Dave and Leroy Ch. 08

As I wrote in a comments section of Chapter 7, I wrote Chapter 8 in around four hours on Thursday. This was sparked by how the last chaptered ended and it took this story in a direction that I never had thought of before. This chapter was supposed to deal with Sue and Leroy, but now that will be a later chapter. Of course things are unrealistic but this is fiction so you can do anything right. :)

FYI - This is a shorter chapter.

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After returning from Allison's, Dave was sitting on the couch with Leroy, they were holding hands and kissing. Dave remembered that Leroy had chuckled tonight and asked what it was about. At first Dave was trying to remind calm when they were talking about the subject but he couldn't believe what was coming out of Leroy and where it came from.

"But, you want KIDS!" Dave raised his voice on the kid's part.

Leroy was looking at a very pissed off Dave, he didn't think he would take it that way. "I was just thinking it would be nice, I am home now all the time."

"You have seizures Leroy, what would a baby do if you have a seizure and no one else is around?"

"I just had the thought Dave, never mind." Leroy went to their room, he decided to take a shower, he didn't know what else to do, he would have drove away just to get his frustrations out, but he is not allowed to drive, so he walked into the bathroom and started the shower.

Leroy didn't realize that Dave would be so against the idea, he actually wanted to cry, he didn't know what to do with himself now. It wasn't like he wanted them this minute, but just looking around the family room tonight at Allison's he actually wouldn't mind being called Dad. Maybe it was just bad timing, it didn't help that he had a seizure tonight, maybe Dave will think about it for a while. Leroy finished his shower, dried off and walked back into the bedroom and laid down, he could still hear Dave in the kitchen.

When Dave stopped picking up the kitchen and the family room he finally had calmed himself enough, he didn't realize that Leroy would ever want kids. He heard Leroy get out of the shower and go to the bedroom, he was expecting him to come back out to the kitchen but he didn't so Dean went to the bedroom. Dave in a calmer voice spoke from the doorway, "Leroy, I just never thought you would want any, you were always against it in the past."

"Forget it Dave, it was just a passing thought." Leroy continued to lay on the bed he didn't turn over to look at Dave or anything. "Am I a burden now to you, Dave?"

"NO, GOD NO, where is that coming from, Leroy?" Dave walked around the bed to look at Leroy.

"Because of my seizures, because I am not working, because I am not contributing to the household any longer. I am sorry Dave."

"Leroy Honey, I love you. Please don't think that. Is this all because I am not into the kid idea right now? I am sorry, but you were always against kids before. I just never thought I would ever hear even the thought of kids come out of your mouth." Dave tried to get Leroy to look at him but Leroy closed his eyes and refused to open them, Dave undressed, got on his side of the bed and spooned Leroy. "Honey, I love you, never think that please." Leroy didn't responded he did feel every bit of a burden at that moment.

Dave woke the next morning to an empty bed, he sat up and he didn't hear any noise in the house so he got up to look for Leroy. He looked in the living room, kitchen, family room, and both spare bedrooms, no Leroy. He went down stairs, still no Leroy. He walked outside and Leroy's car was gone, Dave's heart sank. "Oh shit."

Dave looked at the time it was after nine, so he started calling all Leroy's family asking them if they had seen Leroy, everyone had said no. Both Aaron and Allison said they would be right over.

They both pulled up at the same time and came in without knocking, they saw that Leroy's car was gone. "What is going on Dave?" Aaron asked as they saw him in the family room, he had just gotten off the phone with his family to make sure Leroy didn't go over there.

"Leroy left and I don't know where he went."

"What happened?" Allison asked.

"We came home from your house last night and he asked if I would like to have some kids." Dave looked at Allison and Aaron they looked as shocked as he was last night. "I wasn't nice about it, I told him how he would be able to take care of a kid when he has a seizure. He took it as I thought he was a burden to me." Dave looked like he wanted to cry. "He isn't a burden to me, I love him too much, I was just shocked that was all, Leroy never wanted kids before."

"He didn't leave a note or anything?"

"No, how am I going to find him, what if he has a seizure while driving. Allison, I can't lose him."

"Dave calm down, can you..." Lee walked in. "Dad!"

"Where is Leroy, why is his car gone?"

"Dave and he had a small misunderstanding, and Dave doesn't know when Leroy drove away or where he is."

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Leroy had been parked in a little parking lot of a closed business all day, he drove for a few hours and pulled into this little parking lot. He was depressed, he hoped he wasn't a burden to Dave but he very much felt like one. He watched a cop keep driving by, he knew the cop would eventually ask what he was doing in the middle of nowhere. Leroy thought about driving home, but one, he really didn't know how he had gotten there and two he had had the odd feeling of a seizure for hours now, but it has never developed into one.

Leroy couldn't sleep at all once Dave came to bed, so he waited until Dave was completely asleep before he got up, grabbed his jeans and a t-shirt, he walked out of the house after grabbing his car keys. After driving for two hours, which he never took the freeway, just streets and roads, he wasn't paying attention to where he drove. He wished he would have brought his phone, he was so intent on getting out of the house, he forgot it on the dresser.

The police office drove by again, Leroy watched him drive down the road turn around and come back and pull into the parking lot. After calling in Leroy's license plate, the cop got out of the car and walked up to his window, Leroy had already had it down. "License and registration."

"Yes Sir." Leroy pulled his wallet out, retrieved his license and grabbed his registration out of the glove compartment.

"Mr. Standish, I have noticed that you have been sitting here all day. May I asked why?"

"Kind of lost, and actually been thinking this entire time, Sir." Leroy didn't mind to call this officer Sir, because he was an older gentleman, if it would have been someone younger than he, he probably would have just called him officer.

"Do you know there is an APB out for you and your car?"

"It figures."

"Because it was more of a favor for another cop in another town, I didn't call in that I had seen you here all day. The bulletin stated you were just a friend of a cop that they needed to find, that you weren't wanted for anything. I figured sometime you would have left, but you stayed here."

Leroy decided to tell the truth. "I am not supposed to drive, but my partner and I had a fight. I didn't pay attention to where I was driving. I really don't know what town I am in and I am afraid that I am going to have a seizure because I have had the funky feeling for the past few hours. It doesn't help that I forgot my phone at home and I know my partner is going to be pissed."

"Well what is his number, I will give him a call." Leroy looked at him, the cop wasn't fazed at all about him basically saying he was gay and he had a fight. Leroy gave him the number and the cop said he would be right back.

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Dave was sitting with Lee, Allison and Aaron, they wouldn't leave him. Dave was beside himself and he jumped when his phone started ringing, he looked at the number he didn't recognize it at all. "Hello."

"Hello, this is Officer Pete Meyers, am I speaking to Dave Ayers?

"Yes, did you find him, is he ok, where is he?" Dave's panic was showing through his questions.

"Yes he is fine, he is in Coldwater."

"Coldwater is like four hours from here. Will he be taken to the police station there?"

"No, I was going to sit here and talk with him, just get here, he said he feels like he is going to have a seizure, so bring someone with you to drive his car home." The officer gave the address of the closed business and hung up.

The officer went back over to Leroy's car. "I called him, he is on his way, it will take him roughly around four hours to get here."

"Four hours?"

"You drove longer then you thought, Son. Since it will take them a bit to get to you, why don't you come with me and we'll get you some food."

"Sir, you don't have to babysit me, I will stay here and wait for Dave."

"Not babysitting a grown man, just a worried citizen that is all. Come on, I will drive you back here in an hour or so. You have to be hungry or at least thirsty, I don't see any water." The officer looked concerned.

"Ok." Leroy rolled his window up and got out of the car and followed the officer to his. The officer told him to get in the front.

"You can call me, Pete. Do you mind if I call you Leroy?"

"No Sir." Leroy looked at the officer. "No Pete, I don't mind."

"I am going to go out on a ledge here Leroy, I don't normally tell people, but I am gay as well. I am not going to say that I know what is troubling you and what your fight was about, but if you want to talk to me, you are more than welcome." Pete paused for a second. "Dave sounded worried about you, I don't know if that was what you were aiming at." Leroy started to interrupt him. "I don't see that, I was just checking to see if you did mean to worry him, you seemed lost. How long have you two been together?"

"No, I didn't mean to drive as far as I drove and I am lost, this year completely changed my life. Dave and I have been together since we were sixteen, except for a few years from eighteen to twenty."

Pete took him back to the police station and he did a few things and then they were walking out to his car, he took a minute while they were in the parking lot to call his partner to inform him what was going on, if he wanted to meet them for dinner or not, of course he partner came to dinner. "Don't mind my partner, he is nice and anything you want to talk about will not go beyond him either." Pete pulled up to a little diner in the town and his partner was already waiting in the parking lot, Leroy and Pete walked over to him. "Leroy I would like you to meet my partner Chris, Chris this is Leroy."

They all greeted one another and walked into the diner. After small talk Pete returned back to Leroy fight and asked if he would like to talk about what had happened. Leroy exhaled and started to tell them it was stupid really, then went into telling them how the past year has affected his life and how last night seem like a puzzle piece finally was put in place that he really wanted to have a kid or two and that Dave was against the idea. But the biggest fear that Leroy had was he was now a burden and Dave would get tired of taking care of him and leave him.

"Leroy, the man that I talked to on the phone was worried to death about you, I don't think he will be leaving you anytime soon. You two have been together too long to think that because you got sick he is going to leave you. Son, you can't be just running off in the middle of the night because you had a disagreement. Life is full of disagreements, if Chris or I did that every time we got in a major fight, hell we wouldn't be together after these thirty plus years."

"Leroy, it is tough, I don't know how many fights you have been in, I am assuming enough over this past fifteen years." Leroy nodded his head. "You will just need to sit down with Dave and talk to him about your feelings, as you said a lot has changed in this year. Did you want kids before?" Chris asked.

"No, I was living my life, living my life with Dave; I didn't want to share him with anyone or anything. I don't know what changed inside of me, I was just sitting in my sister's family room with the baby on my lap and I could see Dave and me with a little one, to complete our family. I don't know where it came from, it was just all of a sudden what I wanted." Leroy sat silent for a minute. "I know Dave is right, how could I take care of a baby when I can't drive or do anything."

"Don't sell yourself short Leroy." Chris said. "You drove here, you didn't drive back because you were afraid that you were going to have a seizure. So it is possible to drive."

"But I am not supposed to drive."

"In this state you can as long as you have been seizure free for a period of time. Your medicine will help you, it might never take the seizures completely away but it will help." Chris responded and Pete nodded.

"The medicine has helped out a lot; I used to have a seizure almost daily, now I am down to once to twice a week. It has taken some time but I am seeing the signs of one coming on, but again today I have felt it most of the day and it still hasn't come."

"Well, I can't tell you to stop worrying that is on you. All I can say it give it time, you never know what tomorrow will bring and talk with your Dave." Leroy nodded.

They finished up their meal and Pete decided it would probably be best to get Leroy back to the meeting spot, Chris decided to ride with them. They talked about anything and everything, Chris and Pete talked about how they had met those many years ago.

Three hours after Pete called Dave, Dave pulled into the lot. "That boy must have broken every speeding law out there." Pete chuckled.

Leroy got out of Pete's car as Dave got out of his, he walked towards Dave and Dave ran towards him and threw his arms around him and kissed him, he put his forehead to Leroy's and just stood there for a few minutes. Pete and Chris had gotten out of their car and Aaron had gotten out of Dave's.

"Leroy, I love you. You are not a burden to me, if you want ten kids, we will adopt ten kids. I am sorry, I love you Babe." He kissed him again, and Leroy had tears streaking down his face. "Leroy, I am sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you, I know it has been a bad year for you, I just didn't know how much this meant to you."

"It's ok Dave, I am sorry as well. I shouldn't of driven away, I knew it was a mistake and I was scared to drive home, I didn't even know how I got here. Hell I still don't know where the hell I am." Dave placed his forehead back to Leroy's and again they stood there for a bit, until Pete cleared his throat.

Both Leroy and Dave turned to Pete, "Dave this is Pete and Chris, and this man over here is my brother Aaron." They all greeted one another and Dave thanked Pete for finding Leroy. They all talked for a bit and exchanged numbers.

Before they parted ways, Chris pulled Leroy to the side. "Leroy, I was like you, I didn't want kids for the longest time and then one day out of the blue I wanted them and Pete didn't. Give Dave time and yourself time, it will happen."

"Did you end up having kids then?"

"Yeah, my sister donated the eggs and we found a surrogate to have the kids for us. We ended up having one of each; they are living their lives and doing well, we even have grandbabies on the way. Just be patient it will work out for the best. Please give us a call when you need." Leroy actually hugged Chris and walked back towards Pete and shook his hand, Dave and he drove home with Aaron following in Leroy's car.

The drive home took the four hours, Dave didn't speed going home, they did call Aaron to see if he wanted to just take Leroy's car home and switch them the next day, but he told them he might as well pick his car up tonight. It was after ten when they pulled in the driveway, Aaron said his goodnights and walked to his car and drove away.

Dave took Leroy by the hand and they went to the bedroom. They undressed and got into bed and Dave cuddled up to Leroy and laid there for the longest before talking. "Babe, I love you. You scared me so much when I woke and couldn't find you."

"I know Dave, I was stupid, I just needed to get away and think, I didn't realize I drove so long, I really thought I had only had driven for two hours, and I am glad that I didn't start seeking my way home, because I would have been even more lost. Dave forgive me please, I won't do it again."

"No, I am the one that needs to be asking for forgiveness, honey I know things have changed for you and you were trying to ask me about kids. Whatever you would like, Babe we will do, I don't want to lose you."

"Dave I don't want them right this minute, I was just bringing up the idea. I don't know when and if we will or if you want them, I was just thinking about it. I don't want to be a burden to you, and I feel like I am."

"Leroy you have never and will never be a burden to me, I love you. Please never think that again." Dave pulled Leroy to him and held him tight.

"I love you too Dave, always and forever."

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Let me know, should Dave and Leroy have kids or just leave the subject untouched?