Gabe619
Literotica Guru
- Joined
- Jul 10, 2005
- Posts
- 3,648
Devon walked out onto the veranda smiling as he nodded to those gathered around the table. He saw the two empty seats that had been meant for him and Jennifer but explained to the others that Kennedy didn't feel up to coming downstairs right now so he was going to take some food up. He got a knowing look from Emelia and Marcus that he ignored as he piled food on a single plate that both he and Jen could pick from then he used a tray to carry it and two cups of coffee back up to the room. The envelopes for him and Jennifer, Marcus handed to him as he was about to leave the table telling him to open them upstairs.
By the time he got there Jen had moved to a love seat positioned before a large window looking out over the Belview estate. It really was a beautiful scene and as he quietly sat down next to her putting the tray on the coffee table before them he lent back and slipped an arm around the young woman's shoulders as if it was the most natural thing to do. He looked at his arm for a second in surprise that his mind was already so comfortable showing such loving touches to Jennifer that it did this all on its own. Then he smiled and softly snuggled her against him.
"So you want to know my story do you, Jen? Ok, then, get comfortable." He chuckled.
He began the tale before he had ever met his soon to be wife Stephanie. He laid out his earlier history with a few funny anecdotes about his family life and teenage years, how he had been a skilled line-backer at school and college, but had decided to go into the Police Academy after he graduated. His love of cars he had got from his father who throughout Devon's youth had bought, fixed up and sold many expensive old cars making quite a profit from it. He had struggled at the Academy with the more academic stuff, but had excelled at the physical. He had passed out of the Academy in the lower half of his graduating class, but had found once on the street a natural feel for the job. Away from the paperwork and the stuffy classrooms he began to see just how much work was needed to help Capitol City and he had thrown himself into the job wholeheartedly making him popular with his TO who gave him a high assessment score.
"The man looked as if he chewed nails, he was so tough. Sergeant Alfred Bester, god that man was a nightmare. Scared the crap out of me on day one when I saw him." Devon laughed remembering the man. "I was so sure I had failed my training and would have to go through it again that on the final day I just got in his face about how hard he had been riding me. You know what he said? 'I only rode you so hard, McCauley, because you have the balls to take it.' ... it was the closest he ever got to giving me a compliment, but the Sergeant who told me I had passed with flying colors explained that Bester had put me forward for an early sergeants exam when I had done enough time on the street. It's funny how life works, something you think is bad can turn things around so much for you and end up being so good."
He paused to kiss her hair. "Like joining the Untouchables. I figured I wouldn't come out of it alive. One last hurrah for the old man before I went down in flames, and now look at me, I have something, someone to live for again."
He then went on to tell how he had met Stephanie, that he had constantly pulled her over for speeding to the point that he begun to think she was doing it on purpose just to talk to him as she had figured out his patrol route. As it happened she had which endeared her to him straight away. It showed her quirky side, that she thought paying constant speeding fines was a good way to meet someone. Eventually Devon had just asked her out as he wrote her a ticket and from that moment on they had been inseparable. Each filling the missing parts of the other. Now the anecdotes were about him and Steph as a couple, but oddly he didn't feel embarrassed or shy about telling Jennifer the good and bad of their lives together. How incredibly happy he had been when Steph had told him she was pregnant, how protective of his daughter he had become after she was born to the point that Steph had to play mediator between them when Angela, his daughter, had started to want to go out and play or visit a friends house or date boys. Angela had died at the age of 14, her whole life ahead of her, but at least she hadn't had to live without her mother, Devon reflected as he told Jen all of this. A tear ran down his cheek and his voice quivered a little as he spoke of their deaths, but again he felt no shame for crying.
He explained that after the funeral for them both he had just shut himself away and eventually left the police force. He had just lost hope that anything he did could make a difference anymore. The blight of organised crime had the city in a strangle hold and with corrupt cops on the payroll it felt like trying to fight with one arm tied behind your back. He had just buried his head in working on cars, owning the garage and he could awaken enough of his heart to even think about dating again. He felt it would have been a betrayal of the love he and Stephanie had shared even though he knew she would have wanted him to be happy.
"So when Marcus came to me with his offer to join the team I initially turned him down, I just didn't see he had a hope in hell of succeeding, but the more I thought about it the more I realised maybe this time I could make a difference. That or go out of this life doing something worthwhile rather than dying from alcohol poisoning or old age." He chuckled as he brought the story up to the now.
By the time he got there Jen had moved to a love seat positioned before a large window looking out over the Belview estate. It really was a beautiful scene and as he quietly sat down next to her putting the tray on the coffee table before them he lent back and slipped an arm around the young woman's shoulders as if it was the most natural thing to do. He looked at his arm for a second in surprise that his mind was already so comfortable showing such loving touches to Jennifer that it did this all on its own. Then he smiled and softly snuggled her against him.
"So you want to know my story do you, Jen? Ok, then, get comfortable." He chuckled.
He began the tale before he had ever met his soon to be wife Stephanie. He laid out his earlier history with a few funny anecdotes about his family life and teenage years, how he had been a skilled line-backer at school and college, but had decided to go into the Police Academy after he graduated. His love of cars he had got from his father who throughout Devon's youth had bought, fixed up and sold many expensive old cars making quite a profit from it. He had struggled at the Academy with the more academic stuff, but had excelled at the physical. He had passed out of the Academy in the lower half of his graduating class, but had found once on the street a natural feel for the job. Away from the paperwork and the stuffy classrooms he began to see just how much work was needed to help Capitol City and he had thrown himself into the job wholeheartedly making him popular with his TO who gave him a high assessment score.
"The man looked as if he chewed nails, he was so tough. Sergeant Alfred Bester, god that man was a nightmare. Scared the crap out of me on day one when I saw him." Devon laughed remembering the man. "I was so sure I had failed my training and would have to go through it again that on the final day I just got in his face about how hard he had been riding me. You know what he said? 'I only rode you so hard, McCauley, because you have the balls to take it.' ... it was the closest he ever got to giving me a compliment, but the Sergeant who told me I had passed with flying colors explained that Bester had put me forward for an early sergeants exam when I had done enough time on the street. It's funny how life works, something you think is bad can turn things around so much for you and end up being so good."
He paused to kiss her hair. "Like joining the Untouchables. I figured I wouldn't come out of it alive. One last hurrah for the old man before I went down in flames, and now look at me, I have something, someone to live for again."
He then went on to tell how he had met Stephanie, that he had constantly pulled her over for speeding to the point that he begun to think she was doing it on purpose just to talk to him as she had figured out his patrol route. As it happened she had which endeared her to him straight away. It showed her quirky side, that she thought paying constant speeding fines was a good way to meet someone. Eventually Devon had just asked her out as he wrote her a ticket and from that moment on they had been inseparable. Each filling the missing parts of the other. Now the anecdotes were about him and Steph as a couple, but oddly he didn't feel embarrassed or shy about telling Jennifer the good and bad of their lives together. How incredibly happy he had been when Steph had told him she was pregnant, how protective of his daughter he had become after she was born to the point that Steph had to play mediator between them when Angela, his daughter, had started to want to go out and play or visit a friends house or date boys. Angela had died at the age of 14, her whole life ahead of her, but at least she hadn't had to live without her mother, Devon reflected as he told Jen all of this. A tear ran down his cheek and his voice quivered a little as he spoke of their deaths, but again he felt no shame for crying.
He explained that after the funeral for them both he had just shut himself away and eventually left the police force. He had just lost hope that anything he did could make a difference anymore. The blight of organised crime had the city in a strangle hold and with corrupt cops on the payroll it felt like trying to fight with one arm tied behind your back. He had just buried his head in working on cars, owning the garage and he could awaken enough of his heart to even think about dating again. He felt it would have been a betrayal of the love he and Stephanie had shared even though he knew she would have wanted him to be happy.
"So when Marcus came to me with his offer to join the team I initially turned him down, I just didn't see he had a hope in hell of succeeding, but the more I thought about it the more I realised maybe this time I could make a difference. That or go out of this life doing something worthwhile rather than dying from alcohol poisoning or old age." He chuckled as he brought the story up to the now.