The Never Ending Saga of Mr Benson

Chapter 6

~*~Leonard POV~*~

My plan was working out perfectly. After I called the police and told them what was going on; Marissa left me and took that kid with her, and never came back. I told them that they needed to ind her because I wanted our family back together. The whole country, if not the world was looking for her and our son. I didn't care much for him, I just wanted her back. Back home with me in Arizona, not where ever the hell she is now. She better not be with another man. If she was she didn't know what was going to happen to her then.

I sat beside my phone waiting for someone to call me and tell me that someone had found them. But I wasn't that lucky. Once in awhile, I got a call that said that they had a lead, but then a few minutes later, they would call back and say never mind. It was horrible! It was like they were treating this case of missing persons like a piece of shit! I had to find them, even if that meant that I had to go out and find them myself.

I needed to get out of the room that I was in. I got a new room, after a few mysterious ladies sent in some money to 'help me out' and 'help me get back on my feet'. In other words, if they didn't find Marissa and the kid, they would be at my service. I smiled to myself, just thinking about it, Marissa didn't like having sex after the kid was born even before, me on the other hand, would take my ring off, dig out my 'younger clothes' and go to bars to find some women. I even was out of town with one when she went into labor and had the kid. I came home from my weekend getaway and she was sitting on the couch, the kid in her arms, putting him to sleep.
That was when I started to drink. It was bad. I quietly walked out and came back later and hit her. It was horrible for me to do that, but for some reason, it was pleasurable. I had no idea why, it just was. So then , after that night, if I saw her paying more attention to that kid, then I would to hit her. I made her change everything, she wasn't allowed a job and not allowed to leave the apartment unless it was the grocery store right across the street where we lived. I even made her cut all ties with her family, get rid of photos and anything from her past.

Now as I walked into a bar near where I was staying, I walked to the bar and looked at the screen. My story was on and they were asking of anyone knew where they were. I was glad, they were spreading the word pretty quickly. A woman walked over to me and put her arms around my neck.

"You poor thing," she said, and then all though of finding Marissa was gone.

~*~Steven POV~*~

I was so angry. Why didn't Marissa tell us that she was a run a way? I was so furious! And she was at home with my daughter! I hoped that this appointment would be over soon and I could go home and kick her out and turn her in.
I walked into the room where Karen was. She was lying on the bed, looking the ceiling. The doctor showed me a seat next to her and I sat down.

"So, what's wrong? Is it just the flu?" I asked as I held her hand.

"No," the doctor replied.

"Then what is it?"

"We need to schedule a few more tests, but we did a blood test on her when Carly was born and a few weeks ago when she came in with Carly just to see if it was wrong, but it wasn't. Her body is producing increased numbers of immature or abnormal leukocytes," the doctor said looking at me.

"What does that mean?" I asked, shakily.

"Karen has leukemia. It seems to be very fierce. We might need to start her first round of chemotherapy by the end of the week."

My world was shattering. I was scared. My beautiful wife, with cancer?

"How can we make sure that she makes it through?" I asked.

The doctor then started talking about all sorts of stuff. I was so scared. I looked at Karen, she had tears running down her beautiful face. I felt a lump in my throat and knew that I was going to break down soon too. The doctor said that he would give us a few minutes. I looked at Karen and that was it, I broke down and held her close. She cried too.

We both were scared.

~*~Marissa POV~*~

Spencer and I sat at the table coloring, and drawing. Well, he was drawing and I was coloring. Spencer was really good at drawing, I was impressed.

"You're really good," I commented and he just nodded. We were brought out of what we were doing by the door opening and Steven and Karen walking in.

"Spencer, can you take Carly and Freddie to your room while the adults talk?" Steven asked. Spencer stood up and picked up Freddie and Carly and walked to the stairs.

"How was the doctors?" I asked.

"That's what we wanted to talk about," he said. Karen sat down on the couch. I walked over and sat on the rocker. Steven sat beside Karen and rubbed her back. "The doctor told us some bad news today," he began. I nodded and he continued. "He told us that Karen has leukemia and needs chemo right away." I was shocked. "I know that this is sudden and defiantly unexpected, but we got the paperwork right away and if something happens with me or Karen, we are giving you guardianship of our kids."

"Why me?"

"You seem to know you way with kids, and we trust you," Karen said.

"Okay," I replied.

"Come with me a minute," Steven said and we walked to the back porch. "When were you going to tell us that you're a run a way?" he asked.

"What?" I asked.

"You're all over the news, your husband is looking for him. I was so tempted when I saw it to call right then and there, but I didn't."

"Please, don't make me go back to him," I begged.

"Give me a reason why," he replied.

I pulled up my sleeve at the scars that he left that night that I left. "I told you that these were from my job, but the truth is that my husband is abusive. He goes to bar and cheats on me and comes home and beats me."

"So he did that to you and you took off," he replied.

"Yeah, please don't call him, if you do, I don't know what he's gonna do to me," I pleaded.

"Lets make a deal; help me take care of things around here while I'm away, and I won't turn you in," he said after a few minutes.

"Deal, thank you so much Mr. Shay," I replied, shaking his hand.

"I told you to call me Steven," he said with a small laugh, shaking my hand.

Sorry for the long wait on the next chapter! I was going though documents and saw this, so i edited and here you go! Please read and review!