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Life and Its Little Oddities
By: TheSearch4

Chapter 22

The training was hard and some decided being a police officer was not for
them. But Simon had now had a core group trained to teach others. They were
paid extra for training officers from outside cities. It was not a lot of
money, but far better than what it had been before the country started.

Most police rode bikes in the city and because cars were not allowed it was
reasonable. So younger people tended to migrate to this type work. Dink did
come down to train a week's class on hand to hand combat. The females liked
having a woman doing the teaching.

Two of the females were very good and sent to Shangri-La for added training.
They would be instructors for all hand to hand fighting classes. While they
were gone Simon and his troops went in and cleaned out several badly
infected areas of gangs. It was not just blacks, but motorcycle and whites
that thought they were tough.

Once the strangle hold was broken many in each neighborhood, the people took
on the rest of the bad boys and girls. A lot of dead bodies were hauled to
the incinerator in Salem. But the cities started to settle down and many
shops started to open once more. Truck farmers started to come in to the
city market area and sell some of their produce and fruit.

Only the new money was taken there or gold and silver coins. Farmers were
fussy about that and people learned quickly. The banks were open now and
looking at many investments that were being offered. You had to have an ID
card to get an account. But it could be used as a check card anyplace that
the bank serviced. Because your fingerprints were embedded in the cards
magnetic strip it could be used with a hand scan and prove it was you
spending the money. Theft just did not pay any more.

Slowly many areas around Roanoke and out toward Bristol were becoming
settled back into communities and trade centers. There were no big stores
any more, but lots of smaller ones. Some of the farms where people had been
killed off were now being started with new owners. But it took equipment or
horses and old tools to till and disc the land. Then you had to have seed
and that the banks would finance for any farmer who would plant.

With the season being so late most of the farmer that had a way to plant
went with winter wheat. Everyone knew bakeries would need flour for the next
year's bread and pastries. A few took a gamble and planted fruit trees for a
couple years down the road. Banks took a longer term view of these loans and
no payments were due for the first three years.

"Banks suggested for many home owners to start planting food in their
basements and to use grow lights. Kits were packaged and loans provided to
allow them to be used for the coming winter. You were talking about less
than three hundred credits including the electric power. That the Federation
was will to bet on. They knew people needed to be kept busy and productive
while the economy healed more.

Dana woke John at three in the morning and say it was time for the babies to
come into the world. So he got her to the hospital and sat and waited for
the doctor to show up.

Julie came walking in and smiled at John. "Why are ladies so inconsiderate?"

"Hell your supposed to know the answer to that Julie."

"Sorry but no one ever told me. I had a beautiful dream going and you called
me and stopped it dead. Now I will never know the answer to many questions."

"Well tell me how I am going to feed a million people this winter. That is
my big question right now. That is how much of Virginia we have control of.
Of course it would have been three times that just two years ago."

"Have we really lost that many people in just two years?"

"I am afraid so Julie and it is not the country side so much as the cities.
Out in the country the farther back you were the safer your life was. But I
am having to send fuel out to farmers who have the equipment and land to
plant wheat this winter. We are setting up to buy beef and other meats and
sell them to stores in the cities. So we are using Valleydale to process it.
But we have about ten country markets to handle a lot of the live animals
for city markets to cut up. There is a lot of work getting a country started
once more."

"I had better see to your lady before she kicks both our butts."

It took just an hour and John was holding twins and in love with them. They
were Janice and John Jr. of course, Janice is the Hebrew female name for
John. It was meant to play with people's minds and Dana was the one who made
the decision.

"Well you old fart how does it feel to father two beautiful babies?" David
was pulling his chain now.

"Actually it feels nice as they look much more like their beautiful mother.
So I am happy with that part. Now why do I feel we have another problem?"

"Because we do and I have no idea how to handle it."

"OK what is it now?"

"You know we have been shipping coal to the coal fired power plants. Now we
have some fools protesting at two of them. They are armed and will not allow
a train to pass into the plants."

"So what the problem? Shot them and get on with what needs to be done."

"One said she is your daughter and another your son in law."

"Shoot them and get on with business. What they have done is against the
law. I don't give a damn who they say they are, just follow the laws. As far
as I am concerned these two are my only children. I have no idea what a
daughter of mine would be doing protesting coal shipments. She would have
had to travel from Indiana to do that. But we have not talked in years now."

David headed back to the command center and knew he had just been given the
right answer. He had been afraid to follow the laws. They were plain, simple
and very clear as to what they meant.

He passed the information John had given him and the men acted as directed.
There was no questions as the law was followed by everyone even John. Those
who had been shot were sent to hospitals and given medical care before being
sent out of the country. No one was killed, but they knew they had gotten in
the way of the laws.

John was sitting in the living room and Kelly walked in. "Daddy do you know
a girl named Leigh Anne?"

"Yes, a step daughter of mine had that name. But where did that question
come from?"

"I talked with her and got the whole story. Her husband moved her and their
children to an area close to the power plant. He turned into a major green
activist and environmentalist. It was his camp that tried to close the power
plant down."

"OK they broke the law and paid a price. Those laws are meant for us all to
follow."

"She said you could do with her whatever you wanted, but to please take your
grandchildren. I got the feeling she meant that daddy."

John now was angry with Paul his stepdaughter's husband and how unfair life
was to many. "OK how would you handle this dear?"

"I gave that a lot of thought and made a few decisions. Your stepdaughter
married the wrong man and he has gotten them into trouble. She has shown a
weak ability to control life against a mans will. Did she do any real damage
at the protest? No not one thing was damaged. There are as many females with
hard ideas of what they want, as men in those camps. So exporting the
problem makes sense. Now your stepdaughter is really a good woman with bad
leadership in her marriage. Your grandchildren need a chance to grow up and
be proud of you like I am. So I think we should bring her and the children
here and let the rest be deported."

"I see something coming Kelly, so what is it?"

"Well I sent Carlton up there and had him bring them back with him. Leigh
Anne is ashamed of what she did and wants to apologize to you and introduce
the children."

"Seeing as how you have made the decisions, I guess I had best follow your
directions right?"

"Are you mad at me daddy?"

"Nope not at all girl. Your solution was compassionate and did not punish
anyone not deserving it. So in all you did a very good job of thinking
dear."

Kelly ran to him and hugged him tight. "I knew it was the right thing
daddy."

Leigh Anne and the two children came into the room. She had her arm still in
a sling and the kids looked worried. It was the lack of weight John noticed
first and the gaunt look in her face.

"You look like you have been badly used dear."

She ran to him with tears rolling down her face and hugged him "God John I
have missed you. But Paul hated you and the place you held in my heart. So
he drove a wedge between my feelings and you. He was very good at
controlling others around him."

John kissed her and hugged her back. Then she introduced the two children,
as he had not seen them in almost ten years now. They fixed the children and
Leigh Anne food before placing them in two spare bedrooms.

"Thank you Kelly for taking the right road on that issue. I would have done
the wrong thing I am sure." Now John headed to bed and much needed sleep.

That next morning Leigh Anne joined John for breakfast. It was his normal
one, but to Leigh Anne it was like a gourmet meal.

"God I have not had food like this in years now."

"Here we never stopped eating like this. There is enough food here to feed
us for five years with nothing being grown or livestock being raised. I
never wanted my people to starve or go hungry. That was my first goal to
meet here."

Leigh Anne looked at him with her blue eyes sparkling and blond hair bright
after being washed. "What happened John?"

"You and Paul went your way and I went mine. Until a couple years ago I was
the loneliest man you ever saw. There was no meaning in my life at all. Dana
and Kelly gave that back to me. What you see here was paid for by winnings
from a Power Ball ticket."

Kelly came in and hugged Leigh Anne and was smiling. "Well sister we need to
hold the fort while dad goes and checks on mom. She will get bitchy if he
does not see him soon."

John laughed at Kelly's shot at her mother. "Now don't be a bitch yourself
young lady. You're starting to push your luck big time today."

Now she knew she had almost crossed the line. "Yes daddy I will mind my
mouth."

He kissed the girls and headed off to the hospital. Once there he found his
young daughters actions were being discussed and approved of. Carlton made
sure people knew who called the shots with Leigh Anne.

Dana kissed him and smiled at his stressed out face. "Look dear right now
there is not a lot Kelly can do openly. So let her stay behind the mask of
assuring proper action happens. She will learn and you get some good back up
and advice. You have to stand by the laws and that could be a hot seat for
anyone."

It made sense to him and he liked having Kelly involved any way he could. "I
see your point and it fits the problem. We can make Kelly the voice of
reason in a tough situation for me. She will be someone people will listen
to and start to respect."

"Your bound and determined to have her one day running the new country. So
we have to start building her image early." Dana was not real happy with
Kelly taking over the country after John. But she saw it as reasonable in
his eyes any way. It was not that Kelly was not smart enough, but that it
would take years of hard work. Those were years she could be enjoying
raising a family. Of course she did not want that for her life.

"Dana I am going to say this just one time and you will never hear it again.
Kelly must make her own choices. Her life is never going to be what you or I
think it should be. It will be her creation and only she must like it. So
learn to support her wants and not yours or my desires."

That hit home like a sledgehammer and she knew he was right. "Husband why
are you so damn smart?"

"That my dear lady is not true. But I know I can't live your life or
Kelly's. It is just a fact that cannot be changed. I can be there to pick
you up when you fail, or heal the wounds of battles. But the decisions are
all yours and I have little chance of directing or changing them. Both you
ladies would fight me tooth and nail if I tried that."

Dana was doing what feeding she could with breast milk, but she did not have
a lot. So bottles were used to provide even amounts to each child. John
started chuckling and Dana knew he was laughing at her. "Just what is so
funny?"

"I wounded if you were getting used to being milked?"

Now she was laughing and it hurt like hell. "Please the staples hurt as bad
as stitches."

They finished feeding the two and John changed them and dressed them. Then
he handed John to mom and he took Janice sitting back talking to the girl.
Dana noticed how he did that and just smiled. "I see you believe in the
Oedipus complex."

"I believe that male children are moms best friend and girls are dads. That
seems to be a natural reaction from any child. So trying to change it is a
waste of time."

"That I can buy and believe your right. I was so please when I found out we
got one of each. In this I see Kelly as the big winner as she will be close
with both her brother and sister."

John explained the deal with Leigh Anne and her children. "I am not sure how
to handle this so suggestions are appreciated."

"How close were the two of you?"

"Really she more often came to me than she went to her mother when she
wanted to talk. With me she knew she would get honest answers and not
protectiveness. I never colored my words and said exactly what I thought."

 "She had to have had a crush on you."

"May be, but it was not something I ever responded to or attempted to use."
Dana saw he was just oblivious to how Leigh Anne might have felt about him.
That was just not something he would ever pick up on. A girls being subtle
with him would just never be seen by him. He would miss it every time. But
she had, had to almost drag him off to bed pulling on his dick. Oh well she
would try to fix things as best she could later.

"Look John right now you can't turn your back on her or the kids. She needs
a dad and they need a grandfather. So superman your going to have to keep
your cool and work with them to find out what will work for them? Life will
not be easy now for your stepdaughter or the children. So help make it as
good as you can dear."

John spent another hour and went to his office. Leigh Anne was cleaning it
for him and not removing anything. She knew what was disorder to some was
perfectly normal for him. He could find anything in those piles.

"Dear you did not have to go to work here. I just want you and the children
to spend some time enjoying the town and places to go and enjoy."

Kelly came out smiling now. "I told here she was not expected to work like a
slave here. But my sister would not listen to me."

"Unless you want more grief than any human can stand listen to Kelly. The
grief will not come from me, but will from her by the barrel. She is eight
going on twenty eight. She does have a rocket scientists type mind, so be
careful when you take her on as she bites hard."

Kelly was now laughing at John. "He eats my lunch far to often to suit me.
But I do my best to make up for it when possible."

"This reminds me of old times John. I just was not as forceful as Kelly is.
She says what I wish I had the guts to. But I am sure you're the same man
today as when I was growing up. You give her a hard time, but would never
say anything to hurt her."

"That for sure is the same man you knew Leigh Anne. John is the most loving
person and always looks out for my best interest."

She sat down and looked at John. "What are we going to do about a place to
live for me and the children? We can't be under your feet all the time."

"That is funny you should ask as Dana and I discussed it this morning. We
decided it was your option as to what you wanted to do. It has been years
since we spent time together, so I don't know how you feel about me? Both
Kelly and Dana know just how I felt about your mother and they accept that
I'll never forget her. She is the woman who taught me to love."

That hit Leigh Anne at a point she never expected. She saw Kelly grinning
and shaking her head and knew what he had just said was true. "I had no idea
you felt that strongly about mom."

"Your wearing the ring I gave her and told her I would do it all over again.
That was when I knew how bad her cancer was. At that time I knew she was
never going to be back in my life the way she always had been. The woman I
had married was gone and I was living with the shell of her. That ripped at
my guts for many years. You were not there and did not have to go through
it. I had no one to turn to or talk with. If you remember Trish was my best
friend and no one could come close to that. So I had no other close friends
or people to turn to."

It was a sad things and she had let him down she felt, as she could have
been there for him. "I am sorry I did not step into that void."

"You could not do that as you had a husband and were just learning to live
with him. Your stepping in could have destroyed your life. That I could
never have allowed to happen. Your building your own life and family is a
right each woman has to decide on. It is their life and they must make the
choices."

"But I made bad choices and they did not work."

"Did you know that in Chicago? Or when you moved to Northern Virginia? So
how could you possibly do anything but what you did? Paul just did not turn
out the way you hoped for him to. He was a user and not a giver and that was
the major difference. He loved power and used people to reach his goals."

"I wish he knew I was with you now."

Kelly spoke up. "He does and is highly pissed. But I had Carlton take him to
Chicago and drop him out the door at ten thousand feet. We did give him a
chute so he and his friends has a chance to survive."

Leigh Anne was laughing uncontrollably now. "He is terrified of heights like
that. I can see him pissing his pants on the way down now. It helps pay for
the beatings I took when I argued with him. Once he had his environmental
group he was a happy man ordering them around."

"Well for now your welcome here and when you get bored with me or us then we
will make some decisions that works for you. But the children need to get to
know me better. I am not known by them at all I am sure. If they do I must
be a two headed monster their dad talked about."

Now Leigh Anne was laughing and enjoying John. "He tried and I stopped that
part of his power play. The last I knew you were in Alabama and that is
where the kids thought you were."

"Kelly will you take the children over and get them tested for school?"

"Sure daddy and can we stay and ea6 there with friends of mine?"

"I don't see why not? Warn the kids about what your doing and how our
schools work here. If they want to complete school faster they must do well
on the tests."

"I'll handle it and they will have no problems as both are smart."

"OK daughter how about us taking a ride down to the youth camp?"

"I did not see any cars here, so how do we ride down there?"

"On a horse of course."

Now she looked like the kid she had once been. "Really John I love to ride
and don't get to do that often. Paul would not let me ride the horses the
group had. He said they were for work, but he did let others ride them."

They walked into the barn and John pointed out three animals she could pick
from. "What about the others John?"

"The stallion is mine and would give you a hard time. The grey is Kelly's
and I don't let anyone ride her but Kelly. The rest is for people here to
use."

"Dana does not have a horse of her own?"

"The lady does not like to ride. So I don't push her to do something she
does not like."

Leigh Anne brought out a beautiful sorrel with white socks and blaze. "God
he is so beautiful and calm."

"He is a gelding and a good horse for any woman. Jackson trained him and did
a great job on him. He is very fast and likes to run if you let him. So if
you don't want him to run keep him on a short rein. That is all it takes to
control him."

The saddled the horses and headed down to the youth camp. He showed her much
of the land and where housing was built into the mountains. But once they
got to the camp kids were all over him. All the children loved him here.
Once they knew Leigh Anne was his daughter they took to her fast.

Jackson and Pam were running the meeting and John just sat down and
listened. He always got more than he expected.

"Now what do we owe the pleasure of your company and your daughters?"

"Kelly is doing some things for me so I came in her place. Sometimes you
need fast answers and I am here if that was the case."

"The radio scripts are now left to Kelly so we are out of that business. She
is really far better at it than we were. We today were looking at how to get
schools up and running in the new Federation cities and counties. They are
running way behind on that issue due to money. We need to get the kids back
into learning and fast." Jackson had spelled it out clearly.

"OK how about we set up schools computer centers for our style classes? They
can use libraries or any computer they can connect into the system. Testing
has to be done by a teacher, but after that the program will take over their
needs."

"How do we get enough computers for the centers?" Pam liked what she heard
so far.

"Take them from offices and old closed businesses. It is for sure they don't
need them. Remove them from homes not occupied now."

"Who sets up the schools so we have a large network?"

"Get with the computer guys and with the techs and see how best to work this
out. I don't have the answers for you, but I do know they will. It does get
our Internet back up and running. Government is going to need it big time
shortly."

Jackson started handing out jobs and had kids moving to solve one problem
each.

"Now boss what can we do for you?"

"I just wanted Leigh Anne to see how well your guys ran your show. Before I
used to tell her age was not a sign of being an adult."

Rhonda smiled at him now. "It is really a shame Dana got to you first John."

"Hey lady your far more than this old man could handle." Rhonda laughed at
that comment.

Watching him play with words with the kids felt good to Leigh Anne. It was
very much like he had treated her at that age. He was a really good man and
she had just never registered that. Her adopted father had rapped her and
used her from when she was four. Her butt belonged to him and she was made
to suck him and his son off. She never understood why John did not want her?
She felt some how rejected by him and that hurt her.

On the ride back she just had to ask him. "You never came to me and took my
body for your own pleasure. Why didn't you?"

"Look I know what your adopted father did to you. I loved the girl you were
and wanted you to be happy. Using you for my pleasure was not the right
thing for me to do to you. I hope I showed you I loved you and cared about
you very much. But using your body was just not right and I resented what
Virgil did to you. It caused a lot of hate in me toward him Leigh Anne. He
took a big part of your childhood and I could never give that back to you.
But I did what I could to make others know you were special to me."

She was not getting it yet. "Like what John?"

"How many girls had their 13th birthday party in a bar with a DJ playing
rock videos? Or going to Kings Dominion to see a rock concert. Like trips to
the beach at Myrtle Beach and giving you a car to drive to high school and
college. Picnics at the house during the fall or springs for your friends.
You had art lessons, a new 35mm camera and so many things most girls never
got. Dear you were a special child to me and I wanted you to feel it."

Now Leigh Anne thought back to the fur coat, the trip to the mall and
hairdresser and so many things John did. "God I did have a special childhood
in spite of Virgil. But I never repaid any of the good things you did John/"

"They were never done for you to pay us back. For your mom and I it was done
because we loved you."

Now the tears flowed and she though back on how little she thought about the
many good things she had in her younger life. The two people she loved did
care and she failed to notice most of it. She had resented John's rejection
of her body and it ate her up. Yet he had done many good things for her she
never acknowledged. It was time for her to grow up and get her mind
straight. If not she would screw her children's lives up.

Once she finished unsaddling her horse and rubbing it down she put it in his
stall and fed him. Then she walked over to John and hugged him. "Thank you
dad for all you and mom did with me never seeing it clearly. It is time to
get me back on track and doing things you and mom encouraged me to do. I am
going back to painting and sketches. I hope there is a place for that here
once more?"

"As lives get back to normal in the larger country, I am sure a living can
be made doing that. For now you need to may be take a small display booth at
one of the shops and put what work you finish there. They get 5% of what it
sells for to pay for their efforts. But our money is backed with gold and
always will have value."

"How did you get so much gold?"

"It is strange, but under the coal was a vein of gold that was the biggest I
have ever seen. We will be mining it for many years yet and we have tens of
thousands of tons now. But it is my company that owns it and my money
backing the new governments money system. So the new government is a
corporation and it has responsibilities to the people. But it will make no
new laws and charge no taxes."

"What responsibilities will it have?"

"The education of the children, protection of the nation, running a good
money system, providing good transportation systems and keeping a sound
communications system. Those are the first responsibilities. The second line
is getting the economy running and people back to working. Providing a good
national police force they can count on. Finding ways to move goods from
where they are to where they are needed. Doing some trading to improve our
life styles here. We will never again import to where we break the system.
All trade must be balanced or we just don't do it."

"But so much is made at very low costs else where."

"True and it is even cheaper with our gold backed money. Only the Swiss have
an equal system to ours. But they don't have the amount of gold we do. I
will not take over the entire country here by any means. We will take the
south and build a safe country for many people. But if your not a citizen
you will be punished and sent home. You must be here legally to not have
something bad happen to you."

"But how can you tell who s here legally or not?"

"You had your hands scanned, your eyes and a DNA sample was taken right? You
also got a short to be sure you had not diseases from the two years of
crisis."

"Yes those things happened to all of us when we were arrested."

John called over one of the security officers. He took the hand scanner and
aimed it at Leigh Anne and it showed her name and identification. He showed
her the data.

"How did you get that by just aiming it at me?"

"The shot had and RFID seed in it. That number is forever linked to you and
the data taken. It would tell a doctor what medical problems you had, what
drugs you are taking and treatments you have had. A drug store would know if
you had any allergies or drugs you could not take. An employer would have
your full work history in front of them while interviewing you. So it has a
lot of value and helps people make good decisions."

"You gave Paul one."

"Yes and if he ever comes back he will be picked up fast. He is on a do not
admit list and would set off one of these for any officer. We have taken
close to one hundred people and moved them out of this country. They just
did not fit the new country. We will keep no liberal do gooders at all."

"What happens to them?"

"They are sent to where many others agree with them. We just don't need them
here telling us how we should live." He handed her a copy of the laws and
one of the new countries structure books. "Here are the laws and the
structure of the country. Read them and if you wish to discuss any area,
feel free to come and ask me for time to do that."

They both headed to their rooms to shower and change. With Kelly handling
the children Leigh Anne had free time she never had before. This was so new
it felt good to her. So she sat and read the two small books and was
impressed with how simple it was. Her life had been so complex now for so
long this was refreshing.

That afternoon John, Shelby and she had lunch and enjoyed talking. It was
the first time in many years this had happened as well. Her life had become
one of work and serving the needs and demands of a man she really did not
like. Now that was changing and she could feel free to have opinions once
again.

Leigh Anne went with John to the hospital to see Dana and the babies. The
hospital was impressive and she really liked Dana. It did amaze her at how
much younger Dana was than her. But she was an impressive lady.

"Well lady tomorrow Carlton's troops will bring you home and get you set up
for the children. I tried to stop it and was run down like pushing against
an avalanche. So you will just have to live with it."

Dana was now laughing and she winced at the pain. "You rotten egg you love
to make me laugh even when it hurts."

"Sorry dear it just slips out."

The time went well and life was ready to take another change for them.


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John
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
 - Leon Trotsky
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