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2018 - This is an original work by Zeb Carter and is protected under copyright by U.S. copyright law. It is only submitted at Literotica.Com and any submission to any other site has not been authorized by the Author.
Author's Note:
There is no cheating wife in this story. There is some sex. This is just a story about a loving couple and how they cope. I hope you enjoy. (P.S. I changed my mind on how I should end this story about five times. What you get here is the second ending. I never wrote the first ending.) This one took me a long time to finish. I started it way back in January. I hope you enjoy it.
oo] His Last Deployment [oo
Fear, that's what I felt every time. It was only there when my husband, Dean, of ten years, shipped out on another deployment. Most of the time, he couldn't tell me where except when he returned home and sometimes not even then. He wasn't a Seal he wasn't an Army Ranger. He was just a cop, in the Air Force. A Captain. We lived in base housing. I kissed him hard as he stepped up to me to say goodbye.
"Please be careful sweetheart," I said.
"I will Jill. This should be an easy one. I've been there before as have the rest of the unit. I love you and I will miss you," he said.
"I love you, too."
We kissed and he turned and walked to the hummer waiting for him. He climbed in and waved as it drove off. I took a deep breath, turned, and went back into the house. The silence inside was not comforting. Although we had been married for ten years, we didn't have any children. Not that we haven't tried. We have been trying since we were first married. It's just that I haven't caught. The doctors said there was nothing wrong with either of us, so it must have been we were just not intimate at the right time of my cycle. Which was probably true? It never failed that he would deploy at the most inconvenient times.
Dean was my dream guy from college. He was in the ROTC and a political science major. I was a lit major but then switched to nursing school after he graduated. Dean went into the service right after graduating. He was made a first lieutenant out of OCS, then went through Security Police training. Once finished he took leave and came home. I was working in the local hospital ER.
We met in the ER one night. He had helped a friend who had been attacked by a couple of neighborhood hoodlums. He had fought them off until the police showed up. It was four against two. Toward the last, it was Dean against three of them. They had knives, Dean, had his fists. For me, it was like seeing an old friend in a different light. For him, I was an old friend from college. When they released him, I was waiting for him. I offered to take him home. He accepted. We went out while he was home on leave several times.
We were married a year later after he got home from his first deployment. While he was away, I wrote to him every day. He wrote to me when he could. Actually, he wrote to me every day but could only mail them to me once in a while. It was when he got home that we realized that we were in love. I was proud to be his wife, he was proud to be my husband. A year after we were married he was once again deployed to some foreign land far away. It was somewhere dangerous. He said it wasn't but I knew he was just trying to protect me. He came home early. He was wounded trying to break up a knife fight. It wasn't that serious, but he couldn't do his job while he recuperated.
Ten years later, he has moved up the ranks until he was a Captain now, still being deployed to places around the world. Sometimes for a long time, sometimes for a short while. I knew it was always dangerous. He never came home wounded again though. I sat on the couch looking out the front window at the base housing neighborhood. I spotted Jenny Lang walking up out front. She knocked lightly at the door.
Smiling, Jenny was a good friend, I went and opened the door. She smiled at me and stepped inside. I closed the door and we hugged. It was just a friendly hug.
"Coffee?" I asked.
"No, no, too late in the day. I will take some water, sparkling if you have one," she replied.
Nodding I led her into the kitchen. I got a water for her and a soda for me. We sat at the kitchen table.
"What's up Jen?" I asked.
"Nothing. I just came to visit. How are you doing?" she asked
"I'm fine Jen, just fine."
"Listen, I know that Dean just left and I thought you might want some company is all," Jenny said reaching across the table to pat my hand.
"I know. But I'm okay, really."
"All right, I'll go when I finish my drink," said Jen smiling at me.
For the next half an hour we just chatted about everything and nothing. Jen was good company, she always made me laugh with some of the stories she told me. Not for a minute did I think they were true. After she left I was once again alone. I had been alone before and I would be alone in the future. For the rest of the day, I just puttered around the house, cleaning. Even though the house was always clean, I cleaned.
It was Saturday. Dean said he would be back in 30 days. I actually didn't have anything to do until Monday when I went to work in the base PX. I worked there six hours a day. The pay wasn't bad for a part-time job and it did help to defray some of our living expenses and put gas in my car. To say I was lonely for the rest of the day and Sunday would be an understatement.
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As the days slowly slipped by, I went to work, came home, and sat in front of the TV not really seeing what was on. I ate to keep my strength up. I showered to keep myself healthy and clean. I went to work so I had some company. For each of Dean's deployments, it was like this. Long stretches of loneliness, praying that he was well and would return to me alive and whole. It wasn't as if I didn't have visitors. The other wives stopped by and I stopped over at their homes.
Some had children, some didn't. We were all in the same boat. We were without our husbands for a while. But we had all known what we were getting into when we said I do. But our biggest fear was always that they wouldn't come home to us. That fear was always there, even when they were home with us. Did I hate my husband because of what he chose to do for his country? No. He was not only doing what he did for his country but for me and all the rest of families on the base and in the country.
Besides, I loved him dearly. I loved him and I loved what he chose to do for his country and me. Men like him keep us safe at home. I thanked him for that every time he came home safe to me. Boy did I thank him.
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It was the 28th day of his deployment. What you don't think I keep track of the days he's away? I do. I had just gotten up. There was a knock at the door. My heart skipped a beat. I immediately thought the worst. Whoever was there, they knocked again. I almost collapsed. I slowly moved to the door. As I reached for the doorknob, they knocked again. I closed my eyes and prayed. Opening my eyes, I opened the door. I almost fainted. There stood Dean looking sheepishly at me.
"I'm sorry, honey, I forgot my keys," he said softly.
I screamed with joy and jumped up into his arms. I kissed his face all over as I clung to him tightly. I kept whispering, 'Oh my god, oh my god.'
"I love you too, sweetheart," he whispered in my ear as he squeezed me.
I slipped from his hold and stood there in front of him. I put my forehead on his chest and just stood there saying a prayer that he had come back to me safely and without being hurt. Stepping back from him I let him come into the house. He stooped, picked up his pack, and stepped into our house.
"I love you so much," I whispered as he closed the door.
Dean picked me up and carried me to the bedroom. He gently put me down on my feet. He kissed me deeply and with passion. I was kissing him back with all the love and passion I felt for my wonderful husband.
"I need a shower," said Dean pulling his mouth from mine.