Gone and Come Home Ch. 7
#1 of Gone and Come Home
Sorry it took SO long... Well, there is still more after this though, but this is the turning point of the story =)
I woke up the next day to the smell of pancakes. Oh how I loved pancakes... I was limping around, getting dressed when Jim came in.
"Well, you know you can't go back to school for a while because of your knee, but I'm going to have to go though. My mom has taken the day off to look over you in case you need anything, and will be staying with you until the doctor says that you're able to come back to school." Jim said, helping me get all my clothes on.
"wait, the doctor? But I havn't seen a doctor, my parents never-"
"Oh, she's taking you to see one today, our family doctor." Look at this... They really care about me, I thought. They are really treating me like family...
A tear came to my eye, and Jim noticed. "Hey, are you okay?" He asked
"Yeah, yeah... I'm fine. It's just that I've never been loved so much before in my life..." I broke down and started sobbing right then and there. Jim came up and sat next to me on the bed, cradling me in his arms as I sobbed on his shoulder, his arms comforting me.
"Hey, it's okay... shhh... it's okay..." He whispered in my ear as my body shook and heaved, tears staining my cheeks as I looked into his eyes.
"Thank you... So much..." I managed to coax out, pulling myself together, wiping away tears from my face.
"It's my pleasure... How could I ever leave you alone?" Jim said, smiling at me. I smiled back, tears still on my face, which Jim wiped off with a soft paw.
"Come on, lets go get some pancakes, kay?" Jim said, looking at me dearly.
"Yeah, okay. Lets go get some." I said, a glowing smile spreading across my face as Jim carried me downstairs, where the smell increased tenfold, and sat me down at a chair at the table, where Mrs. Emrodite brough a pic heaping pile of pancakes to me and Jim.
We ate them all, loving each and every one of them, not just occassionally taking bits from each other's plates. Soon Toby came down, all ready for school. He sat down at the table and ate his pancakes as well, also taking some from our plates, and us from his.
Soon they were all gone, and it was almost time for the boys to go to school. They got all their stuff together, and the bus pulled up for them.
"Bye Greg!" Tody called, and all Jim had to do was give me a deep kiss and look into my eyes before he left the house, smiling as he went.
The door closed, and all was silent.
"So, looks like you two really love each other, hmm?" Mrs. Emrodite called from the kitchen. I blushed hotly under my blue and white fur, no remembering she was there.
"Uh... Well..." I stammered, not knowing what to say...
"Oh, no, not like that! I'm not making it sound like I dissapprove. I absoluetly love it that you two have found each other, and I'm so glad you're able to stay with us." She said, trying to waive away other suspicions.
"So, you're fine with us... together?" I said, still wary.
"Oh yes of course! Here, let's get off this topic, shall we? I'm perfectly fine with it, just as fine as any other parent would be with a male female relationship. Do you have everything you need for the doctor's visit? I hope that Jim told you about it..."
"Oh yeah, he told me earlier this morning. I'm all dressed and ready to go." I replied.
"Okay, then lets go!" She said, smiling at me.
We pulled up at a small doctor's office, and Mrs. Emrodite got out of the car, then turned back to me.
"You wait here for a minute, I'm going to go inside and tell him that you're here and need a wheelchair, okay?
"Sure thing, thank you."
She closed the door and walked off into the building. A few minutes later, she came back out with a nurse with her, and a wheelchair. They got me out of the car into the wheelchair, and wheeled me into the small office. It was just a regular family doctor's office, little children wallpaper over the walls, other parents with their kids playing on toys strewn around the waiting room. I did not have to wait--immediately I was wheeled into an office with Mrs. Emrodite sitting on a small chair in the room. A few minutes of silence passed, and then we heard someone at the door and it opened. The one who opened it was a tall, nice looking wolf as well.
"Well, hello Mrs. Emrodite, how are you today?" Said the wolf.
"I'm good, not too sure I can say the same for Greg over here." She said, nodding to me.
"Well now... You've taken a bit of a beating, have you now... I'm Dr. Grissen, nice to meet you." He said, smiling at me. I smiled back, obviously seeing his eyes dart to my missing tooth, and shook his hand.
"I'm Gregory, nice to meet you."
"Well, Greg... Looks like you have a few things that got quite messed up. Your kneecap was pretty dinged up, twisted ligaments in it, cracked left rib, laserations to the head, and heavy brusing on you muzzle and chest. Sorry if this seems like a lot, but I tend not to hide things from my patients." Dr. Grissen told me.
"And that is exactly why we have stuck with you all this time." Said Mrs. Emrodite, smiling at the doctor.
"Okay, so what I'm going to have you do is wear a knee brace for a while, no strenuaous activity, and be on crutches for a few weeks. Also, I'm going to have you wear a chest brace to help that cracked rib. Your laserations on your skull have pretty much been treated, not that serious. Now I see that you have a seemingly new one on..."
"Oh, that was my younger son. He scared Greg, and he hit his head, no big problem." Mrs. Emrodite chipped in.
"Okay then... So I'm going to help you put all these things on right now, and you ought to be free to go. Now, these are waterproof, sandproof, weatherproof, you can wear them through anything so there is no reason for you to take these off, understand? You keep walking on it before it heals is going to make the healing process just take longer."
Dr. Grissen told me.
"Now, how long will I have to have these on and stay out of school?" I was worried about this, I wanted to spend every moment I could with Jim...
"Well, until your knee fully heals you can't even walk on it fully, so it's no safe to go back to school since it's a horizontal ligament twist. We can't put a cast on it so it can't be protected. All we can put on it is a brace, which still doesn't provide secure protection. I would say at least two weeks before it's healed, and even at that time you will need my approval before I ceritfy you to go back to school. Now, don't thnk this is a break from school, because you can't go out and do normal activities either. No strenuous activity, at all. Now, maybe just a walk in the park is acceptable, but that is borderline. Nothing beyond that. You understand?"
I nodded in acceptance. "Good. Now let me help you get these things on..."
When we got back to the house, I was just getting accustomed to my braces. The crutches were easy enough, but the chest brace was quite unconfortable... It was really tight. I guess I would get used to it. The knee brace was also very irregular, but not as uncomfortable.
"Now, just make youself at home, if there is anything you need, please tell me. No matter how selfish it seems, please, please don't do it youself," She smiled at me " we want you getting better as soon as possible, don't we?"
"Thank you so much, Mrs. Emrodite..."
I got cut off.
"No, call me Tracy. You're part of our family now." She smiled at me with such a warm, delightful smile, put away her things, and went upstairs to the office of the house to work on some of her office things.
I let that last sentence dig in. I was part of their family now. I had a loving, caring family. Of course I was not really a part of their family, but in their hearts I was just like a son to them now. In just a few days time, I had gone from depression on the verge of suicide, to having a caring lover, and a caring family. I began to cry again, not in sorrow but in pure joy, relief, and love. For the first time in my life that I can remember, I was loved...
Later that day, as I was watching television, I heard a big vehicle pull up. I had lost track of time, and it was the bus from school. I was so excited! Jim and Toby were back! I would have run out and greeted them, but I remembered my leg and crutches, and just decided to let them come to me. I heard them roughousing outside the door, and then the door open and Toby running immediately up to his room.
"Greg! I have some news for you--Where are you??" Jim called, not seeing me behind the couch. I poked my head up and smiled at him.
"There you are you sneaky little wolf..." He said, coming over to sit next to me. I snuggled up close to him as he sat down. "Man, got a lot of stuff on you now, huh?" He said, pointing at my chest brace and knee brace.
"Yeah... Two weeks until I can take it off or do anything, including school. I'm sort of glad, too, because I won't have to deal with those kids who did this to me in the first place." I said.
"Oh, I was going to tell you about that. Those kids got expelled and are going to juvy, apparently the head of school heard them talking about it to their friends, and they openly admitted it. The guy called in police, and they took them away and they got expelled from the school."
"Oh thank God..." I said with relief. Everything was perfect. I had my lover, I had a caring family, the only people who are going to hurt me are locked away, including my parents. It seemed like nothing was now able to touch my life. I snuggled up close to Jim and dozed off in that warm fur as he carressed my neck with his big, soft paw.
I woke up again to the sound of Tracy calling everyone for dinner and the aroma of food. Jim and I had fellen asleep on each other, and I murred and woke Jim up, telling him it was time for dinner.
"Jim, dinner." I said, prodding him in the jaw with my paw. He woke up and yawned, his pearly white teeth showing off. I smiled at him, and he picked me up and brought me to the table.
We all sat down afor dinner, all three of us sitting together and messing aorund with each other. We laughed all through dinner, messing with Toby, messing with me and Jim, it was like we had known each other all our lives... It was so perfect. After dinner, we all left to go upstairs, me in Jim's arms.
"Hey, I dunno if you've seen all of the house, Greg. I saw you watching television all day and I thought you might want to know where everything is." Jim said. Jim and Tody led me up past both of their rooms, into this one room towards the end of the long hallway. Jim opened the door and Toby jumped into this odd shaped rocker... It was a gaming room. What Toby sat in was a gaming chair, oh man this was nice. There was a compter on one side, a large television on the other with and XBox, Wii, PS3, a Guitar Hero controller... They had a lot of stuff.
"I don't actually use this much, it's all really Toby's, he's really into video games." Jim said, smiling to me as I looked all over the room. Having not ever owned a video game in my life because of my selfish parents, this was a gift from God for the next two weeks.
"Oh my goodness... Can we play one? I've never played a video game." I asked both of them. Toby looked like he was about to pass out.
"You've never played a video game??? How are you still alive! Come here, now, sit down. I'm making you play every single one of these until you die." I laughed as Toby said this, going over and sitting down, and Jim following me and laying his head on my shoulder, around around my back. Toby handed me a controller, put in a game, and so commenced one of the happiest nights of my life, with people who actually cared about me...
We played all the time away until it was time for curfew. Tracy came in at about 10:30pm and told us that we needed to get ready for bed. We all went off and got ready, and as I was walking to the guest room, Jim stopped me in the hallway.
"Listen, Greg... If were officially together, we need to be together. I just can't spend one more night in a separate room than you... Do you want to sleep with me tonight?" Jim looked a bit shy at this, like I would take it the wrong way. I smiled at him and Kissed him deeply on the lips, wrapping my arms around his back and caressed his back and neck, and soon he did the same to me.
"I would love to sleep with you tonight... Just don't get carried away, alright?" I said to him and smiled, and he smiled back. We looked deep into each other's eyes, and I lickly licked his nose, causing Jim to giggle like a little schoolgirl. he picked me up, even though I would walk wiht my crutches, and we went into his room and closed the door. I propped my crutches up by his bed, and crawled in. Jim soon crawled in with me, wrapping his arms around my chest and pulled the covers over us. We sat there, wrapped and intertwined together in silence. Then I heard Jim say,
"I love you Greg. I love you with the most passion anyone could ever have." I felt him put his muzzle on the top of my head, resting his chin on me.
"I love you too Jim... I love you so much." I felt him pull off my head and lick the back of my neck, sending chills down my spine, but also the most relaxing thing I had ever felt... And soon we fell asleep, me in my soft lover's arms, and Jim cradling me from anything that might hurt his lover.
It was the most relaxing thing I had ever experienced, with only hate in my life, now I had something to live for.
** I need help from my readers!!
If you find anything that is inconsistant with the last 6 chapters please tell me so I can fix it!! I've been gone for like 4 months and I don't have time to totally go over the last 6 chapter thoroughly again... If you find anything that doesn't make sense, please PM me with it so I can fix it! Thanks guys!
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