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Part 29 � Bad news
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�How�s Will?� Sanchez demanded as soon as she picked up the
phone.

�Good,� Don said, �Real good.� He started talking today.�

�That�s great!� Hang
on,� Sanchez said.� Don heard her chair
move, then her door open.�

�Hey guys,� she called out to her team.� �Will�s talking!�

Cheers and whistles and then Sanchez�s voice came back to
the phone, a smile obvious in her voice.�
�Good news indeed.� Will not
talking is � just not right.�

�It�s just a few words yet,� Don said.� �But he also wrote down some letters.�

�Excellent!�

�Yep!� So that�s my
news.� What about you?�

Sanchez sighed.�
�Nada.�� Our mole is sitting
tight.�

�Let me ask you this � do you ever get leads from outside
the DEA?�

�Oh yeah, all the time.�
From LAPD, CHP, the public ��

�What if you faked a lead?�

�Hmm,� Sanchez said, and Don heard her close her office
door.� �Feed the mole fake info?� I�ve thought about that, but was trying to
figure out how to do it in-office.� I
like the outside lead idea.�

�You could go through all the usual routine of setting up a
bust, and see if our bastard bites.�

�You realize, don�t you,� Sanchez said wryly.� �That I could be the mole and you just blew
it?�

Don had to smile at her candidness.� He could see why Will liked her.� �Yeah, but I gotta trust someone, ya
know?� I know Will trusts you.�

�I�m honored,� Sanchez said, her voice teasing but
pleased.� �Okay, so let me work through
the details of this and I�ll generate a lead from � not sure yet.� Something plausible.� The leads usually go through me so it won�t
be suspect.�

�Good, good.� Keep me
in the loop?�

�As much as I can without giving the game away,� Sanchez
said and rung off.

His task done, Don wandered back to Will�s room.

Don learned later that Sanchez had moved quickly on his
idea.� Within an hour she had generated
the fake lead � strong evidence of drug-trafficking behavior in a warehouse
that the ATF had under surveillance.�
Supposedly to avoid interfering with the ATF investigation, she�d set up
a raid for two days hence, first thing Monday morning.� She�d put in details such as the company they
were targeting and the suspicious personnel.�
It was a real and legitimate import company, in case the mole checked,
but the DEA was set up to intercept the Newport Beach emails, so the import
company wouldn�t ever know they were used as a setup.� Everything else was done as typical �
organizing the raid schedule, assigning agents, planning the approach.� This actually created a lot of unnecessary
work for the department, but Sanchez was a determined woman.

Back in Don�s world, Saturday went as the days before, but
with Will�s waking periods coming more frequently and lasting longer.� He still had trouble speaking, which
frustrated him greatly, but he was slowly improving.� He and Don were able to just chat about
random things, and sneak in a few kisses too.�
They got back around to talking about what Will remembered from when he
was in a coma.

�I �member Churlie talkin� �bout buyun� house,� Will said,
slurring his words.

�Yeah,� Don said, �And complaining that I didn�t �pony up�
the money but I still get to enjoy it.�

�Umm-hmm.� �Ulso
somethun� �bought you throwun� him through screen.� Like ta hear sshtory.�

Don groaned, glad that it was only him and Will�s sisters in
the room at that moment.� �It wasn�t
really like that.� Charlie always wanted
to wrestle but he wasn�t any challenge.�
I mean, he was only nine when I was fourteen and he�s always been
skinny, anyway.� And I always got in trouble when I did give in and �roughhouse,� as
my Dad called it.� Charlie would always
get his knee banged or his eye poked and start crying though he tried not to
and I�d get grounded from baseball practice.

�I didn�t want to fight with him, so he started attacking me
at random moments.� Sometimes he got in
some really good licks too before I got rid of him.� One day he jumps me on the back porch and I
just twist around and toss him off � right through the back door screen.� I got grounded and missed a baseball game for that one.� Charlie stopped attacking me after that.� I know he felt real bad that I couldn�t
play.�

Will, Amy and Cindi were smiling.

�Hey,� Don said defensively, �When I was fourteen, baseball
was my life.�

�I�m just enjoying the image of wiry little Charlie
attacking his big brother,� Cindi said with a grin.

�You uzzed ta do that,� Will said.

�I know,� Cindi said, looking embarrassed.� �And you�d just put me into a submission lock
until I promised not to do it again.�

Will grinned.� �Yu
were scrappy kid.�

�I remember once that I got you to play tag with me in the
house,� Amy said, also looking embarrassed.�
�And we broke the glass coffee table.�

�Oh,� Will winced.�
�Got total hidin� fur that.�

�Yeah,� Amy grimaced.�
�Sorry about that.�

�Wat�r under brridge,� Will shrugged.� �Though taught me n�ver try to �splain was
yur fault.� Def�nitly got me more troubul
than breakin� tabul.�

Amy grimaced again and her face flushed.� Will reached out and patted her hand.� �No wurries.�
Was jus� how it was.� How still
is.�

Amy met Cindi�s eyes and a look passed between them.� Don agreed silently that now was as good as
time as any to talk about Min.

�Tull me!� Will demanded, knowing immediately what their
look meant.� �Wad she do?�

�She was okay for a while,� Cindi said uneasily.

�D�n�t �pologize for her!� Will snapped.� �What?�

Cindi and Amy seemed to be having trouble answering so Don
stepped in.� �She found out about Charlie
and Colby.� She got really mad, saying
that one of �them� in a family is a mistake, a birth defect, but two has to be
deliberate.�

Will�s eyes widened in horror.

Don continued, �I�m afraid she called our family abnormal, defective,
saying that something was wrong with my parents� genes or they made us gay on
purpose.�

Will stared at him.

�When my dad didn�t immediately stand up and say she was
right, when he had the nerve to say that it was okay, that �love is love��

Cindi snapped, �She told Alan to leave.� That he wasn�t family.� That he was going to somehow turn her
�normal� children gay.� Told Charlie and
Colby to leave, too.�

�Your dad said that he considered Will like a son-in-law,�
Amy jumped in.� �Which I think is really
sweet but Mom said it didn�t matter, that he had no legal right to be
here.� Then Don tried to get them to stop
fighting and she said she could throw him out too.�

�Dammm�t!� Will said, his face red.

�She�s right, though,� Don reminded him gently.� �We don�t have any legal standing.� If the hospital was pushed��

�F�ck that!� I�ll sign
f�ckin� restring orrd�r that she can�t be with�n mile�� Will struggled to sit
up, yanking at the wires and tubes attached to him.�

Don grabbed Will�s hands. �Stop it, stop!� he said urgently,
trying to push Will back to the bed.� Amy
and Cindi tried to help, but Will continued to thrash about.� �I�m here, we didn�t leave, nobody left but
her and your dad!�

�Dad told her �no�!� Cindi shouted over Will�s angry grunts.� �Dad told her �no�!�

Will froze and stared at her.

The door to Will�s room burst open and a nurse rushed
in.� �What happened?� the nurse
demanded.� �The alarms all went off!�

Will lay back against his pillow, still staring at
Cindi.�

�Just had to give him some bad news,� Don said quickly.� �He should be okay now.�

�I�ll be the judge of that,� the nurse snapped and strode
over to Will�s bed.�� They let go of Will
and moved aside.� The nurse poked and
prodded Will for a moment then reset the wires that Will had torn half
off.� All through her work, Will�s eyes
hadn�t left Cindi.�

�Okay,� the nurse said grudgingly, �But no more bad news,
even if the world ends.�

They nodded and the nurse, after giving them one more stern
glare, left the room.

�Wha?� Will demanded of Cindi.� �Wha?�

Cindi gripped Will�s hand.�
�Mom told Dad to call security, and Alan asked Dad what he thought and
said that Mom was just overtired and upset and he should take her home.�

��Lan said that?�

Amy said, �Yeah, then Dad got this funny look on his face
and he got up and walked over to your chair.�
He just looked at you for a long time.�

�M�boy,� Will whispered.�
�He said �My boy.��

�Yeah,� Cindi said softly.�
�He did.� Then he told mom it was
time to leave and walked her out the door.�

Will�s jaw hung open.

�We all almost got thrown out after that, anyway,� Don said
wryly.� �Dr. Jones was not at all happy
with the way your numbers dropped through the floor.� We convinced her that your mom was the
problem and that she was gone and wouldn�t come back.�

�D�d she?�

�Come back?� Don asked.�
�Nope.� Not your dad either,
though he might just be busy keeping her home.�

Will�s stared at each one of them for a long moment.
Suddenly, his lower lip trembled and his eyes welled with tears that threatened
to spill.�

Don gestured with his head that Amy and Cindi should
leave.� They nodded, quickly mumbled
something about getting coffee, and left.�
They all knew that Will wouldn�t forgive himself if he cried in front of
them.

The door shut behind them and Don took Will�s hand.� �That�s right, aein,� he said softly.� �Your
dad stood up for you, made your mom back down.�
Said that you were in good hands with us.�

�He �� Will�s voice shook.�
�He ��

�Yeah, he did.� He
loves you.�� Don felt his own eyes
filling with tears.� To have never heard that from either parent �� Don pulled his chair close to the bed and
laid his head on Will�s good shoulder.�
Will held him tightly and let the tears fall.� Don could feel Will shaking with physical and
emotional shock.� Will�s body had no
reserves to deal with it and he was soon asleep.� Then Don was free to cry his own tears for
Will�s lifetime of rejection, and for the small miracle that had begun in this
hospital room just a few days before.
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