Chapter 23 "He Is"
A/N: Wow, two chaps posted in a row! Anyways, this part will focus more on Ty as an individual. I will keep Cree and everyone in here, but I really haven't gone into Ty since I introduced him.
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CRASH
Ty leant back into the chair. He watched Cree interact with her mom, like she had never seen her before. And he was confused as hell. Granted that he only knew the woman for two days, but things kept getting deeper and more complex as the days went on.
"Great save man" Kirk slapped Ty on his shoulder beside him. Kirk ceased his compliment when he saw that Ty wasn't paying attention "Ty, boy you still here?"
"What?" Ty turned then "Yeah, I'm cool."
"Seems more to me like you're hot" Kirk joked, seeing Ty looking at Cree "Can't say that I blame ya, she looks hot"
"She's 18-" Ty cut in for some reason
"So?" Kirk shot back "I'm 25, you're 22, not like its sagatory or nothin'. Girl's legal-"
"It's not that" Ty snapped in, wishing he hadn't said anything "I just get the feelin' she's not tellin' me everything"
"Uh huh, and for THAT you're gonna stop the ship" Kirk didn't sound too convinced. "Let you have this one man, you seem interested enough"
"I appreciate that"
"So" Kirk looked around to the other women at the small gathering at the tables. The other women being Max and Cindy "You seem to have got yourself acquainted with this group pretty well, any other of these nice lookers available?"
"Your bets are off with her-" Ty gave a nod over to Max sitting at the table beside Cindy. "Her boyfriend Logan was the one that tipped me off about Cree bein' in the fire"
"Damn" Kirk drew out the word "Some of us have all the luck" he looked at Cindy "Bout her?"
"Honestly don't know man" Ty informed
"So that means I have a shot-"
"Could be"
"She got a name you know of?"
"Think it's Cindy-"
"Nice, suits her" Kirk agreed, looking back to the woman of the hour
Sketchy just happened to be heading back to his table with a pitcher, and overheard the conversation the two fireman were having "If you guys are tryin' to get with Original Cindy forget it, no guy has a chance"
"Why's that?" Kirk turned to Sketchy curious
"Cause her last date was named Angela" Sketch answered back
"Ooo" Ty grimaced "Crash and burn" he looked to Sketchy "Thanks for the heads up man"
"Not a problem" Sketchy left with his pitcher
"Damn" Kirk repeated again "Two good lookin' women. One of them's taken and the other's not even into dating men" he took a sip of his beer. "Any chance of-"
"Get your head out of that game plan man, that's Cree's mother. And a cop I might add"
"Why don't I just quit while I'm ahead?"
"Might be a good thing," Ty returned, pouring himself another glass. He looked back towards Cree. She and her mom were talking still, in quiet voices. There was something about the way they were sitting together that filled Ty's head with all kinds of questions. Something big must've happened for there to be as big of a reunion as he witnessed between the two. Cree barely mentioned her family, but she always sounded so sad when she talked about them, so he didn't pressure her.
He barely knew her, but at times it felt like he knew her forever. He always wanted a relationship like that, not necessarily a marriage, just someone he could be with. His last hook up lasted almost a year, but in the end they really could find no real connection to stay together. Every man in the world might argue that being able to have sex with a 5'6 green-eyed, 110-pound blonde with a figure like rivaled Tyra Banks was the best kind of "connection" there was. But Alyse and him had nothing really to talk about. He stayed with her, and he did care for her, but it wasn't what he thought it could be. She was a great person, but it never went anywhere. And contrary to popular belief Ty didn't want to be with a woman just because of good sex. Nine hundred call up girls and hookers gave good sex, that wasn't something that hard to find. He was still young, but he wanted more then lust. He wasn't exactly ready to 'settle down' Marriage was a bit of a ways off. His older sister Jessica was already married with two babies, his twin nieces Reese and Mya. He was happy at this point to be an uncle and brother in law.
But with Cree, it had only been three days, but he defiantly knew he wanted something with her. What is was, and if that led into something deeper, like requiring a ring and diapers, he would have to see if it played out, but he did want what was apparently coming.
She had such a haunted, beautiful look about her. In a way Ty could see why Logan was in love with Max, he could see in Cree's eyes that same haunted, yet strong loyal look that Logan saw in Max.
*I tried to look the other way
But there you passed me by
I saw you holding Q Tips hand
And girl damn near died
They way you hold that cosmo
Just fits you to a tee
But I just wish that you was sitting
Right next to me
I wonder what was on God's mind
The day that he made you
I know he wrote a new commandment
After he was through
But every time I see you
I find something new
I just gotta have you*
"Scuse me"
Ty looked up to see a woman, an older version of Cree standing above him. Black straight hair, brown eyes, strong eyes, the same beauty as Cree, just a bit more mature "Mind if I sit?"
Ty's response was to kick a chair back for her "No ma'am"
Ming sat "Thanks-"
"Ty" he answered back, holding out his hand "Ty Aris, I'm a fireman at Ladder 12"
"Well Ty Aris, I'm Ming Amston, Cree's mother. I just want to thank you for what you did for my baby-"
"With all due respect Officer Amston, You're daughter's 18, she's not a baby anymore." He didn't look at her with anger, just with a want for her to understand his position, that he might want to have a relationship with her daughter, and for her to understand he saw her as a woman, not a little girl.
"Society dictates that to be true" Ming agreed "But with all due respect Mr. Aris, Cree can be ninety-years old with thirty-four grand kids and twelve great grand kids and she'd still be my baby. But I see you know what I came here to talk about, at least most of it anyways-"
"Officer-"
"Please Ty, neither one of us is on duty, so either call me Mrs. Amston, or hell call me Ming if you want, but stop this crap about officer before I show you how I got first ranking in my weapons class at the police academy"
Ty smirked at that "You're the boss"
Ming smiled for a second, before speaking again "Ty, how long have you known Cree?"
"Not long Mrs. Amston" Ty went for the polite name from Ming's choices "Almost three days"
Ming looked at him then with a quiet sadness "Did Cree ever talk to you about-"
"About what?"
The older woman sighed "This was the first time I saw her since 2017." She saw Ty's slight astonishment, but he masked it fast so she could go on
"Can I ask what-"
"She was abducted" Ming interrupted, looking him straight in the eye "Late one night she was going out to go sing at a karaoke bar near our house in LA. I was going to take her and Jade, that's my youngest daughter, out and pick them up later. But Cree had this boyfriend, Jack-" she spat on the name "Anyways, he came to pick her up that night. She begged me to go with him. My husband and I put up a fight, I was a cop, I KNEW it wasn't safe. But in the end I let her go." Her eyes got sadder "And she never came home. I got to work next day and her boyfriend's name was all over the precinct. Witness saw unknown men taking a young girl into a black car. But by the time we got there it was too late. Jack was involved, I knew it. He skipped LA as soon as Cree vanished. I looked for her hard core for months after she was gone. Every time a girl's body was reported found over the scanner I almost lost it. Everyone at work thought I was crazy. I knew the odds of finding a child alive after that long. But I WASN'T going to give up and bury my child in a bodiless grave just to give them closure. I got a lead on her ex here in Seattle so I came. He was there- the son-of-a-bitch. He told me EVERYTHING. How Cree got taken away that night to some ring somewhere."
Ty's sat up straighter then.
"I haven't had the heart to ask her yet. How she lived through all of it. I busted slave rings Ty. I know what they can be like. I've even lived through abuse with my ex husband, but this isn't the same. I have her back. But a part of her is gone, it died that night those rat asses put their hands on her. She grew into a strong woman without me, but as her mother I need to know how. I can't help her any other way. She's old enough now. A cup of cocoa and a made up story won't cut it no more" Ming looked hard at Ty "I know you like her Ty. I can see it. I saw that same look from my man Peter when we were first dating. I don't know how hurt she is because of this, or if she can ever be with a man, but it's not up to me to decide. She is the only one who will know things like that. If you want to be with her, you will have to talk to her. I can't accept anything else otherwise." Now her voice got authoritative. Cree was her daughter, first and foremost, she would always be protective of her.
"Yes ma'am"
Ming stood back up "Thank you for hearing me out Ty. If Cree would've met someone like you first, maybe this could all have been avoided" she left then.
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*Oh, my, where do, how do I begin
To answer the question I know you been wonderin'
Playin' cool, I, cool, how could it all be true
These things, who's that and what's it to you*
*****
FOGGLE TOWERS
"What do you think Ty wanted to talk to Cree about?" Max was making conversation with Logan on his couch. Ty had asked Cree to his place, and Cree had gone, with some persuasion from her mother.
"She has a lot of issues Max" Logan reminded her "He might've found some of them out. As shitty as it is for her, she needs to let some of them loose if she wants a real relationship"
Max silently agreed with him, judging by the look in her eyes. "A real relationship, like ours?" she was more questioning then stating.
"Is that what you want?"
She shrugged "I never had a real relationship before Logan, too messed up for it I guess-"
"You're not" Logan corrected, "No relationship has two perfect people, despite what people think. Real things have their flaws"
"I'm the imperfection," she agreed
"No" Logan corrected again "You're about the only good part of this whole deal. Max I-" he waited, waiting for the usual interruption, going on when none came "I told you I loved you, and I still mean it. There was no heat of the moment feelings that made me spill it out. I've always loved you."
She was actually speechless then. "Love you too" she repeated her earlier words before she left to rescue Cree. "I've tried too hard to be normal Logan, I don't want that shit anymore. I just want to be me-"
She felt him kiss her. He didn't reply to her remark, but the way he was touching her, the way he looked at her, it made her fucked up world seem better because of it.
"You wanna-" he broke apart for a moment, his voice dark
"Don't ask" she had darkness there too. Brown sugar, what Cindy called it. Wanting no talk, just feeling.
He picked her up then, something he wanted to do their first time, but it was too hot to act on romance.Her arms looped around his neck.
She felt him lay her on the bed gently in the dark, his hands pulling down her tank top straps and kissing her exposed skin, his mouth everywhere above the fabric.
"Logan enough" she pulled back. "I don't want that" she didn't know if she was in heat, or just needed it right now "I just want you"
He looked at her in the dark, she could feel it, and then he straddled her body, bracing his weight on his arms so she wouldn't be crushed, and he kissed her long, hard, but honest, making her honest, giving her what she wanted, what they both wanted.
*He is the mind objector, the heart protector
The soul defender of anything I fear
The baby conceiver, the make me believer
The joy bringer, the love giver*
*****
VILLA LAKES
APARTMENT 16
SEATTLE
"Am I too dirty now?" Cree had just told Ty the almost complete R rated version of her life in the sex ring. She sat cross-legged on his couch, she couldn't even look him in the eye. She was a victim, but she still was dirty. A whore more then two hundred times over. Her mom had talked to Ty, she knew. She had wanted to go back to her hotel and talk, God knows they had enough catching up to do, but Ming told her to see Ty.
/FLASH: "I've got you in my sights now kiddo, and I'm not letting you go again. Don't stop the life you've just began for me"
"Mom I-"
"Baby, I'm not asking" Ming looked at her in gentle sternness, her arm around Cree's shoulder "We will have our time tomorrow, but tonight, this is yours"/
"Cree" Ty stopped in front of is couch, kneeling down next to her. "Did you want it?"
"What the hell are you saying?"
"Did you?"
"Hell NO!" she shouted right in his face. How could he ask her that? How could ANYONE ask her that? She was dirty, but she never wanted the dirtiness. Does a cat asked to given heat cycles where she wants to fuck every male feline she can jump at?
"Then you aren't dirty. You did what you had to do to live"
"Still can't look at myself"
"I can"
She looked up to him then, looking him completely in the eye. "How?" she paused, gathering her thoughts "Do you see me as a woman or as a-"
"How can you ask me that? Whores are those asses who did that to you, not you or any of those women who were with you. A whore would take it, not run away, not want her life back."
"You're just saying this to make me feel bett-"
"No Cree I'm not. Ask my last girlfriend; I'm not Mr. Sentimental. I respect women, but I don't sugar coat a feeling. I want to help you though. Help, not just take away the pain for the time being"
*He is
All these words are only frostin' on my cake
Feelings explain, don't do justice to how I feel
So alive, so in love for the first time
No way can I hide who am I*
"Do you?" she wanted an answer from her last question
"Yes Cree" Ty reassured her "I have always seen you as a woman"
"Even now?"
"Especially now" /Shit/ "Cree I don't mean it like-"
She grabbed him then, by his leather jacket, and kissed him. Something she thought she would never initiate again.
Ty kissed her back, not knowing what to do now. With what happened before at Crash and over the last three years, she had to make the first move.
Cree pulled back for a moment "Ty I can't. What I mean is I can't do it yet. It's too soon-"
"Cree it's okay. I'm not expecting it" he calmed her down "We could just-"
"This" Cree kissed him again "Just keep doing this" she looped her arms around his neck
(SLOW ZOOM OUT SHOT OF TY AND CREE KISSING ON HIS COUCH)
*He is the mind objector, the heart protector
The soul defender of anything I fear
The baby conceiver, the make me believer
The joy bringer, the love giver
He is the dough increaser, the pleasure releaser
The hard knocks knower without the scars to show ya
The night school teacher, the good life preacher
The caretaker, the kiss craver
He Is.. *
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This story's commin' to a close. The next one will be the last chapter. I think it's coming to a good point to end. I can't go into everything I want in the finale, so I WILL do a sequel.
I wanted to have Ming talk to Ty, they needed some kind of connection, cause the dude likes her daughter. Ming, Peter and them will be reunited in the next part. I just needed to get them to release feelings. A terrible thing happened to them. It don't just go away cause Cree is back.
Max and Logan reached their high point, so its smooth sailing for them (for now, next installment, have to throw some stuff there way..makes it more interesting)
I will work on the next chapter a lot, but school starts tomorrow, so I'll do my best. I just wanted to get these up.
Songs in here are:
"You" Lucy Pearl, Snoop Dog, Q-Tip "Save the Last Dance" Soundtrack
"He Is" (also the title of the chapter) Heather Headley
R/R please
Peace
Mystic
A/N: Wow, two chaps posted in a row! Anyways, this part will focus more on Ty as an individual. I will keep Cree and everyone in here, but I really haven't gone into Ty since I introduced him.
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CRASH
Ty leant back into the chair. He watched Cree interact with her mom, like she had never seen her before. And he was confused as hell. Granted that he only knew the woman for two days, but things kept getting deeper and more complex as the days went on.
"Great save man" Kirk slapped Ty on his shoulder beside him. Kirk ceased his compliment when he saw that Ty wasn't paying attention "Ty, boy you still here?"
"What?" Ty turned then "Yeah, I'm cool."
"Seems more to me like you're hot" Kirk joked, seeing Ty looking at Cree "Can't say that I blame ya, she looks hot"
"She's 18-" Ty cut in for some reason
"So?" Kirk shot back "I'm 25, you're 22, not like its sagatory or nothin'. Girl's legal-"
"It's not that" Ty snapped in, wishing he hadn't said anything "I just get the feelin' she's not tellin' me everything"
"Uh huh, and for THAT you're gonna stop the ship" Kirk didn't sound too convinced. "Let you have this one man, you seem interested enough"
"I appreciate that"
"So" Kirk looked around to the other women at the small gathering at the tables. The other women being Max and Cindy "You seem to have got yourself acquainted with this group pretty well, any other of these nice lookers available?"
"Your bets are off with her-" Ty gave a nod over to Max sitting at the table beside Cindy. "Her boyfriend Logan was the one that tipped me off about Cree bein' in the fire"
"Damn" Kirk drew out the word "Some of us have all the luck" he looked at Cindy "Bout her?"
"Honestly don't know man" Ty informed
"So that means I have a shot-"
"Could be"
"She got a name you know of?"
"Think it's Cindy-"
"Nice, suits her" Kirk agreed, looking back to the woman of the hour
Sketchy just happened to be heading back to his table with a pitcher, and overheard the conversation the two fireman were having "If you guys are tryin' to get with Original Cindy forget it, no guy has a chance"
"Why's that?" Kirk turned to Sketchy curious
"Cause her last date was named Angela" Sketch answered back
"Ooo" Ty grimaced "Crash and burn" he looked to Sketchy "Thanks for the heads up man"
"Not a problem" Sketchy left with his pitcher
"Damn" Kirk repeated again "Two good lookin' women. One of them's taken and the other's not even into dating men" he took a sip of his beer. "Any chance of-"
"Get your head out of that game plan man, that's Cree's mother. And a cop I might add"
"Why don't I just quit while I'm ahead?"
"Might be a good thing," Ty returned, pouring himself another glass. He looked back towards Cree. She and her mom were talking still, in quiet voices. There was something about the way they were sitting together that filled Ty's head with all kinds of questions. Something big must've happened for there to be as big of a reunion as he witnessed between the two. Cree barely mentioned her family, but she always sounded so sad when she talked about them, so he didn't pressure her.
He barely knew her, but at times it felt like he knew her forever. He always wanted a relationship like that, not necessarily a marriage, just someone he could be with. His last hook up lasted almost a year, but in the end they really could find no real connection to stay together. Every man in the world might argue that being able to have sex with a 5'6 green-eyed, 110-pound blonde with a figure like rivaled Tyra Banks was the best kind of "connection" there was. But Alyse and him had nothing really to talk about. He stayed with her, and he did care for her, but it wasn't what he thought it could be. She was a great person, but it never went anywhere. And contrary to popular belief Ty didn't want to be with a woman just because of good sex. Nine hundred call up girls and hookers gave good sex, that wasn't something that hard to find. He was still young, but he wanted more then lust. He wasn't exactly ready to 'settle down' Marriage was a bit of a ways off. His older sister Jessica was already married with two babies, his twin nieces Reese and Mya. He was happy at this point to be an uncle and brother in law.
But with Cree, it had only been three days, but he defiantly knew he wanted something with her. What is was, and if that led into something deeper, like requiring a ring and diapers, he would have to see if it played out, but he did want what was apparently coming.
She had such a haunted, beautiful look about her. In a way Ty could see why Logan was in love with Max, he could see in Cree's eyes that same haunted, yet strong loyal look that Logan saw in Max.
*I tried to look the other way
But there you passed me by
I saw you holding Q Tips hand
And girl damn near died
They way you hold that cosmo
Just fits you to a tee
But I just wish that you was sitting
Right next to me
I wonder what was on God's mind
The day that he made you
I know he wrote a new commandment
After he was through
But every time I see you
I find something new
I just gotta have you*
"Scuse me"
Ty looked up to see a woman, an older version of Cree standing above him. Black straight hair, brown eyes, strong eyes, the same beauty as Cree, just a bit more mature "Mind if I sit?"
Ty's response was to kick a chair back for her "No ma'am"
Ming sat "Thanks-"
"Ty" he answered back, holding out his hand "Ty Aris, I'm a fireman at Ladder 12"
"Well Ty Aris, I'm Ming Amston, Cree's mother. I just want to thank you for what you did for my baby-"
"With all due respect Officer Amston, You're daughter's 18, she's not a baby anymore." He didn't look at her with anger, just with a want for her to understand his position, that he might want to have a relationship with her daughter, and for her to understand he saw her as a woman, not a little girl.
"Society dictates that to be true" Ming agreed "But with all due respect Mr. Aris, Cree can be ninety-years old with thirty-four grand kids and twelve great grand kids and she'd still be my baby. But I see you know what I came here to talk about, at least most of it anyways-"
"Officer-"
"Please Ty, neither one of us is on duty, so either call me Mrs. Amston, or hell call me Ming if you want, but stop this crap about officer before I show you how I got first ranking in my weapons class at the police academy"
Ty smirked at that "You're the boss"
Ming smiled for a second, before speaking again "Ty, how long have you known Cree?"
"Not long Mrs. Amston" Ty went for the polite name from Ming's choices "Almost three days"
Ming looked at him then with a quiet sadness "Did Cree ever talk to you about-"
"About what?"
The older woman sighed "This was the first time I saw her since 2017." She saw Ty's slight astonishment, but he masked it fast so she could go on
"Can I ask what-"
"She was abducted" Ming interrupted, looking him straight in the eye "Late one night she was going out to go sing at a karaoke bar near our house in LA. I was going to take her and Jade, that's my youngest daughter, out and pick them up later. But Cree had this boyfriend, Jack-" she spat on the name "Anyways, he came to pick her up that night. She begged me to go with him. My husband and I put up a fight, I was a cop, I KNEW it wasn't safe. But in the end I let her go." Her eyes got sadder "And she never came home. I got to work next day and her boyfriend's name was all over the precinct. Witness saw unknown men taking a young girl into a black car. But by the time we got there it was too late. Jack was involved, I knew it. He skipped LA as soon as Cree vanished. I looked for her hard core for months after she was gone. Every time a girl's body was reported found over the scanner I almost lost it. Everyone at work thought I was crazy. I knew the odds of finding a child alive after that long. But I WASN'T going to give up and bury my child in a bodiless grave just to give them closure. I got a lead on her ex here in Seattle so I came. He was there- the son-of-a-bitch. He told me EVERYTHING. How Cree got taken away that night to some ring somewhere."
Ty's sat up straighter then.
"I haven't had the heart to ask her yet. How she lived through all of it. I busted slave rings Ty. I know what they can be like. I've even lived through abuse with my ex husband, but this isn't the same. I have her back. But a part of her is gone, it died that night those rat asses put their hands on her. She grew into a strong woman without me, but as her mother I need to know how. I can't help her any other way. She's old enough now. A cup of cocoa and a made up story won't cut it no more" Ming looked hard at Ty "I know you like her Ty. I can see it. I saw that same look from my man Peter when we were first dating. I don't know how hurt she is because of this, or if she can ever be with a man, but it's not up to me to decide. She is the only one who will know things like that. If you want to be with her, you will have to talk to her. I can't accept anything else otherwise." Now her voice got authoritative. Cree was her daughter, first and foremost, she would always be protective of her.
"Yes ma'am"
Ming stood back up "Thank you for hearing me out Ty. If Cree would've met someone like you first, maybe this could all have been avoided" she left then.
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*Oh, my, where do, how do I begin
To answer the question I know you been wonderin'
Playin' cool, I, cool, how could it all be true
These things, who's that and what's it to you*
*****
FOGGLE TOWERS
"What do you think Ty wanted to talk to Cree about?" Max was making conversation with Logan on his couch. Ty had asked Cree to his place, and Cree had gone, with some persuasion from her mother.
"She has a lot of issues Max" Logan reminded her "He might've found some of them out. As shitty as it is for her, she needs to let some of them loose if she wants a real relationship"
Max silently agreed with him, judging by the look in her eyes. "A real relationship, like ours?" she was more questioning then stating.
"Is that what you want?"
She shrugged "I never had a real relationship before Logan, too messed up for it I guess-"
"You're not" Logan corrected, "No relationship has two perfect people, despite what people think. Real things have their flaws"
"I'm the imperfection," she agreed
"No" Logan corrected again "You're about the only good part of this whole deal. Max I-" he waited, waiting for the usual interruption, going on when none came "I told you I loved you, and I still mean it. There was no heat of the moment feelings that made me spill it out. I've always loved you."
She was actually speechless then. "Love you too" she repeated her earlier words before she left to rescue Cree. "I've tried too hard to be normal Logan, I don't want that shit anymore. I just want to be me-"
She felt him kiss her. He didn't reply to her remark, but the way he was touching her, the way he looked at her, it made her fucked up world seem better because of it.
"You wanna-" he broke apart for a moment, his voice dark
"Don't ask" she had darkness there too. Brown sugar, what Cindy called it. Wanting no talk, just feeling.
He picked her up then, something he wanted to do their first time, but it was too hot to act on romance.Her arms looped around his neck.
She felt him lay her on the bed gently in the dark, his hands pulling down her tank top straps and kissing her exposed skin, his mouth everywhere above the fabric.
"Logan enough" she pulled back. "I don't want that" she didn't know if she was in heat, or just needed it right now "I just want you"
He looked at her in the dark, she could feel it, and then he straddled her body, bracing his weight on his arms so she wouldn't be crushed, and he kissed her long, hard, but honest, making her honest, giving her what she wanted, what they both wanted.
*He is the mind objector, the heart protector
The soul defender of anything I fear
The baby conceiver, the make me believer
The joy bringer, the love giver*
*****
VILLA LAKES
APARTMENT 16
SEATTLE
"Am I too dirty now?" Cree had just told Ty the almost complete R rated version of her life in the sex ring. She sat cross-legged on his couch, she couldn't even look him in the eye. She was a victim, but she still was dirty. A whore more then two hundred times over. Her mom had talked to Ty, she knew. She had wanted to go back to her hotel and talk, God knows they had enough catching up to do, but Ming told her to see Ty.
/FLASH: "I've got you in my sights now kiddo, and I'm not letting you go again. Don't stop the life you've just began for me"
"Mom I-"
"Baby, I'm not asking" Ming looked at her in gentle sternness, her arm around Cree's shoulder "We will have our time tomorrow, but tonight, this is yours"/
"Cree" Ty stopped in front of is couch, kneeling down next to her. "Did you want it?"
"What the hell are you saying?"
"Did you?"
"Hell NO!" she shouted right in his face. How could he ask her that? How could ANYONE ask her that? She was dirty, but she never wanted the dirtiness. Does a cat asked to given heat cycles where she wants to fuck every male feline she can jump at?
"Then you aren't dirty. You did what you had to do to live"
"Still can't look at myself"
"I can"
She looked up to him then, looking him completely in the eye. "How?" she paused, gathering her thoughts "Do you see me as a woman or as a-"
"How can you ask me that? Whores are those asses who did that to you, not you or any of those women who were with you. A whore would take it, not run away, not want her life back."
"You're just saying this to make me feel bett-"
"No Cree I'm not. Ask my last girlfriend; I'm not Mr. Sentimental. I respect women, but I don't sugar coat a feeling. I want to help you though. Help, not just take away the pain for the time being"
*He is
All these words are only frostin' on my cake
Feelings explain, don't do justice to how I feel
So alive, so in love for the first time
No way can I hide who am I*
"Do you?" she wanted an answer from her last question
"Yes Cree" Ty reassured her "I have always seen you as a woman"
"Even now?"
"Especially now" /Shit/ "Cree I don't mean it like-"
She grabbed him then, by his leather jacket, and kissed him. Something she thought she would never initiate again.
Ty kissed her back, not knowing what to do now. With what happened before at Crash and over the last three years, she had to make the first move.
Cree pulled back for a moment "Ty I can't. What I mean is I can't do it yet. It's too soon-"
"Cree it's okay. I'm not expecting it" he calmed her down "We could just-"
"This" Cree kissed him again "Just keep doing this" she looped her arms around his neck
(SLOW ZOOM OUT SHOT OF TY AND CREE KISSING ON HIS COUCH)
*He is the mind objector, the heart protector
The soul defender of anything I fear
The baby conceiver, the make me believer
The joy bringer, the love giver
He is the dough increaser, the pleasure releaser
The hard knocks knower without the scars to show ya
The night school teacher, the good life preacher
The caretaker, the kiss craver
He Is.. *
*****
This story's commin' to a close. The next one will be the last chapter. I think it's coming to a good point to end. I can't go into everything I want in the finale, so I WILL do a sequel.
I wanted to have Ming talk to Ty, they needed some kind of connection, cause the dude likes her daughter. Ming, Peter and them will be reunited in the next part. I just needed to get them to release feelings. A terrible thing happened to them. It don't just go away cause Cree is back.
Max and Logan reached their high point, so its smooth sailing for them (for now, next installment, have to throw some stuff there way..makes it more interesting)
I will work on the next chapter a lot, but school starts tomorrow, so I'll do my best. I just wanted to get these up.
Songs in here are:
"You" Lucy Pearl, Snoop Dog, Q-Tip "Save the Last Dance" Soundtrack
"He Is" (also the title of the chapter) Heather Headley
R/R please
Peace
Mystic