn't keep avoiding everyone, so he walked back in and sat down. "Leroy, we are sorry." Allison spoke again for the group. "We haven't been listening to what Dave and you want, and we are sorry for it. Please tell us now, and we will work on what you want for now on." Leroy smiled and proceeded to tell them what they would prefer. Dave and he had laid in bed almost every night discussing how they would love their wedding to go. ******* The bachelor parties were coming up, and the women and men had chosen who they wanted to take out, of course all the brothers wanted to take Leroy and that left Dave with the women. The night before the wedding, the women picked Dave up. "Dave, I know you probably would prefer to be out with the guys and Leroy, but you get us." Allison explained. "You know that you are not allowed to see the person that you are marrying the night before the wedding." "It is ok, Allison. Leroy has spent enough time with you all over the last three weeks. I think he deserves a good drinking night, but I hope that he is sober for the wedding." Dave laughed, but he did really worry about that. "So where are you taking me?" "It is a secret." Bridget responded. "And when we get close, we are blindfolding you." "Please, do you have to do that?" Everyone in the van responded in a very loud. "YES!" They started driving towards DC, and when they crossed over, they blindfolded Dave. He just shook his head and hoped that Leroy was having a wonderful time. He knew they would not allow him to return to the house tonight, that he would be staying at Allison's. Before leaving the house tonight they had him pack a bag. They pulled in the parking lot and helped get Dave out. They were a little early for the club to open but they had begged the manager to let them come in, which they would pay anything. The manger had them set up in the VIP section and they did pay a little higher fee for it, but they were also paying for more than a few private dancers to dance for them. When they made it to the doors the bouncers held the doors open for them, there were already a few people in line waiting for the club to open and were wondering how they got special treatment. When the doors opened, Dave could hear the music and pretty much could guess where he was. Allison and Jewels guided him to a nice comfortable chair and told him he had to leave his blindfold on for just a little longer. Allison was talking to the manager and he would run a tab for her area, which she would pay at the end of the night. She started ordering some of the drinks, she ordered Dave a frozen strawberry daiquiri, and decided he could drink like them for a bit before she let him drink beer. The daiquiri she ordered was big enough for five people to drink but she was going to make Dave drink the whole thing, thinking he could use a little alcohol in his system. The first dancers were there before the drinks were brought over. The music started and all Dave felt were hands, hands all over him. When someone removed the blindfold, him mouth dropped open and one of the dancers decided to take the opportunity and kiss him. Dave didn't know what to do, so he just lend back in the chair and smiled. The men in front of him were dancing and touching him and all the girls were smiling and taking a few pictures. One of them straddled him in the seat and rubbed his cock up against Dave's jean covered one. Dave smiled and shook his head and looked over at Allison who was next to him, with one of the dancers in her lap as well. "You know if Leroy ever saw one of these pictures, we will be attending a funeral not a wedding tomorrow." "It is ok; he is getting a stripper as well later." Allison smiled at Dave. Dave laughed, he was thinking about Leroy, more than likely his brothers would give him a female stripper. The guy on Dave's lap got up and walked to one of the other woman in the group, Dave just shook his head and laughed. When the drinks were delivered, the half nude waiter handed the daiquiri to Dave and he didn't say anything, he just started drinking. He knew he was going to love this night, Leroy and he didn't do the club scene and definitely not the male strip clubs, not since they were younger. When Dave had finished the daiquiri, Allison looked over to him and could tell that he was getting a little drunk. "Are you ok, Dave?" "Yeah, I think they added more liquor to this than it was supposed to have. But I want another." Dave smiled at Allison. Allison motioned to the waiter and he came right over, she ordered Dave and her another drink and sent him down to the others. ******* Leroy was picked up before Dave, the guys took him to Aaron's and they walked to a bar that was near. They all started drinking up a storm, they were just talking about anything and everything. "Are you looking forward to tomorrow, Leroy?" Chris asked. "Yeah." Leroy responded, everyone could tell that Leroy was getting drunk. "You all don't know how long I've been wanting this." "Leroy, I think we can guess. You two have been together forever." Aaron responded. "Shit I think we need to get you back to my house before you're too drunk to continue the fun. Plus I think Dave will kill us all if you aren't awake for the wedding." "Where are you two going for you honeymoon anyways?" Jeff asked. "I have no clue." Leroy responded. "You two are going to go somewhere aren't you?" Pat asked. "Yeah, Dave made those plans, I had to deal with the women the last three weeks, and he said he would deal with our honeymoon." "And he hasn't told you?" Pat responded. "Nope and I have asked, he knows I hate surprises." Leroy was slurring his responses. Aaron decided that they were going to leave before Leroy gets too drunk and they had a male stripper that no one else wanted in his house, he also hired a few female strippers. They paid the bill at the bar and took the ten minute walk back to Aaron's place. Which seemed to sober everyone up a bit, but not completely, it wouldn't have mattered anyways because Aaron had a tub of beer in his basement and it wouldn't be long until the strippers were there. Everyone filed into the basement and sat around on the couches and chairs. Aaron has made his basement into his man cave, but now that they have three kids Bridget has threaten to take it away from him to turn into the kids play room. But still for the time being he has his bar, huge TV and enough couches and chairs to have his brothers and friends over to watch a game and get drunk. They were drinking again, it didn't take long for everyone to get their buzz back. Aaron got a text from the strippers that they were in his driveway so he went upstairs to let them in. He led them to the basement and all the guys started to hoot and holler. Leroy looked up and saw two very nice looking women and a good looking guy that Leroy just assumed was a body guard or something. He just frowned, thinking that it would be his luck that his brothers would hire two females. He was hoping that Dave was having a good time, he was sure he was getting male strippers because he was with the women, he was now wishing he would have taken the women, but his brothers wanted him. The music started and Aaron sat down with the rest after talking to the guy with the two females, he pointed out Leroy to him and told him that he would be the only one interested in him. The females worked their way around to everyone dancing before taking their clothes off. The guy work his way slowing behind everyone, he didn't let Leroy know he was behind him until he put his hands on him, Leroy was watching the women working the guys. When the male stripper put his hands on Leroy, Leroy jumped he wasn't expecting anyone to touch him, he could see the two females in front of Aaron and Jeff so when the hands rubbed down his chest it shocked him. The male stripper walked around and got in front of Leroy. Started dancing for him and slowly took his clothes off, he even turned around and rubbed his ass all over Leroy's crouch. Leroy was a little embarrassed because when the guy did this he started getting erect. Some of the guys in the room were watching the male stripper on Leroy and their mouths dropped open. They weren't expecting him to completely strip but he did, and he was erect as well. He grabbed Leroy's hands and put them on his hips as he performed a lap dance, really making Leroy hard, the stripper straddled Leroy's lap facing him. "I don't do this for every customer, but if you would like a happy ending, I wouldn't mind doing that for you." The stripper whispered as he leaned in rubbing Leroy's cock. Leroy just shook his head no, he didn't want to relay on his voice because what the stripper was doing just through his pants was sending him over his edge. Leroy after a while had to push the stripper off of him, or he was going to blow. The stripper just smiled and slid off his lap, and dance in front of him for a minute longer, then the song ended and the two females were starting to pick their clothes up and get dressed, so he bent down once more and placed his hand on Leroy's cock and stroked it. Leroy just looked the guy in his eyes and shook his head no again, he releases Leroy, steps back and gathers his closes as well. Leroy stands to adjust himself and the guys just laugh at him. "Hey, I see bulges in your pants as well." He walks over and grabs him up another beer and drops back down in the chair hoping his cock would soften a little, because it was getting to be very uncomfortable. He looked over at Aaron he had escorted the three back up the stairs and came back down. They all sat around talking and drinking some more, and slowly one by one passed out where they were sitting. ******* Dave and the women made it back to Allison's home by two that morning, everyone just walked in and crashed where they wanted. Allison told Dave to go into their guest bedroom, he was trying to protest saying he would just sleep on the floor and let others have the beds, but she insisted that he needed to be well rested for the wedding. When Dave went to bed, Allison and Bridget walked into her bedroom to sleep. "Have you heard from Aaron?" Bridget asked. "He texted when they made it to the house before the strippers got there, but other than that, no nothing else." They plopped into the bed. "I haven't even heard anything from Jason, I guess they are having too good of a time to text or talk." "Well, how can I get mad at Aaron when we all had male strippers in our laps." Bridget giggled. "We better get some sleep, we have a lot to do in the morning, to get ready for this. I'm hoping the guys head over at a decent hour, I know Aaron will be taking Leroy to breakfast but the guys better be here." ******* The next morning, the guys one by one started to wake, Leroy had laid in the floor sometime in the middle of the night, so when he came to, he was stiff. Aaron came down after running upstairs to shower and found Leroy trying to get off the floor. "Are you getting that old?" "Fuck you, and just help me up." Leroy responded. Jason, Jeff and Ken, Dave's brother had already showered and left for Allison's, Patrick and Chris were just sitting there trying to wake up. "Guys come on, get up, the women are expecting you over at Allison." "Yeah but what sucks is, Leroy and you get to go have breakfast and don't have to show up until noon or later. What time is the wedding anyways?" "Two and we will be there a little after noon, so Leroy can start getting ready. He doesn't have to help out, and I get a free pass for being his best man." Aaron smiled at his two younger brothers, then he turned to Leroy. "Leroy, go up to my room and shower, they can in the other bathroom. Your jeans and stuff is sitting on my bed, your tux along with Dave's is at Allison's." Leroy just nodded and headed up the stairs. After his shower he felt a little more human, he wasn't as stiff and he knew he shouldn't have drank as much as he did, but he knew he was only going to have one bachelor party. Aaron walked into the room and asked if he was ready. "I'm sitting here in my fucking boxers on your bed and you are asking if I'm ready." "Well shit Leroy, it is getting late, do you realize you were in the shower for almost an hour?" "I was what?" He looked at Aaron and Aaron nodded his head. "No, at tops twenty minutes." "No, Leroy, you were in their almost an hour it is now ten, I came down at nine to get the rest of you up." Leroy couldn't believe it but he was tired and very hung over, he finished getting dress and they both left out for the diner to eat breakfast. ******* Dave woke in pretty good shape that morning; he woke to Jewels staring at him. "Morning Jewels." "Morning Dave, the guys are here and they are setting up the back yard. Allison sent me in to get you in the shower. She said you can dress in jeans until closer to the time, but you are not to help out in any way, you can watch but everyone else will do everything." Dave just shook his head and got up, he was still wearing the clothes from the night, he just dropped into the bed. When he got up Jewels pointed him to Allison's bedroom and bathroom and he went in and shut the door. He found his bag in there with everything he needed to shower and dressed. He walked out into the backyard and he was amazed the weather was beautiful it was already seventy degrees and they had almost all the chair set up along with an arbor covered with flowers for Dave's friend to stand in while conducting the ceremony. He walked over to Allison, "Allison, this is beautiful." "Thank you, Dave. I hoped that Leroy and you loved it. I can't wait until you two are getting married and it is less than three hours, it is going to be wonderful." "I'm sure Leroy will love what this looks like as well. When will he be here, I can't wait to see him." "You don't get to see him until you two are both walking down the aisle, but he will be here around one I think." There were people arriving, and when Aaron brought Leroy in a little before one, he had texted Allison to tell her they were there and she pulled Dave into her bedroom. Aaron brought Leroy through the house and he was taken to the pool house, he saw the backyard as he was walking through it, and some on the guest either hugged or shook his hand as he walked by. When he walked into the pool house he found his tux hanging there along with blue silk boxers, socks and his new patent leather shoes. He didn't know anything about the boxers and picked them up and looked at Aaron. "Don't ask me, Allison thought they would feel good on the two of you." "Dave is wearing them too?" "Yup." He laughed at Leroy. "They do feel good Leroy; I was wearing a pair of them when I got married." "Yeah yeah Aaron." They both just started stripping and got dressed in their tuxes. When they were finished, Jewels came in and put a boutonniere on both of them. Dave and Leroy Ch. 12 "Leroy you look wonderful, Allison said you can come to the house now, they still have Dave in her bedroom but it is almost time." Jewels told him. When Leroy and Aaron walked out of the pool house, Leroy looked at everyone there, he saw all of his brothers and wives or girlfriends. He saw some extended family and then he saw his father walking towards him. "Leroy you look handsome." "Thanks, Dad." They hugged than Aaron escorted him back into the house and saw Terry standing there with his boyfriend Shane, Terry was Dave's best man. "Hey Terry." "Leroy, well it is almost time isn't it. I guess Aaron and I should be getting outside." Aaron looked at him and nodded and they left, Shane hugged Leroy before he left went to his position by the door. Leroy just stood there for a minute looking out at the crowd of people. Allison walked up behind Leroy. "Leroy, it's time. You know when you two need to walk out." She hugged him and walked out the doors. Leroy turned around when he heard Dave clear his throat, and he almost stopped breathing. They looked at one another and smiled, Leroy took the few steps that separated them, reached up, grasped Dave's cheeks in his hands and kissed him. They could hear the music playing outside but they couldn't seem to let go of one another. Everyone outside started to laugh because they knew Dave and Leroy were a little lost in one another and that is why they didn't hear their cue to come out. Lee got up and told everyone that he would get them to come out. When Lee opened the door, neither Dave or Leroy stopped kissing one another, they didn't even notice that the music got louder and that Lee was standing there. "Dave, Son, you can do all you want of that after you get married, you have over a hundred guests out there waiting to see you two get married." Dave and Leroy stopped kissing, leaned their foreheads together and stood there for a minute just holding one another. "Come on you two, let's get this over, so we can eat." Leroy looked at his Dad and smiled. "Yeah Dad, I'm sure everyone is hungry." Dave and he laughed and Lee left back out and the music was cued again. They kissed one another again, walking toward the French doors arm in arm as Shane and Bridget opened them. The music that was playing was the traditional wedding march and they looked up at the arbor. Dave and Leroy's friend Linda was dressed in a beautiful red dress to oversee the ceremony and on either side of the arbor was Terry and Aaron. Dave and Leroy were looking at one another as they walked down the aisle. Everyone was smiling at them, and could tell they loved one another. As they walked up the aisle together all the nieces and nephews were lined up on either side of the aisle throwing rose petals down for them to walk on. Then they reached the arbor and the music stopped and everyone was quiet. "Ladies and gentlemen, I have known Dave and Leroy for a long time now. I was honored to perform their commitment ceremony eight years ago, in front of a few of their friends and family members. Now we are here to join them in the bonds of marriage on this beautiful day, in front of all their friends and family which were able to make it here today." Linda looked at Dave and Leroy and reached for both of their hands, which she over lapped and had both her hands one on top and one on the bottom of theirs. "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate the marriage of Dave and Leroy, that what they now share will only deepen and grow through the years. From the beginning of their friendship these two men have shared an undeniable connection. They are taking the last step by committing themselves today to each other in this sacred trust." "Dave and Leroy have already embrace conflict, peace, struggles, work and play into their relationship and it has only made their relationship even stronger. Their relationship has been challenged over the years as with anyone's relationship, we are challenged, but they are not embarrassed that they needed to accept help and see a couple's counselor, again it only made their bond even stronger." Linda released their hands and had Dave and Leroy turn towards one another and take both of their hands in each other's. "Dave and Leroy have written their own vows that they would like to share with one another. Leroy please begin." Leroy smiled at Dave he had been reciting his vows over and over the past week so he could remember it word for word without having to look at a piece of paper. Before he began he squeezed Dave's hands. "Dave, I have always known you were my soulmate, I have always loved you and I fell in love with you from day one when we were so young, before I knew that possibly loving you was wrong." "Dave, I will love you through sickness and in health 'til death do us part. You have taken care of me and loved me when I couldn't love myself. You have always known when my anger was a mask for something bothering me and you knew how to calm it before I blew up." "Dave, when we met at the age of three, I knew then that I liked being with you more than my own brother. When we were five, I knew it was a different kind of love that I had for you, you meant more to me than just a best friend. When we were sixteen, you showed me that you had the same love for me as I did you. And when we were twenty-five, we committed ourselves to one another in a commitment ceremony, to show one another that we loved each other even though we couldn't truly get married. And now we are thirty-four and our love is still strong and we are now allowed to marry in front of our family and friends." "Dave, will you take me as your husband, because in my heart, I still want to be by your side more than I want to be anywhere else." "Leroy, you are my best friend, my partner and soul mate. I take you to be my husband." Dave smiled after stating that he would take Leroy as his husband. "Leroy, I love you. We have been through a lot together, through sickness and in heath; I will always take care of you. For richer or poorer, I hope our love will always grow." "Leroy, I fell in love with you when we were so young, and as you know I denied it for the longest time. I remember when I fell in love with you, I knew at a very young age in my heart that you were mine. And on that wonderful day when you had turned sixteen, I kissed you and you didn't punch me." Dave and Leroy both laughed along with the crowd. "And then I knew we would always be together. Through good time and bad, we would stay true to one another." "Leroy, will you take me as your husband, because in my heart, I still want to be by your side more than I want to be anywhere else." "Dave, you are my best friend, my partner and soul mate. I take you to be my husband." *** Linda spoke again. "Now that Leroy and Dave have accepted one another as husband and husband, they need to exchange rings with one another." Dave and Leroy separated their hands for a moment to look at their best mans for their rings, once they were handed over they turned back to one another and Leroy began. Leroy placed the ring just on the tip of Dave's ring finger and started. "Dave, take this ring as a meaning of our love for one another. Let it symbolize our love together and that it will never end. Forever will I cherish and love you." He slips the ring the rest of the way on Dave finger and smiles. Dave placed the ring also just on the tip of Leroy's ring finger and began. "Leroy, take this ring as a meaning of our love for one another. Let it symbolize our love together and that it will never end. Forever will I cherish and love you." Dave slips the ring the rest of the way on Leroy's finger and smiles. Linda again takes Dave and Leroy's hands in hers. "Our hopes and prayers go out to this wonderful couple, Dave and Leroy we pray you two have a long and happy marriage. Know that you two are loved by so many people that have joined here today to be a witness for you marriage. By the power vested in me by the State of Virginia, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You may now kiss one another." Dave and Leroy looked, smiled at one another and stepped in and embraced one another. After what seemed like the longest hug to the crowd, they kissed one another and you could see tear coming out of both of their eyes, again after what felt like eternity to the guest they separated when Linda cleared her throat and as always they put their foreheads together and smiled at one another, the crowd laughed. After having Dave and Leroy turn towards the crowd, Linda spoke again. "I present to you Mr. and Mr. Standish-Ayers." Dave and Leroy decided to hyphen their names together, instead of staying separate or taking one name. They walked back down the aisle and into the house, they shut the door on everyone and they could hear everyone laughing. They embraced one another and kissed, which the kiss if they didn't stop they would strip down right there before god and everyone and declare their love for one another. They didn't notice two things happening around them as they were kissing. The first thing being Shane and Bridget reopening the French doors and everyone could see them. The second thing some in the crowd saw before Dave and Leroy, which Lee and Allison was walking fast to stop her from saying anything but they were too late. "YOU GOT MARRIED?" Sue screamed. When she scream everyone outside looked in the house, Dave and Leroy jump apart and stared at her. And Lee just walked over to her and pulled her towards the front door. "No, I want to talk to them, how dare Leroy not invite me." "Sue, just please let me take you back home." Sue was pulling away from Lee. "And you, you came here without me. How can they get married, it isn't legal." Allison had come over to Lee and Sue. "Yes Mom it is legal now." "That is so stupid, how can two men have the same rights as a normal married couple?" "Mom, please. You are talking about your Son." "Who doesn't even want his own mother at his wedding?" Leroy had enough and walked over to them, he lowered his voice and spoke to Sue. "The reason I didn't want you here Sue, is because you can't accept who I am, or that I'm in love with a man." "You need help, Leroy." "No, what I need is for Dad to take you home so everyone that wants to celebrate the fact that Dave and I married today, can do so, WITHOUT A BITCH LIKE YOU WHO CAN'T UNDERSTAND OUR LOVE." Leroy raised his voice on the end of his statement to Sue and she smacked him across the face, Leroy just stared at her for a second, turn his back and walked away. "Come on Sue, I will take you home." Lee responded "Are you coming back here?" "Yes Sue, I'm going to celebrate our Son's marriage, just like I did with any of our other children's marriages." Lee thought about it for a minute and decided to piss Sue off himself. "And if Leroy will do me the honor, I would love to have the first Father Son dance with him." Sue mouth dropped open and she couldn't speak. Sue just turned around and walked out the door, she wouldn't let Lee take her home, which Lee was fine with that. He went to find Dave and Leroy, they had walked off into Allison's bedroom. "Leroy, I'm sorry, I didn't tell her where we all were today. Everyone just told her they were busy today, they didn't tell her that Dave and you were getting married." "It's ok, Dad. Just wasn't expecting to see her, it has been a few months and I know she is never going to change, but sometimes I wish she would." "I know Leroy, it would be nice if she would accept that you are gay, but I don't think she is ever going to. It is like she takes one step forward and five giant steps back." Lee looked at Leroy. "Son, I love you, I hope that will be enough." "You are enough Dad, I love you too." Leroy hugged Lee and Lee motioned for them to head back out to the party. When they returned to the party, Allison pulled Dave and Leroy aside for the photographer to take their pictures. They did all the family, the best men together with Dave and Leroy. Allison even made them take pictures at a park that was near by the house. When they finally finished, the party was in full swing. When Dave and Leroy walked into the back yard the DJ introduced the couple again to the crowd and asked them to come to the dance floor to do the Mother Son dance. Dave smiled and walked over to take his Mother's hand and walked onto the dance floor. Lee walked over to Leroy and held out his hand to him, Leroy looked at his Father and then at the out stretched hand. "Leroy, would you do me the honors?" Leroy smiled, took his hand and they walked out onto the dance floor. "Leroy, remember I am a bad dancer, I stepped on Allison's feet." They both laughed and Leroy pulled Lee in tight to him and they danced. Allison made sure the photographer took pictures of their Father and Leroy dancing, she was going to make sure that photo was an eight by ten or larger. When the song ended, Lee walked Leroy over to where Dave and Sarah were standing. It was now Dave and Leroy's turn to dance together, they picked out the song that they wanted to dance to, 'At Last' sung by Etta James. When the song began Dave put his arms around Leroy's neck and Leroy put his around Dave's waist and they held tight to one another as they swayed back and forth around the dance floor. They had their cheeks pressed together and were in their own world. When the song ended a few minutes later, they stood still and continued to hold one another tight, the crowd could see that they were whispering to one another. They finally broke apart but held hands as they walked off the dance floor. They both decided to get out of the monkey suit. They were about to head to Allison bedroom to do so, when she stopped them and said they needed to cut the cake first. She told them the photos would look nicer in their tuxes than in jeans. Leroy had never noticed the cake, when Dave and he walked over to the cake table he was amazed at the size of it, and sitting on top were two grooms. Leroy looked around at everyone and just smiled, he really couldn't believe that Dave and he just got married. They were married and about to cut their wedding cut. A cake that he had seen almost all of his siblings do and now he was able to perform this action. Dave could see the change in Leroy, he saw him pause and look at him. Dave noticed that Leroy's eyes were shiny and he took Leroy hand. "I love you Babe." Leroy just nodded and Allison handed Leroy the knife and spatula, they were silver and when Leroy looked closely at them, they had Dave and Leroy along with October 25, 2014 engraved on them. "Dave would you like to cut the cake?" Leroy looked over at Dave and he nodded. Leroy plastered himself up behind Dave, he had one of his arms around Dave's waist, his semi hard cock pressed against Dave's ass and with his free hand he held Dave's hand as he cut the cake, then Dave put the two small pieces out on a plate and turned around in Leroy's arms. "We aren't going to smash cake in each other's faces." Dave looked dead serious. "No, Dave." Leroy smiled. Dave took the plate and brought it between them and they both lifted a piece and gently put it in each other's mouths. Leroy grabbed Dave's hand before he could withdraw it, swallowed the cake quickly and proceeded to suck on Dave's fingers, Dave smiled and laughed. There were tons of guest's shouting that they should kiss, so Leroy released Dave's hand and pulled him by hips and kissed him. The rest of the night went great, Dave and Leroy had a wonderful time, and they could tell both their families did as well. Leroy had to dance with Sade, she wouldn't go laid down with the rest of the kids without getting to dance with her favorite uncle. The party started to die down after midnight, both Dave and Leroy were tired, and they had a long day ahead of them. Dave still wasn't telling Leroy where they were going on their honeymoon. When the party ended and the last guest said there congratulations and shook their hand or hug them, Dave and Leroy turned around to see just their family left. "Thank you everyone, the wedding was wonderful." Dave and Leroy said at the same time. Allison walked over with tears in her eyes and hugged Leroy. "I love you, Leroy. Go home have some fun, we will see you two in a little over a week." Leroy looked at her. "You know where Dave is taking me." "Yup." "And you couldn't share with me?" "Nope, out of everyone, I was the only one he knew could keep a secret." Allison hugged Leroy again. "Have fun Leroy." With that she let go and hugged Dave, everyone else stepped forward and they all hugged. Before Dave and Leroy could leave Allison handed Dave the keys to her car. Leroy when they stepped out the front door looked at the cars and looked at Dave. "Allison has us covered, we are taking her car." "What, she doesn't trust me driving?" Leroy asked, he knew he wouldn't trust himself either, he knew he was more than tipsy. "Let's just get you home, thank god I have our bags packed, because our flight is at eight so we have to be at the airport at six." "Are you going to tell me where we are going?" "You will know in the morning." Dave laughed. "I know it is bothering you Leroy, but you can wait until we are at the airport." "Yeah Dave. I love you too." Leroy said sarcastically and turned and looked out the window. Dave knew he was driving Leroy nuts, but he really wanted where they are going to be a surprise. He is hoping that Leroy will feel comfortable there, he knows Leroy nor he is use to public display of affection but in St Croix, they don't mind it, they actually cater to Gay and Lesbians. There are some lodging that are strictly for gay and lesbians. He booked them into one of the gay only establishments, which he was extremely amazed with the short noticed that he was able to get a whole week. He hopes that it is a nice place, but it is right on the beach so, if anything they will like laying out there. When Dave finally pulled into the driveway, Leroy was asleep. Dave got out and walked around to the other side of the car to get Leroy out and into the house. He knew that Leroy drank a lot which was ok, because it was a party after all. Dave was glad that Sue didn't make that big of a nuisance of herself, he saw that Leroy did drink a little heavier after her departure than he did the rest of the night. Dave woke Leroy and helped him walk into the house and directed him to their bedroom. When Leroy crawled into bed with his clothes on, Dave just smiled. Sometimes Leroy can act like a kid, he doesn't know how Leroy can crawl into bed clothed and sleep. But he had been with Leroy for years and has seen it more than once. Dave took the time to load their luggage in their car and made sure he had their passports even though they didn't need them. It's just easier to prove you are a US citizen with it, than taking their birth certificate. He had them in his carry on along with the tickets and a few snacks. Once he had everything together, then he could lay down and relax for a few hours, and that was all it was going to be. It was already after one and they needed to be up and out the door by five, he debated not going to bed at all, but he didn't want to be sleeping the first day in paradise. Dave woke to his alarm going off at three-forty-five, he groaned and rolled over to snooze it, Leroy moved only a fraction. Dave just wanted to snuggle in close to Leroy and go back to sleep but he knew if he didn't get up now they would miss their plane. Begrudgingly he got up and shook a very unhappy Leroy. "Come on Babe, we have to take a shower before we go to the airport." Leroy didn't respond, he grunted and rolled over. "Honey, if you make us late to the plane, I will not be a happy person. Come on and get up." Leroy just glared are Dave and sat up on the side of the bed. "I know you drank a little too much Leroy, but go and take a shower you will feel better. Remember Babe, we got married yesterday." Dave and Leroy Ch. 12 That seemed to soften Leroy up a lot, he smiled stood, hugged and kissed Dave. "I love you, sorry I'm grumpy. So where are we going?" He smiled. "You will find out when we get to the airport. Oh and don't forget to take your meds this morning and put the bottles in your carry on." "Yes Dear." Leroy said sarcastically and walked into their bathroom. ******* The drive to the airport was quiet, both Dave and Leroy were tried. Dave knew they had a good two and half hour flight to Miami, a little lay over and then a three hour flight to the island. When they parked at the airport and went through security, Dave directed Leroy toward their gate. "We are going to Miami?" "Nope." "Ok, we are stopping in Miami?" "Yup." Dave smiled because he knew he was driving Leroy nuts. "Am I just going to get one word answers from you this morning?" "Nope." Dave laughed and Leroy walked away from him, Dave caught up with him. "Honey, I love you, I am just trying to keep it a secret for a little longer. Please just bear with me for just a few more hours." "Fine Dave, I will." Leroy just sat down and mopped a bit, Dave just shook his head and laughed. God did he love Leroy and he knew Leroy hated surprises. ******* The flight to St Croix was wonderful, Dave and Leroy held hands the entire way even to Miami. When they were dropped off at the hotel by the van service Leroy kissed Dave and apologized for being a brat. The room was wonderful, it was a sea view suite, it was a one bedroom, living room with kitchen, and a balcony out to the beach. "Babe I love you, this is a beautiful surprise but can we take a nap?" Leroy was begging Dave. "I would love to Leroy, I am tired as well and we have an entire week here." Dave smiled at Leroy, pulled him into a hug and kissed him. Dave went to walk away and Leroy pulled him back to him and pressed his cock into Dave's ass. "I take it you don't want to sleep now?" Leroy kissed the back of Dave neck. "MMMmmm Leroy." "Yeah Dave?" Leroy chuckled and led Dave to the bedroom. Leroy pulled Dave t-shirt off and kissed him. He kissed his neck and work his way down, stopping at his nipples to suck them for a bit, he knew this drove Dave wild and it helped get his cock even that much harder. Leroy got down on this knees, opened Dave's jeans and pulled them down to his ankles. Dave's cock stood hard and proud. Leroy took Dave cock in his mouth and while he was sucking he tapped Dave legs one at a time to take off his shoes and pants so he could have Dave spread his legs a little so he could get access to his ass, he wanted to start getting him ready. "Where is the lube?" Dave reached for his carry on, quickly searched the bottom and pulled out a small bottle. "I hope that you packed more than this?" Leroy chuckled as he grabbed it and popped the cap to pour some in his hand and immediately started inserting a finger into him. "Wow, when was the last time we made love?" Leroy asked when he removed Dave's cock from his mouth for a minute. "It has been a little over a week or two, you have been busy and stressed." Leroy walked Dave back to the bed, Leroy was still on his knees and when Dave sat down he pushed him back so he could finish getting him ready, Leroy wanted in Dave. Leroy got to his feet and stripped quickly and helped push Dave further up the bed so he could kneel between Dave's legs. Dave was ready for Leroy, so Leroy grabbed the lube up again, lubed his cock and entered Dave slowly. When he was fully in he leaned down and kissed Dave. "I love you." He wanted to say more, but it felt too good to stop to talk. Dave had his legs wrapped around Leroy's hips with his feet basically pushing Leroy as deep as he could go. Leroy wasn't going to last long, he was energize but still tired, and he braced himself up on one arm so he could get Dave off too. He had some lube on his hand still and with Dave's precum he was able to get a good rub going, he could tell that Dave was feeling good as well. It didn't take long rubbing Dave's cock before he started cumming which when Leroy felt Dave tighten around him it pushed him over the edge and he pushed in him one more time and came deep inside of Dave before collapsed on top of him. After Leroy could catch his breath he peppered Dave's face with kisses and rolled off of him and pulled him into a spooning position. "Dave I love you and thank you for the wonderful honeymoon, I still can't believe that we are married." "I know, I actually never thought this day would ever come either, but Leroy we are legally married now." Leroy tighten his hold on Dave and kissed the side of his neck, they snuggle and both fell to sleep within minutes. ******* Dave and Leroy had a fun week on the island, they laid out on the beach whenever they weren't eating, sleeping or making love. Some morning they just spent on their balcony, basking in the sun before they would head out onto the beach. On their return trip home, they continued to hold hands and snuggle on the plane. They were getting looks but they didn't care, Leroy was too happy to care what anyone thought and he just wanted to hold the love of his life. When they arrived back in Virginia and home, they found the house spotless with a note on the counter telling them that there was groceries in the fridge that everyone expected them to be at Allison's house at noon for stories and lunch. Dave and Leroy looked at one another. "What the hell are we going to tell them?" Leroy stated. "We fucked and laid out on the beach." "Well we did buy some souvenirs and walked through the town one night." "Yeah one day in the town, and the rest of the time we laid on the beach. I'm sure they don't want to know about what we did in the bed or late that one night on the beach." Leroy smiled and then laughed. "Well maybe Chris." "What do you mean maybe Chris?" "He has asked me on several occasions how we have sex. It shouldn't be that interesting, but he seems to want to know." "What have you said to him?" "Nothing, I avoid the question. He is not gay, so I don't know why he is so interested." "Well let's go to bed, I can't believe they want us over so soon." "Dave, haven't you noticed by now that my family is nosy?" Dave just pulled Leroy down the hall to their room and they went to bed. Dave and Leroy Ch. 13 Authors Note: FYI - There is no sex in this chapter, I hope the description of this chapter explains why. :D As always I want to thank k5vreed for sticking with me and reading every draft of this and giving me pointers for when I didn't know where to go. Stay cool, if you can. ;-P Also want to thank TesoroMio, I think she just found out how much I don't sleep and write. She is correcting as fast as she can. Everyone wanted me to find an editor, so now I am on her time schedule, which I don't mind so much (really I don't), but when she gets the next D & L chapter(s), which is(are) almost done she might. LOL, I also have another one time only story out to her. For the person that emailed and said I owe them a box of Kleenex, send me your address and I will send you a box, LOL. Sorry Everyone, I may have two maybe three D & L out back to back before anything else. Chapter 3 of the Fireman and the Librarian is almost finished, decided to change a few things with the agreement of k5vreed, so we will be working on that one shortly. I have received some great ideas from k5vreed and aclassylady to get me out of my writers block on Jake & Toby and Adam & Steve, so hopefully when I am finished with this latest D & L - F & L, I will start working on them shortly. To Big Jon, be patient, I will get to the Sexy Doctor I swear sometime real soon. :) Also, I decided this past weekend that I'm going to become a tourist in my own state. I have lived here all my life and never really visited anywhere. So I made plans and headed off to visit Frankenmuth this weekend and had lots of fun. So may take off from writing to do more things. Also was told by another fan which I email that I needed to take some time and do things which make me enjoy my life like reading, I haven't sat down with a good book in ages. So I may try doing that also, I only have about a dozen or so sitting next to my bed right now. Again private and public comments are always welcome. Thank you, ********** The Adoption Leroy was lying on his back in bed. It was the early hours of the morning. Dave had his head on Leroy's chest and was snuggled up to him. "What's going to happen when we adopt?" Leroy asked as he was stroking Dave's hair. "What do you mean?" "Will we get times like this together, or is our time going to be cut short?" Dave smiled and chuckled. "Ask Allison or Aaron, how they cope. It's only been two months since we have turned in our application. They still haven't completely cleared us for adoption." "I know, Dave. I want this so bad, but I am also afraid." "Well Leroy, why don't we bring that up in our session with Dr. Watts today? But tell me, what are you afraid about?" "Yeah that would probably be a good thing to bring up. I am afraid that our relationship will be damaged slightly. I know it is just a fear, but I know you weren't too keen on the idea." "Leroy, I love you, and it is time that we had our own family. I can see how much this means to you, and I want it too. I am not just saying that." Leroy hugged Dave. "Thank you Babe. I love you, too." Dave snuggled up to him a little more. "Are we going to get as much time with one another? Probably not. Is this kid going to test us and our sanity? Most definitely. But Honey, we will make it, because we love one another and we will love this kid." Leroy kissed the top of Dave's head and they fell asleep. It wasn't long before they had to be up, showered and at their counseling appointment. It was one of the last few that they will be doing as a couple. Dr. Watts told them they are more than welcome to continue, that he likes his pockets well-padded, but they have resolved most of their problems. He was happy that they were opening up to one another at home and he hopes they continue, but as always they could come back and see him, if they needed to. Leroy's individual sessions will continue for a little longer. Dr. Watts and Leroy agreed that they were not through. Leroy had most of his issue about his mother resolved, and he was trying to take those last few steps to walk away and not let her words affect him. There was just a little part of him that still wanted a relationship with his mother, but he also knew that she would never understand. He knew that he will have to deal with her in family situations, so Dr. Watt and he were trying to find healthier ways of dealing with her, instead of Leroy needing to blow up at her and then feeling bad about it. If they could find a happy medium then Leroy may be able to just walk away from Sue without feeling guilty. ******* In mid-January, Dave and Leroy were sitting in Family Services. The social worker; Lisa was showing them pictures of adoptable kids. There were tons. There were individual kids and entire families with two to five siblings. Lisa left them in her office to talk while they looked. "Dave, what do you think?" "I don't think for a first time, that we should adopt an entire family. Let's start out with one." Leroy chuckled, "One is more than enough right now." They turned the book back to the individual kids. They were looking at all the races and ages. They ran across this one picture that seemed to call out to them. He was three and biracial; he was half Chinese and half American. His name was Jason. When Lisa walked back in and looked down at the picture. "Have you decided?" "I guess. What do we do now?" Leroy responded. Lisa smiled, "First we have him brought here from the foster home that he is in and you get to see him from an observation room. That is so you can see how he interacts with others. I hate that it sounds like you are looking at the doggy in the window to make sure he will be the right fit, but in a sense that is what you are doing. We don't want you picking a child just because he was available." She looked at Dave and Leroy and continued, "Once you see how he interacts and if you are still interested, we have you in the room with him for several appointments to see how he reacts to you. We like the appointments to be within the weeks' time, so the child doesn't get the chance to forget you. We want him to get comfortable with you also." "Once he is comfortable with us, then what happens?" Leroy asked. "You take him home," Lisa answered smiling. "That is the true test, which is why you have to foster him first. We don't want you to adopt and find out a month or two down the road that it wasn't a good fit and you are now stuck in a difficult situation. That is why we require that you foster them for a minimum of six months before we allow adoption. Of course we will be coming in to make random site visits." "When can we start this?" Leroy was nervous, but he wanted this so bad. Lisa pulled the book towards her and keyed in Jason's case number in the system. "I can have him here in a few days. He is on the other side of the state." "Where will he stay?" She smiled at his concern and said, "He will be set up in our facility here. He will be well cared for. Don't worry. He just won't be in a family home when he comes. As soon as I get him here I will call you, so we can start the process." ******* The wait was killing Leroy and it had only been a day. Dave would smile, though he knew not to laugh at Leroy because it would only make him angry. Dave decided to call Aaron and Allison over to try to distract Leroy a little while he was at work. He thought that maybe bringing their families over, having dinner and talking would help Leroy's anxiety. Both Allison and Aaron with their families came that evening. They even brought dinner with them. Dave stated that Leroy hadn't been eating because he had been too worried. When they knocked on the door, Leroy opened the door to nine smiling faces. He just shook his head and let them all in. The five nephews and nieces all hugged Leroy, and then the four adults each took their turn. "So Dave says you are beside yourself," Allison smiled. "So is that why I have earned this visit?" Leroy smiled back. "Yeah, I know I am being ridiculous, but we are going to see the kid and what if he doesn't like Dave and me?" "Leroy, he will warm up to you or he won't. He is either the one that was meant to be or he isn't. You can't force it. Just wait and see how it goes." They sat around the kitchen table. Leroy got out a card table for the kids to sit at and they had pizza. Afterwards, Leroy put on a Disney movie for the kids and the adults moved to the living room to talk. "See, Leroy. You already know how to entertain a kid. How many Disney movies do you own?" Bridget asked. "Too many," Leroy smiled. "Anytime any of you would allow me to watch one of the kids, we would beg Dave to take us to the store before he left for work, and we would buy a movie or something else." Leroy chuckled. "Yeah, we had to deal with your something else, Leroy. By the way, paybacks are hell." Aaron responded and everyone but Leroy laughed. "Hey, you have to be nice to me; I will be a first time parent." Leroy laughed. "Oh we will be nice for the first month. Then you are getting paid back for all the playdough, markers and whatever toy that you thought would be great for our children to sneak into the house and destroy something with," Allison responded with the other three agreeing. "I love you guys, too," Leroy answered back and gave them the most pathetic look, at which everyone laughed. Dave came in for his dinner at that moment. "What did I miss?" "Only that we will get a month before they will start giving our child toys that could destroy our beautiful home." Dave looked at them. "Please at least give us three months so we can move to Florida," Dave laughed. "Funny, Dave. We may give you a little more time, but as we told Leroy, paybacks are hell," Aaron warned. Dave walked into the kitchen to see what he could scavenge for dinner, saw the pizza on the counter, grabbed up a few slices, and walked back into the living room. "Honey, I got the call on my way to work. They will have Jason for us to observe at nine, and then if we want, we can meet him at one." Dave looked at Leroy and smiled, "Are you going to say anything, Babe?" Leroy nodded his head and closed his eyes for a minute. "That is wonderful news," he choked out; he didn't want to get emotional in front of his siblings. His emotions had been a wreck since they found out that they had been approved, and it was been driving him nuts. After a bit, Dave left back to work, and his siblings decided that they needed to get the kids home to bed because the littlest ones had fallen asleep in the chairs. Leroy picked up everything and got ready for bed himself. He wanted to be fresh for when they saw Jason in the morning. When Dave came in he was surprised that Leroy was already in bed asleep, so he just stripped and snuggled up next to him. When the alarm went off at seven that morning, Leroy was up and heading for the shower. Dave just groaned and rolled over. Ten minutes later when Leroy came out, Dave was snuggled deep in the blankets and Leroy ripped them off the bed. "Dave, come on we have to get ready and be at the agency at nine." Dave looked over at the clock and groaned. "Leroy it is seven-ten. It only takes ten minutes to drive to the place, so give me the covers back and let me sleep just a little longer." "Come on, Babe. Just get ready for me. I will get you some coffee." Dave sat up on the edge of the bed. He knew that Leroy was anxious, so he did what he was told and went to take a shower to get ready. When he was sitting on the couch at seven-forty, he was trying not to laugh at Leroy. He just shook his head because Leroy was running around straightening things just to keep busy. "Can we get going now?" Leroy asked. It was eight-thirty. Dave just smiled, stood up, hugged and kissed Leroy. "Yes, Babe." When they arrived at the agency, Lisa was in the lobby. She smiled at Dave and Leroy, "Jason is here and in the observation room, so let me take you back there now." She guided them back and opened a door. The room had a glass wall, and they saw Jason running around playing with a few other kids. They had cars and toy blocks. Both Dave and Lisa looked at Leroy. His eyes widened, he smiled, and he just stared at Jason. "Dave, you two might as well get comfortable. Have a seat and watch him for a bit. I will come back in a while to talk to you." Dave told her thank you, but Leroy didn't hear anything. He was focused on Jason. Leroy would smile when he would run by the glass or play with the blocks, building a tower and letting it fall. Dave had to pull up a chair and get Leroy's attention to get him to sit. What Dave and Leroy didn't know was while they were observing the child, they were also being observed and could be heard. "Leroy, what do you think?" Leroy looked over at Dave. "He is perfect. He has a lot of energy though." "Well he is a kid, Leroy. Of course he is going to be full of energy, but you will be fine." "Will he like us, Dave?" "Honey, you worry too much. Let's just take it one step at a time. We get to see him now. Later we get to be in the room to see if he will warm up to us. Then we will go from there." Dave and Leroy just sat there and talked a bit, but Leroy was more watching Jason and seeing what Jason was getting into. They didn't realize how much time had passed or that Lisa had come back into the room. When someone came and took the children out of the room, Leroy asked, "Where are they going?" Dave looked at his watch. "Leroy it has been two hours." "Dave, Leroy?" When they turned Lisa was smiling at them. "Why don't you two go to lunch? They just took the children to have lunch themselves, then they will nap for a bit. If you could come back at one, we will introduce you to Jason." Dave thanked her and pushed Leroy to the door. When Dave got Leroy out to the car, he just hugged Leroy. "Babe, it is okay. We will get to see him in just a few." "What if-" Dave cut Leroy off, "Leroy, stop worrying. Everything will work out." He was still holding Leroy in a hug and he pulled back and rubbed Leroy's cheeks. "If this is meant to be, it will work. Please calm down. Let's get some food in you. We have almost two hours before we are due back." Dave opened Leroy's door and then went around to his side. They ended up at a diner not far from the agency. Dave ordered for the both of them. Leroy couldn't decide he was too nervous. When the food came out, he just pushed it around his plate. "Leroy, if you don't eat something, I will refuse to take you back." Leroy got a shocked looked on his face and Dave smiled. "Honey, please just calm down and eat." Leroy started eating. He didn't say anything because he knew Dave would tell him he was worrying too much. When they finished lunch, they had thirty minutes before they were due back at the agency. "Can we just go back?" Leroy asked. Dave just nodded. When they arrived, they were greeted by a receptionist who called their social worker and told them to have a seat for a few moments. When Lisa came into the waiting area she smiled at Leroy. "Leroy, you can relax." "I keep telling him that. He is a nervous nelly right now." Dave and she laughed. Lisa then led them to a room similar to the room in which they observed Jason in with toys and chairs. She instructed Dave and Leroy that they probably would want to sit because their height might scare Jason a little. "I never thought about that. All our nieces and nephews are just used to our height," Dave responded. At that moment, another worker whom they had seen earlier in the room brought Jason. He was very timid when he first saw Dave and Leroy sitting there. He was holding a blanket. The worker that brought him in said he was still waking up. Jason walked over to Leroy and looked up at him, and then the most wonderful thing happened: he crawled up into Leroy's lap and snuggled up to him. Leroy sat there in awe. "Well, Leroy, you don't have to worry too much now. If he can walk up to you and snuggle up, I think you are going to do fine." Lisa squeezed his shoulder. "I'll be back after a while; Melissa will stay here the entire time." Both Dave and Leroy thanked her as she walked away. Leroy sat back in the chair and held Jason. Leroy took Jason's blanket from him, spread it over him, and rocked him while patting his back. After a few minutes, Jason sat up and looked at Leroy, and Leroy looked down at him and smiled. Jason slipped off Leroy's lap, grabbed his hand, and pulled him. Leroy laughed. "You want me to play with you?" Jason nodded and when Leroy stood to his full height, Jason looked up at him, smiled and raised his hands up. "You want picked up?" Leroy asked. Jason nodded, so Leroy bent down and picked him up. When he pointed to the blocks over in the corner, Leroy walked over and got on the floor with Jason and they played. Dave just watched them and smiled. Soon Jason was giggling and Leroy was laughing. Jason took one of the blocks he was playing with and gave it to Dave. Dave smiled and told him thank you. Jason started bringing more over to Dave, then finally took Dave's hand and pulled him over to sit next to Leroy. They all played with the blocks until Lisa came back in and said that their time was up for the day. Melissa walked over and took Jason by the hand and he waved and said bye. Both Dave and Leroy smiled and waved goodbye to him. Once Dave and Leroy got up from the ground, Lisa smiled. "Can you be back here tomorrow at nine to interact with him again? And if you would like you can even go with him to our little kitchen and feed him- well, really watch him eat. Then you can have a few hours in the afternoon again." "Sure," both Dave and Leroy replied. "Leroy, you are doing fine. I would suggest that you go out and buy a car seat," Lisa stated. Leroy just looked at her. "Leroy, it looks like it is a good match. I believe you will be able to take him home really soon." "Why do I feel like the biggest drama queen right now?" Leroy asked, to which both Dave and Lisa laughed. "Honey, having a child has been something that you have wanted for a year and a half now. So your emotions are tied up in it. I love you. Everything will be fine." Dave and Leroy thanked Lisa, and they walked out to the car. "Do you have to work?" "Yes, and I am going to be late, but I informed my Sergeant that I would be a few hours late. Why don't we go to the store and pick up the car seat and a few toys." He looked at Leroy smiling. "A few toys, Leroy, not the entire store. When we get Jason we can take him to get some more." "Okay, okay." Leroy smiled as they got in the car to go to the store. Later when Dave and Leroy got home, Dave grabbed his uniform, kissed Leroy, and left for work. Leroy walked into one of the spare bedrooms and looked at it. There was a full-size bed and dresser that he had painted blue last year. He was thinking it would be perfect for Jason, and it was right across the hall from their room. He sat the toys down in the room. He had left the car seat in the trunk of the car. Leroy was still a nervous wreck. He was thinking of all the reasons that the Agency could say to pull the rug out from under their feet. He started cleaning again. He had stopped in the baby department and bought the plug covers, so he went around the entire house plugging them into the empty outlets. He walked into their room and almost freaked when he saw the box of toys that they have just sitting next to the bed. He checked around the rest of the room, picked up a few toys that had dropped and rolled under the bed, and put them in the box and high up in the closet. He was debating if he should put the lube up as well. When they did get in the mood, he didn't want to have to go looking for it, but he did run into the living room and family room and retrieve what he had stashed there. Talking out loud to himself, he mumbled, "Our sex life is going to take a huge hit." Dave and Leroy Ch. 13 "What was that Leroy?" Leroy didn't hear his dad come in. "Hey, Dad. Sorry I was just mumbling to myself." Lee smiled and hugged his son. "Yes, your sex life won't be the same once you bring home the child, Leroy," he said, laughing as he looked at the lube in Leroy's hand. "So is it getting to be that time? Allison said you were going today to see the boy." "Yeah, we even were able to sit and play with him today. His name is Jason, Dad. He is cute as a button and we are going back tomorrow to see him again. I am so nervous, Dad. I don't know what is going to happen and it scares the shit out of me." "Leroy, that is how your mother and I felt the day we brought you home." Lee smiled and laughed. "Dave and you will be wonderful parents. Just be patient and stop worrying. Leroy and his father talked for a long time before he left for home. Leroy was glad he stopped by. He had put a lot of his worries to bed, but Leroy still had quite a few and was still anxious. He couldn't wait until Dave and he could see Jason again. He finished looking for anything that they had hidden around the house for when they got frisky, and put it away in the box. Leroy didn't even realize the time when Dave came walking in from work. Leroy was still cleaning and straightening up the house. He was currently in their bedroom, so Dave walked down the hall stopping in the spare to see that Leroy had cleaned and set the toys out for Jason. "We need to buy two toy boxes: one for the family room and one for his room," Leroy said when he saw Dave standing in Jason's doorway. Dave turned around, smiled, walked up to Leroy, hugged and kissed him. "One thing at a time, Leroy." The next morning when they were waiting in the room for Jason to come in, Lisa saw how nervous Leroy still was. Again Jason came in with his blanket. "We had a late start this morning," Mellissa stated. "He is still sleepy." Jason saw Leroy and immediately crawled in his lap and closed his eyes. Leroy did what he did yesterday by covering him, rocking, and patting his back, while Dave and he talked. After about half of an hour Jason started to stir. He looked up at Leroy and then over at Dave and slid off Leroy's lap. Jason walked over to Dave and took his hand trying to pull him over to the toys. Dave laughed and got up and was pulled the rest of the way by Jason. Jason looked over at Leroy sitting and watching Dave and him. "Come play," Jason told Leroy. Yesterday, other than laughing, he hadn't said anything to them. Leroy just smiled and walked over to them. They sat and played for just a little while before Lisa came into the room. "Dave, Leroy, could we talk for a few minutes?" She then directed Melissa to play with Jason, who didn't like that he was losing his playmates and started to cry a bit. Leroy was torn from talking to Lisa to comforting Jason. He picked him up for a few minutes before Melissa took Jason from him. Lisa guided Dave and Leroy to her office. "Is everything okay?" Dave asked. He was wondering why they had been pulled out of the room with Jason. He could see the concern on Leroy's face. "Yes, everything is fine. I just decided instead of making you wait to take Jason home this afternoon, that we would start the process now, and you could take him as soon as we're done here." Dave and Leroy looked at one another, smiled and hugged. Lisa smiled too. After signing a ton of papers, another social worker brought in all of Jason's belongings. "Did you get a car seat last night?" "Yes, it is in the trunk of the car," Dave responded. "Good. Bring your car up to the front doors so I can see you install it, and then we will have Jason brought out to you." "Just like that?" Leroy asked. "Just like that, Leroy," Lisa smiled at him. Dave went to get the car and Leroy stood and talked to Lisa. When Dave drove up, he popped the trunk and Leroy pulled the car seat out of the back and loaded the little bag of clothes. "I guess we need to go shopping for some more clothes." Leroy smiled at Dave. "And some more toys." "Leroy, you are going to spoil him." "You said last night that when we get to take him home, we can take him to look at toys." Leroy smiled and made puppy dog eyes at him. Both Lisa and Dave laughed. "What am I going to do with you Leroy? You're just as much a kid as Jason." "Well you already married me, and we are getting our dream of a family, sooooo," Leroy smiled, "take Jason and me to the store to buy toys." "Let's work on figuring out how to install the car seat, first." Dave opened the box and pulled out the car seat. "Well, you two did well. You at least bought the appropriate car seat. Not everyone does," Lisa stated. "We asked," Dave responded as he put it in the back seat and was trying to figure out how to hook it up. He finally pulled the instructions out of the box. "It is easy Dave. Go to the other side and watch." Lisa leaned into the car and strapped the car seat in, showing Dave a couple of times, then showing Leroy. They then walked back in finding Melissa standing there holding Jason who was holding a teddy bear. Leroy walked up to Melissa and stuck his hands out to Jason to see if he would let him take him, and Jason reached out for him. "Jason, do you want to go home with Dave and me?" Leroy asked him. Jason didn't say anything just leaned into Leroy. "Well, I just need to watch you strap him in, and you are on your way. I will be checking in on you periodically and some of my visits will be unannounced." Lisa watched Leroy strap Jason in. He had done that before, just never installed the car seat. They all shook hands and then Dave and Leroy were leaving for home. Leroy looked over at Dave and then back at Jason. "Dave, we have a kid in the back seat, and no kid friendly food at home. " He looked at Dave again. "Dave, we have a kid." "Leroy, are you freaking out on me?" Dave had pulled the car over because he was concerned with the look on Leroy's face. "Yes, no. Shit, I don't know." "Shit." Both Dave and Leroy turned around to a smiling Jason. Dave looked at Leroy. "Of course, of all the words he could choose to repeat, it had to be a bad word. Leroy you are going to have to watch your language around Jason. Let's get home. We will stop through a fast food place and pick up some chicken nuggets. Then I will go out and get a few things for you two before I go to work." "Why can't we all go out?" Leroy smiled. He knew Dave's answer before he said it. "Because you will fill the cart with junk food and anything else you think the kid and you would like." "Not like I couldn't drive and get something after you go to work," Leroy laughed. "Well, that is one thing we are going to have to do. We need to buy a car seat for your truck." They arrived home a little while later and Dave ran out for some kid friendly food. He called Allison on his way out and asked what he should pick up. She was shocked that they had Jason already and asked if she could come over. He told her that he would ask Leroy when he got home. When Dave did come back, he found Leroy walking around the house with Jason crying in his arms. Dave just shook his head. "I think he is tired, and please tell me you picked up pull-ups?" Dave laughed and pulled them out of one of the bags he was carrying. Leroy grabbed them from him and walked off to the bedroom. He took Jason's pants off and then looked. "How the hell do you change a pull-up?" "Leroy, watch your language." Dave stepped over to the bed and ripped the sides of the pull-up and they both backed up. "Okay, Jason, we are going to have to potty train you, because this stinks." Jason laughed, and Dave cleaned him up with the wipes he had bought. He was glad he had called Allison. He wouldn't have known what to do either. He stood Jason up and pulled another pull-up on him and then put his pants back on. "How did you know what to do?" "I called your sister," Dave chuckled. "By the way she wants to come over." "Wow, yeah, we will have to introduce him to the family. Maybe one at a time, because it may be overwhelming for him to see all of my siblings, your sister, and all the kids." While Dave got ready for work, Leroy called Allison to ask if she could come over. When he tried to get Jason to lay down for a nap, he cried, and Leroy didn't know what else to do but lay down with him. Jason curled up to Leroy and fell to sleep immediately. "You know that was the first thing Lisa said not to do," Dave whispered. "He is in a new home, Dave. He is probably scared out of his mind." Leroy was trying to make an excuse. He really wanted to snuggle with Jason and make him feel safe. Dave just shook his head, walked over to Leroy, and bent down to kiss him before he left. "I'll see you tonight, Leroy. Try not to let him sleep too long. You know he won't sleep tonight then." Leroy fell to sleep after Dave left, and he woke to Allison tapping him on the shoulder. Jason was laying there awake, and when Leroy woke, Jason smiled at him. "Are you ready to spend some money?" Leroy looked up at Allison confused. "You don't have much for Jason here. You need some sippy cups, and I saw the little bit of clothes that you have. I talked to Dave before waking you, and he agreed that I should take you two shopping, but he gave me a budget for the two of you." She smiled at Leroy. "But I won't tell him if you slip something else into the cart." Allison laughed and Leroy smiled. They went out to the store and purchased sippy cups and other things that Allison thought they needed for Jason. They even got another car seat for Leroy's truck. Allison would sneak and take pictures of Jason and Leroy. She thought it was the cutest thing that Leroy was now a father. Jason just looked around, never asking for anything. Allison smiled and said knowingly, "that will change." When they arrived back home, Leroy put the clothes in the bedroom, and Jason played with the big Lego blocks that Leroy was able to sneak into the cart. "Allison, are you sure these shoes aren't too big?" "Leroy, for kids you want to buy them just a tad big. They grow too quickly and the next thing you know you are out buying shoes again. Same with the pants. You can always roll up the cuffs." After putting always the cloths and they had purchased more pull-ups and wipes. Allison told him what he needed to do to try to potty train Jason, warning him that it will take a while and that boys are generally harder than girls. They had also bought a little potty stool that sat on the floor of the bathroom. "Is he allergic to anything?" "Food-wise, no, according to our paperwork, but he is allergic to a certain medicine they found out, and they listed all variations of it for us." "Well it is good that he isn't allergic to foods. Leroy, I know you will want to start cooking for him, but don't cater to him. What I mean is, don't start cooking hotdogs because that is the only thing he eats. He will eat what you eat, just be patient with him and cut it in small bites." She smiled at Leroy. She remembered him giving Mikey a piece of chicken thinking he would cut it up himself. Mikey ended up just biting from it until Leroy got the hint. She explained that Jason probably won't like vegetables, but that if Jason sees Dave and him eating them, then Jason might be willing to try them. She also reminded Leroy before she left for the night to ask Jason at least once an hour if he needed to go potty, and show him that he could sit on the potty chair for a bit. They had bought a few nightlights for the both Jason's and their bedrooms, the bathroom, and the hallway, so if Jason woke in the night he could see his way. Allison had explained to Leroy how to get him to lie down and sleep in his own bed, and warned him that he didn't want to get Jason started in sleeping in Dave and his bed, that he would want to show Jason that they were just right across the hallway if he needs them. Dave came in at eight that night for dinner. He didn't find Leroy in the living room, family room, or kitchen, then he heard him in the bedroom. Dave listened and then walked down the hallway. Leroy was sitting in the bed with Jason and reading him a bedtime story. When Jason saw Dave he stuck his arms out to him. Dave walked over and Jason hugged him, then rolled over and fell to sleep. Leroy followed Dave out of the room and warmed up his plate of food for him. "How was your day with Jason?" "According to what I have learned tonight from Allison, we are in over our heads and I am already tired." Leroy smiled and sat heavily into the chair. "Well, we have him for the rest of our life, so get used to being tired." Dave laughed. Dave hugged and kissed Leroy before he left back to work, and when he returned for the night, he was half expecting to find Leroy in the living room waiting for him. When he locked up for the night and put his gun away in the safe he found Leroy fully clothed asleep in the chair in their bedroom. He woke him and told him to get in the bed. When Dave was about to take his underwear off as normal, Leroy stopped him and said they couldn't sleep naked anymore. Dave just chuckled, put on some shorts, climbed into the bed, and snuggled up to Leroy, who fell asleep before Dave was able to put his head on Leroy's chest. ***** Dave woke up to the soft whimpering's of Jason crying beside the bed. He opened his eyes and there he stood all sad with tears streaming down his face. Dave sat up and Jason stepped back. "It's okay, Jason. Come here," Dave said softly and stretched out his arms to him. Jason walked up to him, and Dave picked him up and took him back to his bedroom. First he checked his pull-up and changed it, then he lay down with Jason, only planning on staying there until Jason fell back to sleep, but Dave fell asleep too. That morning Dave walked into the kitchen to find Leroy dancing at the stove and Jason giggling while he waited for Leroy to make pancakes. Dave just smiled and went over and hugged Leroy from behind and kissed him morning. "Should we do that in front of him?" Leroy asked. "Yes, Lisa said to be normal in front of him, so he knows that we are a couple." "Okay," Leroy said, lowering his voice and smiling, "but you need to take care of something down below. I would like to, but I am sure he would walk in on us." Dave just looked at him and walked away and sat at the table with Jason. Jason was still giggling. "Do you think Leroy is funny, Jason?" "Yeah," he said, drawing it out. Dave reached over and tickled him, and it just made him giggle even more. "Oh, Dave?" "Yeah," Dave drew his yeah out like Jason did. "I thought we weren't going to make a habit of sleeping with Jason?" Leroy laughed. "What can I say? He is too adorable," Dave laughed and smiled. Dave had the day off so they stayed in, and Dave looked at all the stuff that Allison and Leroy had gotten the day before. Allison came over again, but this time she brought her husband Jason and their two kids. She told them she had texted everyone the photos of little Jason and that they can't wait to see him. Leroy was disappointed. He wanted to be the one to tell them, but he had waited too long-a whole twenty-four hours. It didn't take too long for everyone to ignore Leroy's request that they come by separately. His Dad, Dave's parents, all his siblings, Dave's sister, and all their spouses and kids showed up together. The house was overrun with people, but Jason was having the time of his life being around so many kids to play with and adults to coo over him. When everyone finally left for the night, they could see that Jason was worn out, and Leroy took him to his bedroom. Leroy only needed to lay with him for ten minutes before he was sleeping. When Leroy finally came in the bedroom, Dave got up and pushed him into the wall and started kissing him. He sunk to his knees and was opening Leroy pants when Leroy stopped him. "What if Jason wakes up?" "Leroy, he isn't going to. The kids tired him out. Come on, it has been a few days since we-" Leroy cut him off, "Dave, he could wake up, and what if we were in the middle of sex and he walked in?" "We will shut the door." "We can't shut the door. What if he cries and we can't hear him?" Dave stood up and looked at Leroy, "Only because now I am out of the mood, you have won tonight. But Leroy, we can't stop having sex now because there is a child in the house." "What if-" Leroy started. Dave cut him off, "What if I make you sleep in the spare bedroom?" "Honey," Leroy knew he pissed Dave off now. "Leroy, our life doesn't have to stop because we have a kid now. None of your siblings did. They still have sex, and are having more kids." Dave got into bed and turned over to face away from Leroy. Leroy changed into some shorts, turned the light off, and tried to snuggle up to Dave, but Dave gave him the cold shoulder. In the middle of the night, Leroy woke. He didn't know what was wrong and got up to check on Jason, and Jason wasn't in his bed. He quickly went and checked the rest the house before panic truly set in and he went to wake Dave and found Jason cuddled up to Dave. He tapped Dave's shoulder and Dave woke. "When did he come in? I was looking all over the house for him," Leroy whispered. "I'm sorry, Babe. He came in about an hour ago. He crawled up here, and I just let him stay instead of taking him back to his room," Dave smiled guiltily. Leroy just looked at him. "Yeah we are going to end up spoiling him, I know." "Just as long as you know it is WE, not just me," Leroy stressed and then chuckled. Leroy got back in the bed and snuggled up to Dave and whispered in his ear, "and if we had made love, and not gotten dressed, this would be awkward." "Point taken, but we don't have to put off our love life because we have a kid now, Leroy. I love you, and if it bothers you that much, we could always get your sister to watch him so we can do things." "Yeah, we will see." Leroy kissed Dave on the neck and turn over; he still didn't feel completely comfortable touching Dave in front of Jason. He knew he would have to get over that, because as Lisa had told them, they need to act normally around Jason, so he knows it is okay. Leroy decided he would bring that up to Dr. Watts on Friday. Dave and Leroy Ch. 14 Authors Note: Thanks to k5vreed and TesoroMio for editing. As always public and private comments are welcomed. :) ******** Well January, Dave and Leroy brought home their rambunctious toddler. That same week, Dave turned thirty-five and they had a small celebration, since they had Jason. Leroy wasn't ready to hand Jason off to anyone just yet, so they just stayed in as a family. This was fine with Dave, but he was going to make damn sure he gets some form of sex for his birthday. When they put Jason down for the night, Leroy went around the house and made sure all the doors were secure before pulling Dave off to the bedroom. Dave was surprised that Leroy was showing some interest in sex since he refused to do anything the few nights prior. After Leroy shut and locked the door, he started kissing Dave and backing him up to the bed. "I love you, Babe. Happy Birthday." Leroy pulled Dave's t-shirt off over his head, unbuttoned, and unzipped his pants, and pushed them down his legs. "I love you, Leroy," Dave responded as Leroy pushed him back on the bed and finished removing his pants. Leroy got the lube down off the closet shelf and was leaning down to take Dave's cock in his mouth when they heard Jason crying. Leroy quickly jumped up to see what was wrong, unlocking the door and rushing over to Jason's room. Jason was standing next to the bed crying. Leroy picked him up and held him to him. "What's wrong, Jason?" Jason wouldn't answer Leroy; he just continued to cry his crocodile tears and hold on to Leroy for dear life. Dave came walking into the room fully dressed. "Why is he crying?" "Don't know. Maybe a bad dream; he won't tell me." "Did you check to see if he is wet?" "No I haven't yet. Just trying to comfort him first," Leroy responded. After Jason started to calm down, Leroy tried to lay him down, but he clung to Leroy. "Jason, I will hold you, but let me check to see if you are wet." Jason allowed him to lay him back on the bed, to change him; he was wet. Then Leroy picked him back up as promised. Jason spent the rest of the night sleeping between Dave and Leroy. They were able to steal a couple of goodnight kisses, but that was it. ******* February they celebrated another of Leroy's birthdays, along with another clean CT scan. He was feeling his age now, a whole whopping thirty-five. He didn't realize that running after a three year old was going to tire him out so much. He didn't return to school that semester. He hoped that in the fall he would get a chance to take a class or two, but for the time being, raising a child was enough work. Both Dave and Leroy were trying their hardest not to sleep in the same bed as Jason, but they kept giving in to his sad puppy dog eyes. Or when he did show up on Dave's side of the bed, Jason knew he could climb in and wouldn't get taken back to his room. Leroy was a little better on taking Jason back to his bed when he would come to his side. Their sex life was almost non-existent. When Dave would come in from work, Leroy was usually out cold on either the bed or the couch, trying to stay up. On Dave's days off, Dave would take up most of the responsibility of taking care of Jason, even though Leroy told him it was okay. Leroy wanted Dave to have a nice day off, not having to deal with a three year old. Dave wanted to give Leroy a break, so he could make love to him after Jason would go to bed. Usually that didn't happen because Jason would just tire both of them out. The social worker, Lisa, showed up a few times in January and February. Some of the visits were planned visits, some random. One morning in March, she decided to stop by, so she could catch Dave at home. The last few visits she made in the afternoon, Dave had already left for work. When she showed up, of course it was the morning from hell. Jason was throwing a fit. But as long as Leroy stood and held him he was quiet so that is how the visit started. "Dave, how is everything?" "Trying," Dave said and smiled. "But we are making it." Lisa laughed, "I can tell." She looked at Leroy standing and rocking Jason. Jason was asleep, so Leroy walked Jason to the bedroom. When he came out and sat next to Dave, she continued. "You two are getting time for yourselves, right?" "Yeah we try," Dave responded. "Okay, going to just say it straight. Are you two having sex?" "We try," Dave responded again. "But you aren't?" Lisa asked. Dave chuckled, "No, to be honest, no we are not. Leroy is generally too tried by time I get home, and then the nights I am here, after we put Jason to bed, all we want to do is sleep." "Well this is an order, because I want you two to succeed as parents. You have to make a date night, one night a week. If you don't keep a night for yourselves, I would hate this to hurt your marriage. I know Leroy has a ton of siblings, so you need to start reaching out to them and ask them to watch Jason for a few hours. You two need to stay strong for one another." "We will, Lisa. Thank you," Leroy spoke up and squeezed Dave's hand. When Lisa left that morning, Dave and Leroy just continued to sit and cuddle with one another. They knew Lisa was right. It had been a little straining these past two months. Dave told Leroy that he was going to call Allison and ask if she would watch Jason that coming Saturday night. It was his next day off. When Leroy went to check on Jason, he called her and set it up. She was amazed that they hadn't asked sooner. When Saturday came, it was a little hard prying Jason from Leroy. The longest Jason had been out of Leroy's sight was when Leroy had his doctor visits, including seeing Dr. Watts since January. When Dave pulled away from Allison's house, he laughed at Leroy, "Honey, he is just going to be there overnight, so we can have a night together. He will be okay." "I know Dave. It is just, and I know I am being stupid, I miss him already." "Well, I miss us. So you can be away from him for a few hours." Dave took Leroy to dinner and he had the night planned. When they returned to the house, he pulled Leroy down to their bedroom. When Leroy walked in, his eyes went wide. "When did you have time to do all this?" "When you took forever to pack Jason's overnight bag," Dave laughed at Leroy. "Leroy, take your clothes off now and get in the bed." Leroy didn't have to be told twice. He loved when Dave took charge and they missed his birthday this year. When Leroy lay down, Dave walked to the head of the bed and handcuffed Leroy's left hand to the headboard, then walked around and did the same to his right hand. Leroy had a huge smile on his face. "If you don't get the smile off your face, I will just walk out of the room," Dave chuckled. It only made Leroy smile even more, so Dave did walk out of the room. He chuckled all the way to the kitchen as Leroy was begging him to come back. When Dave came back in the room, Leroy's mouth dropped open. Dave had chocolate syrup and whipped cream in his hands. Dave put them down on the side table and pulled on Leroy's left ankle and attached a strap to it and then did the same to his right. Leroy was now spread eagle on their king size bed. "Would you like pain or pleasure, Leroy?" "Oh god," was all Leroy could say before Dave grabbed up the whipped cream and sprayed it on his cock and balls. "Oh shit, that is cold." Dave didn't say anything. He was too busy licking up all the cream and taking Leroy's cock in his mouth. He reached up and pinched Leroy's nipples and Leroy moaned loudly. Occasionally Dave would spray more whipped cream on Leroy's cock and then tease the hell out of him. Dave rose up from Leroy's very erect cock and smiled up at him. He got off the bed to remove all of his clothes and reached over and poured a little chocolate syrup on Leroy's nipples and dove down on them. "Oh shit Babe, I have missed this," Leroy panted. "Date night is a yes from now on." Dave looked up at Leroy, smiled and kissed him. "Definitely." Dave couldn't wait any longer to fuck Leroy. He quickly released his ankles then grabbed the key for the handcuffs. "Just leave them and fuck me, Dave." Dave didn't think. He dropped the key, grabbed the lube, rubbed it on himself and on Leroy's ass, and quickly opened him up. Dave added some more lube and pushed the head of his cock into Leroy. "Oh shit, Dave." Leroy tensed up and balled his fist up, willing himself to relax. "I'm sorry," Dave responded. "I wasn't thinking." "Fuck it, Dave, and fuck me." Leroy wrapped his legs around Dave and was pulling Dave into him. When Dave was completely in Leroy, he bent down and kissed him. "I love you." "Ditto, fuck me, Dave," Leroy smiled up at him. Dave started fucking him hard, fast, and deep. He grabbed Leroy legs and put them over his shoulders. Leroy's ass was off the bed because he was curled up so much to be fucked. Leroy wished he had his arms free but liked not being able to do much. Dave was rubbing Leroy's cock when he could. To do it properly, he would have to drop one of Leroy's legs. He did end up doing that, because he was getting close and wanted Leroy to go over the edge too. It didn't take long to cum for either of them. It felt great. When Dave did release he was seeing stars. Leroy shot his cum past his cheek, then it hit his chest and his last few pumps didn't make it beyond his stomach. When Dave lowered Leroy's other leg from his shoulder, Leroy groaned. "Shit I am not made to bend like that anymore." They both started laughing and Leroy's cell phone started ringing. Leroy went to get up and realized that he was still handcuffed. "I'll get it," Dave laughed and got off the bed and picked up Leroy's jeans and dug his cell out as it stopped ringing. He looked at the missed call. "It was Allison." Then his cell started ringing and he grabbed up his pants and answered, "Yeah, Allison." "Apparently Jason wants his Daddy." Dave could hear Jason crying in the background. "Has he ever asked for his Daddy before?" "No." "Well he is now." "We will be there in a few minutes." Dave said as he hung up and looked at Leroy. "He wants his parents." Dave went and turned on the shower. "Come on you need the shower worse than me." "Ah Dave, you have to release me first." Dave laughed and ran back into the room and looked for the key that he dropped. "Please say you can find it." He held it up, laughed and opened the cuffs. Leroy jumped up and into the shower. Dave jumped in after Leroy got out. When Dave came out, Leroy was dressed and had most of the toys put away. "We didn't even get a chance to use these." He held up a vibrator and a dildo. "Not to mention all the other fun toys." "For someone who was scared to have sex for the last two months, this is truly funny," Dave laughed as he pulled on his shoes. "Let's go." When Dave and Leroy arrived at Allison's, they walked in to find Jason asleep in Lee's arms. "I am sorry, Dave, Leroy. I should have called you back and said not to bother. Dad walked in and Jason went straight to him and fell asleep." "That is okay, we will take him home anyways," Leroy responded and Dave nodded his head. "The hell you two are," Lee responded. "You two are going to go back home and finish your date night. Allison can deal with a crying kid. She shouldn't have called you, and she should have just tried to calm him." "I did, Dad. Nothing was working." Allison was getting a little upset with her father. "That is why we will take him home. We should have just started out with a few hours away not a night for his first time away from us. And how do you tell a three year old that his daddy isn't around anymore." "You don't. You tell him that you two are his daddies," Lee responded. "When he is older and asks, that is different. Now go home and finish your date night." "Yes, Sir," Dave responded and pulled Leroy to the door. "But..." "Leroy, he will be fine until morning. We will come back and pick him up. Let's have some time together. We need this." Dave responded as he pulled Leroy out back to the car. Lee, Allison, and Jason, Allison's husband, continued to talk and waved goodnight to Dave and Leroy. While driving back to the house, Leroy decided that Dave was right and got a little frisky. He leaned his head over onto Dave's shoulder, reached down to unbutton and unzip Dave's pants. "What are you doing?" "Nothing," Leroy smiled and proceeded to stick his hand into Dave's underwear and caress Dave's cock. "Babe, we should wait until we get home." Leroy continued to do what he was doing and Dave drove home quickly and safe as he could. When he pulled into the driveway, he left the car running for the heat and leaned his seat back to give Leroy better access, because Leroy already had Dave's cock in his mouth. "Leroy." Dave grabbed for hair. When Leroy sat up, Dave lightly slapped him on the cheek. "What was that for?" Leroy smirked. "For making me cum in the car. While we have whipped cream, chocolate syrup and other things to eat and have fun with, and you choose to make me cum out here," Dave chuckled. "Are you saying you won't get it up anymore tonight?" Leroy asked. "No, I am not saying that. Shit Leroy, let's get inside." Dave tucked himself back in, buttoned and zipped his pants. He sat his seat up, turned off the car and headed into the house with Leroy hot on his heels. "You know for someone, I just had to drag out of his sister's house because he wanted to bring our son home, you change your tone quickly." "Okay, what can I say? I am sex deprived," Leroy laughed as they were walking back into the bedroom. "We use to have sex daily before Jason." "And we still can, you just have to loosen up a little. Jason is not going to wake up every time we want to make love. Yes, he will sometimes, but not every time. We will have to just get good at choosing the time we make love is all." Dave hugged and kissed Leroy. "I love you, Babe." "Ditto, now get in that bed. I have some catching up to do." Leroy was already hard. He had been since he gave Dave the blowjob in the car. Dave quickly undressed, as did Leroy, and they grabbed down the box of toys and lube. They would sleep for a little while and then one of them would wake up and start something again, Leroy woke one time with one arm and leg already cuffed and tied to the bed. Dave woke with Leroy licking chocolate syrup off of his balls with a vibe on low being held underneath his scrotum on his perineum. Leroy knew that it drove Dave insane when he did this. Sure enough, as soon as Dave woke up to this, Dave went from semi-hard to hard in seconds flat. They finally tired themselves out sexually at seven that morning. They snuggled together and fell asleep, only to be woken by the phone at nine. Leroy grabbed for the cell that was ringing. He didn't even look to see who was calling, "Yeah?" He could hear Jason in the background asking what Allison was doing. "You sound tired. I take it you two had fun last night?" "Yes, how is Jason this morning?" "Oh, he is still in bed," Allison laughed. "Oh! You would like to know about the silly three year old that has been asking questions all morning." "Yeah, our son. How is our son doing this morning?" "He is still wondering where his daddy is, but he isn't crying about it today. When are you coming by?" Dave took the phone from Leroy, "We will be over in a few Allison. You think he can hold out for a little longer to be picked up?" "A little, yes," Allison chuckled. Dave hand the phone back to Leroy and started to get out of the bed. "Okay, Allison, as Dave said we will be over in a bit." He looked at Dave, "You need to sleep some. I will go and get Jason." "Leroy, I will sleep after we come back with Jason. I want to see him just as bad as you. You go take a shower. I will clean these things up and strip the bed." "No, you worked today. You take the shower. I will clean the stuff up and strip the bed. We will go pick Jason up, and then you are coming back and going to sleep until one." Dave just shook his head and walked into the bathroom and started the shower. When he was finished less than ten minutes later, he came out to a clean bedroom and Leroy kissed him as he headed for the shower. As soon as Leroy was dressed and ready, they were heading over to Allison's. When they walked in, Jason saw them immediately, screamed 'Daddy' and ran over to Dave and Leroy. They were shocked. "Daddy, watch cartoon." Jason grabbed a hand of both Dave and Leroy, who were still stunned and pulled them over to the couch. "Sit." Allison and Jason were sitting on the loveseat watching Dave and Leroy trying to comprehend what had just happened. Little Jason climbed into Leroy's lap when he sat down and snuggle into him. "Has he ever called you that before?" Allison asked. Both Dave and Leroy looked at her. "No." "What started him wanting his daddy, anyways?" Leroy asked, and Jason pushed away from Leroy to look at him. "Daddy?" He was looking at Leroy. "Yes," Leroy smiled. Jason looked over at Dave and pointed, "Daddy?" "Yes," Dave responded and smiled. Jason just smiled and cuddled back into Leroy. "What is he doing?" Dave asked. "I think he is confirming that you are his daddies," Allison responded. "Last night the kids were looking for their father, and Jason followed them around when they were calling for their daddy. So he started doing it, too. Mikey told him that their daddy wasn't his daddy. That's when he started crying and wanting his daddy." "Okay, I get it. I just don't understand how he figured it out. We have wanted to tell him to call us daddy, but we weren't sure if that would be right. Also weren't sure if he would want to," Leroy responded. "Children's minds, Leroy, are odd things. They figure out things that you don't think they can, and other things they are clueless about," Allison laughed. "You two look beat." Then Allison thought about it, "Please forget that I just said that." Dave and Leroy laughed. Jason looked up at Leroy, "Are you about ready to go there, Bud?" "Home?" Jason asked. "Yeah home, Jason," Leroy responded. Allison got up and retrieved Jason's bag for them. They said their goodbyes and got in the car. "You know you are evil," Jason laughed at Allison. "When do you think the sugar is going to kick in?" Allison laughed. "Give it just a few more minutes, but I bet before they get home." Jason started talking, really asking questions, a few blocks from Allison's house. "Where we going?" "Home, Jason," Dave responded. "Why are we going home?" "Because we need to," Dave replied. "But why?" "Because we need to." Jason leaned over in his seat and looked out the window. "Why is the sky blue?" "Because that is the color." "Daddy, why are we going home?" Dave looked over at Leroy. They were at a stop light. "Why are we stopped?" "What turned on the questions?" Dave asked Leroy. "I don't know." "Daddy, Daddy?" Jason was almost screaming now, "Daddy?" "What Jason?" Leroy asked. "Can we have a cat?" Leroy just shook his head. "Daddy?" "No, Jason." "Why?" Dave put his head in his hands. "We turned a really sweet boy over to Allison yesterday. He was quiet and didn't ask a lot of questions. Today we get back a kid that is calling us Daddy, which is the most wonderful thing, but he is asking a million and one questions." Then Jason asked the one question they weren't ready for. "Where's Mommy?" "Well," Dave looked over at Leroy and smiled. "Don't you dare," Leroy shook his head. Dave turned around in the seat so he could look Jason in the eye. "Well Jason, some little kids have a mommy and a daddy, some just have a mommy or a daddy, and some have either two mommies or, like you, have two daddies." Dave and Leroy Ch. 14 "I have two daddies and no mommy?" "Yes Jason, you have Leroy and me. We are your Daddies." When Leroy pulled back into the driveway, Jason noticed the house. "Home?" "Yes, Jason, we are home," Leroy responded with a smile. Jason was trying to get out of his seat and he was getting frustrated. Leroy had gotten out and opened his door and could tell that Jason really wanted out of the seat. "Just hold on there. I will get you out." When Leroy unbelted Jason and lowered him to the ground, he took off running. At first Leroy thought he was going to run past the sidewalk and he ran after him, but then Jason turned and was running around the yard. Leroy laughed, grabbed him up, and tickled him. Dave had the door opened and was watching Jason and Leroy. He was happy that they finally looked into adoption, and he couldn't wait until they could make it official. Leroy carried Jason into the house, sat him down and he took off for his bedroom. "I think Allison did something," Dave told Leroy. "What?" "What did you do to Mikey a few times before you handed him back to Allison?" It dawned on Leroy. Sugar. "Oh god." Dave and Leroy watched Jason run back through the house with toys to the family room, dump them and run back to his room. "Yeah, I think so." Leroy hugged and kissed Dave. "Go kiss our son and take a nap, I will try to keep him quiet for you." Dave caught Jason on his third trip back to his bedroom for toys. Dave picked him up, hugged and kissed him, and told him he loved him. When he sat him back on his feet, Jason was gone again. Dave laughed and turned to Leroy, "I love you, Babe." "Love you, too. Go take a nap. I will wake you at one and have your lunch for you." Dave did just that, he walked into the bedroom, shut the door, undressed to his boxers and t-shirt and climb under the covers and was out in a few minutes. "Jason?" Leroy had plopped down on the couch. "What, Daddy?" Leroy smiled. He loved that Jason just started calling him Daddy. He felt overjoyed by it. "We need to be quiet these next few hours. Your other Daddy needs to sleep for a bit before he goes to work today. So do you think we can play quietly and watch cartoons?" "Yeah," Jason almost screamed. "A little quieter, Jason." Leroy turned on cartoons for Jason, and Jason was content for a little while watching and playing with his toys. Leroy lay back on the coach and fell asleep. He was woken by Jason crawling up on top of Leroy and sitting on his stomach. "Jason, what are you doing?" "Sitting on you." He was smiling and laughing. Once Jason had been sitting on him for a bit, Leroy noticed that Jason was holding himself. "Do you need to go the bathroom? It has been a while." "Yeah." Jason climbed down and ran for the bathroom. Leroy followed. Jason was getting good at pulling down his own pants and the pull-up, so by time Leroy made it to the bathroom, Jason was already sitting on his little potty. "You are doing so well, Jason. We are going to have to get you some big boy underwear." "Really?" "Yeah, really. You are turning four next month, so I think it is time," Leroy smiled down at him. When Jason finished going to the bathroom, Leroy cleaned him up and Jason went to their bedroom door. "See, Daddy?" "Daddy is sleeping," Leroy smiled. He also liked being able to refer to Dave as daddy to Jason. "Can I see?" "You have to be very quiet." Jason nodded his head and Leroy opened the door and Jason walked up to the bed and went to climb in the bed. "No Jason, Daddy needs to sleep." "I want to sleep." He climbed up and snuggled next to Dave. Dave never woke up. Leroy just stood there for a few seconds and smiled. He went around the other side and snuggled up to Dave's backside, thinking why not take a nap. Leroy woke at twelve-thirty, checked his watch and got up. He needed to make Dave some lunch, and he was sure when Jason woke he would be hungry as well. Dave came out a little after Leroy got up carrying a very awake Jason. "I think you forgot something in the bed." "I don't know what you are talking about. I don't know what that thing you are carrying is." Leroy laughed and grabbed Jason, holding him upside down causing Jason to giggle uncontrollably. "Sorry if he woke you, I was going to let you sleep for another thirty minutes." "He didn't wake me; actually losing your heat woke me. I love when we can snuggle and sleep for a while in the mornings, I kind of miss it." "Me too, but to be honest, I would never give up this little guy." Leroy had put him back on his feet and he ran to his toys and started playing. "Me either." Dave hugged and kissed Leroy. ******* March flew by and in April, Dave and Leroy were planning a birthday party for Jason. He was turning four on the twentieth. All the sisters wanted to help. Dave was for it until Leroy reminded him about the wedding. "Leroy, it can't be as bad as the wedding." "I know, it can't be, but do you want them to plan his first birthday without us or did you want to help?" Dave smiled, "I want to help. What do you think?" "Well since his birthday is actually on a Monday, we can celebrate it on that Saturday before. Hopefully the weather will be great. We will have all the family over, except for Sue. I am not going to let her see Jason yet. I don't know why, but I there is something that says no, it is not time yet. We can order pizza." "Pizza?" Jason perked up. "Not today, Jason. Daddy and I were talking about something else." "Pizza, Daddy, please?" Jason came over and looked up at Dave and Leroy with the saddest of sad eyes. Leroy laughed. "Don't you give in," Dave stated and smiled, knowing Leroy would. "But look at those eyes," Leroy smiled at Dave. "You are sad, Leroy, truly sad. But I love you. We will talk about this when I get home, since there are sensitive ears." "Yeah probably best that we did plan it at night." "Pizza?" Jason repeated. "How about for dinner? I have lunch almost ready." "Okay," Jason smiled and ran back into the family room to play. Dave and Leroy planned Jason's party at night, each time depending on how long they could stay up after Dave came home. During the day Leroy took Jason with him shopping for the party supplies, never for his presents. Dave and he waited until date night to buy his presents. Usually Allison, Aaron, or Jeff that kept Jason. They didn't always make it out weekly, but they tried to at least have one night alone every two weeks. Aaron was watching him this time. "When did you want to give him his biggest gift?" Leroy asked. "Maybe the weekend before hand, so if it is nice on the eighteenth, all the younger kids can play on it." "That makes sense." Dave asked for the two weekends off so Leroy and he could put the play scape together on the first weekend, and he could be home for the birthday party the next. They had bought it and had it in the garage the weekend before. When Jason came and woke them up that Saturday, they took him to the garage and showed him. His eyes were wide. "That's for me?" "Yup, and you get to help put it together," Dave stated. After breakfast they started dragging the pieces around to the backyard. Dave and Leroy didn't have a huge backyard, but it was big enough to hold the play-scape. They went all out on the play-scape. It had three swings, a treehouse, slide, climbing rope, ramp, ladder, and sandbox. The directions said it would take six to eight hours to put it up and it did. Dave and Leroy were both tired when they finally had it up. Aaron had stopped by to see what they were doing and laughed most of the time he was there, because Jason was more of a hindrance than a helper. Finally he said he would be back after a bit and went to pick up Jeff. They brought back beer and pizza when they came. After lunch, both Dave and Leroy pulled off their t-shirts because they were both roasting. They had never been without a shirt in Jason's presence before and Jason eyes went wide. "What is that?" Jason asked. "What is what?" Dave asked. "That?" Jason pointed to Leroy's tattoos and then to Dave's. Aaron laughed along with everyone else. "He has never seen your tats?" "We don't undress in front of him," Leroy responded. "Daddy what are the colors?" Leroy crouched down and pointed to one of the tattoos that were on his upper bicep. "These are tattoos, Jason. Daddy got them a long time ago." Leroy had the Marine symbol of the world, eagle and anchor on one bicep. On his right bicep which matched Dave's was a fairly wide tribal band. After Leroy was done explaining the tattoos to Jason, Aaron and Jeff helped with the play scape and it started getting done more quickly. The last thing that had to be done was to pour the sand in the sandbox area. Jason was happy and started climbing on everything. The guys were sitting around the table on the deck watching him play. "Bro, how much did you spend on that?" Jeff asked. "Too much, so don't ask," Leroy responded. "But to see him smiling and happy makes it worth every penny." "Agreed," Dave responded. "Anyways, it is big. He will have years with it before he outgrows it." "Well at least when you have all of our kids over, they will have something other than watching Disney movies," Aaron commented. ******* The week went by pretty quickly; Dave came home a little late every night. Leroy didn't know what was up, but he never questioned. He knows that Dave would sometimes go out for a beer after work. When Saturday arrived, Leroy was a basket case. He was running around to make sure everything was going to go great. He had the pizza ordered and it was going to be delivered. Of course had snacks for all the kids and beer and things for the adults. The day itself turned out to be one of the warmest for April, in the low eighties, so it made Leroy happy that the kids all could play outside. Everyone was due to come by at two that afternoon. Dave's parents showed up before anyone else. When they came in toting the bag of gifts for Jason, Jason looked like his eyes were going to pop out of his head he was so excited. "Can I open them, please, Grammy?" "No, Jason you have to wait for your party, so everyone can see what you got," Sarah responded. Dave came out of the bedroom to the living room. "Hey Mom, Dad, you didn't have to buy him so much." He came up and hugged both his parents. "Yes, we did. We have missed three of his birthdays," Sarah responded. "Well I hope everyone doesn't think like you did," Dave laughed. Slowly everyone started showing up for the party. The kids were sent outside. The sliding glass door was opened for them to run in and out of the house. Sade was asked to watch all the kids. The adults were walking in and out of the backyard. The pile of presents for Jason was growing and everyone was having a good time. Jason was having a ball, running around playing on the play scape with all of his cousins. When it came time to eat, Jason didn't want to stop playing, but all Leroy had to say was that once he was done he could open his presents and he was in the house and ready to eat. Everyone had to laugh at how quickly Jason came in and sat down. Leroy brought over a piece of pizza for Jason. He was sitting with some of his cousins. Leroy had cut it up. "Jason, eat slow or you will have to come sit with me, okay?" "I know, Daddy." Leroy would watch and make sure that Jason didn't choke on the pizza, which Jason was too excited to eat much anyways. When everyone was finished they brought the cake out and sang happy birthday. There were trucks and cars all over the cake. Jason was screaming in glee. Everyone just smiled at how excited he was. When it came to opening the gifts, he was ripping through all the paper and would scream when he would open a toy that he really liked or wanted. When he opened a few outfits, he just threw them aside. Dave and Leroy chuckled. Leroy was sitting on the ground near Jason when he began opening presents, but moved away when the paper started flying. Dave went to get a garbage bag for the paper and handed it to Leroy to pick up as Jason was ripping it off. When the last present was ripped open Jason looked for more. "That was the last one, Jason," Dave told him with a smile. Leroy and he had a couple more for him, but they wanted to give them to him on his real birthday. "Okay," Jason said and got up. "Can I take them to my room?" "Yes, you can," Leroy responded. Everyone just laughed. Jason was a little smart about it. He took the biggest bag that someone brought their gift to him in, and he pulled out the tissue paper and then started loading his gifts in. No one could hold back their laughter when Jason started dragging the bag towards the bedrooms. Since he wasn't getting far Dave stepped in and helped him. "I can do it, Daddy." "Okay, I will just be here if you need me to pick it up." Jason pulled and pulled and finally got it to his room, Dave walking behind him as he went. When Jason came back out, he had the bag again and filled it up and did the same thing. "That is so cute; Dave did the same thing when he was little," Sarah said out loud to no one in particular. "He is living with Dave and Leroy. Of course he is going to act like them. Leroy did the same too," Lee chuckled. Once Jason put all his toys in his room, he asked if he could go back outside. Leroy nodded and laughed. All the kids ran out to play. "He made sure he put away his toys, but he could care less about his clothes." Leroy picked up the clothes and took them to Jason's bedroom. When everyone was leaving, Jason got sad, but Leroy reminded him that he would see his cousins another day. Then he was better. Dave and Leroy hugged everyone before they left. The last to leave were Dave's parents, Sarah and Dan, and Lee. "You got a good boy there, Sons," Lee spoke up. "He completes you two well." "Thanks, Dad," both Dave and Leroy responded. "Papa leaving, too?" Jason asked. Lee picked up Jason and hugged him. "Yeah Sport, I have to go home. I will be back in a few days and see you." "Okay, Papa," Jason smiled and Lee put him back down. ******* After they put their very tired four year old to bed at eight and locked up the house, Dave pulled Leroy off to the bedroom. There was a wrapped gift sitting in the middle of the bed. "Honey, I love you, and you have been doing such a great job with Jason." "Dave, what did you do?" "Nothing much, I promise," Dave smiled and pushed Leroy towards the bed. Leroy opened the box and there were two boxes inside. Leroy laughed, "you got us a new dildo." "Okay, that was more for me than you, but you love using them," Dave chuckled. "It vibrates. Don't know what a vibrating dildo up the ass will feel like, but if it is anything like when you put the vibe behind my balls, I think I am going to like it." Leroy laughed, "So I don't get to try it out?" "Yeah I will try it out on you," Dave laughed. "Honey, open the other box." Leroy reached in and took the other box out and opened it. "I know you miss it," Dave said as Leroy had opened the ring box to reveal a Marine Corp gold ring. "I am sorry that the tumor happened, Leroy. But Honey-I will be honest-it was the best thing in the world. You are here, you are alive, and we have Jason." Leroy looked up at Dave when he said it was the best thing. "Leroy, if you were still in the Marines there is no telling where we would be now--if we would even have Jason, and if you were deployed, or God forbid..." Dave couldn't even finish that statement. Leroy put his arms around Dave. "Babe, you are right. I do miss it, but it was the best thing to happen. I would still be a Marine. Hell, I am a Marine until the day I die. But you are correct, I would probably be deployed right now and we wouldn't have Jason because I wouldn't have even thought about a family. You were enough for me Dave, at least I thought until we received Jason," Leroy smiled. Dave took the ring box from Leroy and pulled out the ring. He held Leroy's right hand and slid the ring onto his right finger. "It fits perfectly. I had ordered it and was hoping that it would get delivered. All week I had been stopping at Terrys to see if it had." "Is that why you have been late this week?" Leroy asked. "Yeah, sorry. I was hoping that you didn't notice," Dave smiled. ******* In late May, everyone was invited over to Allison's for a cookout and pool party. The whole family showed up. Allison even invited Dave's family. Leroy was a little nervous about being in the presence of his mother for the first time with Jason. He had kept her away from his house and he had just refused to come to other family events. But Allison begged Leroy, wanting the entire family together. She told him that Lee said Sue would be on her best behavior for the day. Everyone was supposed to show up around two and stay long into the evening. Dave and Leroy showed up with Jason a little after two that afternoon. They sat in the car in the driveway for a bit. Leroy was practicing in his head all the tricks that Dr. Watts has been teaching him to try to stay calm and not let Sue get to him. He was still seeing Dr. Watts once a month and he just had a visit with him the day before, so they were working on calming techniques. "Are we going to go inside?" Dave asked. They both could see that everyone was already there. They parked out near the end of the driveway so they could get out at any point in the evening. "Yeah, I will get Jason out," Leroy smiled and squeezed Dave's hand. Jason wanted to ride on Leroy's shoulders so Leroy put him up there and instead of walking through the house, they walked around. When they came around, they could see a good number of the kids playing in the pool, with a few adults. Sue was sitting with Sarah, Dave's mom. Lee was talking with Dan, Dave's dad, over near the grill. Everyone looked happy and seemed to be enjoying themselves. When Allison saw Dave, Leroy, and Jason she smiled and walked over to them. "Did you bring swim trunks?" Allison asked. "Of course. Can't come to a pool party without them," Leroy laughed. "Besides, Jason loves your pool. He is turning into a fish, for just being a four year old." "Well it is good that he picked up swimming and likes the water," Allison responded. "Down, please," Jason asked. Dave and Leroy were teaching him that he needed to say please and thank you. As soon as Jason's feet hit the ground, he was off and running. He ran over to the pool to see his cousins and then ran back and pulled Leroy to the pool. "Can we go in?" "Yeah, Jason, let's go get changed." Leroy took Jason into the pool house to change. Dave followed them a few minutes later. "Your Dad would like to talk to you. I will get Jason ready, change, and take him in the pool." Leroy walked back out of the pool house and over to his dad. "Hey Dad, what's up?" Lee pulled Leroy aside, "Leroy, I love you. I am just warning you. Your mother is in a mood today." "Thanks, I will try to stay clear of her then." "She is upset that everyone has seen Jason, and you have not brought him by to see her." Leroy just looked at Lee and shook his head. He wasn't going to comment on that one. "Thanks, Dad. I love you. I'm going to go change and get into the pool with Jason." Leroy walked back into the pool house and changed, then walked around to the deep end of the pool and dove in. He swam under the water until he was right under Jason and picked him up. Jason screamed and giggled. Leroy hugged Dave and kissed him on the neck before getting down on his knees so he would be in the water up to his chest. Jason had floaties on his upper arms and he was in a little blow-up ring. Sue had been watching all of this and when she saw Leroy hug and kiss Dave, she shook her head and turned away, "Why does he have to do that?" Dave and Leroy Ch. 14 "Do what Sue?" Sarah asked. Allison, Lee, and Dan were all sitting at the table. "Kiss and hug, Dave." "Mom, be nice. You said you would be today." "I am trying. I haven't said anything to him. Can't I comment on it?" "No." Lee, Allison, Dan, and Sarah all said at the same time. Sue clammed up and didn't say anything for a while. She was now mad at the four of them and turned back to the pool. Leroy and Dave were playing with Jason and Tiff. Tiff was handed over to them when Jewels decided she wanted to get out of the pool for a bit. Sue watched Leroy closely. She could tell that he loved the boy. She couldn't believe that they would adopt a half Asian kid and thought that they really shouldn't be adopting at all. She watched Allison go over and asked Dave and Leroy to hold Jason, so she could take a picture of them. She then watched Jewels and her friend Alissa take Tiff and Jason. Dave and Leroy swam to the deep end of the pool. They were playing around with one another and every once in a while they would kiss again. When Allison's husband Jason declared the food ready, everyone got out of the pool and headed for all the tables that had been set up. Some of the kids, including Jason, whined that they didn't want to get out of the pool. Leroy pulled Jason off to the side and told him that if he cried about getting out of the pool that he wouldn't be allowed back in. Jason stopped immediately. Leroy chose where to sit. He took the furthest table from Sue, but Sue could still see them. Dave and Leroy had sat in a loveseat bench with Jason on Leroy's lap. While everyone was talking and eating, Leroy finished his food and leaned back and put his arm around Dave. Dave leaned into his chest and just relaxed. Jason was still working on his hotdog, but when he was done, he also leaned back against Leroy. "So when is the date of the adoption, Leroy?" Jeff asked from another table. "July seventh," Leroy responded loud enough for everyone to hear. "That is the court date. I don't know if they will rule that day or not." "That is great. It will be here before you know it," Jeff responded. "Yeah, Dave and I can't wait. Then he will be ours." He hugged Jason to him. Sue had had enough and stood up. "This is wrong." Sarah and Lee tried to tell Sue to shut up. "No, I'm not going to shut up. Two GAY men shouldn't be allowed to raise a child. They have probably already turned him gay. The child needs a mother and a father not two fathers. Dave and Leroy are going to Hell and they are going to take this child that they're inflicting their filth on with them." Dave stood up before Leroy could and walked over to where Sue was. "Sue you are wrong. Pull your head out of your bible long enough and you would see the world for what it is." "Gay men are basically pedophiles and society is just handing over children to them." "Sue, do you hear yourself?" Dave was getting angry. "You just called Leroy and me child molesters." "You are just as bad as one." Leroy stood up with Jason in his hands. He walked around to Jeff and gave him Jason. Then he walked over to Dave's side. "So now we are worse in your eyes because we are adopting a child, and we are going to take him to Hell with us. Well at least he will have loving parents waiting for him there. Sue, you are sick to even say that gay people are pedophiles. So that is what you think of me." Leroy was trying his best to stay calm. "So you are saying that because we are gay and are now pedophiles that we are going to raise a gay, pedophile son. Then who raised us? Sue, who raised me? Are you calling yourself a pedophile and a Lesbian? Because you are saying children learn by association." "I am no such thing." "Is Sarah? You are saying that Dave must have learned by association as well." "No, Leroy you are trying to turn the tables. You choose this lifestyle; you choose to be gay and now you are going to push your views on that boy." Leroy was doing well keeping his anger down, but he so wanted to yell are her. "Sue, you are never going to get it. Neither Dave nor I choose to be gay. We were born this way. I was born this way. You just need to understand that you raised a homosexual son." "No, no, no," Sue started. "Don't you dare put this on me. I did not raise you to be this way. I raised a son--a son that liked to do everything a male does, not some fairy. David turned you. You said it yourself that he kissed you at sixteen, not the other way around. So all of this is David's fault." Lee had been standing at his table, "Sue, you have gone too far." "No, Dad, let me," Leroy stopped his father, took a step closer to Sue and lowered his voice. "Tell me, Sue. Tell me everything that you think that I do that disgusts you." "You are living in sin, Leroy. I did not teach you to be this way, so it must have been David. And now you are going to spread your sin onto this innocent child. How do I not know that you and David aren't touching him?" Leroy closed his eyes. He wanted to strangle Sue at this point, but he was trying hard to stay calm. "Sue, I wanted your love, your understanding. I wanted my Mother. But all that you are is a bigot that will never understand, and I don't need you in my life or my son's life or," Leroy put his arm around Dave, "or our life. Sue, you don't have to ever worry. You will never, and I mean never, see any of us again. If I have to pick and choose which family functions that I come to, I will. I love all my siblings and they can choose to have you in their lives, but mark my word, from this day forward you will never see us again. Don't ever step foot in my home. You are not welcome." Leroy stepped around Sue and hugged Allison and told her they were leaving. Dave went and took Jason from Jeff and headed for the pool house to change. Leroy followed a few minutes later. Once they were all changed and were coming back through the table area, Sade grabbed Leroy's hand. "Please stay." Leroy looked down at his niece. "Sorry Babe, next time we will, but we need to leave." Aaron walked up beside his daughter. Leroy and Aaron just nodded and Leroy turned away with Dave and Jason and they walked through the house to the front. Dave and Leroy saw Lee and Sue arguing off to the side of the house in the front when they were getting in their car. Dave's parents stopped Leroy from driving away. Leroy rolled down the windows and Sarah stepped up to Dave's side. "Honey, I love you. I'm sorry for what Sue just said." "Mom, you have no control over what comes out of that mouth of hers. We are just going to stay away from her from now on." "I know, sweetie. Why don't you three come by on the next day you have off." "Yeah, Mom, we will. I love you." Sarah reached in and squeezed Leroy's hand and kissed Dave on the cheek. Then she opened the back door and kissed Jason before Leroy drove away. ******* Lee walked to his car after telling Sue she would never understand. She watched him get in and drive away before she returned to the backyard. "Allison, can you give me a ride home later?" "Where's Dad?" Allison asked. "Gone. And he said he will be moved out by time I got home. But I know he will change his mind. He loves me. He is just mad right now. He will get over it like last time. I was going to ask Sarah and Dan to give me a ride, but apparently they are mad at me too. They drove away and wouldn't even look at me." "Mom, do you realized what you said?" "I was only saying the truth." Aaron stepped forward, "No, Mom. You were so wrong today. You called Leroy and Dave child molesters. Mom, what were you thinking?" "I said it is like a pedophile--that giving a child to a gay couple was like giving a child to a pedophile." "Mom, you asked if they were touching Jason inappropriately. I can't believe you are lumping them into the same group, Mother. No wonder Dad is moving out. I don't know how he made it this long with you," Aaron walked away shaking his head. "You will never get it until you drive us all away." "You can't talk to me like that." Aaron didn't come back to start anything. He walked over to his family and told them to get ready to go. "Mom, what you did to Leroy and Dave... you were just plain nasty to them," Allison responded. "Can you take me home or not?" "Yes, Mom, I will take you home in a bit. Apparently Dad needs a few moments to get his things." "I will wait in the living room, since it seems no one is happy with me out here either," Sue left for the house. Allison walked over to Aaron, "Don't leave. I will take her home and we can still have a nice time." Jeff stepped up. "Allison we love you, but let's try it in a few more weeks. I am sure Dave will have another weekend day off soon. Mom just took the mood of the party away." Everyone started packing up and helped Jason move all the lawn furniture to where it belonged along with the folding tables and chairs into the pool house. By time all the guys did this, the kids were all changed back into shorts and t-shirts. "Hey Allison?" Aaron called over to her. She was cleaning up some of the food, along with the other wives. "Yeah?" Aaron walked over to talk more quietly. "Leroy wants to know if Jason and he, along with my family could come swim tomorrow." "Of course you all can and it is open to anybody else, what time was he thinking?" "Some time after Dave left for work." "Well we have tons of food leftover. Why doesn't everyone come back over by three?" Some agreed that they could make it and some said they would try. Aaron texted Leroy back and told him to be here by three, knowing that he would be late as always. Then everyone hugged and went around the house. No one really wanted to talk to Sue before they left. "No one wants to take Mom?" Allison asked as everyone was getting in their cars. "We will, since we still live there," Jewels said while following Chris to his car. "Do we have to?" Chris asked as his girlfriend got in the front seat. "Technically we have a full car with Ann and Alissa." Alissa was Jewels long-term girlfriend. "We could piss Mom off and just tell her about you two." "Shut up, Chris. Leroy warned me just to keep it to myself until I am ready to move out. Since we can't afford to live out on our own yet, I can't tell mom." "I forgot there are four of you. I will take her home," Allison responded. She watched everyone finish loading up and one by one drive away. She then turned toward the house and there stood Sue. "Not one of my children wanted to say goodbye to me?" "Mom, you just offended Dave and Leroy in front of their son. You basically killed the mood of the party and you expect them to hug and say goodbye to you? Even the other grandchildren were upset with you, Mom." Allison could see the hurt in Sue's eyes, but choose to ignore it. "I'll go get my purse and take you." "I'll wait in your car." ******** Half way home, Jason started crying in the car. "What's wrong Jason?" Leroy asked. "I wanted to swim more." "How about we go back to Aunt Allison's tomorrow?" "Really?" "Yeah, and I will even ask Uncle Aaron to bring Sade, Tyler, and Zack. Will that make up for leaving early today?" Jason sniffled but smiled, "Yeah." By the time they arrived at home, Jason was asleep in his car seat, so Leroy carried him in and put him in his bed to nap for a bit. It was only five so they didn't want him to sleep long. They wanted him to sleep that night, so they decided to wake him by five-thirty or so. When Leroy walked back into the family room, Dave was sitting on the couch. Leroy dropped down beside him. "I am proud of you, Babe. You didn't raise your voice, but I am sorry that Sue is this way." "Honey, I am sorry that she said those awful things about you. I should have severed the ties a long time ago. I still don't know why I wanted her love. Her hatred is all I see now, and I am not going to let Jason grow up in that. We have your parents and my father and that is enough grandparents for Jason." "Honey it wasn't just to me. She said them about you as well. Honey, I am sorry that you can't have a relationship with your mother, but have you really finally severed the tie? Because, Honey, she will never be in Jason's nor my presence again. I am not going to allow our son near that woman again." "Yes, I have, and no she will never be near our son again, even if it means that I will have to see all my siblings separately. If Sue wants to be at family events, than we won't be. I love you Dave, and I love Jason too much to put you through that again." Dave and Leroy sat there and cuddled up to one another. They knew they needed to go and wake Jason, but they just wanted to sit there in silence for a few more minutes. The doorbell rang, and Dave told Leroy he would get it so Leroy could wake Jason up. Dave was surprised to open the door to Lee. Lee walked in and hugged Dave, "I am sorry for Sue's behavior." "Dad, it's not your fault. Sue is never going to change," Dave responded. He had been trying to remember to call him Dad since Leroy and he got married. Lee had insisted on it. Leroy came walking out with Jason. "Papa," Jason smiled and he ran over to Lee. Lee also smiled and picked him up. "Come on in, Dad. Let's sit in the family room. Would you like anything to drink?" Dave asked. "Coffee, if you got it." "Was about to make a pot. Have a seat, Dad," Leroy responded. Dave, Lee, and Jason went into the family room while Leroy went into the kitchen to make coffee. While it was brewing, Leroy sat down next to Dave. "Dave, Leroy, I have something to ask you, and if you need to say no. I will understand." Leroy saw the worry in his dad's face and was concerned about what this visit was about. "What is it, Dad?" "I moved out of the house tonight. I was wondering if I could stay here until I found a place to live." Dave spoke up before Leroy could even open his mouth, "Dad, of course you can stay here. You can stay here as long as you need, forever if you wanted." Dave wasn't lying. He actually liked having Lee around. "I don't want to stay forever, just until I find my own place. I am not going to cramp your lifestyle," Lee smiled. "Dad, please stay as long as you need. Dave and I both would love having you around, and I am sure Jason would too." "Thank you, Sons." When Jason started to play with his toys, Lee took that moment to ask Leroy to help him get his things from the car. They brought in a few suitcases of clothes and a few boxes of personal items. They sat him up in the other spare bedroom, and Leroy helped put his clothes away as Jason jumped up and down on the bed. "Papa, going to stay? Papa, going to stay?" "Yup, Jason, Papa is going to stay," Leroy responded while laughing at his son's enthusiasm. Leroy had the hardest time getting Jason to settle down and go to bed that night. Lee had to come in and hug and kiss his grandson before he would finally go to sleep. Dave and Lee were talking in the living room when Leroy finally came out. "Son, I know you are wondering why I am here." "Well you moved out of the house again. I can figure out that you are mad at Sue for what she said today," Leroy responded. "Mad doesn't even begin to cover it. Son, I can't live with that anymore. She is never going to understand that with her words alone she is going to alienate everyone. I love you Leroy. I love Dave and Jason more than I do my own wife." "I love you, Dad, but Dad I don't want you choosing me over your marriage." "Leroy, Sue and I have been done for, for a while now. I should have told the family. I have been sleeping in your old room since Sue's accident. It is just time that we get divorced. The hatred that she has--I never thought she could turn it on her own child, and I am sorry Leroy that she has." "Dad, it is okay. I love you and you have taken a stand against her for me. That to me is enough of an apology. Dave was not lying to you, Dad. You can stay here forever if you want." Lee laughed, "Hopefully not forever, but if you can stand an old man here for a while, I would love to stay." When they all went to bed that night, Dave and Leroy talked a little while in bed. They decided that even though Lee was going to be living there, they weren't turning him into the babysitter. Lee should be able to do whatever he would like day or night. Leroy did get up and check in on Jason and then came back to the bedroom and shut the door. "Are you a little frisky tonight, Leroy?" "Is it wrong?" "No, get your ass over here." Dave said before Leroy could say anything else. Leroy turned off the light and grabbed the lube off the top shelf and jumped in the bed. They had learned to make love as quietly as can be over the few months after they started date night. They had learned there are a few golden hours in a night when they can almost guarantee that Jason will not wake up and they took advantage of that time. Always when they finished, they would get up right away to clean up, dress in sleeping attire, reopen the door, and then cuddle until they fell asleep in one another's arms. The next morning, Jason didn't come in and wake them. When Leroy woke at eleven, he jumped up and ran to see what was wrong. He found Jason watching cartoons and playing in the floor while his Dad was sitting in the chair reading a newspaper and drinking coffee. "Did you two sleep well?" Lee asked, as Dave came up behind Leroy. "Yeah, Dad, you didn't have to keep Jason from us this morning. He has sort of become my alarm clock," Leroy responded. "Well, Dave and you looked tired last night, and I knew Dave worked today. So when Jason came into my room this morning, we agreed to not wake you. But don't worry. It won't always be like this," Lee smiled at his sons. "Just as long as you don't make it a habit, Dad," Leroy smiled. "Dad, it is up to you, but I am taking Jason back to Allison's today to swim, if you would like to come." "Would love that, Leroy." Leroy started getting around stuff to prepare lunch. Since he didn't know if he would be home from Allison's in time for Dave's dinner, he asked if Dave wanted a packed dinner or if he wanted to go out. Dave just told him that he would grab something and not to worry. Most of the siblings showed back up over at Allison's. Leroy wasn't expecting that, but was happy to visit and talk with all of them. He did apologize for causing the party to go south the day before, and they all told him it wasn't his fault at all and that they couldn't believe that Sue had gone to that extreme. They were also happy that Lee moved in with Dave, Leroy, and Jason for the time being. When everyone finally left Allison's it was after nine, and Leroy was carrying a very tired Jason to the car, followed by an exhausted Lee, who had been run from here to there by all the grandkids. Lee loved it, even though he tried to get the grandkids to back off a bit. When Leroy got everyone home, Lee went to his bed to sleep, and Leroy took Jason to his bed, read him a bedtime story, and Jason fell right to sleep. Leroy cleaned a little to keep himself busy trying to stay up for Dave. He sat down on the living room sofa and fell asleep waiting for Dave. ******* Over the following few weeks, everyone pretty much got into a routine. Lee would wake up to Jason staring at him. They would both agree not to wake Dave and Leroy. Sometime Lee would even take Jason out for breakfast. Jason always wanted pancakes. Lee would beg to watch Jason and send Dave and Leroy out for lunch or dinner, so they could have their alone time. Lee asked Dave when the next day that he had a weekday off. Dave informed him that he had Wednesday of the following week off. Lee had thanked him and the next day called a lawyer's office and made an appointment for that following Wednesday. He asked Leroy if he would mind going with him. Dave and Leroy Ch. 14 "Dad, are you sure you want to do this? You two have been married 37 years," Leroy asked while they were sitting in the waiting room before their appointment. "Leroy, I haven't been sure about a lot of things in my life, but this one I know for sure, I am through with Sue. I thought there was a possibility that with you having a child she would want to be better so she could see her grandchild, but I see I was wrong." "Dad, it is okay. I am just glad I have you in my life still and all my siblings." They were called into the office, and were there for over an hour. Lee was giving all the information that he need to start the divorce proceeding. They even told Lee that they will probably serve Sue with the divorce papers by the end of next week. After they were finished, Leroy took his dad out for lunch, before heading back to the house. When they walked in, Jason was running around screaming, and Dave was just standing in the kitchen. "Honey what is wrong?" Leroy asked. "How do you do this? How do you handle his energy? I have only had him for four hours, and he has worn me out." "I know, Honey, the longest you have been alone with him is two hours when I would go see Dr. Watts," Leroy laughed. "But Honey, it hasn't been much longer." "Just laugh it up Leroy. Go ahead. I am not use to our son for long periods of time, alone. I guess I need to take a vacation—" Leroy interrupted, laughed, and asked, "What? From him for a week?" "No, so I can be around our son a little more, and maybe send you off for the day. Plus we should do something as a family. Maybe once he is officially ours, we will take him on a vacation." "That would be wonderful, Babe," Leroy hugged and kissed Dave. Lee was smiling. He loved that his son could be happy.