Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:09:57 -0800 (PST)
From: taarob <taarob@yahoo.com>
Subject: Protecting David-Alex's Story 20

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From the previous chapter:
"Well maybe more than a hill."  He laughed.  "You know like
how here in California they call hills mountains so it's
more like a Colorado hill which is to say more of a big
hill.  Oh and think pine trees, lots of em.  And it has kind
of a concrete and steel look to it, really masculine and
clean.  There's five bedrooms I think, maybe four....and a
really big library slash office then the usual living room,
dining room, kitchen, family room etcetera.  Oh and horses
and they come with the property....and chickens.  Geez I
hope someone's taking care of the animals now." He shrugs.
"Gotta be, the guy who's selling hasn't lived there for a
month so he must have someone taking care of the animals."

Larry looks happy and that makes me happy, totally fucking
happy.  "So we're gonna be like cowboys?"

He grins and kisses me.  "Yep.  You and me ridin the range.
I'll teach ya to ride.  There's lots of things you can do on
horse back."

I laugh.  "I already know how to ride.....and fuck."

His finger traces my mouth and his eyes are soft and locked
on mine his voice is soft.  "You never told me that.  Did
ya?  I mean about the riding."

"Probably not.  No horses in Palo Alto.  Well, none that I
saw."  And then a stupid flashback and the tears start
again.

Larry wraps his arms around my head and kisses my temple and
I turn my face into his shoulder.  His voice is a whisper.
"You're safe, Baby and I'm never letting anything hurt ya
again."


                  Protecting David-Alex's Story 20

Thankfully we didn't drive from Sacramento to the San
Francisco airport to fly back cause I don't think I coulda
made that trip without a lotta flashback things happening.
I mean it was the same road that......well that they had
used.  It's not like the flashbacks are happening very much
anymore and even when they do my reaction to them isn't like
falling apart but it's still not fun.

David's cool plane was waiting for us at this little airport
in Sacramento and he and Mark came with us to Denver.  Bob
and Jack had gone back on Thursday to check on the house and
see that the furniture had gotten there.  Larry and I were
both looking forward to living near Bob, Becky and the
twins.

The cut on my head was healing and my back was doing well
but they wanted me to take it easy for a while because of
the concussion.  Since the heaviest thing that Larry was
letting me lift was a coffee cup I was getting plenty of
rest and we were desperate to be alone together.  We were
screamingly horny but it was gonna have to wait until
tonight.

Where the airport is at things seemed to be pretty flat but
after we drove through the city we began to climb and like
Larry said there were lots of pine trees.  Mark and David
were in the car with us and David was telling us about
school.

"I've spoken with Stanford and due to the unusual
circumstances they'll be sending some people to help the two
of you catch up on what you've missed and then they'll
administer your finals."

Larry looked dumbfounded.  "They're sending someone here to
tutor us?"

David nodded yes.

Larry continued.  "And then they'll send someone to give us
our finals?"

Again a nod from David.

"Why.....I mean how come they're doing that?  That's
incredible!"

David smiled.  "I think that they figured it was cheaper
than a law suit and they sure didn't want a lot of publicity
about people being kidnapped from their campus.  Most of
this was their idea."

I asked even though it unnerved me to even be talking about
it.  "Have they heard anything more about who did it?"

David sighed.  "Organized crime....and then they apparently
had a falling out, some dispute between the guy who ran
Southern California and the guy who ran the north.  The guy
that ordered it has disappeared.  I think that we can assume
that they're killing one another.  We were lucky that Emi
knew that guy in Sicily."

"I sunk back closer to Larry.  "I gotta call Emi and thank
him."

David smiled and squeezed my knee with his hand.  "He'd
appreciate that.  And you have got to figure a time to go
see Emma.  If she doesn't see you in person soon she'll
probably send the military to bring you."

Mark grinned at me.  "That's pretty close to the truth.
Although one good thing that came of it was that it seems to
have motivated her to live.  She sounds better than she has
in a long time."

David said.  "I talked to Elli this morning and she said
that the painting has all been completed on the house and
they had stock on most of the furniture for the bedrooms and
family room.  You guys would be using your old furniture for
your bedroom anyway but this place is a lot bigger but I
think you'll like it."  He turned to Larry.  "I don't know
if your dad said anything but he and I split the cost on
this house so it's in both of your names.  We decided that
for your first house that would probably be the best idea."

Larry sat up immediately with a shocked loop on his face.
"My dad did that?"

David smiled.  "Un huh.  He does love you ya know."

Larry blushed.  "I know.  I mean he's been really good
lately.....I just never expected that."

"Well he did do it.  I sent the paper in to your trust
officer so you'll be seeing it showing up on your statement.
Now...there's Susan and Marie, their last name is Liu and we
kinda inherited them along with the house.  I suppose that
we could have let them go but this place is way way bigger
than the condo and with school and all you're gonna need
help cleaning it and Susan also will do the cooking for you.
They're a mother and daughter."  I must have gotten a weird
look on my face because he said, "They live in a two bedroom
apartment that's behind the garage so you won't see em all
the time and they know that you're gay and it means nothing
to them.  I understand that Susan is a wonderful cook."

I laughed.  "Can we still walk around naked?"

"You can do anything that you want.  It's your house.  Susan
and her daughter will adapt to.....whatever."

We turned off of the freeway onto a secondary road and
backtracked for a mile or so and then turned onto an even
narrower blacktopped road for a quarter of a mile and then
turned into a blacktopped driveway with a mailbox set to one
side.  We turned right into the drive and began a slight
climb that went on for what seemed like quite a while.

David said, "An adjoining forty acres was also for sale by
another owner and Jack and I bought that for you too.  It
doesn't have any buildings on it but it made a nice buffer
zone and there are some great views or so I'm told."

The house kinda just appears above you when you're on the
driveway and then you make a gentle turn to the right and as
you continue to climb you come up around the house on the
other side.  It's pretty cool because with the concrete
balconies it looks like a space ship or something that just
came down and settled there.

Larry lowered the car window an inch or so and smiled at me.
"Smell the air?"

He was right, it was different, brighter and I could smell
the pine trees.  I grinned back at him.  "Smells clean."

Pulling up in front of the house there were a number of cars
and delivery vans already parked there.  I made a mental bet
with myself that the black Mercedes belonged to Jack and the
silver SUV belonged to Bob and Becky.

As soon as we walked through the front door the twins came
barreling towards us.  I scooped them both up impossibly
happy to see them, I suppose that I thought that I would
never see them again.  I kissed them both and set them back
down on the floor and they ganged up on Larry.

Bob and Becky both embraced me, kinda making a sandwich of
me.  Bob said, "Geez, I was hoping someone would move here
who had baby sitting potential and you definitely do."  He
kissed me on the cheek and said, "Man it is so good to see
you!"

I was forcing the tears not to fall and then Jack jumped in
and rescued me by shaking my hand and pulling me towards
David and Mark.  David took one look at me and pulled me
over to talk to Elli, the decorator.

She was dressed entirely in black and held out her hand.
"Alex it's great to see you again."  She put her hands on
her hips and looked around and then gave a little laugh and
put one hand on my arm and laughed again.  "My elf's are
everywhere."  She looked up into my eyes with a twinkle in
her eyes.  "Actually they're loaner elf's mine are all back
in California."  I followed her gaze and saw three or four
much younger versions of her moving throughout the house
placing vases, hanging pictures and I guess just making sure
that everything was perfect.

When I actually looked I was amazed and said,  "Wow!  It
really is gorgeous!"  And it was, it was breathtaking.

Elli said, "You see?  You see what I was trying to do?"
Then she gave me ten minutes on her thinking behind the
color scheme almost all of which went clear over my head.

This time Mark rescued me by literally pulling me away
leaving Elli talking to David.  Mark put his arm around me
and walked me towards another room that had one wall that
was all windows.

He said, "Let's checkout the family room."  We stood before
the two-story wall of windows looking down the hill.  Mark
pointed at a small hill in the distance.  "If my compass is
working properly the freeway ramp is right beyond that hill,
maybe a mile and half away.  You guys can be at school
pretty quick.  Well depending on traffic."

I nodded yes and then Mark pulled me even closer and kissed
me on the temple.  "You holding up?"  I felt a tear running
down my cheek and wiped it away.

"I guess.  But I get these weird crying jags."  I think that
it was just because Mark made me feel so safe.

He squeezed me to him again.  "That'll stop and it's not
unusual, some of it's the concussion so don't forget to get
rest.  What happened to you is the ultimate in stress.  Even
men in battle have some level of control but with a
kidnapping you have none.  The point is that you need to cut
yourself some slack and if you feel like crying then cry.
Just remember that it'll stop, you'll get a little better
every day."  He turned to face me and stared into my eyes
for a long time then with his hand on the back of my neck he
pulled my head gently to his shoulder while his other hand
rubbed my back carefully avoiding the lacerated area.  "You
know that we love you."  He continued to rub my back for a
while.

He pulled back and looked into my eyes.  "David has found a
therapist if he hasn't given you his number yet he will.
Don't fuck with the appointments.  If you don't go they
can't help you and lean on Larry, he's tough and you can
trust him."

I mumbled into his shoulder.  "You like him don't ya?"

He laughed.  "Yeah I do.  He doesn't take any shit
especially where you're concerned so how could I not like
that?"

I looked around the room and said, "You really think that we
need this much space?"

Mark laughed again.  "David tells me we got it at a bargain
price, besides once you start to spread out you won't know
how you ever did with less.  Okay and maybe he's over
compensating a little."  He laughed again.  Hey, you're
lucky that he's not having a wall built around the
property."

David walked in and said, "There you guys are."  He smiled.
"A bonding moment?"

I smiled and hugged Mark with one arm.  "Kinda and a little
bit crying jag moment."

"That reminds me."  David dug into his inside jacket pocket
and pulled out a slip of paper with a number on it.  "Your
shrink.  I told him that you'd call."  He grinned.  "I also
asked him to call me if you didn't."  He tilted his head to
one side.  "How come you haven't asked about your car?"

"Oh shit!  I totally forgot about the car!  Larry's car
too!"

David laughed.  "They're in the garage.  There's a service
that moves em.  We pretty much moved your office like it
was.  We found your wallet but the credit cards were gone so
I've had those replaced and I opened an account for you at
Jack's bank in Denver.  All that stuff is in the top drawer
of your desk."

I put my other arm over David's shoulder.  "How do you get
all that stuff done so quickly?"

"I'm a nag.  They do it to get me off their backs."  His
expression changed.  "Alex I wish that we could stay for a
few days cause I feel like we're abandoning you but both
Mark and I have to get back to work.  Oh, the other thing is
travel.  If you guys are gonna fly anyplace call my office
for the reservations.  We're starting a travel department
but just call Joan.  She'll handle everything."

I said, "Oh....okay."  It never occurred to me that we'd be
traveling anyplace.

Jack came into the room with two Chinese ladies that I
figured had to Susan and Marie Liu.  He looked a little
uncomfortable and said, "Ah, David, would you like to
introduce.......?"  He completed the question by nodding at
the women.

David jumped forward.  "Yes!  Alex this is Susan and Marie
Liu.  They'll be helping you with the house and doing the
cooking and Marie will also take care of the animals.

Susan Liu stepped forward and said with a heavy accent,
"Good to see you.  Good to see you.  Have four brother and
two husband, nakeds all time, you wanna be nakeds okay."
She giggled and held up both of her hands to her eyes and
then spread them.  "I no peak."

Marie was standing slightly behind her mother smiling.  She
took a small step forward and said, "I'll help mom with
everything inside but I also take care of the horses and
chickens.  They are four beautiful horses and very gentle.
When you guys want them saddled just tell me or if you'd
rather do it yourselves the tack room is very organized."
She smiled brightly.  "And if you like eggs you're going to
have the freshest imaginable."

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Larry come into the room
and then felt his warm hand on my back.

David stepped forward.  "Marie will do your food shopping
just make sure that you keep a list of anything you need
other than the normal food.

Marie said, "Mom is a fantastic cook and not only Chinese
dishes but really anything.  If you'd make a list of some of
your favorite foods that'd help, oh and also a list of
anything that you just can't stand."

                    ----------------------------------

And then finally after much crying, mainly on my part,
everyone was gone.

Our new bedroom was.....well as awesome as the rest of the
house and our new bathroom was beyond awesome.

Larry came running out of the bathroom naked and yelled,
"Alex!  You gotta fucking see this!"

"What?"  Actually I was already looking...at a Larry.

"Come on you gotta see this bathroom!"

I smile at him and say, "You want me concentrating on
anything other than your dick you better wrap a towel around
yourself."

He pressed his naked body to mine and wrapped his arms
around me being careful to rest his hands very lightly on my
back.  "You perving on my nekkid body, Boy?"  His muscular
body felt like heaven.

I rested my chin on his shoulder.  "I been perving on it all
week, you just didn't know."

He pulled back his head and stared into my eyes and started
to say something but stopped and then gently took my hand
and pulled me towards the bathroom saying, "You're gonna
love this."

The bathroom was unbelievable.  Done in marble and glass the
coolest part was the shower which was huge with multiple
shower heads but also along one wall was a bench because the
shower could also be used as a steam room.

I started pulling off my clothes.  "Whadya say we try out
the shower?"

He laughed.  "That's why I got naked in the first place."
While I'm pulling off my pants we lean towards each other
kiss and he reaches out to steady himself by holding my
shoulder.  I see the slight grimace of pain.

"So you gonna tell me how your hand got hurt?  You've
started to tell me twice and then you seem to find a way to
change the subject."

He gave me a loopy grin.  "Let's shower, I'll tell ya in
bed."

"I'm not gonna forget ya know."

"I know I know."  He pointed at a panel in the wall.  "See,
you dial in the temperature, it's so fucking cool!"

The house must have a huge hot water heater because we spent
about forty-five minutes kissing and ten more washing.  He
gently removed the bandage that covered a laceration on my
back and washed the wound carefully.

When we finally laid down on our bed Larry had me turn over
onto my stomach so that he could but a fresh bandage on my
back.  It wasn't a big deal but it had to be done.  Most of
the damage was in the form of bruising and while it was
still sore as hell I'd live.  While he was doing this he was
slowly thrusting his cock along the crack of my ass but I
was pretty sure that this was a diversionary move.

"Your hand?"  I mumbled into the pillow.

"Oh..yeah.  You know David is fucking amazing!  I don't
think that I've ever seen anyone take charge like he does
and is as effective as he is.  I mean it was only Wednesday
morning and we didn't even know where you were when he told
Bob to buy this house.....to make it happen.   And now it's
Friday evening and we're sleeping in our own bed that three
days ago was in California but know it's in Colorado.
That's fucking amazing!"

I laughed.  "David has a keen understanding of money and how
to use it.  Normally he's, well, almost cheap but when he
wants something to happen he keeps hitting it with money
until it does.  I guess that I'm used to it cause I grew up
with it.  Now will you stop talking about other things and
tell me about your hand I'm beginning to worry."

He sighs deeply and slides off of my butt and lies down next
to me his face inches from mine.  "This is gonna drag up
memories for you and I wanted to avoid that......and I come
off as kind of jerk too...which I'm not too thrilled about."

"Mark told me that if I needed to cry to just fucking cry
that it's not that big of deal..and besides it is getting
better all the time.  So fuck the memories just tell me."

He groaned and then began.  "Okay when we went to where we
were told you'd be on Wednesday and found you there we also
found the guy that......hurt you."  He squeezed his eyes
shut for a moment.  "I wanted to kill him, Alex.  I never
wanted to do anything so bad in my life.  I just wanted to
beat him into the fucking ground."  I could feel tears
forming in my eyes and Larry reached up and brushed them
away with his thumbs.  His voice was choking up.  "You know
what it fucking does to me when I see you cry or see you in
pain?  I just wanna go back there and fucking kill people!"
He took a deep shuddering breath.

He sniffled and said, "Okay, so anyway, I did beat him with
my fist, I went a little fucking nuts."  His face got
defiant.  "And I don't feel bad about and I'd do it again in
a fucking instant....but then it was like I was nuts for
awhile and back at the hospital I kinda punched out a few
guys."

I must have raised and eyebrow because he said, "I know but
I couldn't help it in my mind the only thing that I knew was
that they seemed to be hurting you and I decked one and then
another one came running up and I decked him too but then
these two big Australian guys grabbed me, they're the same
dudes who hauled me off of the guy that beat you.  I dunno I
guess they worked for your dad but someone had called the
cops and these two guys, geez they had to be like 6'6" and
maybe 220 or 230 pounds and they were twins.  They grabbed
me and got me outta there."   He laughed.  They took me up
to the roof of the hospital."  He smiled and ran his fingers
lightly over my face.  "There was this little spot they
found with a railing around it and we could look out at the
city and watch the helicopters as they landed at the
hospital.  They were very nice," He smiled, "and kept
calling me mate and if the cops ever did come they never
found me and your dad musta fixed it cause then it was
okay."

I said softly, "That was pretty painless.....the telling of
it I mean."

Larry got a goofy smile on his face sighed and said, "We
gonna make love or do I gotta go looking for those horses?"

I reached down and wrapped my hand gently around his hard
cock.  "You'd get em all jealous."

Larry cupped my face in his hands.  "Alex, I don't think
that I could ever be separated from you again.  I mean like
even for a day.  I think I'd go fucking nuts.  I mean look
what happened and I know, I mean I've really got this
feeling that it'd be worse if it happened again."  He
touched my lips with his finger.  "I don't mean someone
taking you, I can't even think about that but just you not
being there for any reason."  His voice was soft and his
breath warm and clean on my face.  "You're my sweet boy my
sweet precious boy."