Deputy Joe 4 - Requiem in Leather by Buchanan James

Author:Buchanan James
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

We’d gotten back from the island by seven. There were a couple of rough moments…like when another visitor shut the bars on one of the cells they’d let you walk into on Kabe. He came a little close to losing it at that. We had to take a moment to go outside and just let him breathe while I held him tight. Just stood on the steps down into what used to be the yard telling him over and over that it was, “Okay,” and that I was right there with him. Even if doing that right there, in front of all these folks I didn’t know from Adam, was probably just as terrifying for me as the sound of that metal door clanging shut had been for him. It took a bit, but finally I could feel his heartbeat slowing to something less than scared stiff pounding and he reached back and rubbed his knuckles along the side of my neck. That’s when we both figured it was time to head on back.

But, honestly, Kabe was right, it was just a museum. Big, crumbly, and imposing, but a place of long forgotten memories. I’d had my fill after an hour and I sensed Kabe did too. Picked up some key chains and magnets for folks at the department that I felt I should bring a souvenir back to. I’d already gotten some better things for folks I really cared for.

Kabe’s friends drug him out to see some other folks for coffee, but they’d come back around sometime before nine for a late dinner. That left me and Bill by our lonesome for a bit. We’d started talking about the rest of the week, and he’d mentioned the fair on Sunday, Dore Alley, and asked what I was planning on wearing. When I’d said jeans and a T-shirt, he’d rolled his eyes like Kabe was wont to as he herded me back to the guest room.

Now Bill sat on the edge of the bed. “Bones would have liked you to have them.” We’d started the business of finding something for me to wear Sunday.

I put the box I’d pulled out of the top of the closet next to him on the bed. “Are you sure?”

“Look,” Bill rattled the box, “these things have been collecting dust in my closet for a while. Here and there, I’ve passed on some of Bones’ gear that he’d have wanted people to have. I gave most of his clothes to charity. This stuff, well it’s not exactly what you put in the donation box at Out of the Closet.” Hesitant, as if he weren’t quite ready to face what he’d packed away, Bill took hold of the top. Then he swallowed and pulled it off. “And his leathers, well, they’re more personal, not something I’d want to just hand over to some poser who wants to prance around and look hot.” He set the lid on the pillows and then pointed towards the stuff packed inside, indicating I should take a look.

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