April 22nd, 2006

Taj was now a crawling machine. Every chance he got, he was crawling. It was hard keeping up with him. Lily knew Taj was going to start walking soon. He was standing and bouncing, ready to take his first steps.

"I WANT A KITTY!!!!!!!!" Maya screamed. Lily looked up from her book and saw there was a commercial for a local pound.

"No, Butterfly." She said. Maya got up and frowned.

"I want a kitty!" She pouted. Lily couldn't help but to chuckle.

"Why should I get you a kitty?" She asked her daughter, putting the book down.

"Cause they're cute." Maya said.

"Taj is cute." Lily said. Maya sat next to her mother.

"Please." Maya said. Lily sighed.

"We can go look at some kitties, but there's no guarantees I'll get you one all right?" She asked. Maya nodded.


There were dozens of kittens in front of them. They were all gorgeous. Lily's heart swelled with every one. She looked at Maya and sighed.

"You can pick one." She said.

"To keep?" Maya's eyes were large. Bug would kill her, but Lily nodded.

"Yes, you may pick one." Lily said holding Taj up to the kittens. The baby squealed playfully. Maya looked into a cage and pointed.

"That one." She said pointing to a sleeping black cat, "She's pretty." Lily nodded looking at the kitten. She stretched with a tiny yawn.

"What are you going to name her?" She asked.

"Buttons." Maya said, "I like buttons." Lily giggled softly.

"Button's it is then." She said waving the woman over. "Hi. My daughter would like that black kitten. And my son wants that white one."

"Taj is getting a kitty?" Maya asked. Lily nodded.

"He deserves a kitten too." Lily said. The woman nodded getting a box to put the kittens in. She wondered what her husband was going to say.


Bug walked into the house. He had been looking forward to being home all day. Nine autopsies were enough to make a person sick.

"Daddy! Look!" Maya ran into the hallway and showed him Buttons. Bug stood there and stared at the kitten.

"Where did you get that?" He asked.

"From the store." Maya said, "We gotsa a Buttons and Zippa."

"Oh yeah?" He walked into the living room looking at Lily and Taj playing with another kitten. "Hey..."

"Oh hey, Daddy." Lily said holding Zippers up, "We have new pets."

"I see." He said sitting on the couch. Lily smiled.

"They conned me into it." She said. Bug chuckled.

"Babies tend to do that." He said. He watched Lily and Taj play with the kittens. Okay, maybe he wouldn't have picked kittens out, but looking at his children's faces was cool.

May 6th, 2006

The weather was warming up. Bug loved it. Lily wore skimpier clothes when it was hot. Soon, she'd be in tank tops and bikinis. Bug couldn't wait.

"I have some bugs I need you to look at, Bug." Jordan grinned.

"Okay." He pushed back his chair and stood up.

"Ten year old girl came in. She had been locked in her basement supposedly. Things don't add up. She doesn't have any of the signs of someone being locked in their basement." Jordan explained showing Bug to the examine room. She uncovered the body. Bug looked down at the girl.

"How long was she in the basement?" He asked.
"The police estimate three months." Jordan said, "But there are no sores, she seems well fed, and healthy…besides the fact that she's dead."

"Where are the bugs?" he asked. Jordan picked up a jar and showed it to him.

"They look like bees to me, but well they're green." She said. Bug took the jar and stared at it.

"You didn't get stung by one of these did you?" He asked.
"No. I can't find any stings on her, but I found those two in her ears." Jordan said, "What kind is it?"

"They're green carpenter bees. They're rare due to loss of habitat." he said staring at the bees fascinated, "They're exclusively found on Kangaroo Island in South Australia."

"We live in Boston." Jordan said.

"I know. I don't know how any other place where these bees could have come from." he said, "No traveling bug show or museum that I know of. She probably died from bee stings. I would check her ear drums or stirrups. These bees are burrowers." Jordan wrinkled her nose.
"That's disgusting." She said.

"This job is disgusting." Bug chuckled.

"Thanks. I'll tell the cops." Jordan said putting the bees In the fridge, "I like having a bug guy here."

"Bug guy. Glad I went to college to be called a Bug Guy." Bug laughed softly.

"You can call me corpse girl." Jordan winked.

"I will." Bug returned her wink as he left the room. He walked up to the front desk and grinned brightly at his wife who was looking at a file. Lily looked up.

"What?" She frowned.
"I was just thinking how gorgeous you are even when you frown." Bug said. Lily's face softened with a slight tinge of red.

"You're unbelievable, you know that?" She asked him.
"Why? Because I think you're gorgeous?" He asked her.

"Because after a couple years of marriage and a couple of kids you still find me attractive." She said.

"Of course I still find you attractive." Bug told her, "You haven't changed much."

"I'm like ten pounds heavier." Lily pointed out.

"Ten pounds is nothing." He said.

"God, I love you." Lily leaned over and kissed him softly. Bug sighed with happiness. Yes, he certainly had married the right woman.


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