"You think it's safe to walk in?" Tim smiles as he and Adam walk onto the front porch.

"I hope so." Adam chuckles.

Tim slowly opens the door and peeks in. Austin and Olena were cuddled on the couch watching television.

"Is it safe to come in?" Tim asks with a smirk.

"Yeah, everything is cool." Austin laughs.

"Bro? You bout ready to get back to trapping in the morning?" Tim asks as he pops open a beer and sits down on the love seat pulling his husband down on his lap.

"Absolutely. Gotta baby on the way. I need to start making some money."Austin chuckles.

"True. And from what I hear they're not cheap." Tim laughs.

"Well, I have my job at Hattie's too." Olena says. "I can work as long as I'm able. Right now, I'm not working that much but she said if I ever need more hours to let her know."

"That's fine but just don't over do it." Austin says.

"We need to go get the traps ready to go." Tim says as he gently pats Adam on the leg, a gesture to let him up.

Tim and Austin go to the shed to locate the traps. They begin cleaning and getting them ready for the next day. Adam and Olena begin to fix supper.

Just as they were finishing the last trap, Olena calls to them telling them that supper was ready.

"You going with us in the morning, Babe?" Tim asks as he washes up for supper.

"I don't know. It depends on how I feel in the morning." Adam answers as he sets the table.

Tim chuckles and shakes his head. Taking the answer as a 'probably not'.

The next morning, Tim groans as his alarm clock wakes him from a very nice dream. He cuts it off and looks around at his husband sleeping soundly beside him. Undisturbed by the alarm.

He quietly gets dressed even though he knew it would take a herd of elephants to wake Adam. He was so exhausted after the sex they had last night.

Sitting down on the side of the bed, he gently brushes Adam's hair out of his face.

"Sweetie?" Tim says softly.

"Hmm?" Adam answers as he rolls over pulling the covers up around his shoulders.

"I take it, you're not going with us this morning." Tim chuckles.

"No, I'm tired." Adam mumbles as he reaches up and pulls Tim down on him. "Stay with me."

"Baby, I would love to but I have work to do." Tim smiles as he pushes himself back up. 

"I love you." Adam says, lazily. "Be careful."

"I love you too, Beautiful." Tim says, kissing Adam softly on the lips. "Go back to sleep."

Tim closes the door behind him and makes his way to the kitchen. Austin was busy making a pot of coffee.

"I take it, he's not going?" Austin smirks.

"Naw, I knew he wouldn't." Tim chuckles as he fixes a cup of coffee. "I'm still working on getting the city boy out of him."

"So, what's the plan. We have a lot of traps to get set." Austin asks as he sat down at the table.

"I thought it would be a lot faster if we work in different locations." Tim says as he too sits down.  "I'll drop you off with some traps at Canes Creek and I'll go to Beaver's Ridge. When I'm done, I'll come back after you."

"Sounds good to me." Austin says with a nod.

Before too long, they were at Canes Creek. Tim helped Austin unload some of the traps.

"You be careful and watch out for gators and snakes." Tim says.

Austin chuckles and shakes his head. After all these years of trapping, Tim constantly reminds him of the gators and snakes. He will never turn off that 'Big Brother' mode.

"Be back in a little while." Tim says as he drives away.

Austin sang quietly to himself as he waded along the creek bank. As he set the traps, his thought was on the baby. He couldn't decide whether he wanted a girl or boy. But either would be fine. The scary thoughts of being a father had turned to excited ones.

Before he knew it, he was setting the last trap. Tim would be coming back soon so he climbed out of the creek and sat down next to a tree by the road.

"Come on, Timmy. It's getting hot." Austin says as he looks up at the sun that had climbed high in the sky.

He decides to start walking toward Beaver's Ridge. Maybe he would meet Tim on the way.

Beaver's Ridge was just a few minutes away by car. But on foot, it took about thirty minutes.

Austin was exhausted and extremely hot by the time he got to the location.

He growls with anger as he sees Tim's truck. He was fixing to give his brother a piece of his mind.

"Tim? Did you forget something? Like me?" Austin says as he walks past the truck. "Timmy?"

Austin glances around not seeing his brother anywhere.

"TIMMY?" He calls out as he walks up the ridge a little ways. "WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU??"

He was beginning to get worried. As he starts to head back to the truck something catches his eye, laying in the grass.

"Oh, my God." He whispers as he reaches down and picks up Tim's glasses. "TIMMY!!!" Austin yells but only his own echo was heard along the ridge.

"Oh, my God. Oh, my God." He says as he runs back to the truck. Luckily, Tim had left the keys in the ignition.

He hops into the truck and heads home as fast as he could drive.

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Mark, Bob and Adam were standing in the yard. Olena and Satchmo were sitting on the front porch. Tim had decided to leave his dog at home considering Satch always came home a mess after playing in the swamp.

Mark and Bob were discussing what needed to be done to the house before they started painting. They figured Tim and Austin would be home soon and they could get started.

"That sounds like Tim's truck." Adam smiles as he hears the familiar rumble of Tim's loud muffler.

"WHAT THE HELL?" Bob shouts as he, Mark and Adam have to jump out of the way of the speeding truck.

Austin has to swerve quickly to keep from hitting Bob's truck. He ends up plowing through the yard before coming to a stop.

Austin jumps out of the truck, tears streaming down his face.

"Austin?" Adam says as he rushes toward the truck. His heart stops as he sees Tim's glasses in Austin's hand. "WHERE THE HELL IS TIM?"

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