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Sweet Dreams Are Made of These - 3
by Innuendo (keepsake411@yahoo.com)
***
Every relationship has hurdles to overcome, and its own
set of unique baggage, as Jahn is beginning to learn the
hard way. Double the dynamic, double the fun, double the
trouble. (FFM, mast, rom, fantasy)
***
Author Note: This is chapter 3 of 12 in my SDAMT series,
sub-titled "Between the Bars". As usual // denotes
Jahn's fantasy imaginings. Chapters are labeled by month
rather than by number, but are my personal story-telling
device and do not have to be re-added.
***
Part: March: Between the Bars
There are moments so uncomfortable that you wish you
could be anywhere else, like being face to face with
someone calling you an asshole, or a post-sex
confrontation with your girlfriend's shrieking sister.
An invitation to meet your sweetie's father shouldn't be
one of those, of course, but when her daddy just happens
to be locked up in a prison with a reputation for its
inmates, just what is the right response? Staring at you
with eyes that practically weep conflicting emotions,
lower lip trembling slightly as she nibbles at it in
anxiety, he's probably looking for a decisive response,
and "Can I change my mind?" just isn't "Oh, hell no?"
Sure. Depends on whether you want to keep your teeth.
Answering, "Okay, when do you want to go?" was Jahn's
only real option, of course. Slower and less reassuring
than he'd intended it to be, but relief flooded Jenny's
face as soon as the words left his mouth. Visibly
relaxing, his girlfriend moved forward to hug him
tightly.
"I know you're probably thinking he must be awful," she
said softly, as she leaned her head against his
shoulder. "What he did _was_ really bad, unforgivable
even, but he's still my daddy, and he always tried to do
right by me. I love him, even though maybe I shouldn't."
Something left unsaid there, but the intuitive grasp was
cut short when she continued, "He killed a guy in a
fight way back. I was too young to get any details at
the time, and I haven't asked since. I just know it was
ugly."
Jahn patted her shoulder awkwardly as she went on, but
she pulled back to look up at him. "Also, you need to
know – he's racist. Not like the watered down stuff you
hear about on the news, but like out of the old days."
Sheets and slurs and crosses a'burn, he thought. Likely
not KKK around here but there were plenty of supremacist
organizations to catering that party. Fuck. Jahn had a
long history of antagonizing bigots online; he'd have to
moderate his instinct for smart-ass remarks.
"It's hard for people to deal with. I understand if you
don't want to come."
Of course Jenny understood, but it was also clear in her
eyes that she really wanted him with her, to have Daddy
meet her boyfriend, see that his little girl was doing
well for herself with someone he would approve of.
Whatever history Mel Donovan possessed, his daughter
kept her eyes firmly to the future. Jahn didn't like the
connotations of Donovan's approval, but he was aware he
possessed qualities the man would appreciate – hard work
and a determination to succeed in a society where people
didn't always. And white. Devotion to Jenny. And white.
It kept coming back to that. Snide comments also kept
associating themselves with his thoughts, but he knew
that if he was gonna go, he'd have to focus. Because
fuck, he'd be better off simply not bothering, than
insulting her father in front of her, prison guards, and
all creation. Jahn wanted to hedge, but instead said,
"Don't worry about it, Jen, I'll come along."
She nodded, leaning her head against his shoulder again.
"We can go Saturday, long as you don't have anything
else going on." Of course he didn't. Jenny ... and
later, Fiona... had fully owned his weekends for nearly
the full two previous months.
***
"We're going down to see Jenny's father tomorrow
morning." Jahn didn't understand the dynamic that
existed between the two girls and their respective
fathers. Uncomfortable was putting the response to
Fiona's question about his plans for Saturday mildly,
and the anxiety was apparently visible on his face.
Fiona studied her hands, expression inscrutable. "You
don't need to tread lightly around the subject. I'm well
aware what Mr. Donovan is like, and I don't think any
less of Jenny for going to see him. I'd do the same, in
her place, I think. Mom wasn't with my father very long
after she found out that he was a hopeless alcoholic,
and even though she tried to be nice about it, she told
me once that it was a wonder he wasn't the cause of the
crash that killed him. Our parents are what they are, we
can't change them."
"So what are your plans for the day?"
"Our threshold choir will be singing at the Corazon
Retirement Home tomorrow. Several of the residents have
asked us for our consideration, and that'll take us the
better part of the day."
"Threshold choir, eh?" he murmured in curiosity to
Fiona, as he dabbed spaghetti sauce from the side of his
mouth. His ... girlfriend... the idea of having two
girlfriends still jarred him disconcertingly... nodded,
going on explain how she and this odd singing group
she'd joined years ago would sing for the dying, those
in hospice care, or other stages of illness that left
them bed-ridden. All of it was an event that was
sometimes as much for the family, as for the patient. A
concept that he had never heard of before, and one that
seemed strangely ...holy... though he knew neither of
the girls were practicing members of any religion.
A choice of hobby that seemed exceptionally fitting: the
brunette had a lovely voice, low and rich –mellifluous,
that was the word-, flowing like honey whenever she
spoke about something she was familiar or comfortable
with. "That's incredibly cool that you're able to do
that for people who need it the most." She flushed in
pleasure with the compliment, a dusky rose shade that
deepened when he continued, "Any chance you might sing
for me?"
"Maybe some other time? It's kind of awkward, singing by
myself."
Jahn waved a hand dismissively. "No big deal. Maybe I
could come along sometime, and watch your group sing?"
A delicate hand twitched across the tablecloth. "I...
don't think so. Respecting the family's privacy is an
issue, and spectators are discouraged." After a moment
of consideration, she suggested, "Perhaps you could sing
with us sometime?"
Jahn laughed uncomfortably, matching her blush with one
of his own. "It's been a long time since high school
choir, and I don't think I ever had anything like your
talent." This praise earned him a dazzling smile.
"Talent is appreciated, but not required. We don't have
to be superstars, just provide people with compassion
and a measure of serenity."
"I'll work myself up to it sometime," he promised. "Not
soon, though. Stage shy, really." She eyed him
speculatively, but didn't say anything to that. He
wondered what she was thinking about that, if she was
considering the fact that when he'd been with Andrea,
he'd always been at a kind of center stage in any social
situation, something he'd never been comfortable with.
That was where he'd met Fiona the first time, he was
sure, some company Christmas party. Long ago, and not
something he wanted to embarrass himself asking about so
late in the game.
"We've got the house to ourselves tonight," Fiona said,
cheeks still pink. "I didn't really have much planned
for the evening. Maybe we could watch a movie or...
something?" She wasn't being coy, just shy on the
subject of sex, even though she obviously enjoyed it a
great deal. To date, he'd only had her twice, that first
time and maybe a week later when she'd gotten tipsy and
loosened up a bit on one of their dates. Most of that
was probably due to Jenny, who devoured his time and
occasionally himself with a voracious and seemingly
endless appetite.
Attention from Fiona never seemed to waver either, and
the two-sided siege was exceptionally soothing,
providing a sense that there was always someone waiting
for him no matter which way he turned. Another person
might have found that cloying. Not Jahn.
He loved the scent of the light perfume Fiona wore while
they lay together on the couch, the intimacy of just
being with her there, head resting on his chest, some
tune he didn't recognize humming very quietly from her
lips. Jenny thrilled him with her ever-present sense of
adventure and good humor, a little blonde bombshell
waiting to go off or get off, wherever the mood took
them. She was white hot fire that seemed to sing with
life, a constant spark in her eyes, simmering laughter
on cherry red lips.
Images flickered on the screen, but he didn't feel a
drive to make sense of them, instead enjoying the peace
and heady sense of companionship as he massaged the
crook of Fiona's neck. Hands straying down to his
midriff, his girlfriend's long slender fingers found the
buckle of his belt, and slid lower to his groin. Erotic,
that deft and teasing touch, but Jahn wasn't reacting
where it counted most, and sighed inwardly for it.
His stamina seemed to be improving, but a sexual
Olympian he was not, and the time with both women had
been taking a toll. Displeased, he shifted his attention
from himself to her, lowering his hand from her shoulder
to her waist, gently tracing a labyrinth of lines and
circles upon her body. Fiona sighed softly as she
nestled against him.
Exploration of her firm little waist had been entirely
been without skin contact, a gentle press upon the silky
material of her blouse. A few surreptitious tugs upon
the tails of the material remedied that lack of access,
and he slipped his hand beneath, making skin-to-skin
contact, his hand upon her flesh, repeating the
ministrations he'd given her before. Fiona's body arched
against him as she was distracted by his touch, her own
reciprocation not getting much response. He was fast
resigning himself to this night being one-sided, but for
some reason that didn't seem so bad. Her body was
responding to every touch, and there seemed to be a
bright sense of getting something back on an entirely
mental level, the physical be damned.
Despite her movement to accommodate him, his attempt to
slide his hand into her skirt stalled by the form-
fitting denim. Attractive skirt on her, showing off her
slim hips and tight bottom to devastating effect, but it
also clung to her body in a way that frustrated his
efforts. He desperately attempted to recall how this one
fastened. Realizing his difficulty she clasped his hand,
her own guided his to the buttons, allowing him to
manipulate and work them open. Obstacle removed from the
path of his fingers, Jahn refocused on the original
goal, smoothly slipping his hand between the sheer
fabric of her panties and her skin.
Finding the familiar patch of hair, he slid his hand
deeper, seeking her moist and swollen lips, and then
reverted back along the groove to find her equally
aroused clitoris. A sudden jerk of her body against his
own proved success, and he began to manipulate the
button of flesh. There was something inherently exciting
about her murmurs of pleasure as she squirmed beneath
him, even though his own body still showed not the
slightest hint of physical reaction where it mattered.
Imagining himself plucking the strings of a harp, then
tapping a light beat on a drum, and then... simply
letting his fingers play upon the hidden flesh, Jahn
teased her through a series of orgasms, taking what
might have seemed under other circumstances a perverse
delight in her breathless gasps and moans.
In a strange way, it was better than the act of sex, and
departure from the Reed house that night was accompanied
by a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.
***
As Jahn drove back to their house the following morning
to pick up Jenny, it occurred to him just how little
time he spent at home these days, and he wondered just
how much gasoline he was burning on the daily driving,
work, their house, the ongoing dates. His finances were
in good shape and he had no worries on that score, but
the nonstop commute seemed somehow inefficient. Too
soon, surely, to broach the subject of moving in
together, but it seemed like the natural next step.
Jenny stepped into the Taurus, and he immediately
noticed that she'd dressed far more conservatively than
normal, as if ready for work. Wordlessly, she slipped
her pale fingers into his free hand, and he gave them a
squeeze as he backed out of the driveway and began the
long drive to the prison.
Nothing had quite prepared him for the experience of
visiting an actual prison, and even looking at a few
sites online that explained just how Johannesberg was
set up didn't have the nerve-rattling impact that
walking into the place did. Stark, sterile walls gave
Jahn the feeling of being locked up in a bank vault made
up entirely of office cubicles. God, now there was an
idea that might someday be his personal existential
hell. Jenny knew where to go and led the way, but he had
the bizarre impression that the guards were shepherding
the pair to their final destination.
Off-guard, every bit of sensory input was a revelation,
the stale odor of the human body distant but present, a
stray noise that might have been yelling, the ever-
watchful eyes of men in uniform on them. When they were
finally ushered into the divided room, there was a
curious sense of déjà vu, every movie he'd ever watched
about visitors meeting with convicts by talking on a
phone while separated by plate glass springing to mind.
The room seemed to darken in his head, just like every
one of those scenes, placing an unseen spotlight on the
people talking to their incarcerated friends or family.
Jesus, get a grip, he thought. This is the real life,
not a fantasy.
Jenny practically danced forward to the chair in front
of the window, a bright smile on her face as she saw the
jumpsuit-clad man being ushered in by guards on his side
of the wall. While the loose orange material went a
great way towards concealing the man's physique, Jahn
couldn't help but feel like he was looking at a bull. No
horns, but he was _huge_, shoulders spanning a width
that looked like two of himself. Couldn't tell if
Donovan was taller, but with that brute size, it hardly
mattered. As the man drew close, Jahn's gut clenched.
He'd always thought that those stock phrases in books
and movies that never lived up to the reality were just
trite expressions. Donovan had the stone-hard face of a
killer. Not just that, but he really had killed a man;
Jenny's loving father was a convicted murderer.
Staring at the back of his girlfriend's head, her blonde
tresses a distraction even now, he thought with wonder
that she looked past that rock facade and only saw the
man that was her daddy. Oh sure, she knew, but she'd
placed the knowledge in some mental back compartment and
filed it, to be opened at a later time. The words of
greeting that bubbled off her lips into the phone as her
father picked up the device's twin on the other side
were nothing but love.
Strangest of all was the metamorphosis on Mel Donovan's
face. Not ten seconds before wearing the disaffected,
expressionless visage of a killer, it was now something
alive, the creases of age around his eyes deepening with
pleasure, thin hard lips curving with the same. Those
eyes... yes, that was where Jenny's lovely blue eyes had
come from. It was bizarre to Jahn to think of a man in
that way, but Donovan really did have striking blue
eyes, pretty if not for that granite face.
//You shore do got purty lips, bo//
Oh fuck you, brain, he told himself, shooting the stray
thought down execution-style, rigidly turning his
attention back to the convict, who, he was uncomfortable
to note, was reciprocating the examination. At least it
wasn't a look of ruthless calculation, merely the
curiosity of a man considering whether this kid his
daughter's seeing might be worth keeping around.
Whatever horrific failings the man possessed that
leading him to commit cold blooded murder, it seemed
that Jenny was his heart and soul. Jahn could relate,
and when she stood, handing him the phone, he tried to
keep that thought firmly in mind.
"So, you're Jahn Halvers. Jenny's... boyfriend."
Jahn wasn't sure he liked how that was added on at the
end like an afterthought, but braved forth anyway. "Yes
sir. You prefer the first name or the last?"
"Sir works just fine, kid." Jahn was only a few years
shy of thirty, but didn't think it wise to point out the
distinction to the now flat and expressionless face
before him.
"Yes sir."
"So tell me about yourself. Tell me what you do, and why
you think you're good enough for my little girl."
Jahn began to sweat. Exactly like meeting Gianna's
father, he thought, recalling a long ago prom date.
Except Mr. Charter wasn't the sort of guy to raise a
swatter to a fly, let alone a pipe or gun to someone's
head. Suddenly, the wall of glass between them didn't
seem like enough. Think of it as an interview, he
thought, trying to desperately to bolster himself. Tell
him what you do and why you're not the sort of dick that
would pump and dump. Just not in those words.
So he did. Slowly and with a great deal of hesitation at
first, but he worked up to it, and felt a sliver of
success. It would have been more helpful if Donovan's
face had given him some feedback to work with, but that
flat expression never changed a whit as Jahn rattled off
his personal biography.
At last the man interrupted, "That's enough."
Jahn stuttered to a halt. "Okay..."
Unblinkingly, he said, "You seem like an ambitious kid,
and pretty smart too. Got the blood to back it up, or
are you one of them exceptions to the rule?"
It took a moment for Jahn to figure out what the hell
Donovan was talking about, and when he finally got it,
he had to bite back a scathing retort. Use your brain,
man, he thought. No family tree cracks. Jen's right
behind you.
Stiffly, he replied, "Dutch ancestry straight back to
the motherland." Donovan nodded in a manner that was so
approving he wanted to puke. Instead, he waited for
'Daddy's' next question. Half of Jahn's brain called him
a pussy for not following up with something like "and
probably purer blood than yours", while the other
applauded his restraint from that course of stupidity.
"So, nice smart white kid like you... Jenny know you're
seeing that little half-breed girl on the side, or are
you really that stupid?" The hostility in his voice was
undisguised now.
Oh, shit. Jen hadn't told Donovan that. "How do you even
know-"
A biting interruption was returned, "Don't fuck with me,
boy. I have friends on the outside that keep a close eye
on my little girl for me."
Okay, so the prick had people watching Jahn coming and
going. Wonderful. He'd have to go with straightforward
then, and hope he didn't piss Jenny off in the process.
"Of course she knows. It was her idea." A sharp intake
of breath issued behind him.
The convict's eyes narrowed, no longer blue, but a
steely flint. That broad face seemed harder still, but
softened again when his glance moved past Jahn.
"Never should have let her mother keep that kid." From
what both women had told him about their mother,
Donovan's suggestion seemed an unlikely proposition.
Those eyes turned back to him and the voice came over
the phone once more. "You know what miscegenation is?"
You fucking asshole, Jahn marveled inwardly at the man
in front of him. Aloud, he said, "Yes, I do know what
that is, and what it means to you personally." He loaded
the word 'you' with as much venom as possible, though
Donovan seemed oblivious.
"I won't tell you to stop seeing Jenny, 'cuz it's
obvious she's real sweet on you. I won't do anything to
break her blessed heart. Neither will you." The threat
was implicit, every bit as venomous as his own. "If you
have to keep seeing that Indian girl, then that's how
it's gonna be. You watch it, though. What I'm saying is,
I know what guys who got two or three girlfriends get up
to, and if I hear you've been talking Jenny into that
kind of shit, I will have your arms and legs broken. You
hear me?"
It took Jahn a minute to puzzle out what the convict was
hinting at. Threesomes, he thought hysterically. He
thinks Jenny and Fiona and I might start a threesome.
Stupid asshole, came the thought, and this time he let
his mouth wander.
"Give your daughter some credit for the intelligence we
both know she has... sir." The last word dripped ice.
"You might not see Fiona as a real person, but that is
her half-sister." Emphasizing the last word, "Her
sister, get it?" He didn't want to invoke the word
'incest' in front of Jenny without context, but
Donovan's expression flickered enough that it seemed he
understood.
The silence on the other end of the phone stretched
interminably, before Donovan finally responded. "Okay,
you're talking sense. We're on the same wave-length,
kid."
"And..."
"And nothing. You treat my little girl right, and make
sure you don't do anything to her that would make me
regret not adding you to a long list of kids who got
shown the door."
Jahn had no idea what he was talking about, but let it
rest. "Yes sir."
"Put her back on." Jahn stood, passing the handset to
Jenny, who had an apprehensive look on her face. He was
unwilling to eavesdrop, but the shift in his
girlfriend's overcast expression to her usual sunshine
demeanor told him all he needed to know. Donovan might
heap that bullshit on Jahn, but he wasn't going to do
that to his daughter. Maybe love could work miracles. Or
maybe he was just a romantic of idiotic proportions.
***
The ride home was not as silent as he might have wished
for. When he saw Jenny's face return to the cloudy
expression she'd worn after hearing his words to her
father, he should have known the verbal left hook was
coming, but he wouldn't have been able to dodge it
anyway.
Tone unreadable, she asked, "What were you saying to my
father about me and Fiona?" A loaded question, with no
dodge available, no place to retreat to.
To be continued...
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