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I slowly woke up with a feeling of being crushed, I opened 
my eyes and had to hurriedly focus my eyes as Kate was 
entwined around me, it felt as if she was trying to squeeze 
the life out of me. 

"Happy birthday darling." I watched as her eyes opened. 

"It's my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!" She rapidly sat up. "When do I 
get my presents?"

"You know you get your presents after breakfast. For now 
you get a big kiss." I matched words to actions and kissed 
my little lovely girl. She hugged me again and I slid down 
her lithe body, kissing her tiny breasts and then tickling her 
navel with my tongue. I slowly slid further down to her 
puffy lips; I licked from the bottom to the top and sucked her 
clit. As she responded to my attentions I moved over her 
labia and drilled in with my tongue, licking up my spend 
from the middle of the night. I sucked her out cleaning her 
cunt with my tongue and lips. Kate was soon writhing as I 
brought her to her climax. I was holding tight to her as she 
rocked beneath me. Her hips were drumming out a tattoo of 
pleasure on the bed. I felt her hands pulling me deeper into 
her groin as she went into her second orgasm. 

I heard her groans become muffled; I looked up and saw my 
wife kissing her and caressing her tits. I moved onto her clit 
and sucked it hard, feeling it pop from its sheath. My finger 
slid into her slippery cunt as we brought her to yet another 
orgasm. I released her bum and moved up the bed beside 
her. I met Natalie at the top as she kissed me. We looked at 
our little daughter, spark out and satiated. As Kate's eyes 
opened Natalie wished her a happy birthday.

"I had better go down and cook breakfast. Natalie can you 
wake them all up as after breakfast Gill is coming over to go 
shopping."

"I'll just have a shower and then I will get them up." I 
watched as Natalie and Kate went into the bathroom and 
then I went down. I pulled the bag of sausages from the 
fridge and put them on a baking tray in the Aga. Then I set 
to preparing the rest of the food for cooking. The tomatoes 
into olive oil, the mushrooms prepared. I was cooking 4 
slices of toast at a time and trimming the crusts before 
putting them in the toast racks. I put a large casserole in the 
slow oven to keep everything warm in. I had the coffee 
maker running when Natalie finally came down with a bag 
of presents. She took them through to the lounge. I carried 
on cooking the breakfast. I filled the juicer with oranges and 
started to catch the juice as it poured from the spout into the 
iced jugs. I put the bacon on to grill and put the frying pan 
for the eggs on. Natalie called everyone down and poured 
out their orange. I transferred all the hot food to the breakfast 
trolley and wheeled it through to the dining room. We then 
tucked into the hot breakfast.

It was fascinating to watch Tim and Callie as they ate their 
food. They were not yet used to the flavour of estates food. 
We were still eating when Gill arrived. I called to her to join 
us for breakfast. She brought another plate from the kitchen.

"Do you want an egg? If so I can soon cook you one."

"No thanks, this will be fine." She tucked into tomato on 
toast with sausage, bacon, black pudding and mushrooms. 
She soon caught up with us and finally was having toast and 
marmalade. We took our second mug of coffee through to 
the lounge. Natalie handed out Kate's presents. It was fun to 
watch her eyes light up as she opened present after present. I 
think her favourite was the play station with the dance mat 
and music studio. There was everything from a Barbie doll 
to the playstation with everything in between. Finally the 
last present and card was opened. There was still the post to 
arrive but that wouldn't be till later. The minibus arrived and 
all of them except the birthday girl decided to go into 
Shrewsbury to shop. Natalie was going to kit Tim and Callie 
out with all they needed including their school uniforms. 
Gill was going to take Callie to the bridal shop and get her 
measured. Without letting her know it was for a bridesmaids 
dress if possible. After they had left I loaded all the plates 
into the dishwasher and ran it. I then picked up all the bonus 
cheques and set off with Kate to deliver them to the staff. 

"There would be some surprised faces as the bonuses were 
much larger than past years. It had been a very good year for 
the estate. It was about 10 times more than they were 
expecting. Those who banked at the same bank as me, which 
was to my knowledge all of them would be able to get their 
money today. The rest would have to wait until the cheques 
cleared. I did enjoy playing Father Christmas. At several of 
the houses I was rewarded with a hug and kiss from happy 
recipients. I suspected that most would be down the shops 
spending some of their windfall. I was happy that their work 
and mine had been rewarded. I knew that I would get 110% 
effort from them next year. Dick tried to argue that I had 
given him too much and that he didn't deserve it and that I 
had given him enough already. I just gave him a copy of the 
shares he had found and their value.

He stopped arguing eventually. Kate and I went home and I 
helped her carry her presents upstairs. I set up her 
playstation and she was trying out the dance studio. I left her 
to it dancing away on the dance mat and went downstairs to 
finish off the office work I had started the night before. I 
finished my work and made myself a coffee and sat down 
with the papers. It was good to relax a bit. I heard the 
postman arrive and I went out to collect the mail. There were 
a lot of cards for Kate alongside the Christmas cards that 
were arriving daily. Natalie had strung cord around the hall 
for them all to go on. There was also a letter from Cath 
Markham with a date in January for her to come round and 
fill in the forms for Tim and Callie. She would just be 
updating the forms we filled in when we fostered Jim, 
Mandy and Kate. Ailsa had evidently spoken to her after 
Mrs Johnson had contacted her.

After I finished my coffee I went to the garage and brought 
out the Vario. For a family runabout it was enormous. I had 
decided not to have one in my usual red, as the local 
disability buses were red Vario's. It could have up to 14 
seats with mini DVD player/TV's in the headrests, automatic 
transmission and a head up display. It was an absolute dream 
to drive. I just wondered what Tim and Callie would make 
of it. It replaced my old Mercedes van, which had run out of 
space and oomph. It had been designed to tow my new 
caravan. 

I heard the taxi return and disgorge its excited passengers. 
They came in loaded with bags. Callie's face was beaming.

"Roy, Gill has asked me to be a bridesmaid. She has ordered 
my dress. Oh it is so marvellous." I don't think I had seen 
anyone so happy as Callie was that morning. Tim was 
looking pleased as well, Gill had asked him to be an usher, 
and so he had been to the suit shop to order his top hat and 
tails. That was the one thing I was not looking forward to 
about the wedding; dressing up. Gill, Leonard and Rose had 
asked if I would give Gill away and I in a moment of 
weakness had agreed, so instead of hiding decently in my 
suit I would be standing at the front in top hat and tails. I had 
got out some snacks and drinks to keep us going until we ate 
our lunch.

I sent everyone up to change for the family dinner party. We 
were taking over a play barn at 2:00 for a couple of hours. It 
was their quietest time just after the lunchtime rush and we 
had agreed with the owners that we would buy up a whole 
period of 1 hour, all the tickets and then for the rest of the 
time there would be a decreasing number of children until 
the core time would be just us. At 4:00 we would go in for 
dinner then drive back to the village hall for Jim, Mandy and 
Kate's parties. They had decided what they wanted. A family 
party on their birthday and a joint party the Saturday before 
Christmas, Kate's birthday.  

The organising of that had been interesting, we actually had 
two separate buffets organised by Jo, one for the younger 
children and a second for the older teenagers and adults. We 
then went out to the van. Tim and Callie were astonished at 
the size of it but as we sat 11 people in it they understood 
why I had such a large vehicle. Natalie had organised body 
protectors for Tim and Callie from the stables. I drove across 
Shrewsbury to a village just north of Telford. We went into 
the play barn and the children were on the apparatus like a 
dose of salts. Leaving Natalie, Gill and Alex to sit with me 
and watch them play. I went to the restaurant to get us 4 
drinks, Natalie would organise the soft drinks for the others 
in the playbarn. As the driver I had a light shandy. I had no 
intention of drink driving with such a precious load. At one 
point a family arrived and were being turned away as we had 
bought all the tickets. Kate saw the littlest child in tears and 
she ran out of the apparatus to me. 

"Can't we let them in dad? It's spoiling my fun to see her 
cry."

"Ok love, it is your birthday, if that's what you want I will 
let them in." 

I went to the counter and heard the assistant explaining how 
all the tickets had been bought.

"The birthday girl has said she doesn't want to see your little 
girl upset so she has asked me to give you the tickets you 
need to play." They were thrilled at being allowed in and I 
invited the parents to sit with us. We were sat talking when 
the father leant across to me.

"Why are those two children wearing horse riders body 
protection in here?"

"Looking at your older children's age you will probably hear 
a garbled account next term. Which schools do they go to?"

"Central high and central primary."

"Then you will definitely hear next term as they will be 
going to Central High. Natalie and I are their foster parents. 
Their biological parents beat them very badly and their 
backs are still criss crossed with wheals from a cane and a 
whip. So if they want to play they have to wear protection." 

"That's Kate isn't it? Alison is in the year below her." 
Suddenly she covered her mouth with her hand. She was 
beaten too wasn't she?"

"Yes along with Mandy and Jim." I pointed them out as 
well.

So you are fostering five children then who have been 
beaten."

"No, only fostering 2 cousins, we have adopted the other 3 
already. They are all from related families. The two in body 
armour arrived Thursday evening. The girl is pregnant, it 
occurred during the beatings they both received at the girls 
house. Their parents are in custody now.

"How old is she?" 

She was 11 when she was made pregnant and she is 12 
now."

"Why are you telling us her private details, surely you would 
want it to remain private?"

"We would, but she will be going to school, if she was 
wearing a t shirt now instead of the body armour you would 
be able to see her bump. By the time school restarts she will 
be showing more. It is important to get the truth out before 
the rumours start flying." Their parents started beating them 
a long time ago, together. Tim's parents would come round 
with him for what can only be described as whipping parties. 
They were tied to a bench, hand in hand. This summer Callie 
had her first period and the parents decided it would be good 
fun for the boy to have sex with her. He tried to refuse and 
he was thrashed until he finally agreed. They held her down 
and forced him to fuck his cousin. The end result is she is 28 
weeks pregnant." 

Thank you for sharing with us, I will make sure that my 
children know the truth and will pass it on that these two 
will be starting and what they have been through. I am on 
the parent teachers committee so I can spread it that way. At 
least we now have the nursery at the school. We were so 
thrilled when we heard about that. It is so good that young 
Sadie is back in school with her baby in the nursery. Thank 
you again for letting our children play, the littlest one was so 
disappointed when she thought she wouldn't be able to 
play."

"That's alright, my lot seem to be enjoying yours joining in 
with them. Kate and her boyfriend seem to be getting on 
well with Alison. The next session started and the public 
were being allowed back in so the slides were starting to fill. 
It had worked out well with the timing, only the one family 
had arrived during the closed session and they had been 
invited in. Finally we moved through to the restaurant and 
sat down to Kate's birthday dinner. All I will say about the 
food was that it was plentiful and hot. We had a good time 
eating. Finally they brought out a birthday cake with 9 
candles for Kate to blow out. 

We headed back home to change for the party; Tim and 
Callie were dressed in their new clothes. It was fun to watch 
them admiring themselves in the mirror and feel the 
material.

Callie, do you like your party dress?"

"Oh yes Roy, it is lovely, Natalie helped me to choose it." It 
was of a similar style to the dresses the other girls were 
wearing. Long red dress with a slit up the thigh and very low 
cut. The girls all liked to show off. "I have never had such a 
nice party dress. I never got to go to parties, mum wouldn't 
let me go."

"Well you can go to parties here, in fact you will have to, 
with so many of us." When it is your birthday you will be 
able to choose your own party."

"But I don't know what to do for a party."

"Don't worry the others will be only too pleased to give you 
their ideas."   I watched all the girls come together, a vision 
of red loveliness; all with dresses slashed to the thigh and 
low-cut bodices. Natalie had provided Kate with a fully 
padded bra and Callie had a slightly padded bra. They 
looked a million dollars. We men looked pretty sharp if I say 
so myself, Natalie had chosen my outfit for me. It was not 
what I would have bought, but it kept her happy. I just kept 
thinking about the old record; the oldest swinger in town.

Normally we would have walked the 300 yards to the hall 
but with the weather I had ordered the taxi. It was a lot 
further by road but it meant we would still be smart when we 
arrived. The party was soon in full swing, the music 
changing from Tim's type of music to Kate's music and back 
again. The three age groups enjoyed themselves.

Natalie and I watched as the guests enjoyed themselves. We 
sat there enjoying each other's company. Callie came over to 
join us.

"Natalie, why am feeling so tired all the time?"

"Well Callie it is probably due to the fact you are 28 weeks 
pregnant and you have not been watching your diet. What 
your parents were doing to you has probably not helped 
you." You will be going to the antenatal clinic on Monday. I 
have no doubt you will be started on vitamins and you have 
now started eating properly. You should soon have your 
energy back."

"That will be good, I don't like feeling tired all the time." I 
decided to add my two pennorth.

"The other thing that has made you tired is always worrying 
about when your parents were going to set about you. I 
reckon that when you heard Tim was coming your heart 
sank as you knew your parents had planned something nasty 
for you both."

"Your right, I had never thought about that, but once mum 
had told me Tim was coming for the weekend I felt awful. 
The thing was I liked Tim. I could never understand. Now I 
do." Natalie turned to Callie.

"Come on then, over to the buffet and lets get some good 
food inside us. One good thing about this buffet is even the 
so called junk food like the burgers and chicken nibbles are 
good. Jo has got them specially for us. The chicken nibbles 
are actually pieces of whole meat dipped in breadcrumb or 
batter and the burgers are made from mince from the village 
shop. It is our own recipe."

I joined them at the buffet and we loaded our plates with 
burgers and chicken along with platefuls of salad. We 
brought back sparkling grape juice to drink Tim came over 
to join us looking very tired.

"Roy, my back is hurting."

"Lets go to the back and have a quick look." We moved to 
the back room and I lifted his shirt. I could see some fresh 
bleeding under the Nu-skin. It wasn't leaking.

"You are bleeding a bit. I think you have overdone it a bit. 
Come and get some food then sit with us. You are not well 
enough for non stop partying." I sat down as Natalie took 
Tim over to the buffet. It was only a matter of minutes later 
that Callie put down her plate and leant against me. I gently 
stroked her head and shoulders as she slumped against me. 
Fast asleep. I looked over to Nat and nodded at Callie. Nat 
looked and smiled at me. I continued to stroke her long 
brown hair, as it flowed across her shoulders and down to 
her waist. I was very gentle smoothing across her back. She 
shuddered and slumped further into me. 

I was thinking about how we would deal with her acceptance 
into school, how we would deal with her pregnancy. Tim 
went back to the buffet and fetched me another drink and 
some food. Natalie was talking with him about his home life. 
He still had problems believing that he was away from his 
old home forever. I watched the party continue. Jim, Mandy 
and Kate were really enjoying themselves. Their first 
birthday party away from their personal hells. They were 
like new creations. I thought especially about Mandy. How 
when I first saw her she looked more like a boy, wearing 
boy's clothes. I looked across at her now and she was an 
absolute knockout. Her dress was slit to the thigh and the 
bodice was showing off a lot of her breasts. The change was 
spectacular and what was most pleasing was how happy she 
looked. I looked down at the girl curled up on my lap and 
wondered what she would be like in 4 months. Her baby 
would have been born and she would be a 12-year-old 
mother. 

The party was finally winding down; all the children were 
going home. I had ordered our transport and it would soon 
be arriving. I called Jo over as he started to clear away. I 
gave him his cheque and left him to clear away for me. We 
then headed back home. Callie had woken enough to walk to 
the taxi but when we got home I carried her into the house 
and laid her on the sofa. It had been a wonderful day. Natalie 
took Kate straight up to bed. Nick, Becky, Jim and Mandy 
then went upstairs. I gently picked Callie up and carried her 
to her room I took her red shoes off and undid the protector. 
Then with Tim's help, we slid it off. I then undid the sash on 
the dress. Tim helped me to slide the dress off and then we 
removed her tights, pants and bra. I quickly covered her 
sleeping form with the quilt. I said goodnight to Tim and 
gave him a gentle hug. I kissed him on the top of his head. 
Not wanting to embarrass him. I gave Callie a quick hug and 
kiss then went downstairs to rejoin Natalie. 

I went into the kitchen and made hot drinks then joined 
Natalie on the sofa.

"That was quite a day love, how are you feeling."

"Totally drained. I think Oscar is tiring me more than I 
expected."

"Well you have had a bit more pressure these last few days 
what with Tim and Callie arriving plus the parties. How do 
you feel about having a pregnant 12 year old in the house?"

"Well when it becomes public knowledge it will take the 
strain off me. Talking of which we had better tell Kevin the 
whole story so he can circulate the truth. Will he still be 
up?"

"Well it is only 10:00 so he should be." I picked up the 
phone and rang him. He answered immediately.

"Hello Kevin. I need your mouth."

"Well that's a nice way to put it Roy."

"Well we have two more foster children, they are cousins to 
my 3 and have had similar treatment."

"Oh no, how bad?"

"Very, they had to go in to the Nuffield to have their backs 
cleaned up and dressed under a general."

"That bad then."

"Yes, and to make it worse the girl, who is just 12 is 
pregnant."

"Oh no, who is the father?"

"That is the sad part; the two sets of parents decided that the 
13 year old cousin should have sex with the 11 year old. He 
refused so they thrashed him until he would. He is the father, 
they started putting them together the week after her first 
period."

"Oh Roy, that is so evil. I find it hard to believe."

"Well the mother of one and the father of the other have 
confessed. What they need is their true story being spread, 
not with all the gory details, but definitely including the 
bravery of young Tim. Callie told me she heard his beating 
and she blames herself for that because when they were told 
what was going to happen she screamed and Tim then said 
no and he was beaten for hours she said." 

"You will have your work cut out helping them."

"Well I have the other 3 to help Natalie and I deal with it."

"Roy, I think I can make a sermon from it, linked to the 
Advent story. Would that be alright?"

"Will it show Tim in a positive light Kevin?"

"Oh very much so. He will be very much the hero."

"Will it be identifiable?"

"By name no, but when he starts at school, I assume he will 
be going to school here."

"Yes Kevin he will." 

"When he starts school he will be able to be identified as 
much of a victim as the girl, but a very brave hero as well. 
As he tried to defend her."

"If you think it will work, go for it. Anything positive for 
that young couple will be a bonus for them. My fear has 
been that he will be blamed for his girlfriends pregnancy. Oh 
yes they are now a couple."

"I will work that in of how good can come out of evil."

"Thanks Kevin, it will be great if you can help like that. Oh 
and did you get my e-mail, can you come for supper 
tomorrow night with Pam after the service?"

"Oh yes Roy, if you check your e-mail you will see my 
reply." I laughed.

"That is my next job. See you tomorrow." I went through to 
the study and checked my in box, sure enough there was 
Kevin's message." I thought about how he would be 
preparing his sermon, I just hoped it would prove helpful to 
Tim and Callie. I would tell them about it tomorrow. I went 
back to the lounge and Natalie was fast asleep. I gently 
picked her up and carried her upstairs to our room where I 
undressed her and put her under the covers. I went back 
downstairs and turned all the lights off and then went to bed 
myself. Natalie must have sensed me climbing into bed as 
she latched onto me. We slept.

We were woken by a scream; it was Callie again. We went 
along to her room and Tim was standing by the bed and 
Callie was thrashing around on the bed. 

"Natalie, take Tim to our bed, I will be along in a minute." I 
watched Natalie lead Tim away to our bed. I sat down beside 
Callie and gently spoke to her.

"You are safe now, your mum and dad can't get to you. We 
love you and care for you." I kept on repeating the message 
as I stroked her thrashing head. Slowly she quietened down 
and fell back into sleep. I picked her up and carried her to 
my bed. Tim was curled up inside Natalie's arms. I laid 
Callie down and climbed in beside her and drew her into my 
arms. I was lying on my left side with Callie lying with her 
neck on my left arm and my right arm was stroking her hair. 
I could feel her body against mine. Her little bump was 
sticking into me. Suddenly I felt a nudge against my belly. 
Then another. I suddenly realised that I could feel her baby 
kicking. I watched as her eyes slowly opened.

"What am I doing here?"

"You had a nightmare, you were screaming and thrashing 
around in your bed. I told Natalie to bring Tim to our bed 
and then when I had calmed you down I brought you along 
as well. What woke you was your little cherub trying to 
score a goal for Shrewsbury town. I felt him as he kicked 
you. It was quite strange to feel him kick me through you."

"Thank you Roy for looking after me so well. I feel safe 
with you."

I leaned forward and kissed her lightly on the lips. "I'm glad 
you feel safe, that is what I am trying to do. Time for you to 
settle down." She gave a loud sigh and cuddled up to me. 
Poor lamb, what a life she had up till now. I lay there 
listening to her breathing slowing down; finally she was 
asleep again. I would have to ring Bill in the morning. The 
two of them needed to talk about their troubles. I slowly fell 
asleep as well. 

I woke the next morning; Callie was curled up beside me, 
her arm around my waist. Tim was squashed against my 
wife, wrapped up tight in her arms. Callie evidently felt me 
moving as I got up to shower. 

"Can I join you Roy?"

"If you want to."

"I want." We moved into the bathroom. The floor was warm 
to our feet. "Is this what my bathroom will be like?"

"Yes love, Mandy and Jim's will be done at the same time as 
well. They are all wheelchair accessible. I designed them 
that way as my late wife was disabled and I had done a lot to 
make my original bathroom accessible. I just developed that 
further for Nick's bathroom, as they ride competitively 
accidents can and do happen. I then realised the cost 
differential to make new bathrooms fully accessible was 
minimal so I did."

"Well I like this bathroom."

"We have a hot tub out on the patio, now that is nice, we can 
sit in bubbling hot water up to our necks watching the 
garden. We were in the tub when we were asked about you. 
Would you like to try it?"

"Oh yes Roy." I went back into the bedroom and pressed the 
button on the control panel. A lamp lit. It will be ready for us 
in ten minutes. So lets have a drink. I took her by the hand 
and led her to the kitchen. I quickly made mugs of tea and 
Callie sat on my lap drinking. I looked at her back, in some 
ways it looked worse as the bruising was fading leaving the 
whip and cane marks in stark relief against her white skin. I 
took her through the lounge and into the showers by the tub. 
The air blowers had done their work and the room was 
warm. I turned on the showers and we stepped under. I 
gently washed the little girl; I was especially careful when I 
washed her back. Well actually washed the Nu-skin coating 
on her back. I then set to, to wash myself. 

"Would you like me to wash your back Roy?"

"Yes please darling." I stood there as I felt a little hand 
sliding the shower gel across my back. 

"Roy, why is it you don't have any hair on your body. Tim's 
growing hair but you have none and you are a man."

"Well Natalie used an electrolysis machine on me, that 
destroys the hair. The rest is got rid of with hair removing 
cream. Eventually all will have been permanently removed." 
We rinsed all the soap from our bodies and we quickly went 
to the hot tub. The 5 paces from the shower room to the tub 
were really frigid. There was thick snow on the ground in 
the garden. I don't know about Callie but it brought me out 
in Goosebumps it was so cold. The hot bubbling water felt 
so good on our bodies.

"Roy my head feels cold." I reached behind her to the 
controls and pressed for heat, the hot air curtains on the roof 
started blowing warm air across the tub. I drew Callie onto 
my lap and cuddled her.

"Roy, I do like it here, can I stay with you all?"

"Of course you can. Natalie and I would like to adopt you."

"I heard that mentioned, what actually does it mean?"

"Well we would all go before a judge, Social services would 
report on Natalie and I, then because of your age you would 
be asked if you wanted to be adopted into the McGarvy 
family and if we all said yes then you would be issued with a 
certificate of adoption, which in effect replaces your birth 
certificate and your name would change to Callie Jane 
McGarvy. You would then be my daughter for ever, with the 
same rights and responsibilities as Nick, my natural son and 
Jim, Mandy and Kate who we have already adopted."

"Can you adopt Tim and I then?"

"Yes, but before we can adopt Tim, he has to ask us. We 
won't force our family on anyone. I can say yes to you 
though as we have discussed it as a family already. You can 
now call me dad if you want. You will have to discuss with 
Natalie as to whether you call her mum or Natalie. Jim and 
Mandy call her Natalie as she is close to their ages and 
attend the same school. I think she would prefer to be called 
by her name." 

"Roy, I will call her Natalie at school but I would really like 
her to be my mum, to replace the mum who is in my mind 
now."

"In which case I am sure she will let you call her mum. 
Talking of which, here they come."

We watched as they stepped from the shower cubicle and 
across to the tub. They quickly slid in; Tim trying to avoid 
showing his erection.

"You don't need to be shy Tim. Oh and Natalie we have a 
new daughter, she says she wants to be adopted."

"Oh that's lovely Callie, thank you for that vote of 
confidence."

"Tim if you want to be adopted as well you have to do what 
I did which is to ask dad."

"Tim, please don't feel pressured by your cousin."

"Roy I have wanted this ever since I first heard about the 
possibility, can you both adopt me as well." I nodded to 
Natalie and encouraged her to answer."

"Of course we will. We will get onto it as soon as possible. 

"Natalie there is just one thing. Your new daughter wants to 
call you mum, so that you can replace the mum who is in her 
mind now."

"Hmmm. If you call me mum at home, can you call me 
Natalie at school."

"I'll try mum." Natalie was then buried beneath her new 
daughter, being comprehensively hugged.

"We'll tell everyone at breakfast. Talking of which we had 
better get out and get dressed and start on breakfast."

I climbed up from the tub, leant in and reached for Natalie 
and lifted her out of the water and landed her by my feet and 
gave her a good morning kiss and scooted her into the 
shower with a scoot on the bum. Then I lifted Callie out and 
did the same. I expected Tim to have got out but he was 
stood there with raised arms so he got the same treatment. I 
then clicked the shut down button for the pool, the air 
blowers stopped, the heater went down to the set back 
temperature and the insulated cover went on. 

Then I joined the others in the shower. They had washed off, 
they stood around me and washed me down, their hands 
roaming over me to clean the chlorine off me. Then through 
to the body dryers, I pushed the start button as we walked 
into the drying room and by the time we entered the room a 
gale of warm dry air was blowing over us. We went upstairs, 
Tim and Callie went to their room and Natalie and I went to 
ours to dress. 

We went downstairs and I started sorting out breakfast. I put 
the sausages into the Aga to start cooking whilst Natalie 
prepared the tomatoes and started them cooking. Tim was 
getting the bacon and eggs from the fridge and then started 
toasting the bread whilst Callie was preparing the 
mushrooms. After checking the time I left Natalie in charge 
and went into the study.  I opened my address book program 
to find Cath Markham's home phone number.

"Hello Cath, sorry to disturb you on a Sunday but this being 
a short week I need to speak with you urgently."

"What can I do for you?"

"If Dorset ask you for a decision on whether Natalie and I 
can adopt Tim and Callie are you in a position to approve?"

"So long as nothing has changed, yes."

"That's good as Tim and Callie have said they want us to 
adopt them and I would like to do it before Christmas. Two 
of the parents have signed the release forms, one each so 
Mrs Johnson was prepared to go on that. If Mrs Johnson has 
a fax machine are you able to fax her today? As then if she 
can organise the judge we will go to Dorset tomorrow."

"Roy, have you seen the news, you wont get there, the roads 
are so bad from last nights storms. But I can fax no problem 
as she faxed me from home on Saturday night."

"I was actually thinking about going to halfpenny green 
airport and flying. If it is that bad I might see if I can get a 
helicopter in. I'll ring the air taxi service."

"Roy I'll send the fax now and if you ring Mrs Johnson in 
half an hour she will know what is happening."

I rang the air taxi service and so long as there was no more 
snow today they expected to be able to land on the farm. We 
just needed to mark a landing zone. I heard Natalie go 
upstairs to make sure everyone was awake. Breakfast would 
be ready in ten minutes. I went into the kitchen and cuddled 
up to Natalie and whispered in her ear.

"Cath is faxing the ok through to Mrs Johnson, if she can 
organise the judge we will go down by helicopter as the 
roads are too bad."

"That will be great Roy."

We loaded everything into the food trolley and Callie called 
out that breakfast was ready." We went into the dining room 
and served out breakfast. We were sitting drinking our last 
cups of coffee when the phone rang; I answered it. It was 
Janet Johnson. I went through to the study.

"Roy, I have spoken with the judge, he can see you 
tomorrow, he remembers you and Natalie from when he 
signed the adoption papers for Jim, Mandy and Kate. He will 
be in court tomorrow, but when we arrive, I just give the 
usher a message and he will adjourn the hearing for 10 
minutes. Cath said you would be flying in by helicopter."

"That's right, can you arrange through the police for a 
landing point and transport." I gave her the number of the air 
taxi service I would be using. I rang off and rang the air taxi 
company. They told me they had a six passenger helicopter 
available for tomorrow so I arranged for a 10:00 pick up and 
a 2:30 departure from Dorchester.

I went back into the dining room.

Natalie, Tim, Callie and myself are going to Dorchester 
tomorrow to see the judge for their adoption. I have room for 
2 more, would anyone like to come with us. Kate said she 
would but no one else. I looked at Larry, "would you like to 
come with Kate?"

"Oh can I?"

"Of course you can. We are flying by helicopter from here as 
the roads are too bad too drive. I will double check with your 
mum that it is alright." I went to the study and rang Jenny on 
her mobile.

"Oh Roy, I am glad you rang, Charles' brother has told us 
that the roads to the village won't be open till Christmas eve 
at the earliest."

"Don't worry about it. Larry is perfectly happy here. What I 
have rung about is we have to go to Dorchester tomorrow 
and Kate would like Larry to come with us."

"That's no problem."

"You haven't heard it all, we are going by helicopter. The 
two new children are being adopted tomorrow. The only 
way to go is by chopper and Kate wants to go with us and 
would like Larry to go with her."

"That's all right, it should be safer than driving and if you 
feel it is safe then I have no problems with it."

I rang off and told Larry the good news. I also told him he 
would be staying with us longer than expected as his parents 
were stuck in the peak district. The children went upstairs to 
play on Nick's console and PC. Natalie and I were left 
together. 

"Natalie, Kevin is going to use the experience of Tim and 
Callie in the sermon today. I was talking with him last night 
and how we needed to tell the story. He asked if he could do 
it from the pulpit as part of the Christmas message. I said 
fine; so he is."

"Would you like to go and listen Roy?"

"I think I would, but we couldn't take Tim or Callie."

"Of course not, I think you should go though, so if anyone 
wants to talk about it, you will be there." I went up to change 
for church, whilst I was in my room Kate joined me.

"Where are you going dad?"

Kevin is going to tell Tim and Callie's story as part of the 
sermon at church so Natalie and I think one of us should be 
there. So I am going."

"Can I come with you please."

"What about Larry?"

"He could come to."

"Call him through, I will then explain what is happening and 
ask if he wants to go."

"Larry can you come down to the study."

I heard Larry come running down in response to his 
girlfriends call.

"Larry, I am going to church today as the vicar is going to 
tell some of Tim and Callie's story in the sermon today. Kate 
wants to join me and wonders if you would like to come to?"

"Ok Roy, that will be fine."

"Go and get your shoes and coats then and we will be off." 
We walked through the snow along the path to the church, 
the graveyard was a mass of smooth humps in the snow. We 
went into church and Kevin saw us as we sat down.

"I wondered if you would come, I thought afterwards I 
should have asked you, so that if anyone needs further 
information you can give it. We sat down in the church, I 
could see the differences since the funeral. The level access 
and the new heating system. In fact it was if anything 
slightly too warm. We sat through the service; Kate was 
fascinated with the lighting of the advent candle. There was 
just the big central candle left to light. The children left for 
Sunday school at the reading before the sermon. Kevin's 
sermon was painful to listen to. Describing how a young 
man had resisted terrible pain for hours to try and protect a 
young girl. How he went beyond the call of duty but failed. 
He then described how it took Jesus to be able to protect 
everyone. 

"Often I am asked if the stories I use are real. I am afraid 
that the story I used today is only to real. The young man 
was 13 years old, the girl 11 years old at the time. He was 
forced to have sex with his cousin. It took their parents hours 
of beatings to force him to do it. The children have come to 
this village for safety and protection. They will be starting in 
central high after the New Year and I pray that they will be 
welcomed into the heart of this village. That when the girl 
gives birth to the baby she is expecting, it to will be 
welcomed. Some of you may have guessed that Mr 
McGarvy of The Old Rectory is adopting the children, he is 
with us today to speak with any of you that can help these 
traumatised children to settle into our village. Many of your 
children have met them already as they were at the party last 
night. They were the ones wearing horse riders body armour. 

I was conscious of people turning to look at me, a few I 
recognised as workers on the estate. The service came to its 
conclusion and I stayed on for coffee after. A number of 
people came up to speak with me about Tim and Callie. 
They were horrified that children could be so mistreated. 
They were assuring me that the children would be welcome 
in the village. Kevin came over to me.

"How is it going?"

"We are going to Dorchester tomorrow to go before the 
judge for us to be able to adopt them. They decided this 
morning that they want to be adopted so we arranged it by 
phone."

"That's good news. What response was there to my 
sermon?"

"On the whole very good, the people who talked with me 
were very supportive."

"That's good, it has done what I wanted it to do. Open 
peoples minds, The story will be round the village by 
tomorrow."

"Roy, I don't want to put a damper on your plans but the 
road reports say that the county is cut off by road." 

"We are not going by road, we are going by helicopter, it 
will be landing in my field."

"Well that's ok then, I'll see you tonight then."

We walked back home through the snow. We went into the 
house to the aroma of cooking dinner. Snowball fights and 
snowman building was the order of the day after we had 
eaten, well it was one way of clearing the landing field 
without causing any upsets and burning off some energy. 
We soon had the landing zone cleared with white markers at 
the corners. I would spray them with dayglo orange 
tomorrow. Once we had finished and night was falling we all 
went in to the hot tub to warm through. I stopped in the 
kitchen to heat up a batch of non alcoholic mulled wine. It 
would warm us all from the inside as the tub warmed us 
from the outside. I looked at Tim and Callie.

"This time tomorrow you will be McGarvy's, are you still 
happy about that?"

"Oh yes dad, they answered together. After we got out of the 
tub the children went off to play leaving Natalie and I.

"Nat, did you ever think you would have so many children 
as this?"

"No love, it is awesome to realise that I effectively have 7 
children and 2 more on the way."

"I was thinking about that, do you think we should treat 
Callie's baby as another of our children, if Callie wants that. 
I mean after she has weaned the baby for us to look after it 
with ours, that would mean she and Tim would be able to 
grow up normally. We need to discuss it before we involve 
Tim and Callie."

"Yes Roy, it does sound like a good idea. So long as we tell 
the baby right from the start." 

Shall we call Tim and Callie down to talk?" I went to the 
door and called Tim and Callie down.

"We called you down to talk about what happens after your 
baby is born. We are both aware you are very young and 
have your whole life before you. What we were thinking is if 
Natalie and I officially adopt your child after you have 
weaned it. Then we take over the day to day care. We would 
ensure that the child understands the position from day 1. It 
would mean that you would be able to go to university if you 
wanted, you could look after the child as much as you 
wanted but you would not lose out on your life chances."

"Roy I had worried about what effect having a baby would 
have on me. Whether I could continue studying. But then I 
felt that I was being selfish, it's my baby, it's my 
responsibility."

"Actually Callie it was your parents and your aunt and 
uncles responsibility. Now it will be Natalie's and mine as 
we are going to be your parents."

"Thank you Roy, but can you really mean it?"

"We can and we do. You can double check with Natalie."

"Do you really mean it mum?"

"Yes love, in fact, once my baby is born and my milk is 
properly in we can transfer your babies feeding to me and 
your milk can be expressed at school for the hospital milk 
bank. You can then decide how much you want to be mum 
and how much you want to be big sister; though you decide 
that at the time not now."

Suddenly my lap was filled with Callie crying her eyes out. 
"Oh dad, I have been so worried about being a mum, I'm too 
young, I'm not even a teenager yet. What do I know about 
bringing up a baby?" I cuddled her to me. 

"Hush little one, you don't need to worry, that is what 
Natalie and I are here for. You can still be a child until you 
are grown up. And even then you will still be our daughter. 
I'll let you into a secret, even Natalie doesn't really know 
how she will bring up our baby. The difference is she is an 
adult, she has an adult partner, and a partner who has already 
brought up one child." I watched with approval as Natalie 
drew Tim onto her lap, I couldn't hear what she said, but I 
guessed it was something similar to what I told Callie.

"All I will ask is that you keep this secret until tomorrow 
night. There is a good reason but I can't explain until then.

"Ok dad, no problem."

I looked across at my wife and saw her eyes closing. 
"Natalie I think it is time for you and Callie to have a nap, 
you are both tired out. Tim slipped off Natalie's lap, I put 
Callie down next to her mum. Natalie then reclined the sofa, 
within minutes they were both asleep. Two minutes later 
Tim had joined them. It was their bodies wanting to get rest 
to help with their healing. I went through to the study and 
rang Roger. I brought him up to speed about what had been 
happening, I invited him round tomorrow night to re-order 
the family trust. 

"Roger, my reading of the trust document is that all my legal 
children are beneficiaries, is that right, because if not I want 
it to be so."

"You are correct, it didn't put a limit on how many children 
you could enter into the trust."

"Does that include adopted children as well."

"Oh yes, because Jim, Mandy and Kate are adopted and Gill 
was specifically written in. Any adopted children are 
automatically in the trust."

"That's good because I am intending to adopt Callie and 
Tim's baby when it is born as well."

"I will get Rhys to update your accounts for tomorrow so we 
can give the figures."

"Don't worry about the figures, they are not important, what 
is important are the principles behind it. Talking about 
figures has the first transfer gone through to Gill's account?"

"Yes it went through on Friday along with all the others to 
their new accounts, £60,000."

"I can tell her now then. If you hear a loud noise it is just 
Gill reacting when I tell her. Oh arrange two new accounts 
for Timothy Brown as Timothy McGarvy; and Callie Jane 
Stanton as Callie Jane McGarvy and transfer the same 
amount from my personal account. They are being adopted 
tomorrow so they should get the year end cheque as well. 
Will you look after those accounts alongside the others?"

"Of course Roy, I will be only too pleased. I will see you 
tomorrow night." I hung up and started playing catch up 
with my work, fortunately it mainly consisted of updating 
myself on the activities of the estate. The urgent matters 
usually were raised by Dick or Jerry face to face. I rang Gill.

"Hello love, how are you doing?"

"Racing around like a blue tailed fly."

"Well sit down for a minute, I have something to tell you."

"Sounds interesting Roy."

"Two things actually, the first is some of us are flying to 
Dorset to finalise Tim and Callie's adoption. The judge has 
been arranged, the paperwork done, we just need to be 
there."

"That's great Roy. You said two things."

"Ah yes, the end of year profits have been posted, yours 
share, along with your brothers and sisters are now in the 
bank. Please don't tell the others though. Well aren't you 
going to ask me how much then?"

"No."

"You spoil all my fun, well I'm going to tell you. It's 
£60,000.00"

"You are joking aren't you?"

"No Gill, I am not joking."

"What do I do with that sort of money?" 

"Well I suggest you tell Alex, then learn to drive and get 
yourself a car. 

"Oh wow," Alex come here," I heard Gill telling Alex about 
the transfer. There was a stunned silence. Then Alex came to 
the phone.

"Roy, what is all this about, either I have gone crazy or Gill 
has gone crazy?"

"Neither of you have gone crazy. Back in the summer Gill 
decided that she wanted to adopt the McGarvy family, her 
cousins had been adopted and she felt she wanted to belong 
as well, so she changed her name legally to McGarvy. At 
that time I was setting up the family trust, I discussed it with 
Natalie and my legal advisor and we decided that Gill should 
be a part of the trust. She had wanted to be a part of the 
family and so we made her a part. She knew nothing about 
the trust at that time. The estate is divided into 1000 shares 
of which 450 are divided among all my children, that is 
natural and adopted plus two others, Becky and Gill. Becky 
is my sister in law and will be my daughter in law. Gill 
adopted us. My solicitor has written them specifically into 
the trust deeds. The £60,000.00 is Gill's share of the 
disbursed profits. I have spoken with my solicitor and 
Callie's child will be included alongside my child to be and 
all the other McGarvy children. Gill's share in the estate 
capital is 3 million, three hundred and seventy five thousand 
and some odd pounds. However that is very much a paper 
figure, I could never raise that as cash. It is all tied up in the 
companies."

"Roy I am glad I did not know about this when I asked Gill 
to marry me."

"I know that, I had good reports on you from Dawn. Now sit 
down and enjoy yourselves. I have got to go now." The 
evening had worn on and I realised it would soon be time for 
Kevin and Pam to arrive. I went into the lounge and woke 
Natalie, Tim and Callie they went upstairs to freshen up. I 
went into the kitchen and sliced the rolls and got the burgers 
and salads out of the fridge. Rachel had prepared them all 
this afternoon after dinner. I switched the coffee maker on 
ready. 

Ding dong. It was the front door bell. I went to open it and 
as expected it was Kevin and Pam. I took them through to 
the kitchen as we could talk whilst I cooked. Natalie came 
down and took Pam into the lounge.

"Kevin, one of the reasons I invited you hear was I had 
something to give you." I pulled out the envelope from my 
pocket and gave it to him. I watched him open it and sag 
back down onto the chair. His mouth fell open.

"Roy what is this?"

"I checked with the diocese, you are my employee in strictly 
legal terms. You are self employed as far as tax goes but you 
are not bound by the rules of the diocesan stipends. That is 
between you and the trustees. I spoke with the other trustees 
and they agreed that if I wished to include you as a staff 
member for the purposes of Christmas bonuses, that was fine 
with them. What you have in your hand is a notification of 
your Christmas bonus. The accountant has got the money for 
your deductions. It is the same as the rest of my staff 
received. Natalie, bring Pam through." I took the sheet of 
paper from Kevin's nerveless fingers. "This is his bonus 
notification."

"Bonus?"

"Yes, according to the diocese Kevin is more employed by 
me rather than the diocese, so he comes under the terms and 
conditions of my staff. They received their Christmas bonus 
so Kevin has received his Christmas bonus. It went into your 
account on Friday. Whilst I had been talking I had been 
cooking the burgers. Natalie called to everyone to come 
down for supper. I was busy for 5 minutes serving the 
burgers out. They took the relishes and salads they wanted 
and went into the dining room.

"Kevin, or more properly Pam, I have a CD for you. If you 
load it into your computer it will set up the connection to 
farm net. You have an employee code and you can buy fruit, 
vegetables, meat and dairy produce from the estate,  that is 
the farm and village stores, at cost price. You either have it 
delivered or you go in and pick it up and remember once the 
fish farm is onstream you will be able to buy fish as well."

"Oh Roy, I don't know what to say."

"How about; thank you, can you demonstrate how it works." 
Pam looked at me, saw the grin on my face and started 
laughing. 

"You my friend are a terror." We laughed and joined the 
children in the lounge. The wood fire was blazing and the 
children were sitting around it with toasting forks, slices of 
bread and the butter dish. 

"Kevin, just think if the diocese had not sold this house off 
you could have been sitting here."

"Yes with thermals and thick jumpers and still been cold. 
This place used to be terrible to heat, I have read my 
predecessors complaints about this house. Always cold in 
summer and freezing in winter. No thank you Roy you are 
welcome to this house, we will enjoy our modern house. In 
the thirties the then rector had the dining room enlarged so 
he could host his dinner parties for 35 guests."

"I had wondered why the dining room extended beyond the 
study and the rest of the house." As the evening wore on the 
children went up to bed. Leaving Natalie and I to talk to 
Kevin and Pam.

"Did you get much comeback from you sermon this 
morning."

"Yes, I had one person come round to see me, she was 
fuming that I had made a hero out of a sex mad boy. Her 
words not mine, I hasten to add. I told her very simply 
exactly what you told me. I then asked her if she would have 
been able to withstand a prolonged beating? She was silent 
for a few minutes and then admitted she was a coward when 
it came to pain.  After a while it came out that she had been 
abused as a child. I think she will be supportive to them 
both. I had several other phonecalls from people who were 
supportive but hadn't been able to talk with you this 
morning. I think it was a useful exercise."

"I'm glad about that, Tim will have enough problems to deal 
with, without being seen as a rapist. Natalie and I will be 
adopting the child when it is born and bringing it up with our 
child. That way Tim and Callie can grow normally and if 
they want, look back on this time as something that 
happened to someone else. Whereas if they keep the baby 
they will be reminded every time it wakes, they will be able 
to have the pleasures of parenthood without the trials."

"Can I suggest something Roy?"

"You can always suggest."

"Well, if when the baby is born and you adopt it, we 
organise a service of thanksgiving for the adoption of a 
baby. You are not making any promises you couldn't keep 
and it will associate the baby with you more strongly in the 
minds of the village. Then when your own baby is born you 
have a service of thanksgiving for the birth of a baby." Then 
the adoption of the baby will override memories of Callie 
giving birth and less problems for them all in the future."

"I like it Kevin. It takes the emphasis away from Tim and 
Callie. I will talk with them about it tomorrow." I made a 
final drink for us. "Kevin, another question, where are the 
carol singers finishing on Wednesday?"

"I knew there was something I hadn't done. They used to 
finish at Home Farm."

"Bring them here to finish, how many of them will there 
be?"

"About 20 children and 15 adults."

"That will be great, Sue was always wary about strangers so 
we never invited the carol singers, which was very sad as 
this was The Old Rectory. A fitting place for them to finish."

 We made all the final arrangements and then waved 
goodbye to Kevin and Pam. 

"Come on love, time for bed." But that is another story.

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