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Grim Fairy Tales (c) 2001 Knave of Hearts knaveofhearts2000@yahoo.com

AUTHOR'S NOTE 1. This is the first installment of a longer story. I

had finished this part in the summer of 2001 and was well on the way to

finishing the entire saga when some crazy drove a plane into a skyscraper.

The intrusion of the real world into my fictional scenario made me stop and

reconsider publishing this, but then I realized that by altering my life I

had let the crazies win.

2. The town names in the story are real but the characters bear no

resemblance to anyone that has ever existed there in this plane of

existence. Any similarity between a character and a real person is sheer

coincidence. That's why this is called fiction.



PROLOG The end of the Cold War lifted the lid on countless religious,

ideological, and nationalistic organizations that squabbled with each other

over a seemingly endless array of issues. Most of these organizations had

been held in check by the two superpowers. Most were benign but some were

nothing short of terrorists. In 2020, religious zealots from a third world

country that few Americans had even heard of decided to make their entrance

on the international scene with a direct attack against the Great Satan.

Using easily available technology and stolen military hardware, the group

constructed several small nuclear devices, dubbed by the press atomic

suitcases, and exploded them at major industrial and commercial sites

around the United States.

The low yield bombs instantaneously turned New York Harbor, Wall Street,

and the Port of Bayonne into scenes of devastation. Due to the nature of

the bombs and the method that they were exploded, the fallout was

tremendous. Lacking a consolidated Civil Defense program, local and state

authorities found themselves fighting for resources. Within days, the

dispirited populace began rioting. What was left of the cities burned out

of control.

After the New York bombs exploded, a group calling itself the Children

of the Sword issued a statement that the United States was being punished

for what its communiqué called "crimes against humanity." Police began

massive searches for members or material belonging to the Children. Most

of the material was found to have come from an American research laboratory

at Los Alamos. Police pinpointed the leader, or at least the bomb builder,

as a former grad student who had interned at the labs.

Despite knowing whom to look for, the police were still unable to stop

the terror. One week after the New York attack, four more bombs struck

Chicago's financial district. Police, with the help of National Guard

troops, fortified major cities. A cell of terrorists was killed as they

tried to infiltrate Washington D.C. Another bomb was discovered in Seattle

harbor. Despite these victories, Houston, New Orleans, and Los Angeles all

suffered severe damage.

On New Year's Day 2021, the President of the United States declared

martial law. Regular Army and National Guard units were called out to help

civil authorities control the situation, protect lives, and reestablish

services. Some areas quickly organized to provide food and shelter for

their people. Towns were fortified, defended by the remnants of their

local police, maybe a National Guard or Regular Army Unit that had been

nearby, and deputized locals.

It was almost too late. By this time, interstate commerce and power

distribution had almost ceased. The value of paper money plummeted as

people hoarded jewelry and precious metals. The law and order fell apart

as cities starved and suffered rolling blackouts. Many of the National

Guard units, their members dispersed throughout the community, failed to

report or, in some cases, mutinied when asked to deploy away from their

families. Gangs of heavily armed and desperate criminals roamed the

highways stealing and killing.

People were scared and desperate. Often, they shot first and looted the

body later. Travel between towns dwindled to a trickle. Only the bravest,

or most foolhardy, risked their lives outside of the patrolled and

protected towns and cities.

The Nation fought for its very existence.

Chapter 1: The Magic Tinderbox "Once upon a time a brave soldier

returned from the wars."

In this chaotic world, in the spring of 2024, we start our story in the

Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Major Simon Woodsman just wanted to go home. He had spent the last few

months battling rioters and trying to help rebuild civilization in what was

left of the nation's capitol. Despite his valorous service, he had nothing

to show for the time he that had spent protecting his country except for

the uniform on his back and the 9mm pistol strapped to his hip. He hadn't

seen a paycheck in three months and the unit he had commanded had been

whittled away by casualties and desertions until the brass sent him an

email and told him to go home.

Simon had been walking for four days, ever since his HMMWV had run out

of gas. His feet were swollen and his stomach growled but he kept telling

himself that the walk down the old Valley Road was therapeutic. He hoped

that the crisp air and beautiful scenery would combine to erode the

cynicism that had built up inside him during the riots.

He entered Green Springs, a wide spot alongside the road, on the fifth

day of his hike. He felt as if he'd left all the world's troubles back in

the big city as he walked along Green Springs' tree lined streets. People

sat outside their houses chatting and kids played in their yards.

Before the Troubles, people would have waved from their porches and

tossed out comments about the weather. But now things were different. The

street got quiet as he passed, as if he pushed a bow wave of silence in

front of him. Conversations paused, the women watching him while the men
went inside to get their weapons. Simon kept moving and the conversations

resumed, with a new topic, as soon as he had passed.

He was almost out of town when he was shocked by a friendly voice. "Hey

soldier. Been walking far?" The voice belonged to a cute blond who had

been edging the sidewalk in front of her small bungalow.

"About five days." Simon admitted, trying hard not to stare at her

shapely petite form. If she were outgoing enough to talk with him, he

thought, maybe she'd let him bunk down someplace out of the weather. Even

sleeping on the porch would be preferable to crawling under a tree for

another night so he tried hard to mind his manners.

"Where you headed to?" She leaned against the edger, stretching her

shoulders back.

Simon shuffled his feet, looking quickly at the cracked sidewalk before

she caught him staring at the tan swell of her breasts that rose under the

old workshirt she wore.

She shot him a crooked smile that wrinkled the corners of her bright

blue eyes. "Come on up to the house. You look like you could use a cold

drink."

Simon mumbled something that he hoped sounded like an agreement and

hitched his pack up on to his shoulder as he unlatched the chain link gate

and let himself in. He latched the gate and turned to see her tight round

denim clad ass as she climbed the front steps and entered the house. He

followed her in and stopped in the little foyer, stunned by the quaint

hominess of the house.

"Is there anything wrong?" She had taken off her shoes and now silently

moved through dining room with a large glass of water in her hands.

"Uhhhh. No. . . Everything is great. I mean, this is real nice of

you." The words stumbled over his tongue.

Simon didn't want to dump his troubles on this lady. For the last six

months, he had witnessed the worst aspects of humanity - kidnapping, rape,

arson, vigilante killings, and mob violence. Everyone had shared the same

scared look, wondering when it would be there turn to be in the wrong place

at the wrong time.

But here. Now. This was completely different. Almost like the home

that he had lived in. The home that had disappeared forever.

"Still with me?" Her blue eyes locked on to his with a slight worried

look. "You look like you could use a hot meal and a good night's sleep."

Without waiting for a response, she took his arm and led him through to the

kitchen.

Taking charge, she sat him at the little wooden table. "So what brings

you to Green Springs, Major Woodsman?"

Simon's head snapped up at the sound of his name. But then he realized

that she had just read his name tag above his right pocket.

She continued as if she hadn't noticed. "Would you mind if I put your

pistol in the hallway? I don't mean to sound rude, but. . ." She left the

rest unsaid as if searching for the right phrase.

"Oh it's no problem." Simon unbuckled his gun belt and handed it to her.

He watched her hand the belt in the hallway closet. Right above the

shotgun that leaned against the wall.

"I was just passing through. Heading back to see my folks in Staunton."

Simon took another large swallow of water. The ice cubes numbed his lips.

"I've been working up around DC."

She nodded her head sympathetically. He finished his water, embarrassed

by the silence but unable to find anything else worth saying. "Thanks for

the water." He set the glass carefully on the table and wiped his hands

nervously on his pants. "I was wondering if I could ask one more favor. I

can't pay you or anything, but if it wouldn't be any bother I was wondering

if you'd mind me sleeping on your porch. Just to spend a night under a

roof you understand."

He felt a flush of embarrassment creep up his neck. It sounded like he

was a beggar instead of an Army officer. Before she could answer he stood

to leave.

"Why not." She looked at him with that smile again, the pink tip of her

tongue playing across her lips. "But I'll tell you what." She stood and

faced him, close enough that her breasts brushed against his chest as she

led him into the hallway. "I've got some things that need to be done

around this old rat trap of a house. If you've got some time to spend on a

few odd jobs I think I can find someplace better than the porch for you to

sleep."

Simon quickly agreed and the lady, she said her name was Laura Buckley,

led him into the back yard. Pointing at a huge pile of wood, she handed

him a wood maul and showed him where to stack the split wood before she

went back inside. He started splitting the wood, stacking it neatly

against the fence so that it wouldn't fall over.

Every so often he would see her watching him through the kitchen door.

It was dusk before she called him in from the kitchen stoop. Simon wiped

the sweat from his brow and collected his jacket from the fence, anxious

for dinner.

She moved his rucksack into the smaller bedroom and showed him where the

shower was. Simon couldn't believe his luck as he stood under the hot

shower. After scrubbing the grime off his skin, he stood dripping in the

shower, his skin looking healthy and pink for a change. Pushing aside the

curtain, he wiped water from his eyes as he stepped over the rim of the

tub.

Lucky or not, he wasn't ready for the sight in front of him. There,

perched on the laundry hamper, sat Laura with her legs crossed, with one

hand teasing a pert nipple. She wore nothing but her crooked smile. Her

medium sized breasts were only a shade lighter than the rest of her tan

body. As she uncrossed her legs, he could see that the same could be said

of her closely trimmed mound.

She tossed him a small towel. Leaning back against the wall, she let

one hand lightly trace across her firm stomach to rest at the top of her

slit. Her nostrils dilated as she took a deep breath of hot humid air.

"Go on." Her voice was husky. "Dry off. I want to watch you before we

go into the bedroom."

There was no mistaking what she planned for him once they got into the

bedroom. He dried off with the towel, never taking his eyes from hers.

When he was done, she slid off her perch and pressed her body against his,

raising her lips for a kiss.

"Give the lady what she wants." Simon muttered as he bent to kiss her.

His cock swelled as their damp bodies pressed together. He ran his hand

along her spine to the cleft of her ass cheeks, pulling her tightly against

him. They stood kissing and groping each other for several minutes.

Finally Laura came up for air.

Squeezing his ass with both hands, she ground her stomach against his

turgid cock one last time before taking his hand and leading him into the

master bedroom. Simon's cock bobbed in front of him, pointing at her ass

like a divining rod.

She stood on the small oval throw rug in front of the bed and grasped

his pole with one hand. Leaning from the waist she quickly licked the

clear pre-cum from his cock head. Simon groaned with pleasure. He'd

forgotten how good it could feel.

Looking back up from his cock, Laura teased him. "If I let you cum now,

you've got to promise that you'll get it up again for my pussy."

Without waiting for an answer she knelt in front of him, still holding

his cock in her fist. Starting at the head, she licked and nibbled her way

from its tip to his balls. Holding his cock up against his stomach she

licked his balls, sucking first one than the other testicle into her mouth.

Simon could feel the cum working its way through his cock. He felt her

finger slide under his balls and tickle the spot between his sack and his

asshole. Then she drew a line along the bottom of his pole with her hot

tongue, making him groan as he thrust his hips toward her mouth in a silent

plea for more. His balls tightened and it felt as if his cock was going to

erupt like a volcano but Laura's tight grip on the base of his penis held

him in check.

She knew what she was doing. Looking up at his face from underneath his

cock, she smiled as she popped the swollen purple cockhead into her mouth.

Bobbing her head in slow measured strokes she took all eight inches of his

tumescent meat into her mouth until he felt himself nudge the back of her

throat. She paused.

He held her hair back from her face so that he could watch her swallow
him. There was something beautiful about a woman sucking cock and Laura

was definitely an artist at work. Her eyes were closed, not tightly but

almost as if she were dreaming. Then she pressed her head forward and let

his cock into her throat until her nose buried itself in the dark curls at

the base of his shaft.

She deep throated him for a few more strokes before releasing her grasp

on his member. Simon felt his cock explode. An animal cry escaped from

his lips as his seed, held back by her tight grip, now flooded her mouth in

hot thick spurts. Laura swallowed as much as she could, her throat working

as the torrent poured down her throat, some of it spilling on to her chin

and breasts.

Simon felt his knees weaken and he placed his hands on her shoulders to

steady himself. Laura, her lips still coated in his thick seed, held his

hips as she let his still thick cock out of her mouth. Coming to her feet,

she stood on her tiptoes and kissed him deeply. He could taste the strange

salty flavor of his cum on her tongue and smell it on her skin.

Breaking the kiss, she steered him backwards on to the bed. He laid

across the bed spread, his feet still on the floor and his still leaking

cock flopped over on his thigh.

"I've got another job for you to do while you recuperate" she said as

she climbed over his chest to straddle his chin.

He didn't need her to tell him what to do next. The musky smell of her

swollen vulva enveloped him. Simon flattened his tongue and used it to

plow a furrow between her smooth labia from her hole to her clit. Her

sharp intake of breath told him that he was doing all right. She rose on

her knees, pressing her cunt against his face, while he concentrated on

licking and sucking her labia, carefully avoiding contact with her

distended nubbin.

"Gahhhhdammm. That's it. Lick me. That's it baby, suck my cunnie.

That's what I want." She pushed herself against his chin as he probed her

love tunnel with his tongue. Her juices threatened to drown him but he

gladly lapped up the sweet syrupy fluid.

Pulling her off his mouth, he let his tongue lead the way up her slit

toward her clit. Flicking his tongue against her clit hood, Simon made her

squirm before he placed his mouth over her clit and sucked in. Laura

clamped his head between her firm thighs like a vise but he maintained the

suction on her delicate nub. Her orgasm ripped through her making her

plunge and buck like a rodeo bronco.

Simon didn't release her until she slumped forward on to the bed.

Gently rolling her off his face, he climbed up to lay beside her as she

struggled to catch her breath. He brushed hair out of her eyes and quietly

held her. The lay silent for a moment and then Simon could feel her small

warm hand stroking his cock back into rigidity.

He rolled on to his back and let her caress him. Pulling her closer, he

nuzzled against her breast, sucking a nipple into his mouth and teasing it

until it became hard. She pushed him back as she leaned over to the night

stand and fumbled with the drawer.

Retrieving a small packet, she ripped open the foil and held the condom

gingerly between her fingertips. "Would you mind?"

"Not at all." Hell, he didn't care if she wanted him to smear molasses

on his ass and dance the fandango as long as he got to put his cock inside

her.

Simon wanted to take it slow and gentle, trying to make it last but his

body got away from him. He surprised himself with his energy. She threw

her ankles over his shoulders, spreading herself for his penetration.

There was no time for endearments, the only sounds in the room where the

squeaking bed springs, the wet slap of their skin as he pounded his cock

into her cunt, and her grunts has his cock bottomed out on her cervix at

the end of each stroke. Even though they had both just cum and neither was

a teenager, they fucked each other into a dripping sweat. Throwing his

head back Simon cried out, his cum filling the rubber. Laura was only

seconds behind him, her velvety soft cunt quivering in orgasmic spasms

against his iron hard cock.

He collapsed on top of her and felt his chest burn as he gasped for air.

She placed her hand against his chest and felt his heart hammering inside

his ribs. Simon rolled off her to let her breathe and lay on the bed as if

dead.

Letting his eyes run across the room and its furnishings, he idly looked

for clues about this woman who had taken him in off the street like a lost

puppy. Like the rest of the house, everything was neat. Serviceable but

not expensive. His gaze found a silver picture frame. There she was,

younger and tanner in her lacy white gown, but definitely the same woman.

In her arms was a skinny young man in Air Force blue.

She must have seen what he was looking at because she cuddled against

him, covering his mouth with hers, before whispering in his ear. "That

worked up my appetite. Care for dinner?"

They ate a hot filling meal before sitting on the couch and watching the

TV news. The government was claiming victory in the cities but the

countryside still had problems with people disappearing from their homes

and gangs looting small towns. Pushing the big bad world out they fell

into each other's arms, ending the evening with her riding his cock on the

couch before retiring to separate beds.

The next morning she asked about his plans once he got to Staunton. He

told her his story over breakfast. Looking at him over the rim of her

coffee mug she asked, "Would you like to earn some money? Then you could

buy everything you need."

Simon stopped chewing and looked up. "What do I have to do?" He tried

to keep his voice from sounding too suspicious.

Laura didn't seem to notice as she continued. "It's nothing too

difficult. I need you to bring something back for me." She paused to see

if he was interested. Seeing that he was, she continued. "All you need to

do is follow this dirt road to the end. You'll find a small concrete

building. Open the outside door, go down the stairs, and you'll find a big

iron door."

Simon was still suspicious, but he pulled a notepad out of his cargo

pocket and started taking notes. Seeing this, she slowed down to let him

write.

"Beside the door is a button with a little indicator. Push the button

until it goes green. The Air lock will release and the door will open. Go

through this door, and the next, and then down the stairs and through the

third door." Simon scribbled quickly. "You must make sure that each door

is closed behind you before the next will open."

"What about guards?" He asked.

"No. There isn't anyone up there. Not anymore." Her voice got softer

at the end.

"What do you want me to do once I get inside?"

Holding up a shiny brass key, she said "Find the door that this unlocks

and bring me the briefcase that's inside."

"Anything else?"

"No, you can keep anything else you find. I'm sure that there will be

lots of money, plenty of supplies too."

"And all you want is a briefcase?"

"Yes. It belonged to my husband. He kept his things in there. Just

sentimental things, but worth a fortune to me you understand." Simon just

nodded his head as if agreeing with her.

He finished his meal, shouldered his pack, and set out on the dirt road.

Looking back over his shoulder he noticed a strange expression on her face

as she watched him walk away. But since he had no where else to go, he

continued up the red clay road until he came to its end.

The tall chain link gate stood open. Inside he saw a little concrete

building, no larger than a storage shed, with a gray metal door. Parked

between that and a large, smooth, metal oval in the ground, was a black

Suburban. Simon looked around, but there was no one to be seen. The grass

was starting to get a little high but everything still looked normal. The

SUV looked like it had been sitting out on the clay for a little while;

spiders had started to build webs on the side mirrors and the shiny sides

had been spattered with rain and mud.

Satisfied that he wasn't walking into an ambush, he walked up and tried

the door handle. Silently swinging on well oiled hinges, the door opened

on to a concrete stairway. Passing through three doors just the way Laura

told him, Simon entered the old missile control facility.

Calling out from the stairs, he announced himself. The place looked

lived in but he couldn't find anyone. The first room had a sign on the

door that read "Ready Room." An old tv set in a corner. The other side of

the room had a small snack area with a coffee pot and refrigerator.

Everything was old and shabby but neat. Even the boxes of microwave

popcorn stood in a line on the end of the counter like soldiers on parade.

Rooting through the storage cabinets he found food. The weapons rack

held a pair of brand new 9mm pistols, and plenty of ammo. He stuffed his

loot into his rucksack and felt like he'd hit the jackpot. Then he

remembered Laura's key. He tried the doors in the Ready Room but the key

didn't fit any of them. Exiting the Ready Room, he went down the metal

grill stairs and opened the door into the Control Room.

There had been a gunfight. Three people lay dead. They had been dead

for several days but the air conditioner had kept them from smelling too

bad. Unfortunately they smelled bad enough to make the room reek and

Simon's head swim. Two of the bodies wore suits; the third had an Air

Force blue set of coveralls. One of the suits lay dead in front of a door

at the far end of the room. From the way he lay, it looked like the suit

had shot into the door, trying to blow open the lock, when the Air Force

guy shot him in the back. Suit #2 had obviously shot the crewman but had

been shot in the process.

It had taken the Zoomie some time to die. A smear of blood showed where

he had dragged himself across the room toward the telephone. He hadn't

made it. Simon rolled the body over. His name tag said Bland and he

looked young. Well at least Lieutenant Bland had died at his post, Simon

thought as he mechanically patted down the body, stuffing Bland's wallet

into his cargo pocket. Making his way across the room, he quickly rifled

through the Suits' pockets. He didn't know what he was looking for but he

collected their wallets, watches and jewelry all the same.

Simon didn't know what to make of this scene. All the equipment was

still on, humming electrically under the sporadic churn of the air

conditioner. Looking at the screens he didn't see anything that looked

like an alarm and then he turned his attention to the door. Although Suit

#1 had shot at the door, the lock still held. Fishing Laura's key out of

his pocket, he slowly opened the door. Another Air Force officer, this one

older than the first, lay slumped across the desk, his blood making a pool

under his head. Suit #1 might not have gotten the lock, but he scored this

guy, Simon thought.

Without touching the corpse, Simon looked around the office. Behind the

desk sat a large black briefcase. He checked the catches. It was locked.

Simon placed it near the door and turned back to the desk. The front of

the coverall was dark with dried blood but Simon didn't need to read the

name tag to know that it would read Buckley. His stomach rolling, Simon

searched through the officer's pockets but found nothing other than a

wallet and a wrist watch. Feeling like a scavenger, Simon pocketed them

both and quickly looked into the desk drawers. They were even emptier than

the man's pockets.

By this time the smell of the bodies was making him nauseous. His

pockets stuffed with the dead men's personal belongings, Simon picked up

the brief case and swiftly left the room. He picked up speed as he climbed

the stairs, impatiently yanking on the doors as the indicators turned

green. Finally reaching the surface, he took a deep breath of clean air,

grateful to be out of that concrete tomb.

Looking down at the briefcase, he told himself that he didn't care what

was in it. He would take it back to Laura and continue on his way. He

bent over to pick it up but, before he could straighten, he heard the

metallic click of a gun's safety catch. Keeping his hands out in front of

him, Simon slowly straightened.

A voice calmly addressed him from behind the Suburban. "Don't bother."

Laura stepped out from the truck's shadow, the barrel of her shotgun

pointed steadily at his midsection. "I can manage everything from here on

out."

"They're all dead in there, you know." Simon tried to appear calm but he

held his hands up in front of his chest all the same.

"I thought as much." The shotgun's barrel jerked toward the left,

motioning him to move that way. "But I've cried all that I'm going to.

The world fell apart but he still went to work. Left me all by myself like

he always did." She choked back a sob and the barrel wavered. Regaining

control of her emotions, she clenched her hands around the stock until her

knuckles turned white. Simon worried she'd pull the trigger without

meaning to. "I followed him for 15 years and now I've got some payback

coming."

Simon slowly sidestepped to the left, watching her and the way she held

the shotgun. He waited for her to reach for the case, counting on her not

knowing how heavy it was. When she stooped to pick up the briefcase, the

barrel dropped slightly and Simon saw his opening. Without a second

thought, he drew his pistol and fired. Laura's beautiful face looked

surprised as the bullets' impact threw her to the ground, two bright red
holes blossoming on her chest.

He didn't look at her again, stepping across her corpse to retrieve the

case. Opening the Suburban's door, he carefully set the case and the

rucksack full of food in the passenger's footwell. Wiping the sweat off

his face with his sleeve, he emptied his pockets on the seat. Quickly

sorting the cash from the other things, he stuffed the roll into his

pockets and shut the door.

Suit #1 had been the driver, and the Government motor pool key tag told

Simon that the Suits were from the White House. He spent a second or two

wondering what the White House had wanted so bad that they sent two guys to

an out of the way place like this, but the truck turned over easily and,

leaving the body of the woman he'd enjoyed only a few hours before laying

on the sunbaked clay road, Simon turned the vehicle around and headed down

the road toward town.

It took almost an hour to reach the highway and another thirty minutes

to see the city limits signs. By the time he entered Staunton the fuel

warning light was on. The gas lasted him long enough to get into town but

the Suburban died in the hotel parking lot.

Dropping his rucksack and the briefcase in front of the reception desk,

he asked to register. Sweaty and dressed in a work worn set of battle

fatigues, Simon knew that he looked like hell but at least he'd bathed

recently. He told the young man that he only wanted the room long enough

to find his family but the suspicious look that came back across the desk

told Simon that he wasn't believed. The clerk wasn't going to give him a

room and it took an extra twenty to get him the keys to a quiet room

overlooking the downtown area.

The cash from the control facility kept Simon in style for several days.

He let himself go, indulging in the best the town had to offer. The cash

and the credit cards kept the food and booze coming. He made friends

without trying and the women seemed to jump into his bed. He bought new

clothes, looking more like a prosperous office worker than a desperate

vagrant. Now he was well dressed, well fed, and well laid.

Waking one morning after a particularly good party, he untangled himself

from the two girls that had come up to his room and lurched into the

bathroom. The hot water pellets stung his face as he tried to wash the

cobwebs out of his bourbon soaked brain. Soaping up, he remembered the

girls' vigorous performance the night before.

They had met in a loud, dark, smoky bar. The kind where everyone sat in

U-shaped booths and no one could hear a conversation from more than 3 feet

away. Simon, looking stylish in the suit he'd just gotten from the

tailor's, was gauging his prospects as he watched the women circulate

around the edges of the dance floor. He watched her as she brushed her

long curly blonde hair from her face, looking around the crowded room as if

searching for someone. Their eyes met.

His eyes seemed to burn away her satin dress and expose her buxom tan

curves. She returned his gaze with equal frankness, noting his healthy tan

and expensive clothes. Simon indicated the empty seat at his booth with a

flourish of his hand. Her lips turned up at the corners, a competitive

grin not unlike one worn by pool sharks as they approach the table.

A few drinks later she leaned against him, pressing her large firm tits
against his chest. "You don't need to increase your overhead," she said

nodding at the empty bottle of champagne. "We can take this party to

someplace quieter if you'd like."

Throwing a hundred dollar bill on the table, they walked out arm in arm.

If she was impressed with his casually tossing a week's wages on to the

table she didn't show it. They climbed into the big white sedan and

settled into the seats as the chauffer drove them back towards town.

The blonde wasted no time getting down to business and had Simon's shirt
unbuttoned before they'd cleared the parking lot. Her tight skirt rode up

and exposed the tops of her white stockings. Simon ran his finger tips

lightly along her firm thighs. Reaching her garters, he looked into her

light blue eyes and smiled.

"What's your name, again?"

Simon really hadn't heard her tell him her name, most of their

conversation has been lost is the club's thumping bass. He unsnapped her

garter and caressed the top of her thigh. She rolled onto her knees and

pressed her crotch toward his seeking hand.

"Call me Cheryl."

She had his shirt off and was working on his belt. Fishing his cock out

of his boxers, Cheryl squeezed its base firmly, wetting her lips as its

head swelled and turned a darker plum color. She extended her tongue and

licked Simon's cock head like an ice cream cone, teasing his urethra with

light tongue flicks.

Simon held her hair back so that he could watch as Cheryl slowly took

his thick and now throbbing cock into her mouth. His breath whistled

through his clenched teeth as he felt his cock reach the back of her mouth.

Swallowing, Cheryl buried her nose in his pubes as she took his cock into

her throat.

Glancing up, Simon saw the driver, a petite female Amer-Asian, watching

them in the rearview mirror. The sign behind the front seat said that her

name was Dawn. As they waited for a stoplight, he watched as Dawn slid her

hand into her blouse and played with one of her nipples.

The combination of champagne and being watched made him feel crazy and

Simon gently pulled Cheryl's mouth from his hard cock and scooted his hips

around to give the driver a better look. He pushed Cheryl back against the

seat and unsnapped her dress. Reaching behind her back, Cheryl unfastened

her bra and unveiled a perfect set of tan breasts, nipples taut, erect, and

ready for his attention.

Cupping her breast, Simon lifted her swollen nipple to his lips and

sucked her nipples. Using one hand, Simon lightly squeezed her breast and

stroked her nipple with his thumb. With his other hand, Simon slid her

panties aside to give him access to her snatch. Cheryl's vulva shone

slightly, the soft glow of the dome light highlighting her deep tan lines.

Looking at her smooth beaver, Simon told Cheryl how happy he was that

she shaved since he hated getting pubic hair caught in his throat. Cheryl

giggled, spread her legs wider, and invited him to take a closer look.

Using his tongue to plow a furrow between her labia, Simon lowered his

mouth to her musky nest and tasted her thick, sweet juices. He sucked her

labia into his mouth, lightly nipping at her swollen lips. Her juices

covered his chin and Simon shifted his attention to Cheryl's red, throbbing

clit. He covered her nubbin with his mouth, lightly scraping his teeth

across her most sensitive spot, and made her squeal.

"Unnnhhh." Cheryl pulled Simon's face from her super-sensitive twat.

"You gotta fuck me. I'm so wet."

They arranged themselves on the backseat so that Cheryl could straddle

his legs. She guided his cock into her wet cunt and began riding him,

taking more of his length with each reverse thrust. Once she had taken his

nine inches inside her, Simon took her hips tightly and set a slow pace of

deep strokes.

Cheryl became vocal as his cock stimulated the depths of her cunt.

"Faster. . .fuck me faster. Gotta cum!" Cheryl held on to the seat's

headrest, white-knuckled in her frenzy.

Simon was surprised when he felt the car stop. Cheryl, abruptly brought

out of her reverie, quickly covered her tits with crossed arms and asked

where they were. The driver rolled down the privacy partition and told

them that they were in the alley behind the hotel.

Simon grinned at the driver. "Well Dawn. What did you have in mind

now?"

Returning his smile, she wasted no time in turning off the engine and

coming back to join them. Dawn enjoyed Cheryl's hungry stare as she

disrobed. Simon refilled his champagne flute as he enjoyed the sight of

Dawn's slender body. His cock stirred as the petite asian girl slipped off

her cotton panties and revealed her pale, lightly furred pussy. Dawn sank

to all fours between the seats, her small tits barely acknowledging gravity

as she crawled toward the pair of lovers.

Kneeling between Cheryl's legs, Dawn lowered her face to her steaming

crotch. Simon watched Dawn eat pussy, slurping and moaning as she attacked

Cheryl's sopping wet cunt. If Cheryl's erratic breathing and coarse cries

were any measure, Dawn was doing a good job.

Dawn wiggled her ass, signaling to Simon that she was ready for his

attention. Simon wasted no time rubbing his hard throbbing cock along her

slit, smearing her juices on his cock as he eased his penetration.

Dawn was so tight he had to work his cock inside her slowly, feeling his

cock head force its way down her firm, velvety passage. By the time he was

able to press his balls against her sopping wet cunt Cheryl had already

cum. Simon bit his lip and tried to make himself last but the incredible

sensation of her cunt grabbing and sucking his cock drove him over the

edge. He pinned Dawn's slim hips against his own as he shot his cum into

her tight, spasming love tunnel.

The car stank of sweat and sex. Cheryl, lazily stroking Dawn's lustrous

black hair, smiled at him. "Got enough for a second round?"

It took a few moments to untangle themselves, in fact both ladies

discarded their panties after using them to wipe. They all adjourned to

his room at that point, sneaking upstairs in the service elevator, and

continued their little orgy. The girls fell asleep in each other's arms.

Simon, his cock nestled snugly in the cleft of Cheryl's ass cheeks, had

cupped one of her large breasts and fell into a deep slumber.

The water's sting had brought him back to wakefulness and Simon slowly

climbed out of the tiny shower. By the time he reemerged from the

bathroom, the girls were gone but he didn't worry. If they came back for

that evening's party, that was fine. If not there were plenty of other

playmates, even in a little town like this. It wasn't until he had taken a

nap and decided to go out for something to eat that he realized that they

had stolen his wallet.

Shocked into sobriety, he quickly accounted for the rest of his

belongings, noting that the girls hadn't taken anything from his rucksack

and the keys to the Suburban were still where he left them. Rubbing his

hands across his stubbled chin he tried to force his mind to clear.

Although he still had food and weapons, he was broke and didn't think that

the hotel had started accepting barter for rent. Looking out the window,

he made up his mind.

He reached into his ruck and pulled out a small waterproof bag. Pouring

its contents on the bed, he selected two watches and a ring. He stuffed

them into his jacket pocket and pushed the ruck back onto the closet floor,

tipping over the heavy briefcase in the process. He promised himself that

he would have to figure out that case one of these days but right now he

had things to do.

Simon made a bee line for a pawn shop he'd spotted a few days ago. He'd

gotten less than a sixth of their value but the store cases were full of

expensive watches and jewelry. The cash would keep him for another few

days but then he'd have to come up with another plan.

Returning to the hotel, Simon felt the clerk watching him carefully as

he crossed the lobby. "Probably thinks I'm skipping out," Simon thought to

himself. Reflecting on this as he walked up the stairs, "And that might

not be a bad idea."

That night, Simon rode the elevator into the basement. Making sure that

he was unobserved, he quickly walked out of the loading dock and

disappeared into the shadows. Although he hadn't paid the bill, he had

left the keys to the Suburban on the nightstand. He salved his conscience

with the thought that the management could get something for it as he moved

quickly through the downtown area.

He walked across the park, careful to stay in the open. The remains of

Little League games still littered the ground but the families had gone

home for dinner. He left the park and walked up a steep hill into an older
residential area. Windows were lit and Simon could see people inside

watching TV, talking, and eating. He felt out of place, as if he didn't

belong to that world anymore.

Simon walked down the tree lined street until he came to the house that

had advertised a room for rent. Knocking on the door, he waited while a

woman answered the door. Even though he'd cleaned up, a frown creased her

face as she blatantly inspected him. Although she didn't like his looks

anymore than the hotel clerk had, once again cash provided all the

credentials he needed. She insisted on a month's rent in advance and Simon

tried to look casual as he paid it, but he knew that he was now living at

the end of his string. At least he got one meal a day from his landlady.

"I hope she can cook."

The days passed. He found out that his parents, who had retired and

moved to town only seven years ago, had been killed by some epidemic that

had swept through the area last winter. He had spent a quiet hour staring

at their modest head stone but it didn't have any answers for him. Simon

watched the news like everyone else. All of it was bad. The newspapers

and tv showed the nation continuing to slip into chaos as cities rioted and

small groups published manifestos and held rallies. People saw terrorists

in every shadow. Not all of it was imagined. Rumors of a slave trade in

refugees circulated, although the official news sources played this down.

Looking at the calendar, Simon saw that he only had one more week before

his next month's rent was due. His wallet was flat. He had to come up

with another plan. Unfortunately moving on again didn't look too good.

The news said that homeowners, worried about robberies, were shooting

refugees as they walked on the roads. He took another shot of cheap

bourbon and his empty stomach growled as the fiery liquid burned down his

throat.

Simon fished the waterproof bag out of the toilet reservoir where he'd

hidden it and felt its weight. The only thing left was a big watch. He

had saved the silo commander's Rolex until the very end but now he wasn't

sure if it would bring a high enough price to keep him sheltered and fed

for much longer. Taking the large gaudy watch out of the bag, he held it

up to the light. Turning it over, he found a faint inscription on the back

of the watch. "Laura loves Gerald, Happy Valentine's Day"

Pushing back any feeling of sentimentality, he reminded himself that

Laura pointed a gun at him, and it wasn't to get back the watch.

Remembering that day at the silo, Simon pulled the briefcase out from under

the bed. The few times he'd bothered to look at it, he had run his hands

across the pebbled black plastic surface, probing the steel hinges and

locks for any weakness, but had given up easily. He brushed the dust off

the handle, rolling the combination locks on each clasp with his thumbs.

Idly he spun the dials to different numbers but the case remained locked.

He hoisted the case, ready to return it to its resting place under the bed,

when inspiration struck. He set it down on the desk.

"Feeling lucky?" He said to himself in his best Dirty Harry imitation.

He spun the dials to 0-2-1-4 and pushed the catches.

<<CLICK>>

Simon's heart stopped. Carefully laying the case flat on the bed he

gently lifted the lid, afraid of what might pop out or blow up in his face.

Realizing that he was holding his breath, he slowly exhaled. The inside of

the case was sleek black vinyl. The bottom of the case was filled with

what looked like a laptop and a telephone handset. Velcroed to the top was

an antenna, cables that looked like they would connect the antenna to the

laptop, and a thick paper wrapped package.

"Well, well, well. What have we here?" It might have been cliché but it

fit the situation.

The package turned out to be a thick envelope, double wrapped with heavy

brown paper sealed with strapping tape.

"Here goes." He had to use his pocket tool to cut through the tape and

thick paper. Inside the envelope was a full length photo of a woman and a

perforated piece of plastic card. Simon sat back in his chair as he

considered her. 'Good looking, probably in her 30's, looks tough,' he

thought to himself. On the back of the photo was a number written (32)

2/525.21.11.

Like a kid with a new stereo, he carefully unpacked and setup the SATCOM

phone, working on the theory that the cables went in the only plugs that

fit them. When he'd run out of cables, he opened the laptop and pointed

the parasol antenna out the window. Crossing his fingers and resisting the

urge to take another pull from the whiskey bottle, Simon pushed and held

the power button on the laptop.

"One. . . Two. . . Three." <<BEEP>> Green lights and a quiet whir

showed that the machine, at least, was on. He sat back and watched as

cryptic messages quickly scrolled across the dim screen. When something

that looked like a user interface finally appeared, Simon carefully looked

at each button and label before making the next step. Everything was green

except for the bar next to the label "Signal Strength." Moving the laptop

to where he could reach the window he set the antenna on the sill and

slowly panned it across the horizon until a green bar appeared in the

"Signal Strength" display.

Simon felt that he was playing a bigger game now. He pulled his sweat

dampened Tshirt away from his chest and rolled his neck to release the

tension in his muscles. Taking a deep breath he used the roller ball to

select the "Connect" button on the interface. He had expected to hear high

pitched, modem-like noises but the machine sat enigmatically on the desk,

calm except for the letters swirling across the interface and the dimmed

buttons turning different colors.

After a few seconds, the top right corner of the interface blinked a

confident "CONNECTED" and Simon picked up the handset. Reassured by the

normal sounding dial tone, he laid the photo upside down on the desk and

tapped the number into the keypad. He heard normal telephone sounds as the

call routed through the exchanges and then three rings but he was

disconnected before anyone picked up.

The interface still said that he was connected so he tried again. Same

result. He studied the interface, looking for a clue or message to tell

him what was happening. He found what he was looking for in the window

with all the text. The message read, in small block letters, "No crypto

synch." Looking back at the terminal, he noticed a small slot at the top of

the keyboard. He slid the plastic card in, satisfied that it only fit one

way, and hit the "REDIAL" button.

Again the clicks and whooshes of a long distance phone call came through

the handset. Three rings. Simon held his breath, half expecting to be

disconnected again, when a woman's voice answered, "Allo?"

"Yes. Hello. Who is this?" Simon gripped the handset tightly.

"This is Juliet Two Three." The voice paused. "Where are you? What do

you need?"

Deciding that the voice was his only hope, Simon told her "I'm in

Staunton, Virginia. I need a new life."

Another pause. "I'll meet you on the steps of the Catholic church

tomorrow at 1400. I'll wear white. You bring a newspaper. Acknowledge."

"Yeah. Yeah, right. Catholic church, 1400, bring a newspaper." Simon

repeated as he scribbled down the instructions. The line went dead. Simon

set the handset back in its cradle and took a healthy pull off his bottle.

Empty, it made a satisfying thump as it hit the bottom of the trash can.

He reached for the phone book. Time to find the Catholic church.

Staunton had an excessive number of churches given its population, but

it only had one Catholic church. The next day Simon timed himself to

arrive at five 'til two. He stood downhill from the long granite staircase

watching people walking by the church, wondering which of them belonged to

the voice on the phone when movement caught his eye. He looked at the top

of the staircase. A tall woman in a white business suit was descending the

stairs.

Simon left the shelter of the store front he'd been standing in and

moved toward her. He felt slightly foolish, his newspaper stuck under his

arm like a spy in an old Cold War movie, but he didn't see where he had the

choice. He reached the bottom of the stairs first and waited for the

woman.

Who ever this woman was, what ever else she was, she was an eye-full.

She was beautiful and carried herself like she knew it. Her blonde hair

was cut shoulder length, framing a narrow tan face that held two bright

blue eyes. Her skirt showed just enough cleavage to make you aware that

there was plenty more where that came from and plenty of her tan,

muscularly slender legs to make a man think about getting crushed to death.

By the time she reached the bottom of the stair case, Simon realized

that he'd been staring. She looked at him as if she could read his mind

and said, "Follow me" before leading him into the brownstone office

building across the street. Simon didn't mind following her, it gave him a

better chance to watch her ass move.

They reached an office and the woman used her key to let them in. She

threw her bag on a table and her jacket across the back of a chair in two

smooth movements. d Turning to face him, she put her hands on her hips.

"All right. Just a few questions." She shook her hair out of her face.

"Does this skirt make my ass look big?"

Simon stammered, caught completely off guard. He was ready to answer

any number of questions but that wasn't one of them. He started to come up

with a reply when she laughed.

"Relax buddy. Sit down take a load off. Just trying to cut the tension

here." She indicated a chair where he should sit. "Now then. You said you

need a new life. Let's see what we've got in here."

Taking advantage of her pause, Simon said, "Uhhh. Look I don't know

what to call you."

She stopped her casual chatter and looked at him, her eyes hard and

glinting. "You're new at this aren't you? All right buddy, here's the

deal. You call me Juliet and I call you. . . let's see. . . I'll call

you Daniel."

"But my name is. . ."

She held up both hands to stop him. "I don't care. I'm telling you

that in this office, your name is Daniel. If things work out, your new

identity will have whatever name you want, but if you call me you're

Daniel. Get it? And if you give me any crap about it I'll call you

something like Hephzibah."

She waited for him to nod in agreement. "OK, back to business." She

gave him a shrewd look and leaned back into her big leather chair. "You

walk in here with a mobile base station but you're as jumpy as a virgin in

a whorehouse. New clothes but you look like three day old shit. When was

the last time you ate something decent?" Her bright red nails tapped

against the desktop. Seeming to make up her mind, she continued. "Daniel

wants a new life. What can you do, Danny boy? Got any experiences that

would be useful?"

"I've been in management for a few years."

"Any special field?"

"Communications. Info Tech. Network Management. Mostly in public

service kind of jobs. That sort of thing."

"Hmmm." She looked at her hand held computer screen carefully, making

faces at it and jabbing at it with the little stylus. "OK I got a lead."

She looked up at him. "Stand up and let me take a good look at you." He

complied. "Well Danny, image is everything and right now your look screams

'Run Away!' But don't worry I'll fix you right up. I've got some phone

calls to make but in six hours you won't recognize yourself. And neither

will anyone else." She smiled at her own joke.

She hit the intercom button on the phone with her dark red lacquered

nails. "He's ready for you Dee."

A skinny brunette came and whisked him out of the office. For the next

two hours he was clipped, steamed, shaved, and manicured. Then it was a

whirlwind visit from a tailor before he had his picture taken in different

sets of clothes. Five hours later he sat back in Juliet's office,

exhausted but excited at the transformation that had been worked on him.

Reaching into a desk drawer she pulled out a small leather-bound

notebook, the type of personal planner that some executives carry and

tossed it at him. "Study this. It's the new you."

Simon looked at the contents of the notebook. Inside were Federal ID

cards, a passport, credit cards, and a Virginia driver's license - all in

his name.

"I ran your ID. The background scan came back with a boy scout," she

teased.

Simon held up the ID card and looked at Juliet quizzically. "Federal

Emergency Management Agency?"

"Yeah." She had pulled bundles of used dollar bills out of her desk and

was pulling off the rubber bands. "It's management. No specific skills

required. And it gives you a car and freedom to move around." She sat back

in her chair with a self satisfied look. "Perfect. Don't you agree?"

Simon couldn't help but notice that her tan legs went all the way to a

high cut set of black panties. "Yeah. I guess so."

Part of the treatment had been a new house. Juliet dropped him at the

front door. "Your stuff's been moved over." She handed him a leather case

about the size of a brick. "Here's a new phone. We've kept the base

station. Your car's in the garage. They're expecting you at work at

eight." He got out of the car and leaned over to say goodbye.

"But. I've got to know. Who are you?

"I'm your fairy fucking godmother." She beat him to the last word. "Try

not to fuck this up."

The house was a great little 1950's bungalow with all the comforts of

home. They'd even stocked the fridge. Simon spent most of the night

wandering around the little house marveling at the snapshots and

accoutrements that Juliet's people had picked out for him.

The next morning came bright and early but Simon was ready to go.

Unable to sleep, he'd been at the office at seven thirty and found it

locked. Embarrassed by his eagerness, he found a cafe around the corner

and waited over a cup of coffee. He picked a booth where he could watch

the door and settled down for some breakfast. The local paper was full of

articles about refugees and the charities that had come to help them.

One of the groups, The New Life Chapel, had a full page ad exhorting

people to donate time, money, and unwanted items to their "Hostel". The

picture featured a pale, thin, bearded man handing out clothing and hot

food to two smiling teens. Simon had just started to read the accompanying

article when he was distracted.

Two girls had walked into the café, chatting while they waited for their

orders. They were obviously regulars by the way the taciturn lady behind

the counter brightened when she greeted them. The skinny brunette was Dee,

Juliet's secretary, but the other girl was the one that caught his eye.

She was medium height and thin, but it was the way her dark red hair framed

her green eyes, like twin emeralds set in alabaster, that held his

attention.

The girls left just as quickly as they had entered. Coffee in hand they

walked into the same office building that was Simon's destination. Shaking

himself out of his reverie, Simon decided to follow them and get on with

the day.

The first day at the regional FEMA office was remarkable in only three

respects. First, as Mr. Jones the office manager took him around to meet

the other staffers, Simon was pleased to find the same beautiful redhead

that he had seen in the café. Jones introduced her as Arabella Hood, the

volunteer coordinator, a position that would require the two of them to

work closely together. After that Simon silently thanked Juliet and

decided that his life was starting to look up.

The second incident was less pleasing, however. About mid-afternoon,

just as Simon's head started to ache from reading stacks of reports, an

unannounced visitor barged into his office and sat down uninvited in a

chair. The thin man was dressed impeccably and it bothered Simon that he

had seen him before but couldn't remember where. Without any preamble, the

visitor launched into a sermon on what FEMA should be doing. Simon sat

silent, shocked by the man's arrogance, unable to get a word in edgewise.

Finally the man stopped talking and caught a breath.

Simon jumped in. "Excuse me. But I'm new in town and I don't think

we've been introduced."

Without standing, the man extended a soft, manicured hand. "I'm sorry.

Most folks know me through my work. I'm the Reverend James Lot."

Simon came around the desk to shake the offered hand. It was limp and

cool, like gripping a boneless dead fish. "Glad to meet you Reverend. Now

that I think about it, I was reading an article about your hostel just this

morning."

Having steered the conversation back to himself, the Reverend renewed

his diatribe on all the things that the Agency should be providing him to

further his good work. Over the course of the next hour several things

became crystal clear in Simon's mind. First, the Reverend James Lot was

the biggest egomaniac he had ever met. Second, the Reverend considered his

hostel, a small college that had been pressed into service as a way station

for refugees, as his own private preserve. He wanted resources from other

people but wouldn't take any orders or allow any oversight. Third, the

Reverend dismissed the state's efforts to establish a more permanent

refugee facility at the old boy Scout Camp west of town as doomed to

failure.

"You see, Mr. Woodsman." The Reverend's hands fluttered around as he

became agitated. "The National Guard came down here, uninvited and

unresourced, to house these DPRE's."

"Excuse me. The what?"

Looking like he was explaining something to an idiot, the Reverend

smiled condescendingly, "Displaced Persons, Refugees, and Evacuees.

Anyway, as I was saying, the Guard wants to build houses for these people.

In the first place they're taking necessary resources away from my

projects. And in the second, building homes will just encourage them to

stay. Won't it?" The Reverend paused to give Simon an opportunity to

agree.

"But Reverend, I thought that housing the DPRE's was part of the plan."

"No. No. No." His head thrust forward like a fighting rooster,

Reverend James emphasized each syllable with his soft, pale hands. "We

want to help them to return to wherever they came from. Not stay here to

disrupt our lives and drain our scarce resources."

Seeing that they weren't going to make any headway along these lines,

Simon let the subject drop but closed the interview by assuring the

Reverend that he would visit the Hostel the next day.

The last memorable incident was equally frustrating. Simon stage

managed his timing to not-so-accidentally leave the building at the same

time as Arabella. As he walked her to her car they made small talk and

Simon asked her out to dinner. She turned him down so explicitly that he

wondered if he'd ever get over the frostbite.

The next day Simon drove out to the Reverend's operation. After taking

the tour, he avoided the Reverend's staffers and wandered around talking

with several of the Hostel's inhabitants. They all had the same sad tales

of losing their homes, running out of food, and the harrowing trip out of

the city. They had come to the Valley just because it sounded safer that

the city. Only, for most of them, they had had to survive a gauntlet of

bandit gangs and hostile townspeople to make it this far. Simon knew that

these people wouldn't willingly go back.

One woman insisted on speaking with Simon in private, fairly dragging

him into one of the old dorm rooms. She told him that her name was Felicia

Thompson and that she used to be a corporate lawyer in DC. She begged him

for a job, offering to do anything so that she wouldn't "get sent to The

Farm."

"What's the Farm?" The way she had said it made it sound like a specific

place, rather than any of the farms that existed up and down the Valley.

Ignoring his question, she stood and brushed the hair back from her

face. She looked tired and Simon couldn't help thinking of Laura Buckley

when he looked at her petite frame and blonde hair.

He tried to think of something to comfort her but before he could say

another word, she had pulled her old Tshirt over her head and started

pulling at the buttons on her jeans. Simon, trying to stop her, held up

his hands and begged for her to just talk with him.

"I know I'm not the youngest thing anymore." She lifted a small soft

breast for his inspection. "But I'm not 40 yet. I'm still pretty. " Her

voice had an edge to it, almost hysteria. "I've still got plenty to

offer."

"No. . . Please. Listen, I just want to talk with you." Simon held his

hands out in front of himself, trying to come up with a way to get her to

put her clothes back on.

Felicia got a determined look on her face. Stepping out of her pants,

she knelt in front of Simon in her white cotton panties. Pressing her body

against his legs, she pinned him back against the desk and starting pulling

at his belt. Looking down at her pathetically desperate face, Simon could

see the stray gray strand amongst her honey blonde hair and small lines

around Felicia's eyes. Lines that she had carefully tried to disguise with

makeup. Ineffectually trying to hold up his pants with one hand and

capture her hands with the other, he kept trying to get her to calm down

and tell him about the farm but she got the better of him.

"You've got to understand," she told him as she wormed her hand into his

boxers and captured his cock between her chilly fingers, "I've got nothing

else to trade. I sucked cock to get in here and I'm willing to do that and

more to stay."

She finally freed his pecker from the confines of his trousers and

wasted no more time talking. Felicia swallowed his limp member, putting

the entire thing in her mouth, and then teased and sucked it until it

started to swell and grow.

Simon tried to get more information out of her but found it difficult to

talk with her while she sucked him so expertly. Once she'd gotten him

hard, he got to ask one more question as she stood to remove her panties.

"Tell me about how you got in here. You said you had to suck cock?

Why?"

She told him that it was common for people to "interview" with the

Reverend before being admitted to the camp. She smiled as she proudly told

him how the Reverend had commended her enthusiastic oral performance. But

unfortunately, she admitted, she was older than most of the ones he let

stay and she knew that she had to look for another situation. Having said

that, she pushed Simon back on to the desktop and climbed on top of him.

She balanced herself with one hand on his chest as she guided his stiff

cock into her furry snatch and started fucking him. Felicia forced one of

his hands to her breast and squeezed, calling on him to fuck her like the

whore that she was. Simon felt his resolve weaken as Felicia's wet cunt
made squishing noises as she rose and fell on his pole. Giving in to her,

Simon placed his hands on her hips and fucked her. Later, as he fastened

his belt and straightened his tie, he gave her his card and told her that

he would return for her the next day.

Getting back into his car, he was disgusted with himself. He smelled of

her pussy and her perfume. Driving back with the window open, Simon felt

that he should have done something to stop her from throwing herself at

him, but he wasn't sure what he could have done. He left the camp and

headed toward the Interstate to observe DPRE traffic. A few miles later he

met Arabella supervising at a rest stop that had been turned into an aid

station. Figuring that he had nothing to lose, he asked her out again and

she made it plain that she was not interested in someone who was only in

town temporarily. Her second blunt rejection, couched in terms even more

pointed than the first, stunned him and left him wondering why he had such

rotten luck with women. All the way home he pondered why the women that

threw themselves at him did so because they wanted something while the ones

that he pursued wanted nothing to do with him.

He returned home and used the "Batphone" to call Juliet. He told her

that he needed two things: information on the Reverend's farm and some way

of getting closer to Arabella. Juliet teased him about chasing younger

women but said that she would send the information to him by courier.

The next day Simon wondered what Juliet would be able to find as he

returned to the Hostel. He searched the grounds for Felicia but was told

that she wasn't there anymore. An unctuous staffer told him that it was

not uncommon for people to come and go from the Hostel, talking about the

DPRE's like stray cats. Simon returned to Staunton with a worrying feeling

nagging at the fringes of his mind.

That night Juliet called and took him to an exclusive club outside of

town. While it looked like a cinder block bunker, she told him that it was

popular with the younger people and that they would definitely find

Arabella there. Juliet handed a card to the doorman and escorted Simon

into the deafeningly loud, dark, smoky building.

Simon stood back and took in the scene before him as Juliet spoke with a

skinny girl at the bar. The owners must have designed it after Boccacio's

Hell. men and women hopped up and down on the dance floor, too tightly

packed to do anything else. From the booths and alcoves that lined the

walls, the smells of marijuana and opium clashed sickeningly. Just as

Juliet returned and ook him by the arm, Simon realized that the girl at the

bar was none other than the enigmatic Dee, Juliet's secretary.

The loud, thumping bass drowned out whatever Juliet was trying to tell

him but he followed her up a wide flight of wooden stairs into a hallway

lined with narrow doors. Some of the doors were open, revealing couples or

in some cases groups writhing around naked on ratty old mattresses or

stained rugs. Some of the rooms had spectators yelling encouragement and

instructions from the hallway. Nothing in Simon's white middle class

suburban life had gotten him ready for the hedonistic revel that he walked

through.

Juliet stopped in front of a door. Since none of the doors had numbers,

the door looked like all of the other doors in the hallway. Pulling his

ear close to her mouth so that she could be heard over the techno music

blaring from the hallway speakers she said, "You sure you want to be here?"

Simon wasn't sure he understood why she asked, but he nodded his head up

and down. Stepping back, she opened the door and waved him inside. The

room looked like some weird science fiction scene. Lit by quick flashing

strobe lights, three bodies lay entwined in a chain of firm flesh on a

couch that squatted on the threadbare carpet.

Arabella Hood sprawled on the couch, her pert breasts pointing towards

the ceiling as a young man knelt between her legs, busily lapping her cunt.

Her eyes were shut and her head lolled from side to side as her partner's

tongue roamed over her sensitive clit. While Simon and Juliet watched from

the doorway, another man climbed onto the arm of the couch and sat stroking

his turgid cock.

"Suck my cock Red." He placed her hand on the shaft of his cock.

The girl leaned over and ran her tongue around the crown of his cock

head. He thrust his hips forward, balancing precariously on the couch's

arm, to give her more access to his member. Using one hand on his cock to

steady her, the girl slowly fed his cock deeper and deeper into her mouth.

Simon watched as her suction hollowed her cheeks and her hands manipulated

her partner's balls.

The man on his knees hadn't stopped his activity, however, and the red
headed girl had to take the cock out of her mouth as her orgasm rippled

through her body. Crying out, she clamped her thighs together, trapping

the first man's head between them. She wasn't quite through the

aftershocks of her orgasm when the man on the couch arm urgently stuck his

cock in her mouth. His body stiffened and Simon could see the girl's

throat working to swallow the man's load. She turned her head away, her

cheek painted with cum.

Simon watched in awed silence as the girl that had frostily rejected him

twice lay on the ratty futon couch and scooped cum off her throat with her

fingers. Juliet turned off the strobe and shut the door. The trio, no

longer dazzled by the stop motion lighting, welcomed her to the party.

"Jules! Stop for a second Jason," she said pushing the first man away

from her pussy. "Good to see you again girl."

Arabella climbed off the couch and hugged Juliet. Juliet introduced

Simon as if Arabella had never met him before. Arabella told Simon to call

her red and, without apologizing for her earlier rejections, invited him on

to the bed saying, "If you're a friend of Jules, you're in the right

place."

By the time their brief introduction was over, Juliet had stripped off

her skirt and blouse. She stood boldly beside the futon in her new

costume, transformed from a well dressed business women into a bondage diva

wearing only a spider web of leather straps and chrome chains. Simon,

seeing Juliet's body for the first time, openly admired her muscular

physique and her large firm tits. Dee had slipped into the room as well.

Her pale, thin, almost boyish figure was in complete contrast to Juliet's

tan, big tits and muscularly rounded ass.

Jason stood and, his thick cock bouncing in front of him, sauntered over

to Juliet. She smiled and together they took Dee arm in arm over to the

center of the rug. After a minute or two of arrangement, soft kisses, and

fingering, the two women arranged themselves in a 69. Dee lay on top of

Juliet and reached behind her to guide Jason's cock into her pussy. Jason

slowly slid his cock in and out of the Dee's pussy while Juliet, who lay

between his legs, alternated between licking Dee's clit and his balls.

Simon watched as Juliet dived into the orgy but was interrupted when

Arabella told him to take his clothes off.

"Get naked or get out. Otherwise it's too creepy." Tearing his eyes off

of the lesbian scene, he started slipping out of his shoes. Arabella laid

down on the futon, stretching like a cat. "And bring me a washcloth from

the table, would you?"

Simon complied with her requests, first tossing her the dampened

washcloth and then unbuttoning his shirt. Arabella, now sure that she had

his attention, turned around on the cushions so that Simon had an

unobstructed view of her wet, swollen cunt as she took a cat bath with the

cloth.

Addressing the man who was still perched on the arm of the couch as

Darren, Arabella set the stage for the second round of her orgy. Rolling

on to her hands and knees, she directed Darren to replace Jason between her

legs and Simon to climb up and have his cock sucked. She took charge

immediately, directing the men as they progressed from oral sex to full

penetration with a vocabulary as foul as it was varied.

Simon started to lose his inhibitions as Arabella's mouth worked its

magic on his iron hard cock. He marveled at her soft, perfect skin as he

ran his hands over her muscularly toned flanks and stomach. Reaching

underneath her, Simon caught one of her nipples between his thumb and

forefinger. Pinching it lightly, he made Arabella moan around the girth of

his cock.

Darren was the next to cum, his hips jerking as he made deep animal
grunts. After Simon came in Arabella's mouth, the men switched places.

Simon rolled Arabella over and played his tongue around the rim of her

swollen love tunnel while he waited for his cock to revive. Jason perched

over her face, his cock still dripping with Dee's spend, and Darren let Dee

revive his member.

Juliet rolled onto one elbow, her chin covered in her partners' cum.

"It's too bad I can't convince you to switch with Dee," she said to

Arabella. "I'd love to show you how good it could be."

Arabella took her mouth off Jason's balls and smiled. "I know you

would. But." She looked at the cock that throbbed inches from her face. "I

don't know. I guess it just don't have that swing if it ain't got that

thing!"

They all giggled at Arabella's joke before she leaned over and returned

her lips to Jason's cock. There was a short break in the action but when

Juliet returned wearing a strap on, Simon whistled and said, "We're not in

Kansas anymore, Toto."

Around 3 AM, Juliet and Simon left the rave and returned to Simon's

house. Juliet had fucked Dee with her latex cock while he and one of the

other guys, Darren or Josh he couldn't keep them straight, had switched

places and made Arabella scream as she came for the third time that

evening. The place was still hopping when they left and Simon said goodbye

to Arabella in the parking lot.

Juliet took him back to his house and Simon invited her in for a

nightcap. After serving coffee, Simon asked Juliet if she was interested

in sleeping over but she deferred, saying that she needed to take a shower

before going to the office.

Chapter 2: The Pied Piper Spring had passed and, with summer right

around the corner, the news from the cities along the I-95 corridor was

getting worse. Riots in the cities had wrecked many radio and tv stations

and vandals had managed to disable most of the relay stations as they

hunted for anything that could be salvaged and sold. Although many of the

major network stations had ceased to operate, amateur radio stations had

sprung up to pass gossip and weather around the local area. Simon liked

listening to one character that went by the pseudonym "Captain Pete" and

kept the alarm clock tuned for his early morning show.

It was six o'clock in the morning and Arabella lay awake in Simon's bed

listening to the radio. This morning, the Captain had been talking about

the large, organized groups of bandits that had moved out of DC and now

controlled I-66 from Front Royal to Manassas, effectively cutting the city

off from the Valley and its food supply. Several towns had been raided.

Some had been destroyed and the status of their inhabitants was unknown.

Refugees clogged the roadways on both sides of the Blue Ridge Mountains,

coming in droves from the ruined cities to the north and east of the

valley.

Taking in all of the bad news, Arabella took a deep breath. She had

been staring at the ceiling, thinking about her friend and mentor "Granny

Safi." Granny's hometown was back in the mountains and, if Captain Pete was

right, was sure to be cut of by the bandit gangs. Arabella knew that she

had to try to talk granny into leaving the small rural village she lived in

and come back to Staunton, which was better protected and supplied.

Arabella flipped her auburn hair to one side of her head and rolled onto

her side. She looked at Simon across the pillow. She had thought about

things for several days now and had finally decided to leave that morning.

Arabella had packed her vehicle the night before, listening patiently to

the arguments and protests of her boyfriend, Simon Woodsman, as he tried to

talk her out of going into the now lawless mountains alone. They had

argued back and forth until bedtime.

She had become comfortable living with Simon. In fact her only

complaint was his reluctance to talk about his past. This had been at the

center of their argument. She had ties, obligations to her past while he

was charging in the future.

The moon had shown brightly when she had crawled into the bed she

shared, surprisingly monogamously, with Simon. But now dawn had come and

cast a soft light onto his sleeping form. Arabella gently removed the bed

sheet and crawled nearer to him. Taking his turgid cock in her warm mouth,

she gave Simon a leisurely blowjob wake up call. She watched him squirm as

she tickled the sensitive spot under his balls. His face contorted with

pleasure as she jerked off his slick cock, spraying hot, thick cum on to

his stomach. They made love and then she took a shower.

Simon thought that Arabella had seen reason and was starting another

routine day until she came out of the kitchen with a haversack of food and

her traveling clothes on. Instead of being a pleasant "good morning" this

only restarted the argument.

He reminded her of the dangers of the forest - highwaymen, animals, and

bad roads - but Arabella was adamant. After wishing him a good morning,

Arabella told Simon that she would be leaving for Granny's hometown of

Monterey right after breakfast. She explained that Granny, who wasn't all

that much older than she was, had taken care of her after marauders had

killed her parents. Arabella felt like she owed granny enough to attempt

to rescue her from the violent strife that was rampant on the other side of

the forest.

Over the course of breakfast, Simon managed to talk her out of leaving

right away. He told her that he needed her help on a trip into the

mountains - someone to watch his back as he climbed up into the forest to a

small town named Swoope, where the State had established a DPRE center. He

made a deal with her that, if they hadn't received any news from granny by

the time that they returned he would go with her to Monterey to find granny
and bring her back. Since Arabella was already packed, they left almost

immediately.

They got into the mountains and Simon left Arabella at an old motel that

he had selected as a command post, while he went up to the forest to talk

with the town mayor. He drove quickly down the old, narrow roads through

the farmland to the old boy Scout camp where the refugees would be housed.

Simon was startled to learn that the State had made the decision to turn

the old boy Scout camp into a refugee camp, apparently over the objections

of the local government. The National Guard had cleaned up and stocked the

camp but were not happy with the conflicting orders that were coming from

the council. He arrived at the camp's central pavilion and gave his

briefing to the mayor, the city council, and the assembled camp staff. He

had just finished telling them his plans for guiding the DPRE's to the camp

when the pavilion erupted in a huge discussion.

The city council was worried that the refugees would bring disease and

lawlessness if they were not properly assembled, controlled, and most

importantly, moved out of the area. The mayor and most of the camp staff

shared this opinion as well.

Within five minutes, a slim Armani-clad bureaucrat and a tall black man
in camouflage were in a heated shouting match. A city policeman actually

stood between the two men, physically separating them as if they were

likely to start a fight. The black man, obviously a member of the State's

National Guard, his bald head colored with anger, was shouting at the

bureaucrat that he couldn't finish the camp without resources.

Playing to the crowd, the smaller man stared back and pulled the cigar

stub from his mouth. "Well Cuhnel Wolfe," He patronized the Guardsman with

his exaggerated drawl. "The guvner sent you he-yare. So the guvner had

best give y'all what you need. We don't want these outsiders living here."

He punctuated the last part by stabbing the cigar at the tall lieutenant

colonel. Looking around, the slender man seemed to glow as his sycophants

roared with laughter. Seeing the officer humiliated, the bureaucrat smiled

broadly and told the crowd, "I told the guvner that this here idea wouldn't

work. And next November, y'all need to tell him the same thing by voting

for me. Bobby Tyler."

The Guardsman turned and picked up his beret, holding between his beefy

fists as if choking it. "The people are on their way. You," he indicated

the councilmen with a disdainful nod of his head, "can't stop them. I'm

pulling my men out of this goat screw. When you pull your heads out of

your asses I'll be in touch."

And before the Councilman Tyler could get in the last word, the Guard

officer spun on his heel and led his staff out of the pavilion. Once the

military had left, it was the camp staff's turn to complain and they

showered the council with scorn as they pointed out that the camp wasn't

ready to handle the numbers of people that would likely arrive within a few

days.

Simon left the staff to argue with the council and headed for his car.

He drove the area's highways, stopping often to talk with everyone he met.

Singly and in groups, the refugees were spread out along the road between

Harrisonburg and Staunton, a total distance of almost 30 miles. The work

was exhausting and nerve-wracking as Simon had to convince, cajole, and

coerce many of the families into coming with him. The refugees had lost

everything in the riots that had wracked the cities after the food and

power ran out and they were hesitant to leave the main roads. The

inhabitants of the towns that they passed had often attacked them on the

road; the townspeople were as afraid of the refugees as the refugees were

of them.

After several days of non-stop work, Simon led a large column of

refugees into the camp. He reported to the camp commandant and was

surprised to see one of the county Deputy Sheriffs instead of the National

Guardsmen that he thought would be in charge. After a brusque welcome,

Simon was told that he shouldn't have bothered bringing the people to the

camp at all. The National Guard troops had left. The council had decided

to close the camp and force the people to move farther down the valley.

Simon laughed bitterly at this news, knowing that the starving and

exhausted people were unlikely to move another step further.

The surprises continued when another deputy confronted Simon and told

him that the council had fired him. Simon told him that the council

couldn't fire him.

Losing his temper, Simon stood pointing his finger in the deputy's face.

"Get this clear Barney Fife. I work for the Federal government and no

bunch of butt fucking good ole boys are going to stop me from doing my

job."

The deputy laughed in his face. "Boy. Mebbe you ain't heard but the

Federail guvment ain't doin' so good these days." His exaggerated accent

spread the word "Federal" over four syllables. He spat a thick brown

stream of tobacco juice on the ground beside Simon's feet. "Mebbe you

should be looking for another job 'steada rounding up scum offin the

innerstate." The last part raised a laugh from the other policemen who had

gathered to listen to the exchange.

Laughing and slapping each other on the back, they left Simon steaming

in rage in the parking lot. He stood and tried to think of his next move.

He had taken on a job, done it beyond everyone's expectations, and now had

it thrown back in his face.

As he moved around the camp, still working despite the sheriffs, his

only consolation was that he found many of the staff and guards were also

displeased about being forced to work at the camp. The National Guard, a

unit from the DC area, was supposed to be there to deal with the refugees

but the council's high handed manner had run them off. Now that the city

had to administer the camp, the policemen voiced the fear that there was no

one left in the city to protect their families.

Simon convinced them that the refugees could be trusted to run the camp

themselves. Since they were no longer needed at the camp, he offered to

lead the staff back to the city to demand the council do the right thing.

The camp staff saw a possible solution to their problems and exploded into

action. Over the next three days the refugees were settled into the camp's

eight campsites, each site organized with a representative to a camp

council. Satisfied that the refugees could work out the details amongst

themselves and that the sheriffs would prevent any violence, the staffers

loaded their personal gear in to their vehicles.

Awash in a turbulent sea of activity, Simon didn't hear his name being

called. "Mister Woodsman?" A chubby, chinless man stood at Simon's elbow.

"I've got some bad news. It's about your girl Arabella."

Chapter 3: Snow White While Simon had been battling corrupt officials

and traveling the countryside saving refugees, Arabella had faced

challenges of an entirely different sort. Simon had left her with

instructions to organize the townspeople and their resources. He said that

he would need these to help the refugees that he was leading make it the

last few miles to the camp. Pointing her at an old motel he told her to

use it as her headquarters and that he would return in a few days.

Arabella had taken one look at the run down, cream colored, three story
building squatting beside the highway in a clump of scraggly trees and knew

that she would have quite a job ahead of her. Entering the lobby she saw

that, even before vagrants and drifters had messed it up, the place had

been ratty. Trying to collect her thoughts, she cleaned the place up a

bit. After all, she reasoned, she'd be there for about a week and there was

no reason to live in a pig sty.

As she carted garbage and mopped floors, she became more and more

unhappy. She had allowed Simon to talk her out of going to Monterey

because he said he needed her help. And yet here she was, doing menial

labor and waiting for his return. The more she thought about it, the

angrier she became and finally she called it quits. Happily, she found

that the hot water was still in working order so she worked most of the day

throwing out trash and mopping floors. As dusk fell she decided to reward

herself and used the last of the hot water to fill a bath tub in an

upstairs room for a good long soak.

While Arabella submerged herself in the tub, seven men entered the

motel. They filed into the reception area, good naturedly grumbling about

the prospects for dinner. Their good mood disappeared as soon as the

entered the lobby, immediately becoming suspicious when they saw how clean

everything was.

The kitchen sparkled; with all of the dishes cleaned and stacked in the

cabinets instead of piled in the sink. The living room, scene of nightly

drinking parties around the radio, had been swept and their beer can

pyramid removed from the corner of the room.

"Bandits!" Bel Harker pulled his .357 from its holster. "They're

probably waiting for us to go to sleep, then they'll kill us in our beds."

One of the others, a tall thin balding man with a white goatee, pointed

out that bandits rarely cleaned their intended victims' homes before doing

them in. "Now Abelard. Please put that back in its holster." "Doc"

Finster's logic restored a semblance of calm to the easily excited men.

Chester Dean collapsed on the couch. "I feel like I could sleep through

any ambush." He punched the lumps out of one of the pillows and said that

he didn't plan to move until dinner.

A young black man, sniffling into his handkerchief after shooting

antihistamine up his nose, agreed with the Doc Finster. "But Doc. This

place is so clean." Marcellus Howard looked at the corner that had held the

beer can pyramid. "It was normal when we left this morning. Someone's got

to be here."

"Marcellus is right. Someone is definitely here. And we need to split
up and find them." Doc Finster, took charge as usual. "Bel, you watch the

back and make sure that no one is out by the pool. The rest of you pair

up. We've got to search this place."

Doc sent the Barrow brothers, Guy and Earl, into the restaurant.

Marcellus, a man with allergies to almost everything, and Chester checked

out the lounge on the mezzanine level, while Doc and RJ checked out the

suites on the second floor rooms. They were all armed with a variety of

weapons that they'd looted from the local Walmart but none of them had any

experience using them beyond shooting at cans on the motel's pool deck.

Bel had often remarked that he was more scared of being shot by Earl than

by any ruffians.

Doc was looking into a closet when RJ hurried back into the room to tell

him that he had found something.

"Doc! Doc! Ya gotta see what I seen!"

RJ was a short, skinny man. A natural follower. He got tongue-tied

whenever he had to speak in public and blushed a bright red when the other

men teased him about women, which they did quite often.

When RJ grabbed Doc, surprising him and almost getting shot in the

process, RJ was a bright pink and almost intelligible from stuttering.

"Doc. . . Doc. . . I saw her bubbies!" RJ was so excited the words

tripped over themselves in their haste to escape his lips.

It was obvious to Doc that something was bothering his companion. "OK.

OK RJ. Now take a deep breath and tell me all about it. Quietly."

"Doc. I wuz doing just like you said and checking over ta the other

side of the room when I heard a noise coming from the bathroom. Kinda like

someone had left a radio on but I knew that no one had left the radio on

cuz I'd a heard it before." The words spilled out of RJ in a torrent.

"So I put my ear to the door and that's where it was comin from." He

looked immensely proud of himself at this point. "And then I cracked the

dawr to look in. But I couldn't see nuthin cause of the steam, so I opened

the dawr a little wider and just stuck my head in. And there she was!"

"There who was RJ?"

"I dunno. But she's a laying in the tub singing to herself. And I

could see her bubbies floating in the water!" RJ's smile split his face as

he definitively stated the last part.

Doc wryly pointed out that people rarely wore clothes in the bathtub.

What was more, they rarely carried their weapons into the bath. Satisfied

that the intruder, whoever she was, posed little threat, Doc told RJ to

lead him to her.

The pair quietly approached the bathroom door but the singing had

stopped. Doc wasn't sure what RJ might have seen but now he was more

cautious. He pointed to where RJ should stand, trying to remember all of

the cop shows that he had seen on TV, and pointed his weapon at where he

thought the intruder was behind the door. Doc told RJ to open the door on

the count of three and then, holding up his fingers, he slowly counted

"one... two...three" and then stepped into the doorway when RJ pushed open

the door.

Time and space froze. Doc, still dirty from work, stood in the doorway

with his pistol gripped in both hands. Arabella, wearing nothing but a

towel around her hair sat on the toilet, wiping between her legs.

"Uh. I'm sorry. I. . .Who are you?" Doc, uncertain in this awkward

situation, lowered his gun.

Arabella, realizing that a gun wielding man had just interrupted her

while she peed, pulled her 9mm from on top of her pile of clothes and

stood, gloriously naked. "I might ask the same question." She leveled the

muzzle of her pistol at the center of Doc's chest.

Doc held his hands up, trying to be disarming, when he realized that his

revolver was still cocked. Carefully re-holstering it, he stepped back out

of the bathroom. "I'm Dr. Henry Finster and this is my colleague RJ

Bollocks. We, uh, we were searching the hotel. I guess you were the one

that cleaned up downstairs?"

"Yeah." Her pistol never wavered from its target as she kept him in her

sights. "The place was a sty. "

"Well, uh. Why don't you get dressed and come downstairs with us?"

Doc was trying to keep his eyes off the girl's pale skin and coral pink

nipples. Looking to his side he saw that RJ stood beside him, jaw opened,

as if he'd been poleaxed. Once she was satisfied that she wasn't about to

be shot or raped, Arabella asked Doc and RJ to turn around while she put

her clothes back on.

Still embarrassed by the way they walked in on her; Doc and RJ turned

around and faced the other way. "I told you I saw her bubbies" RJ

whispered.

"You certainly did, boy. That's what they were."

Arabella followed them back downstairs where she met the rest of the

men. She explained that she was there to help the refugees that would be

coming through the town but Bel, as usual, dismissed the thought in his

loud and opinionated manner. He was for throwing her out, since they don't

have enough food or room but Guy piped in that there was plenty of food in

the grocery store and lots of empty rooms in the motel. The others were

simply captivated by a beautiful woman, in fact the only woman they'd seen

in months, and agreed to let her stay. Much to Bel's grumbling.

The next morning, Arabella made herself useful by helping Guy cook

breakfast for the others. Nothing seemed to dent his cheerful demeanor,

not even Bel's non-stop complaining.

The others left for work and she and Guy were alone in the kitchen

cleaning up the dishes. Elbow deep in soap suds, he happily told her how

he and the others had arrived from Richmond to gather items from the

warehouses and ship them back to the city. He didn't seem to have any

compunction about "mining" these and the self-storage units around the

Valley.

"Hell," he said in his usual cheerful way, "there's stuff in those

places that people need."

"But what about the bandits?" She mentioned how Simon wad always telling

her how dangerous the Interstates had become. "Who protects the trucks if

they're so valuable?"

"The folks that Doc contracts with give us police escort. They all get

a cut of course, but the government is very interested in moving this stuff

from the warehouses to the cities." Guy sounded very impressed with the

process in general.

Arabella dropped a slippery serving plate, splashing herself. Her

distended nipples poke through her wet shirt. When she caught Guy staring

down her shirt, she decided that there was no use in sleeping alone while

she was stuck in Swoope.

She got the ball rolling.

"Oh look. I'm all wet." She noticed that Guy blushed at this. "I need

to hang this up to dry."

Before Guy could say anything, she had shucked her shirt and hung it on

a hook on the wall.

She stood in front of him, her braless tits standing firm from her

chest. She walked back to the sink and asked him if he would help her with

a personal problem.

He stuttered, "Yeah. . .sure."

Arabella sank to her knees and unbuckled his belt. "You know. I've

been working so hard. . ." Arabella unbuckled his pants and pushed them

down around his ankles. "And now I've got this itch." His underwear

followed seconds later and Guy looked down to see that Arabella had grasped

his cock at the base and was looking at it with undisguised lust. 'And

you've got just the thing to scratch it." Guy was silent. He didn't know

what to say and was too scared to move.

She gave him a rough, demanding blowjob. Swallowing his cock whole as

she sought to make it hard quickly so that he could fuck her. Once he was

stiff, Arabella dropped her pants and lay back on the counter. She raised

her knees and told Guy that he needed to make her wet with his tongue.

Guy moved in on her pussy like a starving man on a steak dinner. What

he lacked in actual talent or experience he more than made up for in sheer

enthusiasm as he licked his way around her pussy.

"Yessss. Suck my clit. That's it." She grasped his head firmly between

her hands, positioning his mouth over her clit, and ordered him to suck.

The sensation of his suction on her sensitive clit spawned a torrent of

vulgar instructions from her as she told him exactly and explicitly what

she planned to do next with him.

She tired of his inexpert slurping, Arabella ordered Guy to fuck her.

He moved quickly to satisfy her. His fucking technique was like his

cunnilingus, lots of enthusiasm without much experience, so Arabella

stopped him and climbed on top. Once she was in the position to control

the action, she slid up and down his pole, first slowly and then increasing

in tempo and depth, before finally cumming.

He was close but hadn't cum yet so she climbed off his lap and jerked

him off, spraying his seed on to his belly and then rubbing it into his

skin like lotion while she told him how good his cock felt inside her.

-=)0(= That evening after dinner, while everyone drank and laughed over

a radio program, the men teased RJ about how he had acted when he found

Arabella in the tub. RJ got embarrassed and blushed furiously. Chester

put in a CD and Arabella, a little buzzed and willing to go along with the

crowd, started dancing a strip tease around RJ.

Arabella gyrated in front of him, pushing her tits together and showing

him her cleavage. Encouraged by the raucous catcalls and wolf whistles,

she shimmied out of her Tshirt and then unfastened her bra. Holding her

bra cups, she teased the now bright red man. "Come on RJ. You've seen

them before. Haven't you?" She dropped her bra on the floor and held her

tits up for his inspection, the coral pink nipples pointing straight at

him. "Did you like them, RJ? You can tough them if you want." This

invitation proved to be too much for poor RJ and he ran from the room.

Arabella, now all worked up, invited Chester to dance with her. He

helped her take off her clothes and then she gave him a blowjob in front of

the hooting crowd. Marcellus, interested enough to get off the couch,

joined in and fucked her from behind. Earl, not sure what was going on,

watched them intently while jerking off. Once Marcellus had blown his load

inside her, Arabella invited Earl to put his big cock inside her and make

her cum.

Once they'd all shot their loads, the boys quieted down and drifted off

to their own rooms. Left alone in the quiet living room, Arabella wiped

Earl's cum from her thighs and realized how lonely she suddenly felt. She

wandered the hallways looking for Doc, who had left when the orgy got

started.

He answered the knock at his door with a glass in his hand. Arabella

took it and sipped some of the warm sweet Bourbon. "You need some ice,"

she said.

"There isn't any. But come on in anyway."

They sat on the windowsill and talked. Doc told her that he wasn't a

medical doctor, just an associate professor who had lost his home and his

wife when raiders attacked the small private college where he had taught

economics. He told her how he still pined away for his wife, who was

captured by bandits. He knew that she was still alive and didn't want to

have any other woman.

When she asked about why he and the other guys were in a little nowhere

town in the Shenandoah Valley, miles from his home. He joked about how

"Just In Time" logistics had made Swoope a gold mine but, when he saw that

Arabella had no idea what he was talking about, he just said that he and

the others would be traveling to Richmond as soon as they were done with

the Walmart warehouse. The loot would fill 3 semi trailers, he surmised,

and bring enough money for them all to retire in style. Or what passed for

style in this time.

Arabella perked up. She asked how they sold it all. "I mean, how much

money is in a truck load of camping gear?"

"We work for some important folks on the coast sometimes." His eyes

seemed to focus on something far away. He swirled his Bourbon around in

his glass. Taking a sip, he continued. "But they want weapons. Military

stuff like ammunition and missiles. We load up and drive to the coast.

They pay in cash." He emptied the glass. "But they're a rough bunch. I'll

stick to camping gear and household goods."

He offered to take Arabella with them when they left in a few days.

Arabella thanked him but refused. She revealed that she thought that Simon

wanted to marry her, but that she still needed to sow her wild oats. Doc

said that he understood but that she needed to realize that if she waited

too long, the opportunity would pass and Simon might find another girl.

Arabella left Doc gazing at the stars, his advice ringing in her head.

The next morning Bel's mood was nastier than usual, making comments

about "the whore they let stay with them" and loudly hypothesizing about

the diseases she was spreading around. The other men, instead of rallying

to her defense, stared silently at their breakfasts.

=)0(Deerfield, Virginia wasn't much more than a place to stop and grab

some groceries for most of the folks that lived in the area. Not more than

100 people lived there, farming and enjoying a simple life. It was a quiet

little village and it would never be the same again.

The sky was gray, sunrise wouldn't be for another hour or so, when the

Operations Officer turned to the Commander and said, "All units in place.

Awaiting your order." The Troubles had come to Deerfield.

Mounted in Light Armored Vehicles, the battalion of National Guard

troops had executed a textbook raid. They had set up a security perimeter

and blocked all the roads leading into the village before their commander

and the headquarters company entered the town. Soldiers rousted the

villagers out of their beds but were unable to immediately take possessions

of the town's valuable stockpile of food and fuel.

One of the platoon leaders spoke quickly into his headset. "Wolf 6.

Wolf 6. This is red 2 Actual. We have an armed civilian at the general

store." His voice was flat and his words clipped. The lieutenant spoke

like an automaton. "Awaiting instructions. Over."

A burst of static preceded Lieutenant Wolfe's reply. "Stand fast 2

Actual. I am enroute. Do not engage. Out."

Lieutenant Poloski pressed the headset toggle once more, "Wilco," and

then passed the instruction to the rest of his men before settling down

behind the blast shield of his .50 caliber machine gun. From the front

porch of the small general store, a grizzled old man angrily defied the

National Guard troops, calling them thieves and telling them to leave the

town in peace.

Within a few moments another LAV pulled up beside Poloski's and LTC

Wolfe climbed out of the hatch and stood on the LAV's front deck. Poloski

watched as the commander tried to reason with the old man, insisting that

the troops were there to help protect the town but that they needed

supplies. The argument went back and forth for several minutes. Soon the

store's parking lot began to fill with people as people filtered in.

Noticing that most of the townspeople carried weapons, LT Poloski keyed

his mike again and called for help. "Red Wolf 6 this is red 2 Actual. I'm

down at the general store. I need some help. The boss is talking to them

but I don't think they're buying it."

The tinny voice replied immediately. "Stay cool 2 Actual. I'm on the

way."

Switching to his platoon channel, LT Poloski reassured his men that

reinforcements were on the way. The crowd started to get ugly, taunting

the Colonel as he tried to reason with them. The old man was named Dexter

and the people started to cheer and whistle when he spoke. The townspeople

had become angry as the shock of being rudely awakened wore off. The

soldiers, tired and hungry, seethed in frustration as they saw the very

people that they had been sent to protect turn on them.

The mood of the crowd swung back and forth. Captain Wedsel arrived with

the rest of Bravo Company and dismounted his soldiers to try and control

the crowd. Some pushing and shoving started but they hadn't started to

clear the parking lot when the situation reached its head.

Spitting off the edge of the porch, the old man struck a dramatic pose.

"Ain't none of us giving you boys anything." He pumped a shell into his

shotgun's chamber. "And all you can do is give me liberty or give me

death."

The other villagers, inspired by old man Dexter's bravado, cheered.

They cheered so loudly that none of them heard the tall black officer, the

one all the other soldiers called Colonel, say, "Plan B."

The five shot staccato of a machine gun burst silenced the crowd. The

old man's body lay on its back, his intestines decorating the ground beside

him. The tall man climbed onto the flat back deck of an LAV and addressed

the crowd in a cold, restrained voice.

"I've taken about as much shit as I can stand. My men have busted their

asses for three months to protect you. Left what was left of their homes

and families to care for you. And all you can do is spit on us and call us

thieves?" He glared at the now silent crowd.

"Well then. I've tried to do things by the book. But now we're going

to do things the old fashioned way. We're going to take the supplies we

need and when we need more, we'll come back and take those too. And in

exchange we're going to keep on protecting your worthless asses from all of

the real bandits and thieves and murderers."

Bottling up his rage, LTC Wolfe turned to one of his officers. "Captain

Wedsel. Organize a detail of townspeople to upload supplies into the deuce

and a halfs." The younger man saluted and began to move away. "And

Captain, make sure that it is a guarded detail."

Before night fell Task Force 126 had left Deerfield and faded into the

surrounding forest, their trucks loaded with fuel and food. old man Dexter

had been buried behind the gas station and with him, the town's will to

resist.

=)0(The situation around Swoope continued to get worse. One evening,

Doc got a phone call from one of the outlying farms. An organized group

had raided one of the small police stations in the area and was now well

armed. Arabella was worried that Simon, traveling alone, would be easy

prey. Doc told Arabella that he would help get some information on where

Simon was. Since he made a habit of trading for food with all of the

people in the area, he offered to take her around with him. They quickly

found out that Simon was back at the camp organizing the refugees but

Arabella stayed with Doc and the boys, telling them that she felt like

their den mother.

She accompanied him on his rounds, helping him and RJ bargain with the

farmers in the area.

Arabella and RJ sat in the van while Doc went inside a store to barter

for some goods. She stared out the window, thinking about her relationship

with Simon as had become increasingly frequent. Feeling the warm sun

against her face, she stretched her arms, her breasts pressing against her

thin cotton Tshirt and turned to see RJ staring at her chest.

She smiled and teased him. "Whatcha lookin' at RJ?"

He blushed and quickly dropped his head to stare at his feet. She slid

across the seat until her thigh touched his.

"RJ. We gotta do something about this shyness thing you've got going."

"Please Miss Arabella."

She dropped her hand to his thigh and squeezed. "Please what, RJ?"

He pushed her hand away from his leg but she just put in back, a little

higher than before.

"I. . .I'm just not comfortable, Miss Arabella." He put her hand back in

her lap.

"Now RJ. You've already seen me without my clothes on. Was it that

bad?" Arabella leaned against him, rubbing her tits against RJ's arm. "I'm

not trying to hurt you. I just think you'd be a lot more self-confident if

you could get over being so shy."

He shrank back against the van door, trying to break contact with her

warm, sweet smelling skin. "I know you don't mean nuthin'," he said,

finally looking up at her and meeting her gaze. "I just couldn't be like

you. You know. Having sex with all those people." RJ swallowed. " At the

same time."

Arabella was stung by the tone of his voice. Her eyes narrowed and her

mouth looked hard, but she took a deep breath before she replied. "I enjoy

myself on my own terms, RJ." She paused and, taking his chin in her palm,

raised his eyes to meet hers. "I like you RJ. I don't tease you like the

others. So please don't judge me or think that I'm some whore off the

street just because I don't sit in the kitchen baking cookies or reading

Harlequin romances."

Arabella could see that RJ hadn't meant to hurt her. In some ways,

because he was so simple he was the most honest man she knew. Still

holding his chin, she drew him forward and kissed him lightly on the lips.

"Now then. That wasn't so bad was it?"

"No," he stammered. "I liked that just fine."

"Then why don't you want any more. You know that I would like to."

"'Cause you don't love me, Miss Arabella. You love that other guy. The

one you're always thinking about."

"I'm not always thinking about anybody, RJ. You're just making that

up." Now it was Arabella's turn to blush.

RJ sensed that he had said something that he shouldn't have. "But Miss

Arabella. If you ever change you're mind about him, I'll be here." His

smile split his face.

Arabella hugged him tightly against her. "RJ. You are, without a

doubt, a true wonder."

=)0(While the "boys" as she called them had been working to load tractor

trailers with sporting goods, dehydrated food, and other survival

necessities from the warehouses along the highway, Arabella had been

researching the medical facilities and organizing a reception station for

the refugees that Simon had promised that he'd be bringing. She returned

to the motel one evening to help prepare dinner and found a young girl
sitting on the porch steps.

The girl claimed to be an orphan from one of the boarding schools down

the Valley toward Roanoke. She'd stayed there for a while, since she

didn't have anywhere else to go, but moved on when the food ran out and

people started fighting. She said that her name was Randy and that she was

heading north to find her relatives. They had been in the DC suburbs, but

that had been almost a year ago. She looked to be about 17 or 18, old
enough to be worrying about her dress to the senior prom, not searching for

her next meal. Arabella took pity on her and brought her into the motel.

When the boys returned to the motel, Bel made a fuss over Randy, which

he never did over Arabella, obviously and pathetically trying to make

Arabella jealous that he was giving his attention to another woman. He

showed Randy around the motel, especially proud of the loot that he and the

others had neatly stored for shipment in the motel's ballroom.

Arabella ignored Bel and tried to make Randy as comfortable as possible.

She fixed Randy up with a room and some clothes that the guys had gathered

from town. Randy had picked a room and was taking a hot shower. Arabella

was delivering linen to Randy's room and knocked on the bathroom door to

drop off the towels.

Hearing Randy's voice muffled by the sound of the shower running full

blast, Arabella opened the door intending to leave the towels on the

vanity. Before she could leave, the shower stall door opened and Randy

poked her head out.

"Oh, thanks Arabella." Randy opened the door wider, framing her dripping

body.

Arabella's breathe caught in her throat. The look on Randy's face was a

clear invitation. The look of a temptress from the face of an angel.

Arabella looked over the teen's lithe body; from Randy's dime sized nipples

to her smooth shaven labia nestled in the vee between her legs.

Seeing Arabella hesitate, Randy stepped out of the shower, water

puddling around her feet, and reached for her. Kissing the redhead on the

mouth, Randy felt Arabella's lips quiver and then surrender, softening

under hers. Randy stepped back and helped the pliant redhead to disrobe

before leading her back into the shower stall.

Randy stood Arabella against the tile wall and pressed her elfin body

against the taller redhead. Arabella gasped as she felt Randy's hard

nipples poke against her ribs. Arabella's hands unconsciously came up and

cupped the teen's small firm breast.

Randy moaned, "Yesss. "

She slid down Arabella's body, using her lips to nibble and pinch the

redhead's large, erasure-sized nipples. Arabella giggled when Randy's lips

continued their journey across her firm stomach.

"That tickles," Arabella said before emitting a soft gasp as Randy

reached her clit.

Warmly kissing everywhere but her love button, Randy teased Arabella's

pussy lips until they were full and swollen. Arabella, the warm water

running over her breasts, slid her feet farther apart. She pressed Randy's

face tight against her pussy in an unspoken plea for the teen to pay

attention to her clit.

Finally Randy complied, sucking Arabella's clit into her mouth and

teasing it with her tongue. "AAAgggghhh." The suction of Randy's mouth

wrenched a cry from Arabella. Before she could react, Arabella's body

stiffened in orgasm as Randy sank two fingers into her buttery cunt.

"I love the way your pussy grips my fingers," Randy said from her

position on her knees. Standing, she lewdly licked her fingers. "Now you

do me."

Arabella wasn't sure that she could actually put her mouth on another

woman's pussy. She told herself that she had been caught up in the moment

when Randy had kissed her the first time. She couldn't deny that she had

enjoyed what Randy had done to her, but that didn't make her a lesbian.

Did it?

As if reading her mind, Randy placed her hands on Arabella's shoulders

and gently forced her to her knees. "I'm not a lesbo," she said kissing

Arabella full on the mouth, "and neither are you. But that won't stop us

from enjoying ourselves."

Gently holding Arabella's head between her hands, Randy guided the older
girl's lips to her small hard nipple. "That's right baby, suck my nipple.

Make it hard." She pressed Arabella's head tightly to her chest. "Make me

wet for you."

When she'd had enough stimulation there, Randy urged Arabella's head

down toward her crotch. "Now lick me." Randy's voice was breathless in

anticipation of the feeling of Arabella's tongue on her slit.

Arabella's hands cupped Randy's muscular ass in her hands, staring at

the teenage pussy that lay glistening at the end of her nose. Hesitantly

she extended her tongue and sampled the oily juice that covered Randy's

pussy lips. She found it sweet and tangy. Following Randy's example,

Arabella teased and nibbled around Randy's clit, first using the tip of her

tongue and then flattening it for broader strokes.

Arabella slipped a finger into Randy's tight. Judging from Randy's

reaction it was the right move so, after plunging her finger in and out of

Randy's twat, she added a second digit.

The combination of Arabella nibbling on her clit and the thrusting

fingers in her cunt drove Randy over the edge. Her knees felt weak and she

caught herself against the wall of the shower. Arabella braced her

partner, keeping her from falling while the teenager's orgasm swept through

her in waves of pleasure.

Standing, Arabella held Randy close against her. "You're right. It did

feel incredible," she whispered in the teenager's ear. They left the

shower and, after toweling each other off, retired to the bed to explore

each other further. One thing led to another and the evening ended with

both of them collapsed, writhing in a torrid 69.

Afterwards they lay in bed talking about the men and Arabella suddenly

realized that she was talking more than Randy. She shrugged off the

feeling, embarrassed that she was acting as paranoid as Bel.

The next morning, Randy told them all that she was going to catch a ride

to Winchester, about two hours' ride north, to see if her family was there.

They all wished her well and Arabella accompanied her to the bus station.

She said goodbye to Randy, waving to her as the bus pulled away from the

curb. Arabella, remembering the look Randy gave her back when she said,

"I'm sure we'll see each other again," felt a twinge of uneasiness but

quickly shrugged it off and continued on her normal, daily routine.

That night, bandits attacked the motel. They roared around in pickup

trucks, firing automatic rifles and making straight for the storeroom of

food and looted goods. The boys fought back but they were not organized,

more than a little bit scared, and outgunned. Doc tried to rally the

others but the bandits' trucks moved too fast for the boys' hunting rifles

to make any real damage. In the middle of the fighting, Chester called

Doc's attention to the passenger of one of the larger pickups. He

recognized Randy as a passenger. Obviously she'd led the bandits back for

the loot.

The bandits direct their attack on the ballroom. Glass shattered and

covered everything in the room. The boys made their stand from the

reception area and the upstairs' windows. While the others seemed frantic

as they tried to repel the raiders with their bolt action hunting rifles,

Doc disappeared upstairs. He reappeared on the reception drive-thru's roof

dragging a cooler. The raiders finally drove one of their vans across the

pool deck and through the ballroom's double doors. A stray round hit

Arabella but RJ quickly tended to her wound. Doc, meanwhile, was throwing

napalm cocktails down on to the raiders' vehicles. The jellied gasoline

coated the men in the truck beds and their screams filled the air.

The attack was over almost as soon as it had begun. Only three of the

raiders' vehicles made it away from the motel's parking lot. Bel and some

of the others made sure that the fire got smothered before it could spread

to the loot. Earl brought Doc to Arabella.

Pressing a towel against her leg, RJ gave Arabella first aid while Doc

tried to make her feel better. "You know. I learned how to make those

cocktails from a chemistry student that we expelled. How things had

changed." Arabella smiled but then passed out. After checking her pulse,

Doc sent Bel and Marcellus to fetch Simon from the boy Scout Camp.

-=)0(= Returning, Simon was accompanied by all of the camp staff. They

had left the deputy almost hysterical with anger but the group ignored his

threats as they drove back to the city in the camp's trucks. Doc had made

Arabella as comfortable as possible and RJ had watched over her like a

faithful hound. With a convoy of disaffected police and camp staff behind

him, Simon loaded her up in his vehicle and returned to Staunton and the

hospital.

Chapter 4: Goldilocks and the Three Bears A few days later, Arabella

felt well enough to resume traveling. Simon was still deeply entangled

with the council negotiating the care of the refugees, so he couldn't

leave. In vain, he tried to get Arabella to wait a little while longer

before she left for Monterey but she was adamant about finding granny and

bringing her back to Staunton. Although Simon tried once more to dissuade

her, she reminded him of his deal and prepared to leave to find Granny.

Once again, Arabella loaded up her vehicle. Strapping herself into the

compact station wagon, she accelerated west along State Route 250.

Civilization quickly faded behind her as she rode into the forest. The

winding road was in bad shape and it took her almost two hours to cover the

twenty miles to West Augusta. Hungry, she stopped by a roadside diner

hoping to pick up lunch and some local news. Sitting at one of the picnic

tables, she shared a table with a tall lean, black man who called himself

Wolfe. With an 'e' he kidded her.

Arabella and Wolfe traded small talk during their meal.

"Where you headed?" he asked around a mouthful of hamburger.

"Out to Monterey."

"I heard that things were getting rough out in the mountains."

"I hope not." Arabella wiped her mouth with the paper napkin. "Last

time I spoke with Granny, everything was quiet. I don't think that anyone

has even thought about going that far west yet."

They chatted for a few more minutes while Arabella finished her drink.

Wolfe, asked more questions than he answered, skillfully interrogated

Arabella about Monterey without divulging any information about himself.

He tried to get Arabella to accompany him, insisting that he could provide

protection from whatever bandits were in the forest but Arabella, thinking

of her argument with Simon, declined. She cheerfully bade Wolfe farewell

as she walked back to her car and continued down the forest road.

Wolfe watched her leave and then motioned for some of the other patrons

to follow him. He led them across the highway and into the wood line,

where their HUMMV sat under a camouflage net. Sitting in the front seat,

Wolfe looked at a map and smiled. Monterey would be perfect for his plans.

And now, thanks to little Arabella Hood, they knew that it was likely to be

undefended.

Picking up the radio handset, LTC Wolfe ordered his troops to wait until

night and then begin their move on Monterey. Consulting the scout platoon

leader about the condition of the back roads, he plotted the route that

they would use to approach the town.

Arabella, meanwhile, continued on. It had been a beautiful morning but

by early afternoon fog and rain had closed in and made the forest dark and

foreboding. She drove on and on, until she realized that she must have

taken a wrong turn. Her map was useless without road signs to guide her

and Arabella, unused to being along on the back roads, searched desperately

for some shelter. The rain begun falling harder, overwhelming her

windshield wipers and forcing her to drive at a snail's pace down the pitch

black road.

Finally she saw a small building ahead in the gloom. It wasn't much,

just a cinder block barn or garage, but there was smoke coming from the

chimney. Grateful for the chance to get in out of the weather, she parked

and knocked on the door.

The door swung open at her touch. She called inside but there was no

answer. Remembering Simon's warnings, Arabella drew her weapon and warily

walked into the room. Everything was silent except from the sound of the

rain as it fell against the roof. The house smelt of cooking food and

Arabella's stomach rumbled. Searching for any inhabitants, she took a

quick tour of the house, noting the spartan interior. Woven mats had been

hung from bare rafters to divide the old cinder block garage into rooms.

Weary from her journey, Arabella sat on one of the chairs by the fire,

choosing the most comfortable one. Unfortunately one of the legs broke,

spilling her onto the floor. Remarking on how that made her day, Arabella

got up and searched for something to eat.

She looked into the bubbling pot that sat on the wood stove and was

excited to find some delicious stew. Quickly finding a bowl, she ate her

fill. Once sated she took stock of her situation and, feeling tired from

her day's travels, walked to the back of the house to find a place to

sleep. The beds were low wooden platforms covered in animal skins and worn,

tattered quilts. Choosing the largest one, Arabella collapsed, still

dressed, into a dead sleep.

The house was quiet except for the redhead's soft snores. The rain had

stopped during the night. Suddenly, Arabella was roughly awakened as

shadowy assailants grabbed her and bound her wrists and ankles together. A

light shined in her face and a rough voice demanded her name. Blinded,

Arabella made out three hulking forms arrayed around the bed.

Arabella struggled against the thin bonds, which cut her wrists. She

tried to tell the shadowy figures that she was just a lost traveler and had

meant no harm. The flashlight moved and dim lamps were lit, illuminating

the scene in the soft yellow light of a candle lantern. Arabella saw two

men, one older than the other, and a woman standing over her. Their

clothes were patched but clean. Their hands were red and chapped from hard

labor. She guessed that they were scared farmers ready to defend what

little they had left.

"She done broke my chair." The young man was large, definitely big

enough to play high school football, but his whiney voice made him sound

like a small child.

"And she's eating all the food t'was made for dinner." The woman

standing between them was tall, but not as tall as the men, and broadly

built.

The elder male looked down at Arabella and a sly smile creased his brown

face. "So ya broke our furniture. Et' all our food. And now you's laying

in my bed within wet clothes." He chuckled softly, melodramatically shaking

his head from side to side. "Well Mother. I jist don't know what we're a

gunna do."

He reached down and roughly groped Arabella's small, firm breasts. "But

I jist been thinking that we've been looking for a wommun for Eddie here."

The woman's face lit up as she caught on to what her husband was leading up

to. "What say we let this little redhead work off her night's stay?"

The others, obviously used to the man's sense of humor, readily agreed.

"Well then you go first Eddie." The father said in a generous tone, "Just

remember to strip the bed when you're done. mother and I ain't sleeping in

your mess!"

Laughing, he and 'Mother' roughly spread Arabella's legs, one holding

her legs as the other secured the ties to the legs of the platform. Paw's

hunting knife slit her jeans effortlessly from cuff to belt. When they cut

off Arabella's panties and exposed the patch of red hair atop her shaven

slit, mother whistled. "Why Eddie you're gonna have a real big city girl
here." She gently stroked Arabella's labia. "Nice and soft."

Anxious to get started, Eddie lost no time in untying his belt and

climbing onto the bed, his cock thickening as he positioned himself between

her pale thighs.

"Now hold on son." mother obviously wasn't finished with Arabella's

twat. "You get up by her head and let her suck on you a little whilst I get

her good and wet."

"You look like you're enjoying that Mother." Paw laughed deep in his

throat as mother lowered her face to the redhead's shaven snatch.

Setting his knife on his chest of drawers, Paw dropped his overalls and

freed his own stiffening cock. He stroked himself leisurely as he watched

his wife eagerly licking and sucking pussy while his son clumsily poked his

cock into Arabella's mouth, making her cheeks swell and her eyes water as

he hit the back of her throat.

Before long Eddie's body stiffened. "Christ. I'm gonna cum" he cried

as he shot his load into Arabella's mouth. Pulling his still thick cock

from her mouth, he looked down on her as a thick white rivulet of sperm

leaked down her cheek. "I couldn't help it." He told his father in a

pathetic whine.

mother looked up from between Arabella's legs, her chin shiny with pussy
juice. Climbing up the bed toward Arabella's head, she pushed Eddie back

from the redhead's mouth. "Just switch me places boy. You're young, I'm

sure your whacker will recover in a few minutes."

And she was right. After only a few minutes of watching his mother make

the lithe young redhead suck on her big, swollen clit, Eddie cock had

regained its turgid shape. He entered Arabella without preamble, roughly

pounding his cock into her pussy. mother held onto Arabella's head,

securing the redhead's lips to her clit. "Easy boy, if she bites me I'll

whup ya" she said.

Both mother and Eddie came loudly a few strokes later. Their chests

still heaving from their exertions, they rolled off Arabella and eyed Paw.

He had been standing beside the bed, still stroking his long thick cock.

mother smiled when she saw his face. "Eddie. Grab that leg whilst I

take t'other. Yer Paw's looking for something special."

Paw smiled and quickly untied Arabella's ankles. Too tired to resist,

she groaned softly as her legs where forced back against her chest,

completely exposing her pussy. Still standing beside the bed, Paw dipped

his sausage like finger into her pussy and liberally coated her asshole

with its syrupy goo. Arabella tensed and moaned as she divined his intent

but Paw just smiled as he reamed her anus with his finger, loosening her

for what was to come.

mother leaned close to Arabella's ear, careful to keep hold on the

girl's slim leg. "Yer gonna like this." Her breath was thick with the

smell of pussy. "I'll betcha never had one like this before."

Paw, positioned between her upturned legs, rubbed his fat cock head

through Arabella's slit before placing it against her tight brown rosebud.

"No. . .Please don't put it in there."

Gently Paw leaned forward and pressed the head of his cock into her

tight nether opening. Arabella thrashed her head from side to side and

cried out that he was tearing her.

Paw slapped her flank with his huge calloused palm. "Shut up girl. If

you'd relax, it'd go easier. But it's going in."

Paw pressed forward again, this time popping the round cock head inside

her. Slowly her worked his cock into her ass until his balls met her firm,

smooth ass cheeks. Arabella's eyes were glassy as she felt his huge cock

fill her, stretching her ass.

Paw groaned. "Mother this is the tightest ass I've felt in a long

time." He paused to relish the feeling before starting to slowly pump his

cock in and out. Soon Arabella's pain gave way to pleasure and her groans

changed timbre.

"I told you she'd like it." mother said to Eddie.

Paw gave a strangled cry and ground his cock against Arabella as he

sprayed her insides with his cum. "She's cummin' too," he said

triumphantly as he felt her tremors through his cock.

Looking over at Eddie he saw his son's cock twitching and regaining its

girth. "All right, boy. You can have her back," he said as he pulled his

cock from Arabella with a wet pop. "Mother and I'll sleep out by the

fireplace." From Mother's smile, she was looking forward to that.

Eddie finished a little while later, having helped himself to another

blowjob and a turn at her cunt before passing out beside her. Filled with

cum, her face sticky from Mother's juices, Arabella collapsed for a few

hours. Paw and mother woke her at dawn. She felt her bonds snap and a

flashlight shown in her face. She groggily rubbed the sleep from her eyes.

Paw's rough voice said, "Gitch yer clothes on and git out."

"Our son needs a good woman. Not some whore off the road." mother
chimed in.

Still sore from the family's attentions the night before, Arabella got

back in her car and started off through the forest. She drove most of the

day, fording creeks and carefully negotiating old bridges until she came

upon a crossroad store. Stopping for something to eat and some much needed

asprin, she knew that she was close to Monterey but didn't know if she had

the strength to go on.

Chapter 5: Killing the Evil Queen Simon finally prevailed over Bobby

Tyler and the city council. They'd agreed to staff and resource the camp,

releasing a stockpile of much needed food to the starving refugees. Simon

knew that this was a hollow victory. He knew that the council would chisel

away at the amount and quality of food they would actually end up sending.

Probably lining their own packets in the meantime, he thought to himself.

Standing in his driveway, he said good bye to Juliet. In exchange for

his chaste kiss, she handed Simon a folder. Inside it were pictures and

documents detailing the Reverend's involvement in a white slavery and

prostitution ring that operated out of a farm to the east of Staunton.

Simon was amazed. How could the Reverend get the resources to move all the

people and hide all the activity? Flashing her enigmatic smile, Juliet

told him that half of the city council and most of the Sheriff's Department

was in on the scheme. They'd been getting rich off the sale of DPREs for

months.

After a few hours' of restless sleep, while Arabella was in the clutches

of the Bears, Simon had left Staunton to drive out to the Reverend's

operation. In the back of his mind, he was worried that he hadn't heard

from Arabella for a while. He drove through the morning trying to sort out

how he felt about her.

Every time he told himself that he couldn't afford to go soft on some

wild kid, the image of her svelte pale body crossed his mind. What

surprised him was that it wasn't her firm, coral tipped nipples or the

light strawberry-red patch of fuzz on top of her slit that he saw. It was

here blue eyes and her smile that loomed large in his inner sight. He took

another pull from his coffee cup and rolled down the window. Soldier, get

your shit together, he thought.

He had an uncomfortably stiff dick when he saw her car enter a

convenience store parking lot up ahead. Pulling next into the slot next to

hers, he noticed that she looked a bit pale.

"Feeling OK?" He had worried about her leaving so soon from the

hospital.

"Oh. I'm fine." She flashed him a wan smile. "Just a little tired.

That's all."

"Well. If you've got some time, I need to ask you a favor." He looked

at her hopefully. "I'm headed out to talk with the Reverend. It won't

take but the morning."

Simon hoped that she would say yes. Not only would spending time with

her feel good and give him a chance to talk with her some more but he had

to act and he needed a witness. Arabella agreed and got into the passenger

seat. Smiling, Simon backed out of the parking lot and continued up the

road to the farm to confront the Reverend.

Simon parked his car in front of what had been the college's

Administration building and charged into the Reverend's office, Simon

pulled up sharply. There, bent over the Reverend's impressive oak desk was

a blonde teenaged boy. Behind the boy, his turgid cock half buried in the

boy's anus, was the Reverend James Lot. Holding the door closed behind

them, Simon drew his pistol as the Reverend tried to disengage himself from

the squirming boy. Simon ordered the Reverend to place his hands on the

desk but instead the Reverend pulled a small semi-automatic out of a desk

drawer.

Standing against his large leather desk chair, his wilting cock still

shiny with lubricant from the boy's ass, the Reverend demanded to know why

Simon and Arabella had intruded on his office. Arabella stood silently out

of the way, her mouth open in amazement. Simon, watching both man and boy,

locked the office door behind him. It was a classic Mexican standoff.

Still covering them with his pistol, the Reverend made his offer. "I'll

cut you in" he said, "ten percent between you. And all you have to do is

keep your mouths shut."

Arabella, still in disbelief over what she was seeing, stammered on

about how wrong it was to sell people but the Reverend smoothed over her

complaints with empty phrases about helping them find new lives.

"More to the point," Simon interrupted, "there are too many witnesses."

He decided to play the Reverend's game to see where it led. "We could

agree to anything. But there's no guarantee that we'd live to see

tomorrow. Is there?"

The look on the Reverend's face told Simon that his shot had been a

telling one. The secretary yelled through the door, telling them that she

had called the police. Reverend James smiled.

"OK, Mister Woodsman. You want some reassurance. Some symbol of my

commitment to our deal." The Reverend's voice was as smooth as oiled silk.

Without blinking an eye, he turned and shot the boy in the head. Arabella

was shocked by the sudden brutality was unable to make a sound. Her legs

collapsed and she sat, emitting gasping squeaks, on the couch.

Then the Reverend continued. "Now Mister Woodsman. I believe that some

quid pro quo is in order." He jerked his head toward Arabella. "You can

plug her or, because I'm in a generous mood, I can have her chemically

lobotomized and then we sell her. A skinny cunt like her always brings a

good price." He paused. "Either way I suggest you hurry up and decide

since my secretary is liable to return at any minute."

Arabella stood, aware for the first time that she was in mortal danger.

Eyes as wide as saucers, her head swiveled back and forth like a tennis

fan's looking between the two weapons.

"I guess I'll just have to shoot," Simon said.

The Reverend looked toward Arabella expectantly. The thunderclap of

Simon's Beretta filled the room. The Reverend, thrown against the wall by

the bullet's impact, lay on the floor. His mouth worked like a landed bass

as he stared at the huge hole in the center of his chest before slumping

forward.

Simon stepped gingerly around the desk, careful not to leave footprints

in the blood, and checked the Reverend's neck for a pulse. Satisfied that

the Reverend was currently interviewing in Hell, he reached into his pocket

and pulled out his "Batphone."

He hit a speed dial button and waited for the connection. "Juliet. I'm

out at the Farm. I need you to work some of your magic. The Reverend's

had an accident."

Simon hustled Arabella out of the office and into the car. Driving back

towards Staunton over rough roads was slow work but it took several hours

before Arabella said a word. They had left the Farm, locking the Reverend

and his catamite in the office for Juliet's team to find and dispose of,

and had headed back to town. Pulling into his driveway, Simon steered

Arabella into his kitchen and poured her a juice glass full of bourbon.

"You wouldn't have shot me?" Her eyes looked into his. "Would you?"

Simon took her into his arms and held her tight. "Don't think about it

anymore. It will all look better in the morning."

Chapter 6: Little red Riding Hood The next morning, Arabella set out

again, this time without waking Simon. She knew somehow that he cared

about her, but she owed it to granny to make sure everything was safe and

sound. Recovering the same road she'd driven over just the day before,

Arabella quickly made her way across the Appalachians. It still wasn't

lunch time when she started down the long steep grade into Monterey.

Arabella was relieved to find everything in Monterey calm and peaceful

as she drove into the town. She parked beside the small central park,

adorned with the statue of some forgotten local hero and had walked to the

old bandstand that she used to play on, before she realized that the only

people on the street were men. men staring at her. She tried stopping

someone to ask where the women and children were, but no one would look her

in the face much less stop for a conversation.

She walked dejectedly back to her car when she noticed a man standing

next to it. He was rather abrupt with her, asking her name and business in

town. Arabella answered his questions politely but wanted to know who he

was in return. He showed her a cheap tin badge and called himself a town

deputy. Arabella asked about the deputy she had known while growing up and

the man sneered, saying "the old fool died face down in the gutter." He

then told her to follow him to the town hall where she'd get permission to

stay in town.

Believing that the deputy was merely a sign of the times Arabella did as

she was told. Along the way, the deputy told her that Monterey was under

almost constant siege and all strangers had to be checked out by the boss

before they were allowed free access to the town. Arabella tried to ask

about granny and some of her other friends but the man told her that she

would get all her answers at the town hall.

Arabella was surprised when the deputy pointed at their destination.

The new town hall was a renovated roadside bar on the edge of town. Once a

seedy dive with raised platforms around a sunken dance floor, its new

inhabitants had redecorated it as a new age throne room. Arabella was

escorted down the aisle toward the throne. Groups of armed men had settled

into the round booths that surrounded the open dance floor. They lounged

on the splitting vinyl seats, eating, drinking, and having sex with women

dressed in patched lingerie and old harem girl costumes.

Tearing her eyes from the clientele, Arabella looked up and stopped

short at the scene on the throne, causing her escort to stumble into her.

There, on the dais set in the middle of the dance floor was the man she met

at the roadside tavern. She remembered that he had said his name was

Wolfe, but the sudden remembrance of a chance meeting wasn't what made her

stop. It was the fact that Wolfe was having his cock sucked by granny
Safi.

Arabella's escort pushed her ahead to the entrance of the dance floor

but her introduction was delayed as Wolfe sprayed his cum over Granny's

face. granny eagerly cleaned his cock with her tongue, murmuring

endearments about how big and virile a man he was. Wolfe slouched back in

his large chair and guzzled wine from a large goblet as he caught his

breath.

Refreshed for the moment, Wolfe looked at Arabella and smiled. Rings

glinting from his fingers, he carefully handed his goblet to Granny.

Sitting up he said, "I need to thank you for telling us about this

wonderful little undefended town."

"Why this was just the slice of Paradise we had been looking for. Clean

air, open spaces, plenty of food - why we've got everything we need." He

gestured at his happy cronies and their female companions. "And the

townsfolk welcomed us with open arms." A ripple of laughter interrupted him

and he looked around meaningfully. "And open legs." Roars of laughter

erupted from the men and women in the dimly lit club.

Arabella asked why he had forced the local women to act as slaves, but

Wolfe assured her that the women were not being coerced at all. He told

her that the women chose their jobs.

"It's a simple exchange. Civilization at its most basic. Each to his

or her own abilities." His smile seemed to split his face. "My boys and I

provide protection and the townspeople work in a variety of positions.

Some are farmers, some are servants, and some," he laughed and cupped

Granny's chin with his fingertips, "are companions for my men. No one is

forced to do anything against his or her will."

LTC Wolfe stood and tucked his deflated cock back into his colorful

robes. He looked like a revolutionary crossed with one part biker warlord

and one part African king. Enjoying his control over the moment, he asked

Arabella what she planned on doing for the community, reminding her that

everyone had to work or they didn't get fed. She stared at him defiantly

and told him that she certainly didn't intend on becoming his sex toy. He

laughed in the face of her self-righteous indignation and told his men that

being a sex toy was all that she was qualified for. Wolfe told Arabella

that it would be far more pleasurable for her to volunteer, unless he said,

she enjoyed rough sex.

Arabella looked at her mentor, crouched at Wolfe's feet like an obscene

cup bearer, and told Wolfe that she would stay with Granny. Nodding his

head in agreement, he told granny to take Arabella to the harem and clean

her up. Looking up to the expectant crowd, he announced that Arabella

would be part of the after dinner entertainment. Lewd comments and wolf

whistles followed Arabella out of the throne room and into the hallway.

granny took Arabella to an outdoor shower and helped her bathe. granny
explained that Wolfe wanted a lesbian show and asked if Arabella had ever

been with another woman. Arabella thought about Randy and the night at the

Bears' house but confessed to being inexperienced.

granny told Arabella to relax and began gently soaping Arabella's chest.

Arabella found herself relaxing and becoming aroused by Granny's tender

caresses. granny showed her the outline of what Wolfe wanted to see. She

explained that Wolfe liked to see a pair of girls lick and suck each other

before climbing in and fucking them both until all three of them collapsed.

In the three days since his arrival in Monterey, Wolfe had staged the

spectacle every night. Tonight would be Granny's first time center stage

and Arabella could tell that she was excited about it.

The idea of Wolfe collapsing gave Arabella an idea of how they could

escape. She told granny that all they had to do was tire Wolfe out, make

sure that he was asleep, and then escape back to Staunton in Arabella's

car. Grinning lewdly, granny said that she wasn't sure who would collapse

first, but she was willing to give it a try.

That evening Wolfe hosted his usual feast in the throne room. Scantily

clad women, including Arabella and Granny, moved about the room acting as

servants while the former National Guardsmen acted like conquerors. After

most of the men had finished eating but before they got too drunk, Wolfe

struck the gong that sat beside his throne.

One of the men started some music and a spotlight lit up the stage. On

cue, granny and Arabella danced down the central aisle to the cleared area

in front of Wolfe's throne. Moving around a futon bed set in the

spotlight, granny and Arabella did a sexy strip tease before starting to

caress, lick, and suck each other in front of the cheering men. Slowly,

with each pose moving them on to the futon, the girls crawled into a 69.

Granny used her tongue enthusiastically and Arabella didn't have to fake

her moans of pleasure.

Before the girls could make each other cum, Wolfe rose theatrically from

his throne and dropped his pants. His long, thick cock pointed straight at

the pair of feverishly lapping ladies. Climbing on to the futon behind

Granny's raised rump, Wolfe guided Arabella's mouth from Granny's cunt to

his balls as he slowly parted Granny's cunt lips with his pole. Still

straddling Arabella's face, Wolfe pulled granny back and forth along the

length of his dick. Arabella used her tongue to bathe and tease Wolfe's

balls and ass. Wolfe held off his orgasm until Granny's skinny body began

jerking and quivering as her orgasm tore through her.

Wolfe pulled his cock out of granny as she collapsed onto Arabella's

body. Gently rolling granny off of her, Arabella guided Wolfe's still

thick cock into her mouth. Skillfully sucking his huge cock, Arabella

licked Granny's cum off of his pole. granny joined her and together they

sucked his cock as it throbbed in time with his heartbeat.

Revived and ready for the second round, Wolfe pushed Arabella onto her

back. She raised her knees to her chest and told him to show her what made

him the king, hoping that by making him work for his second orgasm he would

tire that much quicker. Using the most foul and direct language she could

think of, she ordered him to fuck her hard and deep.

Hearing this slender young woman swearing like a whore fueled Wolfe's

lust. He didn't need a second's more thought before he sank his cock into

Arabella's sopping twat with a single thrust. She urged him on as he

slammed his cock into her over and over again. Granny's fingers teased his

balls and asshole from behind as he threw himself into Arabella. Sweat ran

from his head and chest before Wolfe finally threw his head back and roared

as he came. The three of them fell into a sweaty heap on the futon to the

roars of approval from the crowd.

Arabella smiled to herself. The first phase of her plan had gone well.

Now that the general orgy had begun, all she had to do was wait for the

gang to exhaust themselves before making her run for her car, the forest,

and freedom. The party raged throughout the night. A few hours before

dawn, Arabella silently nudged Granny. It was time to go.

The pair swiftly padded into the back of old roadhouse, dressing in the

bathroom. Arabella checked outside to make sure that the coast was clear.

Waiting for the moon to duck behind a cloud, she grabbed Granny's hand and

they dashed into the parking lot. They found a vehicle; it's keys still in

the ignition and Arabella jumped in. Looking around she fired up the

engines, heedless of the noise. Gunning the engines, she raced through the

town streets, crashed the temporary gate at the edge of town and headed

into the forest at top speed. Ducking their heads they narrowly escaped

the sentry's warning shots. Arabella pushed the engines knowing that

pursuit would be following soon.

Gravel flying and engine racing, Arabella drove into the night.

Disregarding the main road as too dangerous she rocketed down the old back

roads, taking the switchbacks up the mountain as fast as she dared. She

reached the other side of the mountains as the sun peaked over the Blue

Ridge. granny looked over her shoulder and pointed out the dust plume sent

up by the posse chasing them. Arabella accelerated, pushing the last

horsepower from the engines, hoping to lose Wolfe's gang in the forest.

Almost on to the main highway, Arabella turned a blind corner and

slammed on the brakes. The stolen truck slid to a halt against a huge log

obstacle. She stood in her seat looking frantically for a way around the

abatis but instead saw Wolfe, sitting arrogantly on the hood of his HMMV.

Casually putting down his thermos mug of coffee, he told her that she

should learn the shortcuts before she tried to outrun him.

"Now it's time to come back to town." His face looked hard in the

morning light. "Come back without a fuss and you and little Safi will only

have to spend a month in detention. Make me come get you and I'll have no

choice but to make you an example."

Desperation gripped Arabella's heart. She knew exactly what one month

in Wolfe's idea of detention would mean but the posse was closing in and

the cavalry was no where in sight. Just as she was about to surrender, a

car locked its brakes and slid to a halt on the other side of the barrier.

Arabella smiled as the door to the sedan opened and Simon stepped on to

the road. Wolfe turned to keep both Simon and the girls in view. His hand

went to his holster and unsnapped the flap.

Simon held out his hand and asked Wolfe to hear him out. Simon called

on Wolfe to remember that he was once a soldier. A soldier dedicated to

protecting people's freedom. But Wolfe laughed at him, jeering Simon's

high morals and telling him that the people had willingly traded their

freedom for safety.

"They want someone strong to protect them. To shelter them from all of

life's cruelties so that they can go on living their pathetic, petty

lives." Wolfe turned his back on the girls and pointed at Simon. "I'm

going to build a kingdom down in that valley."

Simon's hand was a blur as it pulled the Beretta out of its holster and

fired, all in one smooth motion. Wolfe looked surprised as the first shell

punctured his ribcage. He toppled backwards in slow motion, his mouth open

in astonishment.

Simon walked over to Wolfe's body. Once he'd made sure that there was

no pulse, he stood and looked at the girls. "Long live the King. This

part of the story's over."

Holding out his arms, he crushed Arabella to him, burying his head in

her hair. Looking up he said, "And you must be granny Safi."

granny smiled, "Please call me Saffron. All my friends do."

They shook hands and the three of them stood staring at each other,

wondering if their ordeal was truly over.

"What now, Simon?" Arabella's voice sounded tired.

He put his arms around her shoulders and laughed. "Hell girl. Now we

get back to work!"

And so, they laughed as they walked back to Simon's car and returned to

Staunton and to their home.

MORE to come.