THE VETERAN

jack travis, thirty nine, veteran. | affiliates with theloveclubhq, penned by hanne

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abigail had just thrown on a blouse and some jeans before leaving the house this morning. she hadn’t put on any makeup or done her hair, so it took her by surprise when jack told her she looked amazing. she took note that he thought so even like this. “well, thank you. you’re not too bad yourself,” she replied with a smile. she began the drive home, and said, “sorry again if i worried you earlier. i just need to get everything sorted out, and with the holidays and everything coming up… i just need to know what to tell the kids, my dad, my family, all of that.”

the man smiled back despite knowing he looked the same as he did any other day of the week, but abigail.. she kept taking his breath away.. taking ad deep breath he closed the door, fastened his seat belt and felt the car starting to move, glancing over at the woman as he heard her speak.. “oh, yeah.. iv kinda been thinking about that too..”

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abigail laughed. “of course. sorry. silly question. be there in ten minutes.” she hung up the phone after a final goodbye and slipped on her sandals, heading out to the car. the drive to jack’s house was simple. she’d driven him there a couple of times, but had never been inside. she preferred her house. it was a familiar space, and she needed familiarity with everything new in her life. she parked in front of his house and honked the horn a few times, awaiting his appearance.

jack chuckled and smiled to himself as he heard abigail’s response at the other end of the line, then as she said she’d be there in 10 minutes, he told her he’d be waiting.. and 10 minutes passed, and he cold hear a car honk from in front of his home. getting one of his crutches, the man stepped outside, walking down towards her car, opening the door, seeing the woman sitting behind the wheel, looking amazing as per usual.. “oh wow.. hey.. you look amazing..” he said while carefully placing the crutch into the car first, then following with the rest of his body, getting him into the passenger seat. 

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abigail realized she’d made the situation sound much more… dire than it really was. “no, yes. everything’s fine. sorry, i didn’t mean to worry you. we just have some stuff we need to figure out together and it’s a little time-sensitive, you know?” she felt bad, making him drop everything to come over, but she needed something to tell the kids and johnny. and she wanted jack to be involved in the decisions. “i could come pick you up, actually, if you’d like.”

jack had sat up after hearing her speak, feet hanging over the edge of his seat he listened to her voice, reassuring him that nothing was the matter, and she just had things she wanted to talk to him about that wasn’t-- bad.. “oh yeah no, i get it.. “ he said, pushing himself off the couch, getting one of his crutches and began walking towards the door, before stopping as he heard her offer to come get him.. “-- you’re really asking if id like to see you or a random taxi driver?”

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“we need to talk,” abigail said into the phone. on the other end of the call was jack. some of the magic of his return had worn off (although it all still felt extremely magical and unreal to abigail) and she now had to deal with the aftermath. she had to tell her kids. she had to figure out how to proceed with johnny. she needed to know where she and jack stood on these issues. if they were going to be together, they needed to start working together now. “could you meet me at my house in the next hour?”

jack had had a rough while since coming home.. mostly just with himself, readjusting to life. where meeting abigail again had been his only positive.. the thing in his mind that kept him going.. made him get up.. despite knowing she maybe felt a little different.. it was then that he heard his phone go off, reaching for it, the man laid back down on his couch, seeing it was abigail he picked it up.. “hello--?” he said at first, before hearing her voice telling him they needed to talk..” those four words were never good, and he felt kinda scared.. but swallowing hard he nodded to himself.. “yeah uhm.. sure! of course.. i’ll grab a cab right away.. is everything okay..?”

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how does it feel knowing that abigail has a boyfriend?

“– i haven’t been here for 10 years.. i knew at some point it would happen, and im happy she found someone that makes her happy.. she’s the most beautiful woman i know of, and she doesn’t deserve to spend her life alone when i left her..” @cbxgcxl @jfcjohnnyking

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as jack’s lips pressed to her forehead, abigail closed her eyes. then she spoke, and she felt transported to ten years ago, and she couldn’t help herself. she lifted her head and pressed her lips to his, her hand moving to his shoulder. it was a passionate kiss, but not an overly… messy one. it was a kiss of longing and pent up emotion. a few tears streamed down her face and she pulled away. “i’m…” she was going to apologize, but realized she had nothing to apologize for. they were soulmates. this was what was supposed to happen.

for a short moment as abigals lips found their way back to his it almost felt like he forgot to breath for a moment.. it was a feeling he’d almost forgot about, but the second her soft lips met his, everything got turned upside down, and he felt 10 years younger again... like nothing had happened.. that he’d never even left.. and the kiss couldn’t have lasted long enough, as their lips slowly parted. his eyes landed on her, seeing the tears and he just freed up one of his hands, gently wiping the tears away. “i’v missed that..”

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“how could you know?” abigail said, her hand reaching up to wipe away a tear from his cheek. “i mean, i wrote you letters, but i was never sure if you got any of them. but i never stopped writing them. just because i never got a reply didn’t mean you were dead. that’s what i told myself.” she shifted positions on the couch, folding into a criss-cross position. “and it’s not your fault you left. you had to… jack, i don’t blame you for anything.” she knew that was what he needed to hear, and it was the truth. she knew his leaving wasn’t his fault, and nothing that happened subsequently was his fault either. “i should tell you… the kids don’t think you’re alive. i told them you died in the war… it was the easiest pill for them to swallow, you know? i didn’t want them to think you left them or anything like that… and just because i held onto hope didn’t mean they should. i didn’t want them to get hurt.” this hurt for her to tell him. more than anything, she wished she could turn back time and tell her kids that maybe their dad was still out there. then, she realized she needed to be honest. “i also, uh, wasn’t entirely honest before… nothing really has been serious, dating-wise, except for this one guy that i’m sort of with right now. his name is johnny, we’ve been together a couple months, and he’s met the kids. he’s the only man who’s met the kids and…” she took a moment to inhale and exhale. “jack. i love you. i have never stopped loving you. you are my soulmate… but if you don’t want to get back what we used to have, i can’t sit around and wait for you.”

jack wished he had the words to explain how he felt as the woman’s hand grazed his face, gently wiping away the tears from his cheek. every little thing it made him want from her, and how much he wanted more than just that small touch.. in all these years, jack himself had never been with anyone else.. there had been abigail, and no one else.. cause after they’d met, he’d never wanted someone else.. he knew that, he’d be with her, or die alone.. a thought he was ok with.. but besides hearing her tell him not to blame himself for not being present, he still did.. he always would.. cause he’d had the option to stay.. then later the option to go back home... all things he didn’t do.. which he now knew was all big big mistakes.. but what hurt the most, was the thing she proceeded to tell him next.. his kids thought he was dead.. that he’d died in the war, and were no without a dad.. that thought stung the most, forget everything else.. knowing that he didn’t just have one child.. but two that believed they didn’t have a dad, killed him on the inside.. and it took a long deep breath to make him not cry again.. cause deep down he knew she was right in telling the children what she did.. so he nodded and powered through it.. “-- no it uhm-- makes sense.. and i guess you weren’t wrong in doing and saying i was..” he muttered before exhaling hard.. “-- as long as they’re happy, then that’s all i could ask for.. even if i wont get to be there like that..” he said, only assuming it would be wrong to bring himself into the kids life after everything.. especially now that abigail admitted to seeing someone, and that someone having met the kids.. meaning that for all he knew, he’d taken on the father role for him.. or who even knew at that point.. on top of everything he really hadn’t expected the next things that left the woman’s lips slowly he reached out, taking her hands in his , and held on tight before looking at her, leaning in to kiss her forehead.. “-- you’ve no idea how long i dreamed about something like that to happen.. “

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as jack took his place on the couch next to her, abigail’s eyes drifted to his knee, noticing his leg sat differently than the other. she quickly brushed this off, and listening to what he said. as he asked her to tell him what he’d missed, her eyes darted to a picture of dennis and ally, and an idea popped into her head. “i think it would be better if i showed you what you’ve missed, actually,” she said, running to the closet in the kitchen and grabbing a few scrapbooks. she sat back down on the couch, clutching the books tightly to her person. “these are the scrapbooks i made. they fill up every few years, and sometimes i forget about them but…” she opened one to the first page, showing newborn twins laying next to each other. “that’s dennis. that’s ally. ally is older by about seventeen minutes and she never lets dennis forget it. i had them eight months after you left.” she looked at him, trying to gauge his reaction, before continuing on. “ally looks a lot like me. she’s kind of my spitting image. but dennis… dennis has your lip, and your personality, and having dennis here while you were gone made me feel like you never even left.” she was crying now, just a bit. a few tears dripped onto the plastic-protected pages of the scrapbook, and she quickly wiped them away. she set aside the baby album and produced a more up to date album. “this is them now. you’re welcome to look at the other albums, too, but i thought you might want to see what they look like now. they’re nine, turning ten next month.” she considered if there was anything else she should tell him. “i’m a stay-at-home mom. my dad’s still around, he helps me out with the kids sometimes. he also helps me with finances… a lot. stay-at-home-momming doesn’t pay the bills, but i also sing still. that’s how i make money, every friday and saturday i go out and i sing.” she looked down at her ring finger, then at her ankle. “i didn’t get married. i didn’t plan to. i didn’t think i could ever love someone the way i loved–love you. i have been dating, though, although nothing has been serious.” she failed to mention that johnny, her current boyfriend, was serious… because now that jack was here, could she really be all that serious about johnny?

eventually his knee decided to lay how he waned it to, hoping she didnn’t notice it or had noticed, period.. instead he turned his face to look at her as she spoke up again.. saying she’d much rather show him what he’d missed out on, which at first  he was worried it would be something bad but instead instead she got up, disappeared for a moment before returning with a book, explaining what it was before opening it, and in it his eyes instantly landed on the small bodies of two babies then one picture of what he could only assume was each baby alone on the side.. his eyebrows furrowed ever so slightly, but swallowed hard and just listened. and it was a lot... he didn’t know there were two-- and their names were dennis and ally.. the man swallowed hard, taking a deep breath as he felt something at the bottom of his throat building up.. then as he listened to abigail say how the boy was just like him, the waterworks turned itself on, and the lump in his throat released. small drops of tears rolled down his cheek as he smiled.. “-- wow..” he said under his breath before reaching up to wipe some of the tears away.. “-- i didn’t know...” he said quietly to himself, before a new album showed up but those kids were a lot bigger.. hearing abigail explain how they were all rather recent photos, and he couldn’t help but watch them while listening to her talk, part of him really hurt knowing he’d been gone, missed 10 years of their lives.. and now that he saw them, the woman was right.. dennis looked just like him, while, ally the little girl couldn’t have been any more like her mother.. both spitting images of each other.. all these thoughts almost made him forget to listen to what she had to say after that, but as he mentally returned, what he did catch was her saying she was dating someone.. he’d always thought to himself that he had wanted that for her.. but hearing it come from her was a lot different.. “-- im just glad everything's good.. though im sorry for leaving.. ” he said, sending yet a few drops running from his eyes as he tried to force a small smile...

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abigail couldn’t bear to let her fingers lose contact with jack. she needed something to prove to her that this was actually, actually happening. but, she knew things couldn’t go back to how they’d been ten years ago. she dropped her arms back to her sides, the motion almost hurting her. she nodded as he told her not to worry about whatever it was he left. “okay, well you can grab it on your way out, i guess,” she said with a light shrug. she began to walk out, making a motion with her head that was to prompt him to follow her. “come on in, then,” she said. opening the front door. it was then that she realized the letter she had just written him was still in her purse. “i was about to run some errands and send out some mail,” she commented as she led him into the living room and sat on the couch, “but this is more important, of course. i can do that stuff later.” she patted the seat next to her. “so, um… i guess, tell me about what i’ve missed the last ten years? or i can tell you? i don’t know. i’m still in shock, really.”

he was dumb for not going back to get his crutches, but letting go of abigail to do so wasn’t really worth it in that moment.. he just held onto her for as long as he could until she loosened her grip on him, and let him go, leaving  hm to balance on his own. he gently nodded, “yeah, shouldn’t be a problem..” he said and watched her for a moment as she started walking up towards the house she’d come from moments before, and maybe it was a little creepy of him but-- he felt a small part of him fall into old habits, like how he’d loved watching her walk from behind.. and if anything, it all just looked better than before. then as she reached the door, offering him to enter, he did his little waddle walk over to the door to follow her, listening to her talk, explaining what she’d been up to before he’d seen her, and before he knew it he was inside, being led further into the home before reaching the living room, “oh, sorry i kinda messed up your plans there..” he said, a smile growing onto his lips as he sat down besides her making sure his prosthetic knee joint laid down the way it was supposed to by laying a hand on it as he sat down.. dark hues moving back to the woman, though this time as she spoke, he just felt a lump in his stomach grow bigger and bigger cause he knew he wasn’t getting away with not telling her things that had happened, but maybe he could still try post pone it--? “think that makes both of us-- or, i know i should’ve expected to see you here but.. just wow.. but please, please tell me what iv missed..” he did very much prefer getting to know what abigail had been up to the last years, he knew he had a child, it was one of the last things he’d read from her before he’d been sent away, and refused correspondence with people back home.. other than that he’d always just assumed she’d moved on.. found someone new, maybe she’d married someone.. had more kids..? he just wanted, or he needed to know she was doing good..