My Sweet Love

Memories

"Sonja?"

"What is it Christopher?"

"Sonja are you there?"

"Yes Country Mouse, I'm right here."

"Will you climb in here with me?"

"Well yes, but aren't you a little old to be trying to get frisky."

"Very funny City Mouse. Come here. Now this feels right" he says as he wraps his arms around his beloved wife. "Remember the first time we hugged?"

"Sure. In the squad room at NCIS in New Orleans the day after I made it off that tugboat."

"Yeah, the day I realized that I could love you."

"Hummm." Sonja responds. "We did this last night Butch. I still don't know why you went down memory road. You almost lost your voice talking.

"Are you happy Sonja?"

"Oh yes, Christopher. You have made me very happy. It has been quite a ride though. Never a dull moment after you came to your senses and realized that you couldn't live without me."

"Well now Sonja, I have never professed to being the smartest one in our relationship, but I was able to realize that I was wrong to let you go away from me. And what I said last night as I walked, rather talked through our life together proves that I did finally wise up and that I was the primary beneficiary of that wisdom."

"Excuse me Mr. and Mrs. LaSalle" the nurse says to them. "I need to take your vitals sir."

"Well, I am pretty sure that my sexy wife has both my blood pressure and pulse up" Chris snarks.

"I'll be right back Chris."

"Don't go too far City Mouse, I'm not ready to let you go."

"Okay, I have heard those words before."

A few minutes later

"I'm not sure how she finds more spots to poke. I feel like a pin cushion. Can you get that City Mouse? I can't seem to reach the phone."

"Hello." Response

"Hello Tucker. It's good to hear from you. Yes. Mr. LaSalle is right here."

The call continues as Sonja steps out in the hallway to give her husband some privacy.

As she sits down on the chair outside of the room her mind wanders back to the first time she heard Tucker's voice.

"Hello Mrs. LaSalle?"

"Yes."

"My name is Tucker James. I was going through some clippings of my late mother's and I found a wedding announcement for you and a man named Christopher LaSalle. I thought he might be distant relative or something and I thought that I should at least try to confirm that."

"Tucker, my husband is at the office right now but if you will leave your name and number with me, I will be sure that he gets the message. And oh, Tucker, you said your late mother?"

"Yes Ma'am. My mother was killed in an auto accident when I was fifteen. I know she had some family but I don't know what happened to them. I also lost track of my birth father."

"Well Tucker I can tell you this, I know that you meant a lot to my husband and he was saddened when you left his life."

Sonja thought on how Chris had learned that Tucker's father was killed in a prison uprising about seven years after he knocked him down in the squad room in New Orleans. She also knew that Chris had always wondered what had happened to the boy.