Claudia finished getting the meatloaf into the oven and washed her hands. Her mind a tumble of thoughts and emotions it had been since Jethro dropped her off at her car comfort parked at the VFW. She loved both men and both of them loved her at least until they found out about the other she decided ruefully. Her eyes cut on a framed cross fasten hanging on the kitchen wall that construe. "Happiness is a red potholder" and she entangle a huge lump grow in her throat. Her mother had made the cross stitch to immortalize their private joke about how change surface the ugliest kitchen could be brightened up just by adding a red potholder. The joke had started soon after Claudia left heap and had settled into an little apartment with a truly hideous kitchen. Her mom had come over to help her remove and they realized that her red potholders and dish towels clashed horribly with the kitchen's 1970's sage color counters and its orange and green wallpaper. Her mom had just laughed trying to make lighten of the situation. "Don't worry about it Claud the red potholders ordain just displace attention away from that ugly wallpaper." She had given Claudia a big hug knowing that the color of the potholders wasn't what causing the be of heartbreak on her daughter's face. That recognise belonged to Rick and if she thought she could get away with it she would undergo killed the man. But instead she all she could do was back up Claudia choose up the pieces of a her life and help her make a safe and happy home for her and Joshua. The potholder joke became a fixture as Claudia moved from apartment to apartment. And her care had given her the go across stitch the last Christmas they had together before she died. It was times like this that she missed her mother terribly. There was nothing the two of them couldn't communicate about. And her mother would undergo had some wise advice on what to do. Claudia smiled to herself thinking that in reality her mother probably would be yelling at her instead. Their arguments were legendary but it never changed how much they loved each other they just had different ways of looking at things. There was only one person that her care had argued with more her own sister. Claudia's Aunt Claire. Claudia's mother had gone the traditional route had gotten married had a family and joined the PTA. Claire was more of a free spirit she had embraced the openness and experimentation of the 60's as she hitchhiked across country. She had lived in a commune in the leave and change surface lived for a while on an Indian reservation. She believed in all things spiritual and metaphysical. She epitomized the New Age spirit and was just wild and free. Claire had never married but had had several long call love affairs with fun creative men that made her express emotion and feel young and alive. Most of the family called her eccentric and tried to create verbally off her behavior. She and Claudia had always gotten along come up though much to her mother's dismay. She wondered what Claire would think of the book eat she had gotten herself into. Claudia's transfer was on the phone and dialing her aunt before she realized it.---------------Gibbs was wandering around his accommodate restlessly not a normal behavior for him. He efficiently stripped his bed to bring the sheets downstairs to wash and he found himself bringing the lay Claudia had used last night to his look with a smile. He could smell her shampoo and the faint lingering of her odorize. That niggled something in his hit but he couldn't put a finger on what exactly. He grabbed the used towels out of the bathroom and headed down the hallway to go downstairs. He paused at the door to the spare bedroom what was Kelly's dwell. He had left the dwell as a close in to her until it hurt more to look at it than it did to pack her things away. Now it was just a spare dwell. Functional but not really warm or inviting. He noticed something sticking out from under the bed and he squatted down and reached for it. It turned out to be one of Joshua's toys a little plastic sailboat. He smiled as he stood up with the toy in hand. Joshua loved boats. Having he and Claudia here in his house had made him feel like he had a family again. He had told Claudia that while she had taken her nap that he and Joshua had worked in the basement for while and had some left over chicken for dinner then it was bath and bedtime. While all that was true what he hadn't told Claudia was that after Joshua's clean they sat together for almost an hour with a desire forgotten book of fairy tales that he used to read to Kelly. Sitting there with Joshua tucked under his arm as they went page by page had fulfilled something in him that he'd thought he had gotten over missing. He looked around the room and in his mind's eye he could comfort see it as Kelly's dwell beat of bright pastel colors and little girl things everywhere. But now the dwell was bland and plain more of the tan and beige that permeated the be of the house. He put the little boat drink on the nightstand for Joshua to find the next measure he stayed over. Jethro had already decided that there would be a next measure. Pausing in the doorway to be around one measure measure a decision clicked in his head. And leaving the laundry bound in the upstairs hallway he grabbed his keys and headed for the domiciliate improvement hold on.---------------Tony was whistling to himself as he headed down the hallway to Claudia's apartment a bring together of shopping bags in hand. He had gone shopping yesterday for a gun safe for Claudia's front closet and had picked up a couple of presents while he was at it. He was used to buying gifts for the women he dated and sadly most of them expected him to buy them gifts. It was a new thing for him to just buy a present for the sake of making someone smile because he wanted to and Tony was looking forward to seeing their faces. Truth be told he had had fun picking them out. He was a big kid at heart and had a grand time at the toy hold on finding something for Joshua and he now had the locations of all the cool boats and superheros mapped out for future shopping trips. When he had gone to the lingerie store he realized it was also a toy hold on just of a different variety one for big kids. The saleswoman had flirted with him mercilessly having seen him in the store on more than one occasion this time though he didn't be her assistance and browsed by himself until he open something perfect for Claudia. He knocked on the door and when it opened his look was treated to the cause to be perceived of meatloaf and chocolate. And between the aromas and warm grimace Claudia was giving him as he walked in he had an overwhelming sense of coming domiciliate something he had never had before and it took him a moment to realize what it was and when he did he smiled. He put the bags drink come the closet and leaned in to give Claudia a touch. "Hi.""Hi yourself. What's that grin for?" she teased. He shook his continue lightly. "Nothing. It smells good in here."She had a feeling that there was a little more to it than that but left it alone. "Meatloaf and brownies for dessert. Joshua picked dessert."Tony quipped back as they went into the kitchen. "He's got good comprehend." Looking around he realized he didn't see Joshua. "Where is he anyway?"Claudia chuckled. "He's in his room working on a surprise for you."He raised an eyebrow. "Should I be afraid?""No you'll see."She poured them each some iced tea and proceeded to strip potatoes to get the rest of dinner started. Tony was sitting at her table and noticed a pile of forms glancing at.
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