September 4, 2013

• Looking Maternal

  Dumbo’s daughter was a shy thing at eight years of age and terrified to be sent to live with a father she had only met four times in her life. Her name was awful, Lucretia Indigo Dumbkowski, at least that was how she was identified on the custody agreement. I must have scared her shitless when I looked her over and asked her what she wanted to be called. Her answer was a shrug with eyes like saucers. Maybe it was mean but I announced that I’d call her Blue. Dumbo just smiled. Seems he had no say in the naming and had never addressed her by anything other than “honey”. With a sheaf of papers held together with a paper clip, Dumbo became the sole guardian of Blue. Her entire wardrobe and bedroom contents arrived at Dumbo’s apartment over the course of the next couple of weeks. He had to get rid of his weight bench and assorted exercise equipment in the other bedroom but it all worked out. Everything changed. Suddenly I realized that I could fall in love with Blue if I let myself. Dumbo was a good father but he wasn’t a mother. The Captain took Dumbo’s new role as a dad into consideration with scheduling. When I asked to have a different partner everyone assumed that it was because I didn’t like the disruption his fatherly duties required.  What it meant was that I was going on nights and he was taking days so he could be home when she was sleeping and I was home when she was at school. That way he would get her breakfast and off to school and I’d make dinner and help with homework. It was a sweet arrangement. No one was the wiser since I had told everyone that I was moving back in with my parents and all my mail was being delivered there. Although my parents were not thrilled that I was “living in sin”, my mother was in seventh heaven to be called Granma Evans and adored Blue. Whenever we had cases that required either of us to work overtime, my mom was right there at Dumbo’s door ready to be the best grandma in the universe.

  Here is the last chapter in the Det. Evans story for this go round. Please be kind and realize that if I do another Scavenger Hunt I might add to this, maybe, if the rules are a little different... I used the August Scavenger Hunt meditations #30 indigo and #31 paperclip.

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