Chapter 14: Leather Jacket
It has been three months since Roger and Martin had gotten married. They all bought a new house, and the whole family was living in it. The girls had their own rooms and RJ had his. Martin was happy that they were all together.
It had been a long day and Martin got home. He walked into the living room and sat down. It was nice and quiet until heard a chirping noise. He lifted his head and listened heard it again.
"Damn cricket." He said to himself.
Roger walked in and found Riggs in the floor looking for something. He could help smile and laugh a little. Martin heard the laughing and looked over.
"What are you doing?' He asked his new husband.
"We have a cricket…and I am trying to find the damn thing." He said as the cricket chirped again. He moved over looked for it. He looked up at Roger.
"Will you help me?" He asked.
"Nope, I'm on team cricket." Roger said and walked off. Martin rolled his eyes. It chirped again.
"Damn it where are you, you bastard." He said to himself and moved in the floor.
Finally, he gave up. He walked into the bedroom and found Roger putting on his jacket. Riggs pointed his finger and said.
"Where you going?"
"You have a AA meeting tonight." He reminded him.
"Oh yeah I do." Martin moved and got his jacket and put it on. They left to go to the meeting. They walked into the meeting. Roger kinda liked going to these things he could talk about things that were bothering him, and they would help. They all sat down in the circle and started. It got to Margaret and she talked about a woman that she knew that was sober for 52 years relapsed.
After the meeting they were at the table getting coffee and eating snacks. Martin was talking to Margaret and Roger was talking to Aylee, Lola, Anthony, and Edward. Martin saw someone walk in. He looked at the guy and Margaret saw his eyes get wide.
"Martin you alright?" She asked him.
"Oh he is hot." Said Aylee.
"Oh god." Martin said sat down his coffee. Roger looked at him as he put on his jacket.
"Martin?" He said his name.
"Let's go." Martin moved to walk out but Roger grabbed his arm. Riggs looked at him with wide eyes.
"Now Roger." He said and that through everyone. He had and always called Roger Rog. They walked out. The car ride was quiet. Roger tried to get him to talk but he wouldn't. They got to the house and walked in, Martin walked into the kitchen. Roger notice that their friends from AA had followed them. Riggs walked out and saw them there. He rolled his eyes and sat down. They all sat down in the living room.
"Ok now how do you know that man?" Margaret asked him.
"Four weeks after Miranda died, I wanted to get really drunk and I went to this party. He showed up and had a bottle of Tequila and some blow. He did some lines and I drank the Tequila in under four minutes." They all looked at him, mainly Roger.
"I got so messed up that I fell back onto the bed and he got on top of me." He didn't finish.
"That son of a bitch." Lola said out loud.
"He raped me." He said and looked down.
"It was not your fault." Margaret told him.
"But if I had not have been drinking then that wouldn't happened." He told her.
"You don't know that." Roger placed his hand on Martin's.
-Next Day-
Roger left to got to work. Martin had called in and was not up to it. When Roger left Riggs was trying to find the cricket. He smiled and left. After an hour of being gone he was now at the office. He was setting there looking at his ring. He got up and walked to Avery's office and told him that he had to go home. In total he had been gone for about three hours. He walked through the door and found the place all tore up. It looked like someone had robbed them. He walked into the living room and saw Martin setting in the middle of the room with his legs up and arm folded on his legs and head down.
"Oh my god, what happened?" He asked Martin lifted his head up and tears were in his eyes and running down his cheeks.
"I couldn't find the cricket." He said. Roger knew that it was about the guy in the leather jacket. He moved to hold him, but Riggs moved away.
"No, no don't touch me." He told him. Roger sat down beside him.
After Roger put the house back together, he went up to check on Riggs who was in bed. He walked in and saw him laying there looking at the wall. He wanted to help him but how? He walked over and sat down on the bed.
"Tell me how to help you?" He asked him.
"I don't know that you can." He told the truth.
"Lay beside me?" Martin asked him. Roger got up and moved beside him and hugged him up. Riggs rolled over and moved closer to him.
-Later-
Martin was asleep, Roger was downstairs still putting things back. Roger heard the door open and saw Trish and the kids walk in.
"Roger what happened?" She asked him. He told them what had happened to the house and to Martin. He told them not to let Riggs know that he told them. Eira looked upstairs and walked up. Roger saw he leave the room and followed her. She was about to go into the room. Roger stopped her.
"No he needs to be left alone." He told her.
"No he needs us now more than ever." She told him and walked in. She saw Riggs looking at the wall. The same wall that he was looking at earlier. She walked over to him and sat down.
"Papa?" He looked over at her.
"I want to tell you something that happened to me a few months before my mom killed herself." He sat up and looked at her.
"My other father walked into my room and raped me." She told him. Riggs's and Roger's eyes got wide. Roger walked over and sat down beside her.
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" Martin asked her.
"Because I was scared to talk about it. But now I know that I can tell you anything." She smiled at him. Martin reached over and pulled her into his arms. Roger felt Riggs's hand pull on his shirt. He hugged them both.
After talking about it for a while, Roger and Eira left to let Martin sleep. They walked out into the hallway. Eira stopped at the stairs and looked at her new father.
"I'm sorry that your dad did that to you." Roger said to her.
"Oh he didn't." She said. Roger put his eyebrows together.
"What?" He asked.
"I made it up." She said and went to walk off.
"Why." He stopped her.
"To let him think that he is not alone." She told him. "But one of the guys that took me, and Riana did touch me." She said and walked down the stairs.
"How can you be so calm about this?"
"Because I know that it was not my fault and that the bastard that did it get what is coming to him." She said and walked off.