Sue Gifford only found out that Annie's house was on fire, when a neighbor that knew her still called. She was horrified, and hurried to go over there. It was on the other side of the town.
She even chided herself on the way over for calling it Annie's house.
"No, Annie's gone these many years," Sue said to herself, talking to calm herself, to occupy her mind, "It's Derek's House now!"
And then she remembered what was happening and began to cry.
When she got there, she had to park a little distance away because of the fire equipment. She found Derek, standing, looking for all the world lonely on the sidewalk across the street and just watching. The house itself seemed to be in shambles, looking like a total loss.
Derek saw her coming and opened his arms, folding her into an embrace.
"Oh, Derek, honey!" Sue wailed, "You're house!'
"Hi, Susie!" he whispered to her.
It sent a kind of a thrill through Sue's body; him calling her Susie, for as long as she could remember, was one of the treats of life.
"I'm so sorry, honey, so sorry," she said, her voice just audible, since it was buried in his chest.
"I was at the gym," he said, "Someone called me."
She looked up at him and he said to her:
"There goes Annie's house!"
"Oh," Sue said crying, "Annie's house! Gone! Ohhhh!"
"I'm so sorry to be like a baby here," she said, "When you've just lost everything."
"Not like a baby, Susie girlfriend!" he said, smiling at him.
"You must come to me," she said with some conviction. "It's only me in that big new house that Harvey built for us, and he's gone as long as Annie."
She paused and sobbed some more, and then went on:
"And you get out of the Marines and come back to live here and this happens. All your things!"
"Susie, Susie," he cooed to her, "I didn't have very many things, at least not yet. It's mostly, you know Mom's things but it's insured and we'll work it out. I appreciate the offer for a roof. You don' t mind, Susie?"
"Mind! Mind!," she said with vehemence, "You're mine and you're coming to live with me, and we'll just work this mess out."
They stayed and watched the rest of the scene together, until it was finally put out but the house and contents were lost. There seemed to be nothing to be done but get someone whose business it is to clean up and haul away such things.
"I'll have to get on that in the morning," Derek said, "My schedule at school is light right now."
Derek Walters was recently out of the Marines, also recently back from a second tour of duty to Afghanistan. He'd come back to live in his Mom's house, that his Aunt Susie had been keeping for him, and was coaching at the local college. His Aunt Susie was 10 years older than he, being the last of the children in her family, and the only one left. She was a widow at 35, having married an older man, whose heart attack had taken him the same year that her sister Annie died.
Sue lived alone in a huge house that she and Harvey had built, their dream house, so they called it. It had memories but she loved it still and was pleased beyond pleased that Derek was coming to live with her, despite the tragedy of 'Annie's House'.
At home, she bustled around, getting Derek settled in. He made a shopping run then to get himself some of the basics that he'd need, since what few things at home he had were obviously gone.
She offered to go shopping with him but they both decided that she'd stay at home and fix some dinner. He said that he'd call he, when he was on the way home to let her know and they fixed a time sequence so that it would all be coordinated.
Sue found herself moving around the house and singing. She got steaks out of the freezer and planned a really nice meal for Derek. She discovered that she was so pleased to have him.
And her mind worked overtime. Sue Gifford never had much of a wild sex life with Harvey but she certainly had an active mental one. She found herself, while moving about and getting the dining room table set, thinking about waiting for Derek. It was the re-occurrence of an old fantasy, one that stretched back to the days, when Derek was a wise assed teenager.
But he was a wise assed teen ager that his aunt Sue lusted for. That had never changed for Sue. She could never explain it, never tried to; it was always just there a part of her mental, fantasy baggage. It hadn't changed during the years of her marriage to older, bland Harvey.
For those many years the fantasy had been her almost daily companion in bed. In the dark of the night she thought of it, and let her fingers so roaming among her pussy hairs as she relived, weekly at least and often nightly, those fantasies about Derek.
She'd be naked, when he came through the garage door. She loved the idea, the downright dirtiness of it! All the rest of the fantasies were built on the base of that one.
It was with difficulty that she broke off from her sexual imaginings. Almost as if he knew that she was thinking about such things, Derek called just then.
"Hey, Susie!" he said fairly brightly.
"Hi, honey;" she answered, "Are you okay?"
"Gotta be, Susie," he said. "I''m just not gonna let this defeat me, is all."
"Good for you," she answered.
"What is my Susie planning!" he said then.
Sue gulped out loud; for a few seconds she thought that he was asking her about her plans to be kneeling naked waiting for him, when he got there.
"Oh, dinner!' she said at last.
"Yes, love," he said chuckling, "What did you think?"
"Don't you go teasing your old Aunt!' she chided.
"Susie, would I tease you? So what?" he said
"Steaks and baked potatoes, and some wine to go with it," she answered.
"Sounds lovely," he said back to her, "Almost as lovely as my Aunt Susie!"
"Stop the blarney and come home, Marine!" she said with a laugh.
"That's my plan," he said.
When he got there, and came through the door from the garage to the kitchen, Sue's breath caught in her throat, as her previous fantasy flashed through her mind. She tucked the thought away in the back of her mind, promising herself that she'd re-visit it that night in bed. That made her smile.
"Hey, Susie's smiling;" Derek said, "I like that."
"I'm smiling because you're home!" she said blushing.
He turned serious then, as he approached her:
"I appreciate you taking me in, Aunt Sue."
"Appreciate! But you're my own!" she said insisting. "Of course you have a home here. It's our home now."
"Yes, our home!" he said, kissing her cheek, which made her tingle, "And thank you."
"Well, if you stop mauling the kitchen staff," she quipped at him, "We'll get some dinner."
"Fair enough," he laughed, "More mauling later."
"Don't you dare, Marine!" she said in a false outraged voice.
After dinner, which was a quiet affair with some talk about the future of the property where 'Annie's House' was situated, he told her that he'd drive back to the house just to look around.
She elected to stay and clean up from dinner.
"You just be careful over there!" she said to him. "I don't want anything happening to you."
"Very careful, Susie!" he said, hugging her.
