Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:49:36 -0700 (PDT) From: ray williams Subject: Coincidence or Faith Chapter 7 Warning: The following story is a work of fiction. It is not meant to represent anyone in real life, and if it does it is merely coincidentally. This story may contain consensual sex between a man and boy. If it is illegal to read this then you have been warn. I do not encourage or condone sex between adults and children. If you are turned off by this then leave. And if you looking for a story with nothing but sex in it then this is not your story. The author retains the copyright for this story. Placing this story on a commercial site without permission is in violation of that copyright. Please send all comments, good and bad to raw0516@yahoo.com. Spam will be ignored and blocked. Thank you and enjoy. Authors Note: In memory of Tim and Shadow, who are with the angels watching over us. We miss you. Please come by my site, it ain't much be it has my other writtings. http://raw0516.tripod.com I want to thank Oldie for proofreading this story for me. Also I want to thank all my other friends, you know who you are, for being there when I needed someone to talk to. Coincidence or Faith Chapter 7 Recap: A man, Adam meets a boy, Tim, met on top of a cliff, where both had gone to kill themselves for one reason or another. After talking, they go back to Adam's house, where they fall asleep to be awakened by a noise, which turned out to be Adam's dad, Don. They went and ate, then Adam tells Don how he met Tim and that he was going to kill himself and why. After talking the whole thing through it was decided to they should talk to Bill, a lawyer friend of Don's, which they did. On Bill's advice, they decided that Tim should call his aunt and record what is said. And so here we are. "Hello, Aunt Beth. It's me Tim......" Tim says meekly. "Tim? What do you want?" Beth is the brusque reply. "Um. I wanted to know if I could come home now?" Tim replied. "Home? This is no longer your home." Beth says, "Don't you remember what I said you stupid boy." "B-but where am I to go?" Tim says, "Can I at least get some of my clothes and stuff?" "You don't have anything here to get." Beth says, "As for where to go, you know where fags go, straight to hell." "B-but Aunt Beth...." Tim started to protest but was cut off. "I'm not your aunt no more. I'm hanging up now and you better not evercall back here, do you understand." Beth says and then hangs up before Tim had a chance to say anything further. As Tim hangs up the phone, he starts to cry. Even though she is a bitch she was still his only family and what she did to him hurt a lot. Adam pulls Tim into a hug and comforts him as much as he can. After Tim settles down some, Adam put's him in the car, and checks to make sure the conversation was recorded then gets in the car himself after putting up the equipment. Once done, they headed back home to give Bill a call and let him what they had. Once they got at home, Adam has a couple of messages on his answering machine. One from his friend Mike, a fellow boylover, wishing him luck and the other from Bill asking to give him a call as soon as possible. After the important task of getting them both a Dr. Pepper, they settled down and Adam makes the call. After a few minutes of being put on hold by the secretary, Bill comes on the phone with:. "Adam, I'm glad you called." Bill says, "I believe I have some good news." "Really that's great. So do we." Adam says. "OK, well you first then." Bill says hardly believing they could both have good news. "Well, me and Tim just got back from making the call to Beth." Adam says, "It went just like we thought it would. She was very clear on kicking Tim out and not permitting him to come back and it's all on tape. I hope this is all over soon, but it also hurt Tim to hear it all again too." "That's good that you got it on tape. It'll help in the long run." Bill says, "And as for it being over soon, we might just get you temporary custody today." "Oh my god. Really? How?" Adam saying very excitingly. Tim hearing Adam's excitement comes over and asks "What's going on?" "Hold on a sec and I'll tell you when Bill is done." Adam says to Tim and returning to talk to Bill. But then seeing the look on Tim's face and he asks Bill to hold a sec while he switches to a speaker phone. "Bill you there?" Adam says. "Yeah." Bill said. "OK, now tell Tim what you just told me." Adam said. "Well as I was telling Adam, I believe that we may be able to get temporary custody of you to Adam today." Bill says to Tim and then to both, "Now I know you want to know how so I'll explain. Now I know someone who knows someone in Child Welfare. I gave her a call and asked, hypothetically speaking of course, what could be done in a situation like yours. She said if you, Adam, have a clean record, and good solid references then you could become eligible as an emergency foster care provider. This would mean that Tim could be placed in your custody, but he has to go into the system. While you have Tim, you'd have to apply to become a regular foster parent to get Tim on a permanent basis." Tim and Adam just look at each other in stunned silence until Bill says, "Are yaw still there?" That shook them out of their stare and Adam replies, "Yeah. We're still here. Just can't believe this. I don't know what to say. Yes I do. How soon can we do it? Are you sure it'll work?" "Well we can start as soon as we hang up, and it's about our only choice right now." Bill says, "I tell you what. I'll give her a call and see about setting things up and you get together a list of references who will help you, like your dad, co-workers and anyone who knows you and might be listened too if you know them. And then I'll call you back and let you know what she says." "OK, I'll do that. Talk to you in a few." Adam says and gets a bye from Bill before hanging up. After they hang up Adam and Tim chatted a bit before Adam starts making a list of those he thinks would help. His dad of course and Josh. Mr. Warner, the local High School principle. Adam had helped Mr. Warner out with the schools computers awhile back and still does when needed and they came to be friends. So he's on the list, as Adam thought, "It was a good thing I didn't send him that email." Adam added a few friends and co-workers, along with Gary Smith too. He's the police chief for their town. He was really a friend of his dad's but Adam helped his son out with a computer when he went to college and has spent time at his house for BBQs and such. "OK, that should do it. Now we just wait for Bill to call." Adam says to Tim and they decided to watch T.V. to pass the time and wait for Bill's call. After about an hour of watching T.V. and getting a few phone calls, none of which weren't Bill but rather friends and telemarketers, the phone rang again; and this time it was Bill. Bill asked for the names and phone numbers of those Adam chose as references. After he got them, he told Adam that he was giving those over to Mrs. White, the Social Worker. She would give a couple of them calls and get back to him and then she'll want to see both Adam and Tim in person for a interview, after which if all went well Adam would get temporary custody on an emergency basis for now. Bill ended the call by saying "It will take probably another hour so just wait at the house for another me to phone back. I know it's hard to wait but just be patience." After that they hung up and Adam told Tim what was going on and so they waited again. Since they were going to have to wait again, Adam decided to pop a pizza in the oven for lunch. They pretty much ate and sat waiting the whole time in silence, both too nervous to really say anything. When the phone rang about an ninety minutes later, they both actually jumped. Adam picked up the phone and says, "Hello?" "Hey, it's me Bill. She just gave me a call and wants to meet at your place in half an hour." Bill says, "I'm going to pick her up and drive her over. So be there. Hehe." They talked a couple of minutes more and then hung up. Adam told Tim what was said again and they decided to make sure the place was cleaned up, an easy chore as Adam was a bachelor his place was kept pretty tidy most of the time. They also decided that if asked that Tim has been sleeping on the couch the whole time. About half an hour later, there's a knock at the door. Adam goes to open it and see's Bill and someone partially hidden behind him. "Adam, I liked to introduce...." Bill says while moving aside. He didn't get to finish because when Adam saw the old woman standing there he exclaimed in a stunned and excited voice, "Mrs. White." TBC I'm sorry to say that the next update will won't be for at least a few weeks. I'm going out of town. But I hope that you enjoy the story so far, let me know.