Families
Chapter 08
The Depot and a wedding
In 1978 when Ben had turned 19 he was accepted to the Depot, he had studied hard and was one of the most educated Cadettes in a long time. Of course everyone compared him to his father and even to Buck Frobisher since they had been the top of the class when they had been there.
Ben wasn't too fond of being in the city, he missed the wide open fields at home. He missed the quite nature, he even missed the long winter.
Julie and him had split up after about a year when she had gotten a chance to go stay with her grandparents in Toronto so she could attend college there. There had been some tears from both of them, but they knew that it wouldn't work with a long distance relationship. Still the wrote each other telling about what happened around the place.
It had been a long time now since Ben last got a letter from Julie. He knew she had met a guy, and he figured it was pretty serious. He had himself been out for a few dates, but he wasn't really interested in any of the young women.
When he graduated in 1983 the whole family came to Ottawa for the ceremony. Along with his classmates he wore the red serge. His sister Becky was now 19 and she had been his escort to the tradition ball the evening before graduation. She had loved dancing. Caroline and Bob had with pride watched their children before they too went onto the dance floor. Lillian and Buck Frobisher had been there too as Bob and Buck were both to be made a new degree of Sergeants. They were highly regarded among the Mounties as they always seemed to get their man and held the peace in the North Territories.
Ben had requested to be posted along his father and Buck and since not many did that on their own free will he got the post.
With the same pride as his father and uncle he patrolled the territories, and he did it well. He never stopped until he got the bad guy. Sometimes he came home so exhausted his mother thought he was half dead. She put him into his bed and sat by his side for days with hot meals and plenty of water to hydrate him. She always knew when he was back to his old self, it was the morning he wanted milk. As old as he got he always drank that milk.
Ben turned 30 in 1989 but that wasn't the big happening that year. It was the wedding. The wedding between Rebecca Fraser and 'Little' Stuart Frobisher. He had always been called Little Stuart since he was the youngest. Both Stuart and Becky had been down to the big cities for college but chosen to return. As the once little post had grown into a small town there now was both a lawyer's office, with one lawyer Rebecca Fraser and a proper school with a headmaster named Stuart Frobisher.
It was a happy reunion when Mark came home for the wedding, he usually came home a bit in the summer, but had to get back to Toronto where he was playing for the Maple Leaves. He had for filled his dream and become a famous hockey player. He knew he didn't have many more years left, hockey was a hard game.
Ben was walking thru town when a car he didn't recognized pulled up on the other side of the street. It stopped at the Frobisher's house and out jumped a boy around 6 years old and the woman help another child out of the car seat. As she turned around Ben smiled and crossed the street.
"Hello Julie" he said and took the suite case she was struggling with.
"Hello Ben" she spoke softly. He looked well she thought, his voice deeper than it had been. He was handsome in his uniform and stetson. "I'm sorry I've been so bad at keeping in touch" she apologized.
"Don't be, I get updates from aunt Lillian whenever I come around" Ben said and sat down in front of the little girl "And who might you be?" he asked. The boy had run straight inside to see his grandparents.
"Maggie" she said quietly.
Ben held out a hand "Nice to meet you Maggie, I'm Ben" his smile had the same effect on the four years old little girl as is had on a grown woman and within seconds the little girl threw her arms around him.
"Mommy told me about you, she said you were a Mountie just like grandpa and that you had a nice smile" the girl looked up at her mother who blushed "You were right mommy, he has a nice smile"
Ben got up so he stood face to face with Julie "So you think I have a nice smile?"
Julie chose not to answer. Ben had always been her weak spot, her Achilles heal.
Ben quickened his steps carrying two of her bags "So I heard your divorce finally came thru" he said and Julie looked at him "I'm sorry about it"
"Don't be" Julie said "I'm just glad of being rid of him, the children will get to see him when we get back and then every second weekend but I'm done with him" It had taken his third fling with his third secretary for her to finally go thru with the divorce. Hadn't it been for the children had she left long before, but Maggie and her brother Phil wasn't to blame.
Ben stayed for dinner before he walked back to the little cabin he had built in the outskirts of town. He didn't think it was appropriate to live with his parents, although he quite often was there for dinner and his old room still stood prepared for him if he needed it.
He was laying in his bed thinking about things that had happened lately. And with a smile he thought about Julie and her children. Phil had had a lot of questions both for him and Buck about being a Mountie. Maggie had looked at him and when he looked back she smiled and he smiled back. Julie had done a great job bringing them up. There was a knock on the door and he looked at his watch, it was just about eight. Slowly he got up and opened the door.
"Hi" Julie stood on his porch leaning against on of the wooden poles keeping the roof up.
"Hi" Ben said and lent against the door frame with crossed arms.
They stood there looking at each other. It wasn't that they hadn't met over the years, but it had been a really long time since last.
"Do you want to come in?" Ben asked and Julie nodded. Ben stepped to the side and closed the door behind them "Do you want some coffee?" he asked.
"Do you have milk?" she asked as she always took her coffee with milk.
"Do I ever" Ben grinned that crocked grin.
"I forgot, you're the one that drinks milk" Julie teased him and watched him get busy fixing with the coffee.
She looked around the small kitchen and open area of the living room, it wasn't that modern but there were electricity although she suspected he didn't use it more than necessary since there were kerosene lamps all over the place.
Ben opened the fridge and took the milk out, he also checked around for something more to offer her. There was the left over pie made of different kinds of berries. He took it out and put two plates on the table with the coffee mugs and spoons.
Julie stood by his fireplace and looked at some photos. Some of them she had herself of her father and Bob with or without their wives. There were some of her siblings and of course one from Ben's graduation from the Depot.
She came back to the table and helped him to bring the things over to the sofa and sofa table instead.. They didn't say much but shared the pie directly from the form, to save dishes Julie had said.
"I've missed this?" Julie said "The quiet calm ways of the north"
Ben nodded "I missed it a lot too during my time in Ottawa"
"If it wasn't for the kids and my job I'd probably come back" Julie confessed.
"I'm so happy I got to work at this post, this is what I know and love" Ben said "This is where I belong"
Julie put a hand on his thigh and looked at him "I don't think anyone would argue with you about that, or make you go away" she moved a little closer.
Ben felt the heat between them and put one of his hands on her cheek. Looking her straight in the eyes he bent forward to kiss her. The kiss was soft and careful.
Julie slipped her tongue between his lips and the kiss grew deeper and hotter. They couldn't keep their hands of each other. Clothes started to come off. Ben stood up and easily scooped Julie up in his arms. He carried her into his bedroom. The little Julie saw of it then it was him, this was the Ben she knew so well.
Carefully he put her down and before he laid down beside her he opened the drawer in his nightstand. He wasn't 15 anymore and he knew that if she just stayed the night this wouldn't be just one time.
He returned to kissing her while his hands ran over her body just to end up where she was hot and wet for him. Julie was hungry for him but he took his time first with his fingers and then with his mouth. Julie arched against him when she felt the first shudders of her sweet release. Ben trailed kissed up her body. Her breasts were fuller now than they had been when they were teenagers.
He finally reached her mouth and she could taste of herself when he kissed her. He carefully not to crush her with his weight positioned himself and with a long smooth move entered her. It was like coming home. The few women he had been with had been nothing compared to Julie.
They found a rhythm good for them both and when Ben felt he was near he looked into her eyes. They were dark with desire. He saw what he felt himself.
As Ben rolled to the side he pulled Julie with him "That was something wasn't it?" he said and kissed her.
"Mmm" Julie agreed. "It was nice" she added.
"Any regrets" Ben let his fingers play along her spine.
"No, never with you Ben" Julie laid her head on his chest. She slide down so she laid beside him and took his hand. She brought it to her lips and kissed it.
"Do you have to leave?" Ben asked softly.
"No" Julie shook her head and with her fingertips she started drawing on Ben's chest.
It was clear to them both that they had grown older and somewhat wiser. Julie had a few seduction tricks up her sleeve and she replaced her fingers with her lips, making a trail down Ben's torso. He was all muscles these days, but he was still her Ben, the one she had shared the first time with. What she did with her mouth was something Ben never had experienced but she was good, it felt good and he couldn't hold back that long.
Ben pulled her up so she was laying on top of him. He kissed her softly and drifted of to sleep.
When Ben woke up in the next morning he was alone in bed and if it hadn't been for the smell of coffee he would have thought it all had been a dream. He put on a pair of jeans but nothing else and walked out to the kitchen. "Good morning" he smiled as she turned around.
Ben walked towards her and bent his head down for a kiss. "I'll just take a shower" he started towards his bathroom "It's quite big if you want to join me" he said invitingly.
Ben barely made it in before he felt Julie's arms around him "I don't know what it is that always draws me to you" she said and gave him a long kiss before she took the soap in her hand.
Her hands were all over him and soon Ben couldn't wait any longer. He turned the water off and carried her back to bed not bothering with towels.
"If I was Catholic I would have so much to confess in church today" Julie said when she finally could speak again.
It wasn't every week there was a priest coming but with Rebecca and Stuart's wedding next Saturday he had arrived already. The following week he would go visit them who lived far away and wanted him to come.
"Me too" Ben pulled her in for a kiss before they got up to finish breakfast.
"Can you believe it?" Julie said "Stu and Becky being the ones of us to marry each other?"
Ben shook his head "There was a time I thought it would be me and you" he reached for her hand "That first summer of ours"
"Me too" Julie said "Actually I thought about it almost until I met Phil. Then I married him and the kids came along"
"Talking about them" Ben said "Won't they wonder where you are?"
"I think they don't notice I'm gone. They were talking all the way about all the things they wanted to do with mom and dad" she said.
They finished breakfast talking about this and that. After Julie had left Ben dressed in his red uniform to get ready for church. When he arrived there he saw the car his parents now days used when the weather allowed. His mother still used the dog sled in the winters as it was easier to get to where she was needed.
Ben joined his parents in the front pew of the small town church. Rebecca and Stuart were sitting there too. In the one behind sat the Frobisher's. Ben smiled at the sight, this was his family and he was happy about it. And now there was a possibility for nieces and nephews. He had always loved children but lately he'd started to feel contempt with his life living alone. Last night and this morning with Julie had been nice but she lived in the city and he belonged here.
With work and all the preparations for the wedding there weren't much time for Ben and Julie to meet up, not until the night of the wedding. They had been dancing a lot and when Julie had been back to her parents' house to put her children to bed she walked to Ben's cabin and knocked on the door.
Ben had almost just gotten back himself and was surprised someone knocked "Julie" he said as he saw her in his door.
"Can I come in?" she asked.
"Of course" Ben said and stepped to the side.
Julie pushed him against the closed door and kissed him, she tugged on his t-shirt he had put on when he changed out of the tux he had had on all day. "I've been wanting to do this all day" she said in between kisses "You looked so handsome in that tux"
"You looked great too, green really brings out the color of your eyes" Ben complimented her. Since Rebecca didn't have any sisters of her own Julie had been one of her bride's maids. Mark and Stuart's best friend from college had been his groom's men. Maggie and Phil had had their small assignments too.
With a quick sweep Ben turned them around so Julie was against the door and she wrapped her legs around his hips. Ben pushed her skirt up and noticed that she didn't wear anything under. He was so ready for her and carried her into his bedroom where he had all things they needed.
"Let me" Julie said and snatched the condom out of his hand and painfully slowly rolled it on. From being the one wanting it all the minute she reached his door she was now the one taking it slowly. She pushed him down against the pillows and straddled him. Ben tried to catch her to roll them over but she pushed him back down again.
She looked beautiful to him. Her breasts being fuller from having her children, although he figure was almost the same. Ben reached out and put his hands on her hips and together they found a rhythm. Ben had never had a woman riding him like this and afterwards she slumped against his chest.
"You are amazing Ben" she whispered in his ear.
"It's all you" he nibbled on her ear.
Julie spent the night and before Ben had to head out on an assignment the next afternoon he'd stopped by the Frobisher's to say good bye. It wasn't sure he'd make it back before the left.
Disclaimer/Copyright 2014 and forward: I don't own the characters from Due South, but I've written the story and therefore feel I own that. I also want to say I don't know about how the Academy for RCMP or something alike works so I've made it up a nice way to fit my story. I'm also not familiar with names for different kind of people in a village such as the Inuits live in.