Chapter Forty-Seven

One thing about being nearly omnipotent was the sheer power that came with it and Wolfgar loved it in fact he reveled in it.  Yes, being able to be anywhere at any point in time was a thrill ride everyone should be able to experience but few ever would. One thing about shape shifting was that it was tiring and he couldn’t wait to return his normal body after seeing Kiki and before he made his way to the SGC where dear Annie was waiting.  He rested near the mountain for a few moments before magickally donning an SGC uniform and giving himself the rank of Colonel while he was at it.  Wolfgar could just appear in the base but it was much more fun to just walk past security with a ‘hi, how are ya?’ and a smile.  That was exactly what he did.

Wolfgar had one stop to make before he could go and meet with his step-mother.  Wandering around the installation he finally found the med deck and the physical therapy room where Randy was hunched over a computer in his office.  Unfortunately for Randy no one else was present and Wolfgar shut the heavy metal door quietly behind and locked it.  No sense in taking the chance some fool would walk in and spoil his plan.  Over the last few week’s the boy’s power had grown so that he was able to assume almost any shape that he wanted and hold it for long periods of time but to actually become that shape, that person, it was necessary to kill them and feel their blood run over his hands as he invaded their panicked minds after which he had all of their memories, their mannerisms, their desires, their fears.  Knew every intimate and minute detail about them just as he did with the dear Brother who was about to come in very handy.  He needed to know every detail about Randy the physical therapist including how far he’d taken his relationship with the very married Doctor Annie Jackson.

Randy hardly heard it when his office door opened but he did hear it when it closed and looked up from the computer.  “Hi, sorry, didn’t see ya there.  Can I help you?”

“Yes, you can.” Wolfgar replied.  “Seems I’ve pulled something in my arm.”  He slipped out of the SGC issued jacket and stood there in just the olive t-shirt as he turned to the side to show Randy his injured arm and sneak the knife out his belt with the other hand.

“Let me see.” Randy stood up with weary eyes. It was almost time to go home, couldn’t this guy have waited another fifteen minutes when he’d be on his way to his car?  “What were you doing when you injured it?” He bent his head and looked at the arm, his eyes diverted from the hand with the sharp blade coming up on the other side.

“Fuckin’ the snot out of a really hot young chick.”

“Wh…”

Too late.  Wolfgar reached out with the arm near Randy, the one that was already bent and flexed. He put it under Randy’s chin, pulled the man in close to him as his thick forearm cut off Randy’s oxygen supply while one strong leg locked over that of the struggling man to hold him firmly in place.  For a few moments Randy put up a fight but Wolfgar just stood there stone silent choking the life out of Randy the physical therapist who had yet to fuck the lovely Annie Jackson but he was working on it.  With his big frame, Wolfgar leaned far backwards stretching out Randy’s torso mercilessly and bringing his head all the way back to expose the man’s throat.  Keeping a careful eye on the blade he laid it against Randy’s throat and stared at it as he slowly drew it across the flesh there stubbly with a day’s growth.  At first the flow was slow but as Randy struggled and the wound opened it became a gusher that soaked Wolfgar’s hands and arms as well as Randy’s torso.  “You didn’t?”  Wolfgar said bemused. “Well that’s too bad for you, my friend, because I’m going to.”  Taking in the man’s energy and memories Wolfgar let the body slide to the floor.  Kicking it out of his way with a heavy boot he knelt to lay his hands in the puddle of warm blood, he brought them to his lips and licked the salty crimson from his fingers.  “Oh, yes, I’m going to.”

The heat of the moment passed and Randy’s body already cooling Wolfgar used his magick to clean up the mess he’d left in the office.  It surely wouldn’t do for someone to find the body when he was going to be walking around in it.  Wolfgar sent Randy to the Colorado River and to a watery grave before he left the office, clean as a whistle, and made his way down to Annie’s lab.  The hour was growing late and the lab was empty except for Annie when Randy arrived.  “Hey there, Doctor Beautiful.” He said in Randy’s best low voice as he opened and then shut the door behind him.

Annie chuckled and looked up from her microscope.  “Hey yourself,” she said to him easily. “You shouldn’t call me that here.”

“Why? Is someone around?”  He walked up to her and then stood behind her to peer over her shoulder and get a peek at what was under the scope.  “I thought you liked it when I call you that.” 

Randy’s breath was hot on Annie’s neck it made her tingle like a schoolgirl. “I do.” Doctor Beautiful admitted and blushed.

She really was quite pretty and Wolfgar had no trouble seeing in Annie the same things his Father saw in her.  Like Calla, when Annie was younger she must have been quite the knock-out.  Now she was a woman approaching middle age with a distant and absent husband who didn’t pay her nearly enough attention.  Ripe for the picking to be sure.  Randy’s hands laid on her shoulders and then gently began to massage them as she let out a long slow sigh.  “Busy day? How’d everything go?”

“With which one?” Annie huffed.  “The UPs are fine everything went well with them but they took Mom away back to Altair Ain. They refused to let her to stay here and be monitored while she sleeps.”

Calla was back at home, that was news and welcome news at that since he intended to be Altair soon as well.  “What else?” He asked softly as he continued to rub her tired shoulders.  “Something’s bothering you. Out with it.”

Well yes something was bothering her.  “They had to nerve to tell me I’m a bad mother!” Annie almost screamed it but was able to keep it to a dull yell.  “Do you believe that? All just because Danny’s got the flu and I haven’t rushed home to be with him. I’ve been working my ass off here to make sure they have a future and that’s the thanks I get!”

“Poor Doctor Beautiful,” Wolfgar whispered in her ear.  “Ungrateful all of them.”

Yes they were ungrateful and snotty and right now she hated each one of them!  Annie turned around and sighed. “They’re going to get their way since they took Mom back there I have to go and keep an eye on her.”

“Oh, I see.”  Wolfgar laid his hands on her hips and stared into her eyes. “Well, that’s not so bad, is it?  You have to keep an eye on the UPs for the next two weeks anyway.”  She frowned and her brow creased deeply.  “I know you don’t want to go home to an empty house….an empty bed.”  This was just the opportunity he was looking for and so of course he took it.  “You know, I could go with you.” He suggested easily.  “I’ve got a lot of leave coming and you’re going to need some help.  How about if I volunteer?”

That was a dangerous idea but if she said ‘yes’ she wouldn’t be alone when she went home and there might even be someone in her corner if one of those little Olympian bastards dared to say she was a bad mother again.  Help sounded good, Randy was qualified to give it.  “You’d do that?”

“What? Get out of this place for a while?” He rolled his hazel eyes.  “Who’d ever want to do that?”

Annie laughed. “Yeah, who would?”

“How about you let me take you out for dinner?  We’ll talk about it.” Randy suggested. “I bet you haven’t eaten today, have you?”  Having Randy’s memories and knowledge was wonderful he knew everything about Randy and Annie and their relationship. Not to mention Randy’s 3 brothers and 2 sisters and his parents and every lover he’d ever had—there were 6 of them and Annie was about to be 7.  He knew everything Randy knew about her and it seemed she was famous for not eating when she was up to her neck in work.  Almost in answer to his query her stomach let out a little rumble. “See? I’m right, aren’t I?  And you call yourself a doctor.” He admonished playfully. “Come on, close up the lab and let’s get something to eat.”

She didn’t know it until right now but she was starving.  “All right.” Annie said hesitantly. “Sounds good.”

Wolfgar knew that O’Malley’s was a hot spot for the SGC crowd and so decided against taking Annie there.  He wanted to go some place quiet and out of the way where they wouldn’t be disturbed or seen by prying eyes.  Randy knew of a little diner on the outskirts of town that had good food and where Randy had once often gone for breakfast before starting his shift.  That sounded like just the ticket and he drove there in Randy’s sleek little RX.  However, upon pulling into the parking lot, Wolfgar realized he’d made a mistake.

Annie sat quietly in the passenger seat staring at the little diner with the pretty green awning which read Kandy’s Kozy Kitchen.  To him she looked like she was about to burst into tears.  “Aw, that food here’s not that bad.” He said trying to make her smile. “I come for breakfast a lot, it’s good, you’ll like it.”

“It’s not that,” Annie muttered quietly as she stared through the windshield. “I know that food’s good.”

Wolfgar knew everything there was to know about Randy he didn’t know everything there was to know about Annie or Nicholas for that matter.  “What is it?”

Sniffing back a tear and pressing a finger to the corner of her eye to keep the same from leaking through she turned to him. “Nothing.”

“Don’t lie to me, Annie.  What’s wrong?”

So many memories. So many long ago and happy memories came flooding into her mind.  How many nights had she and Nick spent here when they were in high school and even after they were married? She didn’t know.  It seemed silly to even bring it up let a lone let the place affect her this way.  “Nick used to bring me here.” She whispered. “It was sort of our place until, well, until we moved to Scotland.” The place was like a second home to both of them not to mention countless kids from the local high school who all came here after school or practice or the Big Game or just to hang out on the weekends.  So many good and wonderful memories but that was all they were now; ghosts from the past, the remnants of a happier time that should have lasted forever.

Wolfgar, as Randy, laid his hand on her knee. “I didn’t know.”

“Of course you didn’t.” Annie tried to smile as she patted the hand on her lap. “How could you?”

“I’m sorry, Annie,” with his free hand he brushed the graying blonde hair away from her forehead. “I didn’t mean to bring up bad memories for you. That’s the last thing I wanted to do.”  He looked out the windshield at the little diner with its green awning and the lights burning cheerily inside lighting up the happy faces of the people within.  My Father used to bring her here, the thought was alien to him.  “We’ll go somewhere else.”  He turned the key to start the car.

“No,” Annie said in a voice still deep with tears that wanted to flow but she was strong and she would hold them back.  “I haven’t been here in a long time.” She turned to look at him.  “Nick…he doesn’t love me anymore, Randy.  My marriage is over just not finished yet.”  She took a deep breath and released the seat belt. “Come on, let’s go in.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yea,” she mumbled, “besides, you’re right, the food is really good here and I could go for one of their turkey dinners.”

Wolfgar plucked the key from the ignition and ushered her inside the diner.  Reading mind wasn’t one of Wolfgar’s strongest suits though he was working on it, however, upon entering the building Annie’s thoughts were so brilliantly sad he couldn’t help but pick up on them.

Billy and Suzie once sat there, that’s where he asked her to prom and she let out such a squeal the whole place turned to look at them.  She looked up over the register; Nick, Mike, John and Amos hung a banner over that when they won the State Championship.  Her pretty blue eyes took in the far corner booth.  That’s where we used to sit and hold hands and talk about what our lives were going to be like.

Wolfgar began to speak again but was interrupted. “Annie Jackson! Is that you?”

Shaken from her walk down Memory Lane Annie turned toward the voice and those pretty welling eyes began to sparkle. “Mabel?”

An older woman, very round with a mass of gray hair held up in a hair net came toward them. “It is you! Oh, Annie, I haven’t seen you in so long.” The woman with the greasy white apron and waitress uniform put her thick arms around Annie and gave her a big squeeze.  “How are you? How’s Nick? The kids?”

“Fine, fine, all of us, just fine.” Annie mumbled.  “This is, umm, my friend…”

“Randy, I know. He comes in here all the time.” The older woman said with a grin. “What can I get the two of you tonight? Burning the midnight oil are you over there on the mountain?”

“Something like that,” Annie stuttered and let the owner of Kandy’s Kozy Kitchen guide them toward the back corner booth.  “Let me guess…turkey dinner and a chocolate shake?”

That made Annie chuckle.  “You know it, Mabel.”

“And for you? You never come in for dinner.” She said to Randy.

“Oh, I think I’ll have the same.”

“You got it. It’ll be up in a minute.”  The rather round waitress went off to the kitchen to put in the ticket.

“We can still get outta here,” Randy encouraged and was surprised, very pleasantly so, when Annie reached for his hand across the table.

“No,” she said in a voice which was stronger than before. “I have to get used to things like this, they’re bound to creep up every now and again.”

“Things like what?”

“Facing the past.”

“And your future?”

“Doesn’t include my husband.”  She held his hand a little tighter but didn’t come near tears when she spoke.

“You’re ok with that?”

“I will be.”

End of Chapter Forty-Seven of
Golden Years
by Moon Mistress
a/k/a Lisa Beth Darling
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