Meet the family.
Oh fuck this should be good. Of course there’s me. Criminal, war hero, car mechanic and dad. I’m an alcoholic, drug addict and addicted to fucking over the government in ways other people only dream about. I act and look like dad but I got mom’s heart and convictions. My wife, Xena (
xena_warrior), she’s and Amazon warrior princess. She wasn’t happy here and I let her go home at the beginning of this year after two years of being together. She’s the most beautiful and strong woman I’ve ever seen. She’s everything I’ve ever wanted. I think that is the reason I could let her go. She took her son, our son back to Greece with her when she left. Solan’s fourteen and about to become an adult in their culture. He and I were going to go get tattoos together like dads and sons do in their culture but now I don’t know. Maybe I’ll never see him again.
Then there are my girls. Hope (
sinful_girl) was the first. Nothing like someone you hate dropping their daughter on your doorstep to tell you that you are the only person they would trust to protect and raise their child. That’s how she came to me not long after Xena and I got together. She’s always been my pride and joy. She is really hope in the flesh. She was the one that made me believe maybe a fucked up man like me could still have a family. I’ll never forget that about her. She’s grown now and our relationship can be rocky at times. Part of it is due to her father leaving before she was born. Think the rest of it is due to her not understanding exactly what she means to me. No one can replace her in my mind even if she thinks the others will.
My oldest, Evie (
spider_on_acid) was the second I adopted or...she really adopted me. Street girl and more like me then anyone else in the family. She knows and understands the life I lead more than the others I think. She’s married and gave birth to my grandson last year. Like me she’s a bit withdrawn but I give her the space she wants. I took her in off the streets right after I got married but she was already calling me dad by that time.
The last of my three girls is Cassie (
adorablysweet). My little fairy princess. She was the last of the three I adopted and the one I have the most guilt about. She was in foster when I met her and I soon found out her foster sisters were being raped by the foster dad. At just nine years old I couldn’t imagine but for the first time in my life I decided to do things right. I reported him and went to social services to adopt her. It was a fucking waste. Before they even checked on her she’d been raped too. I’ll never forgive myself for not kidnapping her like my instincts told me to. I killed the son of a bitch for hurting her but nothing will ever clear my conscious of what happened to her.
There’s also Bria (
justlikedaddy) who is my girlfriend now that my wife and I are separated. Getting with her was an accident. She was one of Evie’s friends. When I found her she’d been beaten and was far along in a pregnancy. I took her in to be safe from her dad who’s a fuck up trying to kill her. When my wife and I got distant things happened between us. She’s a pretty girl and having a young woman come on to me when I was feeling so down... yeah the imagination can fill that shit in. She and I have been together bit over a month now. Her baby is due in a few days and I’m going to try and be dad to it too. I love the girl like crazy. She's not just some rebound from my wife leaving. No I got it bad for the girl. She’s so different from my wife... and me. Sweet, cuddly and soft spoken. I love her and my wife both which I know’s going to cause trouble eventually. No risk no gain.
Can’t forget the rest. Our seven dogs, 5 horses, a pony, a goat, some ducks and geese, three snakes, a tarantula and a cat. Yeah to me they’re part of the family too. Big part of the family.
That’s pretty much the Plissken family right now. There are others in there too. My parents even if they’re dead, Xena’s mom Cyrene is like my mom now so might as well include her. There’s Evie’s cousins Essy (
little_zamora) and Carlos(
herlightalways) that stay with us and some others; Kegan (
keganduffy) and Hayley (
candygrl_hayley) are here most of the time. There’s my two adopted sisters; Aggie (
littletreewitch) and Rayanne (
mischief_shadow). Taylor’s (
sgt_taylor) been like my brother since I was a kid. The family gets big in a hurry this way. Think last time I counted there were 20 of us. I like the big family. Only way to be in my opinion.
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