Sequel to Chemical Salvation. Fallows season 2. Once again I tweak story line and dialog. Contains sex and violence. Thank you for reading. Enjoy :)
Emelia Farley filled her Travel mug with coffee. She was in a hurry to get to her office. Juice had gone in to the club early. The guys were meeting some Irishmen about a gun deal. She and Juice had settled into a comfortable relationship. It felt longer than the 6 or so months that it had actually been. Everything just seemed to fit perfectly in place. Their love was effortless. It was like they had always been together despite their near 8 year hiatus.
Emmy heard wines from the scrawny brindle boxer puppy at her feet.
"What?" She asked as he started jumping at her legs.
She filled his food and water dishes.
"We need to beef you up doggy." She said as he knocked his dish over and ate his food sloppily off the tile.
"Ok Damon, I'm going to work". She said he wagged his tail.
Juice and the other guys called him "Damon the demon" But Emmy knew the true origin of his name. It made her smile. He wagged his little stump of a tail her so vigorously his whole butt moved. The docked tail creeped her out, not to mention the cruelty of it, but that was the way he came.
He had come from a home where the owners were over breeding their dogs for show. When ever they had runts, or puppies that just didn't sell they would get dropped off at the pound in the middle of the night in cardboard box. Emmy despised this, but supposed it was better than drowning them or letting them starve as others would. Damon had defiantly been a runt. His feet were too small. He seemed to have twice the amount of skin that he needed. His ribs were visible and his head seemed too big for his body. He had this funny goofy way of walking, constantly tripped over his own paws. He was the perfect addition to their scarred little family. When they had seen him, Juice immediately fell in love.
"Bye bye puppy". She said leaving him in her decent sized laundry room where his bed was. He cried when she put him outside, so she just couldn't leave him out there.
She sent Juice a text. 'Make sure you let Damon out. If your dog shits on my floor one more time, I'm going to boil him and feed him to you for dinner. Love you!'
Emmy drove to her office, running late again. She really needed to hire a new secretary but was avoiding it. Her last secretary, and friend, was killed in a drive by shooting several weeks ago.
She buried her head in her work. Bobby was being released today and she had a lot to do.
AT 3:00 she picked Ellie and Kenny up at school bringing them back to the office. She rotated days with Their grandparents Piney and Mary depending on how busy each of them was.
"Kenny, Juice got you a new game for the Wii. Why don't you go check it out?"
"Alright!" He yelled taking off to her partner's old office she had turned into room for them to hang out in.
Elly liked to help Emmy with the paperwork. She would stamp papers, put things in piles, sometimes she would just sit at the desk with her and draw.
Emmy dialed a number on the office phone. "I am the attorney representing Robert Munson, I need to speak to Agent June Stahl. Why hasn't my client been released yet?" She asked. Ellie sat there watching her. Emmy smiled and winked at her. "The D.A. dropped his case three weeks ago. You have used every legal loop-hole in the book. You have kept him long enough. If he is not released in the next hour, I will have an unholy weight of do many lawsuits coming down in your head, it will feel like the wrath of God! Do you understand me? You better." She slammed the phone down. It wasn't until two hours later that she received the call she had waited for. The people holding Bobby had finally decided it wasn't worth the constant head ache that Emmy imposed. Despite Agent Stahl's immense protests, they were releasing Robert Munson. That Stahl was a relentless bitch. Normally her tactics worked within a few days.
She picked the phone up again dialing. "My name is Emelia Farley. I need to speak to my client Robert Munson inmate number 386541. I'll hold. that's awesome El". she said looking at the picture of the dog she was drawing with her colored pencils. She always made great effort to let Ellie and Kenny know that she was paying attention, that they were NOT unwanted or in the way.
"It's Damon." She replied.
"I see that honey. Bobby, I got you all setup to be released. Do you want me to come get you?" She asked
"no thanks kid. I'll let them waste the tax payer's money taking me home. Thanks sweetheart."
"You're welcome Bobby. See you tonight".
Emmy called to inform Clay and the club of his release as Ellie continued to work on getting the brindle colors on her little fat cartoon dog.
'Opie's back in town' Juice texted her.
'That's great'
'See u Bobby's party tonight?' He asked.
'sure. I got you a present.' She texted back smiling.
'What is it?'
'You'll see. Taking the kids home in a few.'
"I want to be a lawyer". Ellie said seriously interrupting Emmy's thoughts.
"Really?"
"Yup. Not in a 5-year-old wanting to be a ballerina way, for real."
"That's great Ellie. If you still want to be a lawyer when you get older, I will do everything in my power to help you".
