In the Abernathy compound in upstate New York.
Mary Jane Abernathy was in upstate New York attending the quarterly meeting of the Abernathy trust. It was at this meeting that she decided to tell her brother and sister about her marriage to Dede. They did not understand why she moved to Colorado, and why she was working when the trust gave her a good income. Abernathy women did not work they sat on the boards of charities, or possibly a bank board. They attended parties and charity galas. They were not supposed to get their hands soiled by working.
"Mary Jane you cannot be serious, you married this woman?" said her brother George.
George Abernathy styled himself as the leader of the family even though he was younger than Mary Jane.
"What will your niece and nephew say. You know they enjoy visiting you in the summer. I don't know if I will allow them to go if you are shacked up with some lesbian," said Christy Mathews Mary Jane's sister.
"Why don't you ask them to see if they would object to visiting me and my wife the homicide investigator."
"You married a female cop. Couldn't you find someone of your class?" said George.
"George I will not dignify that statement with a response," said MJ.
"I don't think that I would even mention it to them. They are teenagers and I don't need them witnessing deviant lifestyles."
"Christy, I would be surprised if they haven't had sex already. You got knocked up in high school. What was the name of that baby; Oh, Yea mother paid for your abortion," said Mary Jane.
"That's not fair Mary Jane, you were in college at the time. You don't know all of the details," said Christy.
"Well before we continue arguing; we need to get the meeting started," said George as he rose and moved to the dining room in the family's old home. He was trying to keep the meeting civil and move on from what he thought was an unpleasant topic.
The real reason the surviving Abernathy children gathered was to review the family's trust. All three of the siblings depended to some extent on the money that the trust threw off. The trust was created by their mother and father. George like their father, worked for the securities firm created by their grandfather and his brothers; went through the investments and what his strategy was to keep the income as high as possible. After the two-hour meeting the three siblings voted to stay with George's ideas. Mary Jane proposed that the trust hire an accounting firm to audit the trust. George objected but Christy and Mary Jane voted to hire the accountant. The two daughters could agree on some things Mary Jane thought.
"Trust but verify. Wasn't that a saying from President Regan, a President you admire?" asked Mary Jane.
Plans were made for next quarter's meeting. Mary Jane was itching to get away. She needed to meet with a client, and she wanted to get back to Colorado. She was going to meet Dede at the cabin in two days and didn't want to be late.
Two days later in Colorado
Capt. Dede Watson eased her department issued SUV on to the newly constructed trail or road that led to MJ's cabin. MJ or Mary Jane Abernathy her wife of five months; finally had a road cut through from the highway to the cabin. She pulled up and did a quick scout to see if there were any visitors. She parked the SUV next to the shed that usually garaged the four-wheel drive utility vehicle. Dede got out of the SUV still dressed in her pressed jeans, uniform shirt, tie and Captain's shoulder marks. Clipped on the belt of her jeans was a holster with a department issued nine mm. automatic pistol. On her feet were a pair of custom made black western boots. In one of the boots was holstered a compact 9mm automatic. She had to laugh when she remembered, shortly after she took command of homicide, the Sheriff telling her that her team needed to look better. She started wearing a uniform shirt but allowed everyone else to dress in pressed jeans and a polo shirt with the department logo. Hats were optional but she wore a western hat when she was out in the field. The Captain's bars let everyone know who was in-charge.
Dede pulled the ice chest from the back seat and moved it into the house. She came out and pulled her backpack out and took it inside. She pulled the tie off to relax. She busied herself attaching the propane cylinder to the cooking equipment and flipped on the heater for the hot tub. She unloaded the ice chest and placed items in the refrigerator. The last thing she unloaded were the three bundles of cut and split logs for the fireplace. Those went in the rack next to the outdoor shower. She pulled three of the logs and moved them to the fireplace. With some paper and other kindling, she got the fire going. She boiled water for tea on the stove and sat on the couch wondering when MJ would arrive if at all. After she finished her tea, she got up and undressed. There was a small mirror on the wall, and she looked at herself after she pulled the bra off.
"Nice to get the uniform off," she said to herself.
Her breasts responded to her self-massage, and a shutter moved through her body. Dede desperately wanted MJ to walk in.
Dede was half asleep when she heard the familiar noise of MJ's four-wheel ATV approaching. She walked out the back door topless with just a pair of running shoes and panties on. Dede waited for MJ to emerge from the shed and gathered her into her arms. They planted several kisses on each other. MJ broke away to gather her equipment from the vehicle. The two walked in each other's arms to the cabin and made it to the couch.
The fire felt good. Being in each other's arms felt good after the week-long separation. MJ decided to give Dede the best tongue lashing that she could and went down on her wife. MJ thought that Dede was the most beautiful woman in the world and allowed her tongue to communicate that to her. MJ reached up and thumbed Dede's nipples. She was pleased that they were aroused.
"MJ, I want a kiss from my wife," said Dede.
"No Dede I am having too much fun down here you'll just have to wait," said MJ as she moved and locked lips with her wife.
"I knew that you couldn't make me wait."
"I am so glad that I am here next to you. I could kiss you for an hour, and then kiss you some more," said MJ.
The two women were lying on the couch massaging each other. MJ was glad to be away from her prejudiced family. Dede was glad to be away from the scenes of mayhem that she faced almost every day. The scene she made before she came up to the cabin was very grizzly. A twenty-five-year-old woman devastated by years of meth use was killed by her meth crazed partner. It was so good to be close to the woman that she loved. MJ was also glad to be making love to her wife. Even though she was with her family only five hours, it was enough to make her uncomfortable.
The pair continued to make love though out the evening. MJ got up to poke the fire and get out of her clothes. But returned to Dede's arms as quickly as she got up.
"Do you want to go to bed, my love?" asked Dede.
"No all I want is to be with you and away from the world," MJ responded.
