Fosters: Blackhawk
our lunch, he clips it into
a net so it stays upright.  How cool is that?  He closes
the back door and puts his hand on my back guiding me to the
passenger door; he doesn’t close it until I’m buckled in. 
Joey slaps my arm.  I wave her away but I’m jumping up and
down in my head.   Friggin Christian laughs.
     
    Cloud
    Fuck I almost kissed her; I need to keep my head
around her. I take a deep breath to clear my head walking around
the truck.  Being close to her is fuckin with my head. 
I'm fucked.  Away from her I keep thinking about her.
 
    Smiling I get in and ask the kids if they're
ready.  They yell back making me laugh. "Cute kids."
 
    "I think so."  She smiles back and my
fuckin heart speeds up.  Fuck.  I didn't act like this
with Mia and I was ready to marry her.  What the fuck is going
on with me?
    I get us to the park and get Joey in her
chair.  I strap the bag to her chair and walk behind her with
CJ.  "What is CJ short for?"  
    She laughs, "Nothing.  My birth certificate
says CJ, my mother was Claire and my father was John.  My
guess is it is their initials."  
    "You've never asked?"  
    "I grew up in care.  There was no one to
ask."  She doesn't sound bitter.  
    "Is that why you foster?"  It would explain
a single woman with six kids.
    "Yep.  I lived in some pretty bad places
but the last home I was put in really cared. It made an
impact.  I wanted to do that for someone else.  So I
started fostering when I got out of college." She says it so easy;
I'll bet it wasn't that easy. 
    "What about you?  Have you always flown?"
 She wants to know about me.  Interest.
    I smile, "I grew up on the reservation.  My
grandmother is a shaman; she believes in the old traditions and
raised us in that culture.  I was interested in planes and
encouraged to fly. I started young, went into the military, learned
to fly helicopters, became a SEAL.  Jamie and Kevin were my
team leaders, when I got out they offered me a job.  I used to
do international missions, now I stay stateside." 
    "Did you not like the international missions?"
 She sounds surprised; I look at her and see she is.
    "I loved the scenery; anything different is
beautiful when you first see it.  The reason I moved to
stateside is my sister.  She needed me to be here while she
went through some tough times."  I don't really want to talk
about Aleena.   
    "I'm sorry.  I didn't mean to pry."
 She understands it's not an easy topic for me.  
    I take a breath.  "I'm not usually a
talker.  I want us to get to know each other.  In order
to do that I need to talk."  I give her a smile.  
    "The strong silent type.  I get it. 
I'd like to get to know you so I hope you're not too silent."
 She gives me a shy look.  
    I watch the boys.  Joey is half way between
us and them.  "Aleena was in an abusive marriage.  Her
husband not only beat her but cut her.  She called me when I
had just gotten back from a mission.  I picked her up from a
shelter.  She had been in the hospital for a week before
that.  I'm her closest male relative and I didn't protect her
like I should have.  I talked to Jamie and he agreed to keep
me stateside so I could be closer to Aleena.  Now she lives on
the same street as I do."  I smile thinking that wasn't so
bad.  
    "Why are you smiling?"  She catches
everything.  
    "I was just thinking that wasn't so bad."
 
    She laughs and grabs my hand running toward the
kids.  I'm so surprised I don't realize what she's
doing.  Joey is rolling down a hill.  I run, fuck! 
I pull her along, she's still laughing.  I reach for the right
side and she grabs the left.  We slow down together
laughing.  Joey is hysterical. "You should have let me get to
the end."  She gets out between laughs.  Cute fuckin
kid.  The boys are yelling for us to hurry.  CJ looks at
me with a smile.  She lets go so I do, we jog behind a
laughing Joey.  The kid is having fun speeding down the hill,
I see why she guards
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