I was busted. The Captain had already gone through the wallet, I knew him well enough that I knew he was well aware that the story I had told him he thought was a bluff was in all actuality the truth and he fully intended to gain his full measure of teasing from it. " Soo Swan, a 25 year old rock star huh? Wow! Did he come willingly or did you really toss him in the trunk of your car and drag his young ass in here?" I reached to grab the wallet out of his hands but he stood up and held it up out of my reach as his friend just shook his head and sighed. " Man she is going to kick your ass if you keep on. You better play nice and stop harassing her." The Captain started walking around the apartment picking up things and acting as if her were looking for evidence of a crime, 'So tell me Swan, where is he? Where are your cuffs? Do we need to call out SWAT to rescue the poor kid?" about that time I heard a voice from behind me and I knew that the jig was really up because there, in the hallway, stood the real evidence of my insanity in all his naked glory. " I ain't no kid and you need to give the lady the wallet before somebody gets hurt."

Naked always has the effect of stunning people for a moment, and him standing there naked was no different. He didn't have anything in his hands except his steak and taters and I had no idea what he thought he was going to do considering that the Captain towered above him by at least a foot and his friend may have been the same size as him, but he was an ex-Marine and a fully trained cop, so unless I got my young rock star to settle his ass down, he could have seriously gotten spanked up. The Captain looked him up and down appraisingly and then looked at me, and busted out laughing. "Swan, Swan, Swan! Niiiiiiccce! He did survive!" He tossed me the wallet and then picked up the young rock stars jeans and tossed them to him and said, " Why don't you put some britches on and join us for breakfast and you can regale us with the story of how you survived your encounter with the Swan." I flipped him off and gathered up his boots for him and my stray bits as the Captain and his friend went into my kitchen to make coffee. I explained to young rock star who they were and what he had missed and I could tell he was feeling more than just a little out of his element. "You don't have to go with us if you don't want to, you can escape with no problem." He looked at me like I was crazy, "Of course I want to go with you, im sure you are going to be dealing with a ration of shit and I am not the type to leave you to deal with that on your own. They don't seem too bad." I laughed at him as I warned him that they really weren't bad guys at all, but that they would be relentless in teasing him about being with me. He jumped in the shower as I went back out to the kitchen to see what they were up to. The Captain and his friend were sitting at my table like a review board, and I told them that they had 5 minutes while he was in the shower. The Captain lead the interrogation, "How did you meet him?" "Just like I said." The Captains eyes widened at that one, "You actually hit him?" I told him about how he had stepped out on in in the parking lot, though I left out the bit about how our first hook up was in the back of my car. "So are you like seeing each other now?" I rolled my eyes at him over that one, " Cowboy, how long have you known me? I don't play well with others and he is not in town for long. He's got a career that takes him all over the Goddamned world and I am a cop in Portland, what the fuck to you think?" the Captain chuckled, "So you are just using him for sex?" 'I am not using him for anything, I happen to enjoy his company, but when he leaves, he leaves and I go back to my life and he goes back to his life, all I have to do is keep this on the down low so my daughter doesn't find out and kill me in my sleep for violating the object of her affection." Both the Captain and his friend busted out laughing at that one, and I heard the shower shut off, so I went to take him a cup of coffee.

He looked fantastic all dripping wet with a towel wrapped around his waist, and if I didn't have two chuckleheads in my kitchen I would have probably violated him again, but I gave him the coffee and a fresh t-shirt that I had in my closet so he didn't have to wear all the same clothes he had been wearing the day before. He got dried off and dressed and acted as if he wanted to wait in the bathroom while I showered, but I shooed him out the door, "Go on out and play nice with the boys, they wont eat you, but I would appreciate if you would keep the info about our little meeting in the back seat of my car to yourself, that would not go over very well." He gave me a nervous grin and headed out to the kitchen as I started the water, I hear the Captain start right in on him and I only hoped I didn't come out to a full on brawl after my shower.

I think I took the quickest shower in history, washing the worst of the funk off and hitting the high spots once again so I could get out to the kitchen and rescue the young rock star or do damage control before things got out of hand, but when I shut the water off and got out of the shower, I only heard laughter and hoped like hell it wasn't at my expense, though I had a really sneaking suspicion that it was. Throwing on my most comfortable jeans and shirt, and a pair of going out boots, I walked in to find them sitting around like they had known each other for their whole lives. "So what lies have you been telling him, Cowboy?" He looked at me all innocent eyed and shocked like he was hurt that I would accuse him of such a thing, but the thing is, I knew him. I knew he was probably telling off on me about any one of a million embarrassing stories he knew about, but then again, I knew more than a few about him and I would share if I had to and he knew it. Our friendship was tight, and we bonded out of shared difficulty in the past and the stress of having rank in a high turnover profession where we were often the ones having to do the firing, but he loved to tease me to the point that it we often banked favors from each other just to buy off each other. His friend just chuckled and said, " Hey Bella I bet you didn't know me and him are from the same part of Texas, in fact we played football against each other in high school!" Oh my lord the Captain was a cradle robber too? That was too good to let pass by, and I had to just show that I was willing to go there, " Well no, Cowboy, you never mentioned you were a cradle robber too , So just how old are you J.D.?"

The Captains face showed a wide range of expressions in the next few seconds as I took an appraising sip of my coffee, and J.D. looked like he had swallowed a cat backwards. I winked at him to let him know it was okay with me, and he relaxed, and then abruptly the Captain burst out laughing, "Damn Swan! Leave it to you to drop a grenade in the middle of a picnic, how long have you known?" Poor little rock star was looking like he wanted to crawl under the table and flee as I said, "Since about 5 minutes after I met you, but daughter is a little slower on the uptake, she has a major crush on him and thinks you and me would make a great couple." We both snorted and laughed over that one, and with the tension of the moment over and assurances made all the way around that it didn't matter and it was their business, I asked where the hell he was taking us for breakfast because dammit, I was starving!

We loaded into the Captains truck and he drove us to a little hole in the wall café that caters to those with large appetites and a love of Mexican type food, and we all ordered enough food to keep the boys stuffed for the next few days and then we just sat around talking about things we had in common. It was funny how much J.D. and the young rock star had in common, not only did they resemble each other in that typical West Texas way, but they grew up within miles of each other, both played guitar, and had both roamed about the country quite a bit, though J.D. had experienced a pretty tough life and had been wounded in the war, while my young rock star had been a very privileged a fortunate young man who hadn't really had to do without anything. Even with their differences though, it was apparent they were hitting it off and becoming fast friends, so I just had to make a comment, " Well Cowboy, it seems as if the kiddies get along pretty damn good, we will have to make sure to get them together to play dates every now and then." That cracked us all up and it was decided on that note, it was time to go. I needed to get back to the apartment before daughter came home to a funky smell in the house, and I wanted young rock star to be long gone before she got home in order to be able to avoid any situations that I wasn't ready to deal with.

We were almost back to my place when my cell phone went off. I looked at it with dread, knowing that I was probably too late, and sure enough , "Mom,where R U?" was the message I found . "Oh shit!" I told them that daughter was home and that we had to make a contingency plan because she would freak out if she saw the young star and I was not ready to deal with that. The Captain had me text her back that I was out with him and J.D. and that we were on our way home. We planned that he would park over by the fugly little car, blocking the view from my apartment and thus allowing the young rock star to slide out the passenger side and escape without being seen, and the Captain and J.D. would come in with me to provide distraction to daughter while I did recon to see if I had missed any evidence. Young rock star grabbed my hand and said, " Look, I am done filming by this next weekend, but I would like to see you again before I leave, is that possible?" I nodded at him and we made sure we each had the right phone numbers for each other. I knew that if I got the news I was afraid of, I would need to see him and I would at least want to tell him goodbye one last time without an audience or the stress of my daughter nearly catching us. As we pulled up next to his car, he grabbed me around the back of the neck and kissed me like I had not been kissed since, well, the night before and it left me a bit breathless and addled. He gave me one of his trade mark grins and then slid out the passenger side door of the truck as the Captain and I and J.D. exited the rest of the truck and walked towards my place as if nothing was going on that anyone need to be concerned about.

Daughter was in her room when we came in and I hollered that I we were home just as I spotted the young rock stars t-shirt and stuffed it underneath a couch cushion to be handled later. The Captain choked and began laughing at me as he looked around the living room as if he were searching a crime scene, " What the hell are you looking for?" "Duh Swan, condoms and condom wrappers, those would be a little harder to explain and you probably wouldn't want to hide them in your couch." I blushed and shook my head and they both looked at me with their eyes wide, " You went raw, are you fucking nuts?" I hissed at them, "Shut up, here she comes, we will talk later!" "Oh you are damn right we will!" Daughter came walking into to room and it was funny to see how her face lit up when she saw J.D., it was painfully apparent to everyone in the room she had a major crush on him and lucky for her, he was a hell of a nice guy, because he just charmed the hell out of her while I escaped back to my bedroom really quick to hide any other evidence of him being in the house, after it was all clear and sort of put to rights, I rejoined them in the living room and found daughter sitting with J.D. and talking music, the main topic of which was the young rock star, as if I didn't have an interesting enough morning.

We spent the rest of the afternoon just hanging out in my living room of all places, watching a game on tv and talking. I decided to grill some steaks I had stashed so I thawed them out and got the Captain to help make some rice and fixings while daughter and J.D. played guitars in the living room. "You had unprotected sex with him, what the hell were you thinking Swan? Jeeze!" The Captain was trying to whisper but it felt like he was as loud as an air raid siren, "Would you please keep your voice down? And yes, I fucked up! But last night wasn't the first time, when we got together a week or so ago things got a little crazy then too and I think I may have really fucked up." The Captain stopped what he was doing and grabbed my shoulders and turned me to face him, "That's why the no drinking thing…you aren't pregnant are you?" "I don't know yet, I wont know until sometime this next week, but going by the date things went down, it's a definite possibility." He looked like he was going to fall over, and in fact he leaned against the counter, " Have you told him yet?" I shook my head, I didn't see the point in saying anything to him until I knew for sure, and even then I may not say anything because its not like he is in any position to be a father. He's a kid and a rock star, its not like he would be wanting to settle down and play Mr. Mom." The Captain shook his head, "If you are, you have to tell him Swan, its only fair, give him a chance to be a man about it before you cut his balls off." "Well, he's leaving town this next week to go back on his tour, so its not like he's going to be around to deal with the results of the news in person anyway. My doc said they would have the results by midweek, and I will give him a call maybe." Captain looked at me and said, "Not all men are like your ex, some will do the right thing if you give them a chance, but no matter what, we have your back and we will be there for you for everything except diapers, I ain't doing no shitty diapers, and if you are knocked up, you are going on a leave from SWAT until you deliver."

I couldn't believe my rotten luck, the first time I get laid in over three years, and it has to hit at the time of the month when im at my most likely to get knocked up, and its with a guy whos at that prime of his life and most likely more than capable of doing it. I got pregnant with my daughter the very damn first time I had sex with my ex, so my freak out that was in full effect felt more than justified, I came from a very fertile family, my sis had 5 kids and 2 of her kids already had kids. I was the only one that had managed to hold it to one. My brothers had multiple kids and their poor wives claimed that they had pretty much gotten knocked up as soon as they tried. I was going to be jumping at my damn phone every time it rang this next week, but until then I was going to be doing a lot of finger crossing and maybe just a little praying.