“Hey You” he smiled
“I needed that shower” I sat on the bed and rubbed my hair. “ Smelled like Marine”
“That bad”
“Okay I smelled like a horny Daddy to be Marine” I sat on his lap. “Why does this fell like a dream”
“Because I’m hot and well I think finally the drama is done” he put his head on my shoulder. “Hey did you find a place to live?”
“I looked at a few but then Justin appeared again” I shrugged getting up and pulling shorts and a tank from the draw of the dresser where I kept some things. “Well these won’t fit me for long will they” I sighed as I looked at me reflection in the mirror
“You’ll still look hot” he chuckled “I love you Aly” He turned me to face him “and we’ll get through this”
“Promise because I’m scared Marine” I put my amrs round him and hugged him as tight as I could “When do you have to go back?”
“I was hoping you weren’t going to ask that” he sighed “But I have another 4 days here and then I’m there 5 months”
“Oh I’m going to look like a heffer by the time you come back” I panicked “I’m going to be 8 months pregnant”
“Hey you won’t look like a heffer” he laughed “You’ll look sexy and hot and you’ll be having my baby… and it could be worse”
“How?” I pouted
“I might not be there when it’s born and that’s one thing I don’t want to miss” he moved round the room dancing with me “I want to be there through it all”
“I might be a bitch?”
“Whats’ new I’m used to the choke holds and the fighting” he stopped dancing with me “And I still love you” he kissed me “Now let me get changed and stop turning me on” he kissed me again “We need to tell Brit and Jack that that Mofo Cowass didn’t knock you up”
Chapter 98
Family fun
We drove back to the base there were cars lined up in the driveway as we got out.
‘Okay I recognize some of the plates and this can’t be good” I sighed as Ryne walked round and took my hand “It looks like my Great grandparents are here along with my Grandparents”
“So am I about to meet the family” He looked round as Ana and Ryder pulled up
“Oh Hell you’re in the shit Sgt” Ryder called out as the front door opened and Dad walked out with Jack.
“We had a few people turn up to make sure you were okay” Dad laughed “Ryne you don’t have to be any where do you?”
“Only with Aly” Ryne shook his head
“Good…. You girls need to go shopping or something”
“Oh hell no” I shook my head “Dad not a hope in hell are you guys giving him crap” I stood infront od Ryne.
“Honey would we?”
‘Dad you forget you’re talking to us” Ryder laughed
“Okay true but we just want to get to know him”
‘It’s okay Baby if I can deal with you I’m sure I can handle a bunch of Marines” Ryne kissed my head.
“Oh You don’t know these guys” I shook my head “Okay on one condition… I come in and lay down some ground rules”
‘Well I think they want to make sure you’re okay too sweetheart” Dad’s drawl came out making me smile. We walked over Ana looking as nervous as I was I stepped out of the heat into the coolness the sound of laughing and poker chips came from the back yard. Dad took my hand “You doing okay honey?” his voice was quiet.
“I’m doing better… I have my Marine and the baby is ours” I smiled at him
“So you and Ryne are all good no more fighting”
“He’s staying with me Dad, He loves me and I love him which at the end of the day is what matters” he smiled at me
“When did my baby girl get all grown up?”
“Since she had crap to deal with JJ… Now out the way and let me see my great-granddaughter and the man I had to sell my sole for to bring home” My Great Gramps walked over and pulled me into his big arms “Still as beautiful as ever” he held my face in his hands “So where’s this damn Marine… You know your Momma warned you about them?” he chuckled
“I know but she should have warned me about the damn Cowboys instead Gramps” I laughed taking a step back “Ryne this is my Great Grandpa. General Ben Anderson” I watched immediately as Ryne moved to attention
“General” he saluted him
“At ease Marine I’m playing poker drinking beer with my family I’m off the clock”
“Yeah right” Mom walked out of the kitchen with more beers “You’re a damn Marine you’re never off the clock even when you sleep”
“Amen to that B” My Great Grandma walked in from the back yard “Benjamin give the girl some room to breath” She swatted him and hugged me
“And this is the boss that you don’t piss off My Great Grandma Tess”
“Damn cute Marine you bagged yourself there honey” she chuckled looking at Ryne “Inked son?”
“Yes Ma’am” he nodded as Ryder and Ana stood to the side
“So lets see if you fit in with the family”
“Now?” He looked a little taken aback
“No Marine a week from next Wednesday” She groaned
“Mom Nana’s trying to get my Marine Naked” I teased and for the first time watched Ryne blush
“Oh Alyssa you know you’re Nana will have the Marines running Naked just for the girls if she could” Gramps ducked the impending Gibbs slap.
“Hell we’d all have that” Ana thought out loud making Mom and Nana Laugh
“See I like you already you can have Ryder for being able to come out with that” Mom Laughed high fiving Ana.
“It’ll be easier if you just take off the shirt and show them” I smiled at Ryne “and I think she’s up to date on her shots so if Nana bites you should be okay” I patted his arm Ryne sighed and pulled off his shirt and turned round
“Wow that is one hot tattoo there” Nana Nodded “nice ass as well”
“Tess” Gramps groaned
“Hey I know my shelves are stocked but I can still check out the goods” She shrugged “so you’ve knocked up my granddaughter”
“Nana”
“Tess”
“Damn Marine women”
“Yes Ma’am I have” Ryne nodded putting his shirt back on “But I’m not going anywhere”
“Oh you are you’re going back to your platoon” Dad laughed.
“Okay other than a deployment I’m not going anywhere” He nodded reaching for my hand
“You getting married?” Gramps asked
“Okay Enough we’re going to go for something to eat as we have only 4 days till he leaves give him the third degree when he gets home”
“Hey young lady we want to welcome him into the family” Gramp’s walked into the dining room and came back with the whiskey making Dad and Ryder both groan “So you shush” he handed Ryne a glass and topped it off “I’m not thrilled that Aly is pregnant after only a few months with you but you’re a Marine and I’ve checked you out and you need to stop with the dumb assed, shit climb the ranks and love your family” I opened my mouth Ryder walked over and put his hand over it and shook his head. “You do a job that I couldn’t do, you make it safe for my guys to be out there and that on it’s own makes you one of the finest”
“Hey” Ryder pouted
“You’re a sniper that has a sister that can almost out shoot you” Gramps grinned “But I still love ya” he looked back at Ryne “You have a responsiblitly now you’re going to have a family”
‘I know Sir and I understand” Ryne nodded “I’m not going to fuck it up”
“Well you’d better not or an IED is going to be the least of your worries” Nana took the glass from Gramps and knocked back the whiskey “Now you kids go have fun, I would say not too much but I think it’s too late for that” she smiled. “and Ryne”
“Yes Ma’am”
“Stay safe Marine”
“Yes Ma’am” he nodded with a smile he knocked back the whiskey and didn’t choke
“Okay he’s in” Dad held up his hands “hell even I didn’t do that the first time”
Chapter 99
Married or living in sin?
“Well that went well?” Ryne grinned at me as we got into my truck. “I like your Family”
“Oh don’t say that too soon” I smiled as we followed Ryder off the base “You’ve only met a few of them and believe me you’ll be drinking a whole crap vat full of the whiskey when you get back from your tour” I shook my head at him “And then I’ll have to pick up the broken hung over pieces with a huge belly while waddling like a constipated duck”
“Okay you have to stop” he chuckled leaning across to me and resting his hand on my stomach “You’ll be so beautiful and you’d better send me Belly pictures as often as you can”
“You’re really into this aren’t you?” I looked at him.
“You wouldn’t believe how happy I am right now” he moved his finger to under my shirt making my stomach knot up “I really didn’t think I’d find someone to put up with my life and even want to love me and now you love me can take me down face to face or at half a mile” I laughed as I pulled into the parking space. “So you want to live with me?”
“I thought we’d talked about this on the phone and I said I’d get a place and if you wanted to move in with me then you could” I turned off the engine.
Yeah but that was before Jr. came in to being” he smiled at me “How about we find a place in the next four days so when I do come home we’re already classed as living together?”
“Okay” I nodded “I just wish it was on base” Shit I said that out loud didn’t I the only way that can happen is if you’re married. “But I guess as long as I’m close it’ll work” I added quickly I got out of the truck and walked to the side walk.
“Well I’d marry you right now but I don’ think we should do that?” He stood in front of me “Not to just get a house” he chewed the inside of my cheek “You do know I’m in love with you?”
“You keep telling me” I nodded “and I wasn’t asking you to marry me… I’m still trying to get my head round everything that’s happening and has happened” I put my arm round his waist as we headed down the boardwalk “I’m 19, I’ve had the roughest summer I think possible and I’m having a baby. I think Marrying you is the wrong thing to do right now, I want to enjoy my wedding not rush to city hall like my Mom and Dad did”
“You want the big wedding?” he smiled
“It doesn’t have to be huge I just want the people I love there and to have my Dad walk me down the aisle” I smiled remembering the last marine wedding we’d been to with all the guys in dress blues “There’s nothing quite like a Marine wedding”
“I’d better make sure that when we’re ready that my blues are all in order” he smiled “So if we get asked again we’ll tell people that we’re just going to live in sin”.
“Something like that” I laughed Ryne opened the door to the pool Hall Brit was talking to Ryder her face creased with worry she looked up as we walked in.
"You have to tell me I know where you went and these mean sons of bitches won’t tell me if the Mofo cowass knocked you up” she literally shouted
“Okay and I don’t’ think they actually heard you on the base” Ryne pulled a face “And this BAMF was the one to put a baby in there” he chuckled putting his hand on my stomach.
“It’s yours” she walked over tears in her eyes “It’s his not the Mo…”
Okay can we just stop talking about the cow ass” I sighed “and yes Ryne’s the baby daddy”
“Oh you guys” She threw her arms round the two of us hugging us she let go of us and Gibbs slapped Ryne “That’s for not covering the weapon Marine”
“Hey I don’t carry condoms when I’m in dress blues at a ball” he chuckled everyone looked at us.
“You didn’t” Ryder pulled a face “EW is that why you were out… OMG that’s…. Oh Jeez”
“Yeah I don’t think I’ll ever get into another humvee again with out smiling” Ryne laughed
“Okay Spill” Brit rubbed her hands together
‘NO” Jack and Ryder both hissed
“We got busy against the side of a Humvee” I smiled “and working it out that was the day that” I pointed to my stomach
“Damn” Ana shook her head “and I thought we were bad in the bathroom”
“EW” Ryne wrinkled his nose
“Oh god you guys are soooooo wrong” Jack shook his head
“Yeah well at least we don’t need the fire department to help us out” I laughed Brit looked like she wanted to kill me “I’m just glad we didn’t get pictures”
“Okay I really don’t want to know this do I?” Jack looked at Brit
“Oh no because you’ll never like Marek if we fill you in” Ryne smiled.
Chapter 100
Facing forward
The day Ryne was leaving was a cold grey day. We’d found a place to move in to close to Brit’s that was perfect for us Dad was leaving on the same day as Ryne so it was doubly hard with Ryder and Jack following three days later.
Ryne was standing with his forehead pressed to mine his fingers linking mine, his thumbs rubbing the backs of my hands.
“I’m coming back Baby” he sighed trying to keep his voice under control “and when I come back we’ll be making sure everything is ready for Bean”
‘Bean?” I sniffed
‘Yep your Dad said one of the ultrasound pictures it looked like a bean” he smiled “and I hate calling it, it”
“You have a point” I nodded. “You think you’ll still love me when you get back?”
‘I know I will” He lifted his hands and held my face kissing me in a way that literally made my toes curl. “as long as you still want this Hollywood Marine”
“Forever” I kissed him not wanting to let him go. He smiled and stepped back and dropped to his knees and pushed up the bottom of my shirt.
“Okay Bean, This is Daddy talking to you now so Marine to Baby, You need to take care of Mommy while I’m not here and she’ll take care of you” he wiped a tear from his face “Aunt Brit and Aunt Ana will be taking pictures so when Mommy says cheese then you’d better be smiling for me, cause you won’t get to hear me for a while but you need to know that Daddy loves you and will be there when you arrive… well as long as the Marine Corps lets me” He pressed his lips into my stomach and I rested my hands on the back of his head and looked round. I swear to god everyone including Dad, Ryder and Jack were in tears. Ryne got back to his feet “I love you Alyssa Tanner” He pressed something into my hand “Look after this for me and when I get home there’ll be a replacement I promise” I looked down and uncurled my fingers in the palm of my hand sat his Marine Class ring “I’m going to Marry you I know that much”
"Ryne we have to go” Dad called over Ryne looked at him and nodded
“I love you” He smiled kissing me again
“I love you Marine” I nodded.
His fingers slipped from mine and it felt like a little part of my heart broke off as I was flanked by Ryder and Jack holding me making me strong to watch as my Marine left again. I can do this I’ve been through hell and back in the past few months and I’ve come out the other side slightly battered and scared, But I was still whole I was still Alyssa Tanner only now I had my Marine to love and we were about to make a start of our future with our baby and no matter what happened Bean was going to be loved and raised a Marine Brat, full of pride, full of love and SEMPER FIESTY.
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