9th Dec 2003 to 6th Jan 2004

Bound      By Western Blakehawke

Set after Freak Nation.  February 2023 

Sequel to Unwelcome Ties. Set around fourteen months after the events of the last chapter. 

Ames and Will come face to face again just over sixteen months after they first met.

Chapter 10

               Late evening three days later.

               The aeroplane touched down on the airstrip about sixty miles from Will's farm. Will was at the controls again and she brought the craft in smoothly and taxied it into the largest hanger at the airstrip, which was thankfully large enough to accommodate the plane and still keep the walled off office area.

               Following Will's orders Zia, the families' other exceptional negotiator had brokered a great deal for the hangers rental. Will had decided to call her company Wolfe Limited and hide in plain sight.

               On the hanger's side Bret hand painted the logo that he had come up with for the company after being told it's name. It was a wolf head in World War One flying helmet and goggles, underneath was written. Wolfe Limited. Passenger and Cargo carriers.

               Will and everyone else saw it as she taxied the aeroplane to the hanger, it the disappeared as the aeroplane rounded the curve in the tarmac so that it was now head on with the hanger.

                Alec came forward into the cockpit grinning. "That Bret is one brilliant artist!"

               Will grinned at him then turned her attention back to what she was doing. "That he is! I'll get him to paint that logo on both sides of the planes tail fin."

               "Good idea!" Alec replied.

               "Go play steward again Alec and get ready to open the door." Will ordered as she taxied the aeroplane to a halt. "We need to run through the after flight checks, we'll join you in a few minutes."

               Alec nodded and went to play steward.

               Everyone at the farm had been informed of their imminent arrival via the onboard phone an hour before the plane touched down, so all the vehicles that could accommodate passengers were waiting. These were the motor home, the X6's car, the farms two five seat pick up trucks. They had even borrowed the local school bus.

               With the bus they had enough seats because the cubs and under threes sat on laps.

               Tay was driving the bus and after quickly dropping off his kin at the farm he returned it to the town and then hopped on one of the farms motorbikes and raced home.

               Will found Jay and gave him a big hug just as she had promised Ames she would, she then gave him the photographs minus the one that she had chosen. "Your dad asked me to give you the hug and the photos, you can call him tomorrow night and tell him about your new family." She told him smiling. "Save the photo's until tomorrow to okay. I'll go put them safely in your room."

               "Thanks Mom!" Jay ecstatically replied enthusiastically hugging her again. "Okay put them in my room! I want to go pull faces at my baby brothers again!"

               With that he rushed off and did just that moving from brother to brother pulling faces which had all of them gurgling in delight.

                Will took the photographs up to Jay's room, Alec followed her.

               "Will is it just me or are the cubs responding more to Jay than to the others?" He quietly queried even though they were alone. "They respond to him as they do to me, but not as much as they respond to Ames and you."

               Will smiled at her younger brother. "No bro, you're not imagining things, they are responding more to him than to the others they can smell the link, same thing with you, Ames and me."

               Alec grinned then looked confused. "Wait a minute if they can tell he's their biological brother why couldn't you tell that about me?"

               Will looked at him. "Well for one thing just by being around me and having me identify people to them by imaging scenting as well as looking at and listening to them. I never had anyone do that with me not even the dogs I think they knew better than to get me to see if any of you kids were my biological siblings. I think subconsciously I knew, but remember when you and Ben were born I had become used to hiding my abilities so although I registered the similar scent I think I must have buried it, because I had already learnt not to get too attached." She shrugged her right shoulder and then smiled at him. "Hmmmm well it certainly explains why you have always been my favourite."

               Alec looked surprised at that. "I have? Hey how come you've never told me that before?"

               Will rolled her eyes at him. "Because you already have an ego the size of a planet!"

               With that she hurried back to the party, Alec grinning not bothered by the reply hurried after her.

               Everyone had been enthusiastically greeted, especially the quads who loved all the attention and who were totally unfazed that they were being played pass the parcel with, staying with each new relative for only a few minutes before they were handed on, each cub was held and fussed over by each of their older relatives, the younger ones came over and pulled faces at them, waved toys in front of them or in the case of the really young ones totally ignored them, upon introduction.

               Belongings were quickly taken to rooms or cabins, and then everyone returned to the main house to eat.

               They then sat down in the kitchen and family room, at table and on the floor with plates on their laps, for the high tea that had been awaiting their arrival. It was a party type meal of rolls, cheeses, cakes, chips etcetera. There was also a party type atmosphere.

               The cubs were placed in bouncing chairs, which they adored, for the duration of the meal, near the end they finally started to cry for their food and just as expected Will had plenty of volunteers for the task. Luckily she had made up some bottles while the cubs were getting to know their new kin. Will decided that the fairest thing to do was for the first few days only let her kids have the chance to look after their baby brothers. Everyone cheerfully agreed.

               Will then decided to put the names of those of her children who wished to feed their baby brother, onto pieces of paper in a hat. Her newest kids graciously excluded themselves because they had had a chance on the journey to Canada. Those who won the draw were Cassidy, Danny, Jubilee and Erin.

               After the cubs had been fed and changed, for which a lot of the kids wondered off holding their noses but some stayed to learn, they swiftly fell asleep so Will, Alec, Cassidy and Jubilee took them to the nursery. Will and Alec admired the nursery after they laid the babies down in their cribs, proper ones that had belonged to either siblings or cousins who were now in proper beds.

               They rejoined the others crowded into the family room and enthused about the nursery, Will then decided that it was time for bed, the newcomers were shown to their cabins or rooms.

               When everyone was finally in bed, if not asleep, Will quietly walked past her peacefully sleeping sons and into her own bedroom where she quietly closed the door. She picked up the holdall from the bed and pulled out Ames' shirt, she smelt it, it still had his scent on it intermingled with her own, she sighed then quickly shucked her clothes and pulled the shirt on the then placed the hold all onto the floor and got into her empty super king size bed.

               She picked up the receiver to the satellite phone that as per her wishes remained in her suite; Ray would take it into the family room and then return it whenever he wished to call his father. Will swiftly punched in Ames' number.

               Ames picked up his cell phone in the middle of the third ring. "White! This better be good ringing me at home!"

               "Hi darling." Will replied grinning.

               "Will honey are you and our cubs okay?" Ames asked in concern not having heard from her in three days.

               "We're fine! We got home a few hours ago. I hugged Ray as I promised and he was ecstatic about having the photos." Will hastily assured her mate.

               "That's great….. you're home it's late so you must be in bed." Ames stated a grin evident in his voice. "So what are you wearing?"

               Will burst out laughing recalling the conversation of over a year ago in that same bed were she had been on a sugar high and had asked what he was wearing and been told off after he had automatically responded, after a few moments she stopped laughing. "Pull yourself together Agent White this isn't a sex line!" She responded, sounding amused rather than shocked as he had been. "I'm wearing your shirt and your ring, so Ames are you wearing those sexy black silk pyjama bottoms again…. You know after that call I had a very nice dream about you and removing those pyjama bottoms!

               Ames laughed. "You did? Well Ray's call woke me up from a dream were we were married and we were curled up asleep, actually in the position that we do sleep in and it was kind of obvious that we had just made love… 494 had just turned up and you recall what I said that first morning well that's what my dream self said to the dream 494 and then I woke up!" He confessed.

               "You did!" She started laughing and spoke as she laughed. "I bet you wished that the phone had rung earlier huh! Wow you must been so relieved not to find me in your bed then you found out that Ray called me Mom and the rest!"

               Ames laughed along with her. "Yeah, I was very relieved that the only wolf in my bed was Howler, he's been sleeping in it since Ray went to school. Ah I don't normally sleep with a soft toy."

               "Ah but he's not any soft toy is he, he's Howler and I'd have done the same in your place." Will was quick to sincerely reassure the embarrassed male.

               "Yeah well I wish it were you here not him!" Ames growled.

               "So do I Ames or that you were here, this bed is a super king size, just like the one at my former apartment and it's never felt lonely before." Will sincerely responded. "I've a house full of people! Forty nine kids and Alec yet it feels so lonely without you!"

               "My beds a king size and I want you in it!" Ames complained. "The cubs weaning can't come soon enough!"

               "I know!" Will plaintively replied as she shimmied under her blankets.  "Ames I'm willing to try phone sex if you are."

               "It's better than nothing." Ames throatily agreed and initiated it.

               The end.