Open Season Chapter 54: Family Time
Chapter 54 **Family Time** As time passed, Gwen's Pregnancy proceeded normally. It was confirmed a month later that she was indeed carrying twins. Cassandra was also growing round with the new life within her. A boy, the ultrasound indicated. Mike...
Open Season Chapter 53: Dreams Of Things To Come
Chapter 53 **Dreams Of Things To Come** Kel slept the exhausted sleep of the satiated lover. Her dreams were of pink clouds...of pastoral countrysides...she found herself walking down a country road; the smell of olives all around her. In the blink...
Open Season Chapter 52: Unforeseen Complications
Chapter 52 **Unforeseen Complications** The private jet touched down at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at three p.m., taxiing to a stop on the tarmac near a waiting limo. Out of the jet stepped Charles Nathanial Emerson the Third. He was then...
Open Season Chapter 51: Storm-Front
Chapter 51 **Storm-Front** "I had no idea Gwen was a well heeled Easterner!" Kel said as we drove to work. "It's not something she likes to talk about, her mother seems to thing she's some kind of 'brood mare' to foist off on some aristocratic...
Open Season Chapter 50: Getting The Word Out
Chapter 50 **Getting The Word Out** When they arrived back home they found me on the phone. "...Yeah mom, I know it's...oh! They _just_got back." Covering the mouthpiece with my paw, I kissed my wife, and gave Kel a peck on the cheek. Gwen handed me...
Open Season Chapter 49: Ghosts Of The Past
Chapter 49 **Ghosts Of The Past** "You know Amanda, I was thinking of what you said the other day. About how you caught lightning bugs and put them in jars. Whereabouts did you grow up?" Kel sighed. "A little place in south west Missouri, called...
Open Season Chapter 48: A NEW ADDITION
Chapter 48 **A NEW **** ADDITION** Gwen stared at it, _knowing_that it wouldn't change anything. It was after all, just for convenience. She had _known_already what the outcome would have been, or at least _suspected_anyway. A grin crept across her...
Open Season Chapter 47: Under Construction
Chapter 47 **Under Construction** As Kel settled into her new life with Rick and Gwen, she discovered a deep seated sense of contentment she'd never known, the weeks that followed were a joyous blur of work, study and domestic harmony. Mike had...
Open Season Chapter 46:All In The Family
Chapter 46 **All In The Family** By the time I got back to the house after dropping off the newlyweds at the airport, Gwen had Kel all settled into her room. A quick change of address at the post office, and the DMV, a couple of phone calls to close...
Open Season Chapter 45:Home Is Where The Heart Is
Chapter 45 **Home Is Where The Heart Is** The girls drove back to Kel's studio apartment on Capitol Hill. Kel sighed as she opened the door. "Welcome to my little rat-hole." Gwen looked around the sparsely furnished Studio. It felt to Gwen to be...
Open Season Chapter 44: With This Ring
Chapter 44 **With This Ring** Everyone dressed in their Sunday best, meeting in front of the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle, Monday at high noon. Max and Kath Badger were there, along with their two boys. The matronly badger held a lovely...
Open Season Chapter 43: Sunday Gathering
Chapter 43 **Sunday Gathering** The first thing Kel was aware of as she drifted to consciousness from the warm cocoon she found herself in, was my gentle voice... "Good morning, sleepy head, care to join us in the land of the waking sleepers?" She...