Detective Mike

Chapter 10

As he hangs up she says, "The back of your hair is wet. Did you take a shower?"

"Yep, a quick one. Shaking off the dust of town." He grins up at her.

"There was a call for you. It was the RCMP and they asked you call when you got in if it was before five. Sgt. Clifton they said."

"Oh, okay. I'll call them now. CPX didn't call, eh?"

"Nope, nothing from them."

Mike dials the RCMP detachment and asks for Sgt. Clifton. A female voice comes on the line.

"Sgt. Clifton here. Who is calling, please?"

"Mike Claymore."

"Please hold for a moment." Mike waits and Marlene goes around the desk waving fingers at him. He returns the salute with a wave of his as she goes up the stairs.

The phone clicks, "Mike, it's Janine."

"Well hi, what's up?"

"Damn you, you know what! When can we get together... and I mean together! I've been sopping wet all afternoon!"

Mike laughs quietly, "I don't know, Jan. I'm really tied up this week. We're going out to Sunny Meadows tomorrow night with the trailer and I'll be out there all weekend with Trudy and the kids. We'll be coming back to town on Sunday in case I have a run Sunday night and the kids have school Monday."

"What if I came out there Saturday afternoon? You know my car, don't you?"

"Have you ever been in a nudist park?"

"I don't plan to come inside! I could meet you in the parking lot and we could go somewhere."

"What about tomorrow afternoon, early afternoon?"

"I'm working. Where?"

"Where ever you like."

"I could take a long lunch and set up a phoney appointment." She thinks it over, "It'd be better on the weekend, and I would be on my own time then. Damn, that seems so far away now! Saturday then?"

"Whew, I don't think it's a good idea but if you insist."

"Why not?" She sounds impatient.

"Trudy will be very demanding when she has me to herself this weekend."

"Can't take it, eh?"

"I'm not saying that, but she will be suspicious if I disappear for a while."

"Will she tell Marlene?"

Mike thinks that over, "I doubt it."

"Saturday afternoon then."

"Okay, Jan. I'll watch for you."

"Mmm, now I'm wetter than ever! I gotta go change shields. See ya!"

Mike chuckles, "Why don't you use a tampon?"

"That's not funny, I might have to. Damn you!" She hangs up.

Mike digs into some paperwork and is almost ready to go up for supper when the phone rings. He picks it up and says, "Hello."

"Mike, it's Trudy. You know that movie producer you wanted me to check on?"

"Yep."

"Lydia is his third wife. He's deep in debt and everything he makes goes to his ex's. His lawyers take the rest. He hasn't got a pot to piss in. They live on her income."

"She's supposed to be on a sabbatical."

"She has a number of incomes from past work and some mysterious sources. I imagine the tax people have fun with her returns."

"How about this movie he's working on, 'Canso Crossing'?"

"It's legit. He has a couple of production companies working on it and it seems to be on schedule and within budget. His casting is not complete though. He had trouble with one of the principles and has a casting call out now."

"How did you get all that so fast?"

"Mike, supper's on." It's Marlene calling from upstairs.

Trudy says in his ear, "Never mind, go eat your supper. See you tomorrow night, darling."

"Yes you will. Love you, Trudy. Night now."

"Mmm, night." She hangs up and Mike does the same.

"Coming love," Mike calls up to Marlene. He packs his paperwork away and goes up for supper. Emma is in her basinet by his chair at the table and she is wide-awake gurgling at Jan. Mike sits down and she watches him. Shelly and Marlene finish putting on supper.

"Where's Rick, love?"

"Upstairs, he'll be right down. I hope Emma isn't going to get fussy when we are trying to eat but I expect it. She hasn't had anything since just after lunch." Marlene stops to waves some fingers at Emma. "Can you check her diaper, Mike?"

Mike checks and reports, "It seems dry. She's doing well if that's since noon."

"I changed her when I came in. Who was on the phone?"

"Trudy, she's looking into a producer for a client."

"I hope she's not going to have trouble keeping an eye on Sam out there. I guess she'll have lots of help with Crystal and Shelly both."

Shelly pipes up, "I don't want to go with them, I want to stay here and help you, Mom."

Marlene looks at her, "Are you sure, Shell? I can manage if you want to go with them."

She looks up at her mother, "Can't you use my help?"

"You bet I can but it won't be any fun here with all the kids gone."

"That's okay Mom, I'd rather stay here."

"Okay, but if you change your mind I won't mind."

Marlene looks at Mike and he shrugs. Rick comes into the room and they start supper. They make it all the way though supper before Emma starts fussing. Marlene is pleased and nurses her at the table as Mike finishes up his coffee. Mike helps Shelly clean the table and Jan helps her with the dishes. Mike sits back with Marlene watching them. Rick goes to do homework.

Mike rests his arm loosely around her shoulders and says in a low voice, "We are really lucky. What a great bunch of kids."

She whispers, "And this one is going to be just like them, lover." She rubs her head on his arm, "Lets try to make her a little brother in a month or two."

"We can practice in the meantime, eh?"

She grins an evil grin, "We better!" sticking her tongue out at him she goes on, "As often as we can." Mike lets on he's going to bite her tongue but he kisses her instead. He gets up and goes into the living room to turn on the TV. He watches the tail end of the news catching the weather then switches over to X-Files. He watches it for a while watching for familiar settings but soon gets engrossed in the story line.

Marlene brings Emma in and puts her beside him in her basinet. She is almost asleep and Marlene says, "I hope that does her till bed time now."

"Is that a new outfit on her, love?"

"Uh huh, Mom got it for her. She's growing so fast."

He goes back to watching Scully and Mulder in a flashback of a POW camp in Vietnam. Suddenly he exclaims, "Hey, I saw this episode a few weeks ago, what's going on?" He changes the channel and watches a movie in progress.

Marlene asks, "Would you like to put her basinet on its stand? Then I can sit down with you."

Mike gently lifts the basinet and sits it into the sling on the stand. The house is quiet as he sits again and Marlene lies down with her head in his lap.

"Where are the kids?"

"Homework and playing upstairs. Rick will be finished before long and will go out to see Julie." She wrinkles her brow, "Do you think they should be doing that so much, Mike?"

"I'm sure Rick's enjoying it."

She swats his shoulder, "He's just like you! What a monster we've created! No girl will be safe around him." She thinks a few minutes, "Were you like that?"

"I was a bit older the first time, I think I was about thirteen." He thinks back, "She was older than me by a year or two and I remember thinking it was a funny place to put my pecker but it felt good. I guess I was lucky I didn't get her pregnant but you know, Indian kids don't very often. They experiment and fill the girls with sperm but it doesn't take for some reason. Oh, once in a while it does but I think they have more control over their bodies than white girls. Maybe its faith with them."

"I bet once you started there was no holding you back."

"That's another funny thing. I wasn't all that interested back then. It felt good and I did it with the girls around school but I could do without it. It was after the folks were killed and I joined the Navy that I really craved a pretty lasses touch. I learned to please them so they would stay with me longer."

She looks dreamy, "You were pretty good when I first knew you."

"I'd had some practice."

She swats his shoulder again. "How did I rate back then?"

"Oh wow, you captured my heart. It wouldn't have mattered if the s*x was lousy, I loved you all the same."

"Hey, it wasn't lousy!"

"Shhhh, the baby." He chuckles.

She looks afar again, "You did teach me a lot. Even now I remember you got me off the first time. I was so surprised but inside I knew you would. You were such a dreamboat." She giggles, "Remember how we used to stretch out in the front seat across that cab. I think that's when I started putting a leg over yours at night so I wouldn't fall off the seat... and I loved the feel of your p***s rubbing softly against my cunt as I slept. I still love it."

"I know you do and I love you, sweetest girl in all Abbotsford."

She punches his arm, "Just Abbotsford?"

He tickles her and she has to stifle her shrieks as she wrestles with him. He stops when he hears Rick on the stairs. He looks back and says, "You going over to Julie's now, son?"

"Yeah, Dad. I'll be in by eleven."

"Has she got over her running away phase?"

"I think so, Dad. I hope so."

"Tell her we are going early tomorrow night. I want to get out there before dark if we can."

"Okay Dad, we will come right home from school and be ready to go. She's all packed already."

"Ha! She's ahead of me. See you later, son."

Mike goes back to watching the movie and Marlene rests her head in his lap watching him and the TV occasionally. She muses, "I wonder if they will even like each other when they're teenagers." She dozes in a fitful half sleep until Mike moves after the movie is over. She asks, "Have the girls been down?"

Mike shakes his head, "Haven't heard a peep out of them."

"Peep, peep, peep," Mike grins and looks back behind the couch, "Peep, peep, peep." He laughs as Shelly and Jan pop up behind them. Marlene sits up and says to them that she thinks hot chocolate might be good. They agree in a chorus as she gets up to go to the kitchen. She shushes them pointing at the basinet but Emma is fast asleep. She asks Mike if he wants some and he says 'please' so they all go to the kitchen except Mike.