Mindy Bimms
Chapter Eight
A/N: I do not own the CSI characters, I am just borrowing them.
I just own Dan and Maureen Hodges and his brothers Terry and Steve and their wives Mary and Nancy.
This chapter is the aftermath of Mary's tantrum and attitude towards Wendy…..
David watched forlornly as his girlfriend, left to go to the airport in a taxi. He had no idea exactly what made her leave like that. He knew that something happened at dinner when he was away from the table talking to his father.
When David went back into the dining room, the rest of the family was eating merrily and chatting about the up-coming celebration.
"It is sooo exciting, I'm finally graduating with my Doctorate. You know I've planned this for years" Steve was saying as he helped himself to more veggies.
"Excuse me everyone, but what happened, why did Wendy leave so suddenly?" he demanded.
"This celebration is very important, we need to make sure that the children behave themselves" Mary said to Nancy.
"Excuse me Mary, but I asked a question and you completely ignored me"
"I say we hire a babysitter to take care of the kids, we don't want any acting up at the ceremony. I don't want my husband embarrassed at the most important day of his life. Dr. Steven Hodges." Mary continued and passed the potatoes to her husband.
David stood there in anger. His sister-in-law had absolutely no politeness in her what so ever. Unfortunately this was not the first time she had blatantly ignored David. Through all this Steve said nothing, his head was bowed and he was not making eye contact with his wife.
"Mary, do you mind? I think it is my turn to speak" David said and stood directly in front of his sister in law.
"David I was not addressing you so would you please shut up and sit your ass down" She snarled rudely at him.
David saw something he had never seen before, Steve get all flushed with intense anger and then he heard something he had never heard before…. "Mary you are out of line. I would like for you to apologize to David for interrupting him and being so unbelievably rude."
"Steve now is not the time to disagree with me. Your brother had no right to lie to us and bring that fake girlfriend. We have an image to uphold in my-uh our family and we do not allow homosexuals to attend family functions" Mary said and directed a look at her husband.
Steve threw down his napkin and fork and stood up. "Mary I have had enough of your lip. My brother David is not gay! That was his girlfriend, he has written many letters and told me about her. He has had a crush on her for a little while now and this is the first chance he had to introduce her to us and what did you do Mary, you act like the rude little bitch you are and basically run her out of this house and this state. By now because of you she's gone back to Las Vegas. Oh and Mary, your mother does not have any right to that extra ticket my brother's girlfriend has more of a right than her!" Steve told his wife angrily.
The rest of the Hodges family stared at Steve in shock. Steve has never stood up to his wife in the six years they've been married. Mary always walked all over him and Steve tended to do what she said and was basically henpecked. When Mary talked so rudely to Wendy, Steve knew that his inner volcano would erupt at any moment.
Steve then did the unthinkable. He left the table for a moment and then returned with an envelope.
"What is this" demanded Mary.
"Divorce papers." He replied to which the entire family gasped. "You will be hearing from my lawyer. As of now I want you out of this house. You are not welcome anywhere near my family or the celebration. As far as child support goes. Before I pay anything, I want DNA tests done on the children… I have long suspected you're cheating and before I even give you one cent I want a paternity test."
Anger flowing but wordless Mary got up from the table and gathered the children and took off back to their house.
The Hodges family ate their remaining meal in silence. Nancy helped Maureen clean up then shortly after Nancy and Terry and their children left to head home.
After Nancy and Terry left David sat in the bedroom he was going to be occupying for the weekend and looking at his cell phone debating whether or not to call Wendy. He was about to dial when he heard a knock.
"Come in"
Steve entered the room and sat on the bed across from David.
"That took guts Steve" David said.
"I had been thinking about that for a while now Dave, Things aren't all as they seem."
"But you seem so put together." David said.
"It's all an act." Steve said shaking his head.
"What do you mean an act?" he asked.
"David I was happy with my Masters Degree and the awesome job I had. It was Mary who pressured me into getting that Doctorate. Yeah I am now Dr. Steven Hodges, but at what price? I lost my job because school was taking too much of my time, studying for your doctorate is not an easy task. Mary was basically supporting us all and then she got angry when I wasn't able to take her out for our anniversary because I had an exam the following day."
"I take it you were able to find a new job?"
"Yes. As soon as I lost the other one, I began sending out resumes and whatnot and I was able to get a good job at a competing company."
"What about this allegation about the kids and DNA tests?"
Steve shook his head. "I have a suspicion that Alicia, the baby is not mine. I'm certain that Amy is mine though."
They were quiet for a while. "I envy you Dave, I think your girl is very kind and sweet, I wish to hell that Mary was like that. But even before we got married, she was a bitch."
"Then why didja marry her" David said. "I mean you were a bachelor, no ties to anyone, you could travel do whatever you want…"
"I did the noble thing Dave…Amy was conceived six months before we got married"
David said nothing. He just sighed.
"Do you want to call Wendy to come back and attend the celebration?" asked Steve.
"She's already back in Vegas Steve, it'll take her a few hours to get back here…" he said.
Steve smiled. "I have an idea, we can fly her back here in the corporate jet"
David looked at him funny. "What are you talking about Steve, what corporate jet?"
Steve pulled out his business card to which David gasped. "Carlotta Enterprises" is one of the biggest Entomology firms in the San Francisco area.
"You got your doctorate in Entomology??" David said and grinned.
"Yeah, why do you know another entomologist?" Steve asked putting away his card.
"Yeah, Gil Grissom the Graveyard Supervisor of the crime lab is one of the top entomologists in Las Vegas."
Steve's jaw dropped to the floor. "You work with Dr. Gil Grissom??"
"Yeah, what's the big deal?"
"David you have to invite him to my celebration, the man's my idol!"
While Steve called his boss at work, David called both Wendy and Gil Grissom to let them know that they were invited to the celebration. Wendy was a little wary about it, at first, but after David told her that Mary would not be there, she agreed. Gil was a little wary at first too about being invited to a ceremony of a man he had never met, but David told him that Steve said that he was his idol, Grissom humbly agreed to attend. Steve told David that the jet would be at McCarran by nine thirty and that there would be someone waiting for them at the Customer Service Desk at nine.
A/N: A little longer than the others, but I had a lot to cover. More coming soon….
