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Date Posted: 11:13:50 11/24/08 Mon
Author: Odelle
Author Host/IP: CPE0013f7f24246-CM0013f7f24242.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com / 99.234.121.213
Subject: When A Time Comes (Chapter 1)
In reply to: Odelle 's message, "When A Time Comes" on 11:10:52 11/24/08 Mon

When A Time Comes

�There will come a time when Adam won�t need me any more.�

Thunder rumbled distantly, promising a break from the heat which was causing his brow to sweat perpetually. He hefted yet another box out of the back of the grey-green jeep, grunting inaudibly at the weight of it. It wasn�t the weight, really. It was the quantity. And the age.

Turning around, Linden lifted it from his arms seemingly effortlessly. The snot.

Michael managed a tight lift of one corner of his lips at the young man, and turned for another one. The breeze picked up enough to tease his curls in the most familiar way. He could almost feel her fingertips at his nape. And, curse it all, at that moment it brought her voice with it.

And again he whispered his damnation in his heart. He couldn�t hold back his response any more than he could hold back the tide. Three words. The same three words that sealed this fate.

But Linden was back already. Michael tossed him the lighter box, and quickly grabbed the last in the back of the jeep.

The house they were parked in front of loomed over them both. Stone steps up to the brownstone promised lots of late-night beers, and three-stories of bedrooms already held more stories than could be told.

It irritated him that the entryway floorboards creaked under his boots. They were streaked with the black of age and damp. But this wasn�t his house. He wasn�t going to live here.

And there it came again, the heaviness in his chest. His sigh sunk his shoulders an inch lower.

�That the last one, Dad?�

The sound was followed by Adam�s mop of dark brown hair, dishevelled and equally sweaty. Reaching the back of a couch placed absently in the middle of the entryway, he leaned back against it � lanky, youthful, strong. Watching his dad, he folded his arms defensively, automatically.

Michael�s nod was rigid. And both men looked at their boots.

If it wasn�t for those three words, this wouldn�t be. But then, this wouldn�t be, if it wasn�t for those three words. It was like putting hot wax on parchment. It made a-time-will-come a looming destination. More, it made it a promise.

For having succeeded in not promising a damn thing for seven years, he picked a hell of a time to make one.

And it would have been an empty one, if it wasn�t for those three words.

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Replies:

When A Time Comes (Chapter 2) -- Odelle, 11:36:00 11/24/08 Mon

Re: When A Time Comes (Chapter 2) -- KT, 12:46:14 11/24/08 Mon

Re: When A Time Comes (Chapter 2) -- del, 14:00:31 11/24/08 Mon

Re: When A Time Comes (Chapter 2) -- Kimberly Bennardi, 21:10:53 11/24/08 Mon

Re: When A Time Comes (Chapter 2) -- Lina, 21:11:58 11/27/08 Thu

Crossing my fingers -- Eina, 15:52:27 11/29/08 Sat

Re: When A Time Comes (Chapter 2) -- Quiver (I love it!), 18:02:49 03/13/09 Fri

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