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Author's note: This story is based on a current fantasy train

theme that was started in the ASSD discussion group. A lot of

the characters are part of the discussion group and some of

the bits of humor within are inside jokes, All that being said,

enjoy. Comments, both positive or negative, are welcome and

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Witchcraft

by John A



The loud screech preceded the train car's tumble by a matter

of seconds. There was hardly enough time to grasp what was

happening let alone brace ourselves for the impact that

followed. The car removed itself violently from the magical

tracks and tumbled several times, tossing its passengers

into the floor, roof, and walls until the rolling finally

stopped and the car settled sideways into the soft mud of a

riverbank.

The five of us groaned and spat out expletives as we

recovered from the derailment.

"Is everyone all right?" I asked, rising to a standing

position on the train's windows. I pulled a suitcase off of

Allison and tossed it aside, looking around the train car at

the mass of bodies that was tossed around as a result of the

accident.

A chorus of grunts acknowledged that everyone was at least

none the worse for wear as Maria kicked the rear door open

and crawled out of the now horizontal door opening. The

worst injury that anyone suffered was a deep bruise to

Wijit's shoulder.

We gathered aside the toppled train car as it sat in a

clearing about twenty feet from where the remnants of the

magic train's rails were.

"Wijit, that shoulder looks awful. That's one hell of a

bruise you have there." I examined his shoulder as if I

actually knew something about medicine. "It's as purple as

Virago's prose." I joked.

"Can you move your arm?" asked Allison.

"No, the damn thing hurts like hell -- I can't lift it at

all."

"You're going to have a pretty big lumpen there, Wij." Maria

added.

"I don't mean to interrupt," interrupted Virago, "but what

the hell is going on with our train tracks?"

We turned and looked with astonishment in the direction that

Virago was pointing. All that was remaining of the magic

train tracks were two twenty foot lengths of rails floating

about five feet above the ground. The rails had no beginning

and no end and looked to be just long enough to hold our

train car and nothing else.

"What the fuck?" I said indecorously.

"Where are the rest of the tracks? And what about the

train?" Maria noted that the rest of the train was no where

to be seen.

"I think I know what happened -- kind of," I proposed.

"Unlike regular train tracks that cover a physical distance,

these tracks cover a distance in time. They started in the

late 20th century and presumably ended at our supposed

destination -- Rome in 40 ad. So one section is

theoretically only in one time period at one time, so when

we derailed, our section of track was frozen in this spot in

time."

"But there were cars behind us, where are *they*?" asked

Virago.

"Probably at some point in the near future -- from wherever

it is we are." I guessed.

"So what about the rest of the train?"

"If I follow the logic, if the train derailed like we did,

then each successive car from ours is probably at some point

in the past along the timeline we were traveling. So the

engine is probably furthest in the past and each car is just

a bit more in the past than the car that was behind it."

Allison chimed in.

"But what if the rest of the train didn't derail?" asked

Maria.

"Then they're blissfully on their way to ancient Rome for

two weeks of drunken debauchery under the hospitality of

Caligula while we're stuck in God-knows-where just waiting

for some savage to hack us to pieces." I kicked the mud off

of my boatshoes, splattering some on the khaki shorts I was

wearing in the process, causing me to mutter

incomprehensible swears as I did.

"Which brings us to another question, John's hysteria

notwithstanding," Allison snickered. "Where is *here*?"

"Well, how long did that screwy little leprechaun say the

whole trip would take?" Wijit moaned, trying to use a towel

he retrieved from the train as a makeshift sling.

"About four hours, why?" Maria plopped down on a rock near

the toppled car and stretched, pulling her DKNY sweatshirt

tight against her large breasts. This was the first that I

noticed that she wasn't wearing a bra beneath the

sweatshirt. How did I miss that before?

"Maybe we can figure out what year we're in based on how

long we traveled."

"I think we traveled for about an hour, at the most, before

the accident," added Virago, adjusting the sheath for her

broad sword and straightening out her laced leather vest

which did little to hide the swell of her breasts. They were

certainly impressive breasts, but all that leather was a

little intimidating. "So where does that put us? About the

year 1500, maybe?"

"Possibly, probably a little later than that. But that

assumes that we were traveling back through time linearly,"

I continued as if I knew what the fuck I was talking about.

"That is, any given amount of time that we spent on the

train would correspond to a set amount of years of time

travel, and that relationship would be constant for the

entire trip."

"But we really don't know, and that leprechaun was too busy

playing with his lucky charms and downing the bottles of

Irish whisky that Shon got him to bother explaining any of

the details of the trip to us." Allison fumed.

"And that's another thing about the little prick -- sorry, I

mean wee person," Maria said snidely. "What was the deal

with the assigned train cars? The veterans got to sit in the

front few cars -- first class -- and as the seniority in the

group got less and less the rest were pushed to cars in the

rear. Did you see the car that Denny and those guys had to

ride in? That was like a cattle car. At least we had padded

seats. None of the other segments of the trip were like

that. I think someone pissed Louie off."

"Don't look at me. I've tried to stay out of his way. I'm

not the only wise-ass on the train." I jumped to my defense

-- someone had to.

"The car Uther and Bronwen and those guys were in was

great." Allison interjected, straightening out the skirt of

her navy blue Anne Klein suit. "I caught a glimpse of it

when shorty was shuttling us back to our car. They had maids

and manservants and maybe even a concubine or two -- *and*

full bar service. What did he give us? A case of Molson.

What a sport."

"Uh, actually I brought that along," said Wijit, the

Canadian, "that's just aboot the best beer there is oot

there, eh."

"Thanks Wijit. So the cheap little bastard got us nothing --

oh, excuse me -- cheap little wee person." I sat on the

grass, trying hard not to be conspicuous in his ogling of

Maria's tits, Virago's ass, and Allison's legs. I don't

think I succeeded.

"He was an odd little guy, but right about now he's the only

thing standing between us and being stuck in wherever-we-are."

Maria said glumly while pressing her chest out a bit

further, as if to give me a better look. God, she's such an

exhibitionist. "What should we do?"

"Why don't we just wait here for a while," suggested Wijit,

rubbing his shoulder. "With any luck they'll realize what

happened and the train will come back for us."

The five of us waited around for the return of the magic

train, idling the time by talking, joking with one another

and finishing the rest of the case of beer that Wijit had

brought along. After two hours, with no train in sight, we

started to get restless, hungry, and a little worried about

the helplessness of our situation. Privately, I began to

worry that we might actually be stranded somewhere in the

past and was disconcerted by that thought at the least.

Somehow I didn't picture this hapless little group of ours

as a Swiss family Robinson.

"I can't take any more of this. We need a plan, we just

can't sit around waiting for something to happen!" Virago,

the warrioress, paced with frustration, smoothing the

leather leggings over her muscular thighs. "This forest

affords us a fair amount of concealment and the train car

can provide shelter, but we're going to need to find food if

we're here for very long."

"I agree. I'm already starting to get hungry, but should we

go too far away from the train car?" asked Allison.

"If we want to eat we do," I added. "I somehow don't think

we can get takeout."

"Well, there aren't any fruit trees or edible plants around

here. We're either going to have to go foraging or try to

venture into a village." Virago offered.

"Does anybody have any military training or survival skills

training or anything like that?" Maria queried, her breasts
still straining against her sweatshirt.

"Well, I've had toilet training, does that help?" I thought

a bit of humor would lighten everyone's tense mood.

"Yeah, great. Now we're all happy that you won't soil

yourself when the locals are stringing us up from the

trees." Allison stuck her tongue out playfully at me.

"Seriously," I continued seriously. "We're going to have to

be careful if we wander too far from here, we don't have

much a frame of reference for finding our way around."

I privately worried about what we'd meet up with when we

left our secluded area. We could very well have been dumped

in the middle of the civil war and get caught in a

crossfire. Or perhaps we were in the middle of the English

civil war and a loyalist mistook us for parliamentarians. Or

even worse, we could have been in the middle of Spain during

the Inquisition. I had no doubt what those extremists would

have done to a group who looked like we did. We'd be burned

at the stake faster than we could say Auto-Da-Fe.

Aside from the physical dangers we may have been facing,

there also was the potential damage to the timeline that we

could be doing. The leprechaun had said that nothing we did

when we got to our destination would affect the timeline,

but this was an unscheduled stop. I worried that something

we did would have a minute effect that would snowball over

the years into something tragic. I didn't want us to be the

cause of the Allies losing World War Two, or slavery not

being abolished, or, heaven forbid, disco not dying when it

did.

"We're probably not in too much danger from attackers.

Nobody's going to mess with us with Virago wielding that big

sword of hers," Maria piped in, snapping me out of my

paranoid reverie, then continued sarcastically. "Also if

we're attacked John can just say some smart-ass remark that

will be sure to win over the natives."

"What's going on? When did this become pick on John day?'"

I whined.

"We do have one problem," Virago added, her warrior's

instinct obviously much more attuned to tactics than the

rest of the group. "Someone's going to have to stay here,

just in case that leprechaun realizes that some people are

missing. This section of forest seems pretty remote and

untouched, so I don't think whoever remains should be in any

danger."

"I'll volunteer," volunteered Wijit. "With my arm like this

I'm pretty useless anyway."

Wijit headed back into the train coach to try to fashion a

spot to relax and rest his shoulder. The rest of us wished

him well and followed Virago's lead as she forged a path

through the dense forest. When the underbrush became too

thick, Virago unsheathed her large sword, and began to hack

at the flora as we tried to avoid the swath of the blade on

her backswing. I made a mental note never to piss her off.

After fighting our way through the heavily packed forest for

about an hour, we emerged into a clearing. We walked on past

a field and climbed a hill to get a better view of what was

surrounding us. When we reached the top of the hill, for as

far as it seemed there was nothing but wheat fields. Our

hearts sank.

"Is that a town over there?" Maria pointed to a tiny spot

near the horizon, past some farms that spotted the

landscape.

"What, that?" I pointed to a little rise in the distance.

"No, that looks like a pile of shit," Maria indicated an

area in the distance. "Over there."

"I think so...about how far do you think that is?" Allison

strained to see in the distance. Our spirits lifted at

Maria's sighting.

"I'd guess maybe an hour's walk, give or take." Virago

estimated. "Remember, ideally, we don't want to interact

with any of the locals, we might not exactly fit in. We

should try to limit out contact. The ideal situation would

be to find some fruit trees and bring a large supply of them

back to the train car and wait for the others to come and

get us. Failing that, we might try to make some discreet

contact with one or two townspeople and try to get their

help."

"Sounds like a plan -- let's get moving while we still have

some good daylight." I looked at my watch, it was just after

two in the afternoon -- with luck we could get to the town,

get some food and return to the train car before nightfall.

"Another hour? My feet aren't going to last another hour,"

Maria complained before we had taken three steps off the

hill.

"Yeah, my feet are killing me too," Allison whined. "I knew

I shouldn't have worn heels."

"Zha Zha, Eva, stop complaining," I said sarcastically then

added to no one in particular, "will somebody please get the

Gabor sisters a limo."

We walked down the hill and headed toward a dirt road. As we

got on the path we agreed that we needed to keep our eyes on

the lookout. We really needed to try to avoid the locals as

much as possible. We knew that we'd probably need to

interact with a couple of people, we just didn't want to

become the talk of the town -- provided that there *was*

some sort of town anywhere nearby.

"What if we can't find anything to eat?" Maria asked,

kicking up the dust of the road.

"Donner, party of four." I snickered.

"Don't even joke about anything like that," Allison said. "I

mean, I *love* being eaten, but not *that* way."

"Remember, we have to try to use our best diplomacy if we

meet up with someone," Virago admonished, looking at me for

some strange reason as she said it.

"Hey, I can be diplomatic." I was hurt by the implication --

well, not really, but I tried to pretend to be hurt to

engender sympathy. It wasn't effective.

"Yeah, just like you were diplomatic in 1960s Las Vegas?"

Allison reminded.

"I *was* diplomatic in Vegas, I was just trying to have some

fun, that's all."

"You almost got your ass kicked by Sinatra." Virago chimed

in.

"Hey, the man hung around with Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.,

and Joey Bishop. You'd think he'd have a sense of humor

about things." I protested.

"Listen to me closely, you don't go making mafia jokes to

the chairman of the board." admonished Allison.

"I realize that *now*. It would have been nice if you would

have said something *before* I got us kicked out of the

Sands." I gave a look of mock indignation. "Although I'd

like to think that I would have turned him into old Black

and Blue Eyes."

Virago just shook her head, "Ok, here's your warning. Don't

piss off the locals."

"Don't worry, I won't insult any of the farmers here in

Hooterville."

"Hey, watch what you say about farmers," Allison chided. "My

uncle's a farmer. This is so pretty out here, it looks just

like his farm. He's been in Oklahoma for years."

"Well, once you get in a road show, it's tough to get back

on Broadway." I chortled.

The path narrowed as we approached a small farm house that

probably measured just twenty feet square. It answered the

question as to whether or not there were any people around

us, but it confronted us with having to make the decision as

to whether or not we wanted to make diplomatic contact, such

as it was, with the occupants of the house. That question

was answered for us when a man dressed in a plain black suit

came riding up behind us on a horse. My first thoughts were

that we could be somewhere in Amish country. Swell, the

Amish were real open with outsiders -- especially outsiders

dressed as we were.

"Hail, strangers." The man alighted from his horse and

greeted us with a wary smile.

"Hi, uh, hail." Maria greeted him with a warm smile.

"You all do not look as if you are from these parts. From

where do you come?"

"Well, *I* come..." I was cut off by an elbow in the

midsection by Allison, who muttered something about

diplomacy.

"We have traveled from far away and are merely looking for

some food and somewhere to rest." Virago answered vaguely.

"Such strange garb you all wear. You certainly do not come

from anywhere near here."

"Uh, no. We come from....France. Yes France. These are the

current fashions in France this year." I stammered. When in

doubt, claiming you're from France always seems to excuse a

certain amount of eccentricity.

"Ah, but you are so far from home. What are you here for?"

Our Amish friend looked at us warily.

"Well, out boat was shipwrecked and we were given passage on

another ship which deposited us...here." I still didn't know

where *here* was, and didn't think that letting on to that

fact was a good idea with the suspicious way buckles was

eying us. I just hoped *here* was somewhere near water.

"Well, the town is a short walk down this road. There you

can find food, and lodging, and . . . suitable clothing.

Farewell, my chores call to me." Our new acquaintance jumped

back up on his horse and galloped down the road without

looking back at us. I wasn't at ease with out first contact,

but it didn't go as badly as some of the scenarios I'd

imagined.

"Here we come, walking down the street," I sang, doing a

poor impression of the Monkeys. "We get the funniest looks

from everyone we meet." Ok, I thought it was a tension

breaker.

We continued down the road for another twenty minutes before

we started to see what seemed like the outskirts of a town.

"Look at the houses. What period of time do we seem to be

in?" Allison asked no one in particular. "They all look like

small boxes with high pitched roofs."

"They look as if they could be in the federal or early

federal style of design, common to the American Colonies in

revolutionary and pre-revolutionary days." I said, feeling

pretty proud that I was able to identify our general period

of time and location.

"So, you do know something other than how to make smart-ass

comments." Maria snickered. "Do you know anything else that

could be of use?"

"Probably not, unless anyone has a burning need to know the

all the winners of the American League Most Valuable Player

award."

Allison scratched her head as she gave me a look reserved

for the mentally ill.

"Then I guess I've ceased being useful on this journey. You

can all just use me as your sex tool now." They ignored me.

We walked along the side of the road, trying to stay close

to the woods that bordered it, and staying out of plain view

of the local populace. We still hadn't seen any of the

locals and were pretty happy with our luck. As we got closer

to the town, I felt a pressure in my bladder from all of the

beer that I had drunk while we were sitting around the train

car.

"Uh, guys...I have to, uh, pee." I stammered.

"Oh, for crying out loud," Allison shook her head at me.

"Guys are always talking about *women* needing to go to the

bathroom at the most inconvenient times," Virago chuckled.

"Hey, I had about eight of Wijit's Molsons, I'm amazed that

I haven't gone before now."

"Oh, you've been gone for years," Maria giggled.

"Just hurry up, John," Virago urged.

"I'll just head into the woods. I'll be done in a minute." I

ran about fifteen feet into the woods and hid behind a tree

before I started to do my business. "No peeking." I shouted.

I heard some sort of comment and snickering from the women,

but I thought it was better that I not know what they were

saying.

Just as I was finishing with my last shakes I heard some

commotion from where the girls were waiting for me. I

crouched down and kept under cover as I got nearer to try to

see what was happening. Crawling within earshot, I peeked my

head up and noticed four constables, one of whom had

confiscated Virago's sword, surrounding my friends. In

addition to the constables, our buckled friend was there,

pointing menacingly at the ladies.

"Look gentlemen, at the brazen way these hussies dress. Look

at these two, exposing their legs in such an immodest way.

And the third -- what kind of woman carries a sword? And

look at what she's wearing. She's barely covering

her...her...womanly areas. The trollop. See, I told you what

they were...." The farmer went on hysterically about the

women's lack for modesty in their dress.

"Hey, listen stubby," Maria interrupted him. "We're not

trollops and we're not hussies. Pendejo."

"Yeah," agreed Allison. "Just because we're not covered from

head to toe with clothes doesn't mean we're easy."

"That's right," Maria added. "But it doesn't mean we're

difficult, either."

My heart sank as I realized that my friends were being

arrested for prostitution based solely on the way they were

dressed. I would have like to have raced in to the rescue

but I realized that to the locals I was dressed just as

oddly as my companions, and if I tried to approach the

constables, I'd most likely be arrested for being their pimp

-- or something like that. I certainly wouldn't be any good

to them if I were locked up too.

"Silence!" The constable who seemed to be in charge shouted.

"We will not hear any more of your prattle as you try to

wile your witchly talents to our detriment."

"Our what?" Virago stood open mouthed, not sure if she heard

correctly what he had said.

"Who else but witches would dress as brazenly as the three

of you? The royal governor's tribunal will try them for

witchcraft in the morning. Take them to the stocks, men."

The officials began to lead the ladies away, most likely to

be placed on public display.

"I could use some socks, my feet are killing me in these

heels. I think I'm getting a blister," said Maria. "I knew I

should have worn my Nikes."

"Maria, we're going to the stocks, not socks." Virago

corrected quietly. "Empalizada, not calcetines." Virago

stressed.

"What??? Stocks??? They're going to put us into stocks,

like... like...prisoners? Let me go, you bunch of wankers.

This story needs a much better Spanish-English dictionary!"

Maria yelled as the guards led them away.

Fuck! We didn't need this. I needed to formulate a plan, and

quickly too, before anything happened to them. Witches?

*Witches*? I thought that being arrested for prostitution

was bad enough. But witchcraft. This was some serious shit.

Of all places for a bunch of erotica writers to be dumped.

If being in the middle of the puritanical colonies wasn't

bad enough, we had to end up in the middle of the Salem

witch trials with those paranoid lunatics. They burned

witches, didn't they?

I started to take off in the general direction of where the

guards took my friends, hoping to find out where they were

taking them. I stayed under the cover of the woods so I

wouldn't be caught too, although that was slowing me up

quite a bit. I'd be no good in stocks myself -- not that I'd

be much good free, either. What the hell was I going to do

to get them out?

I continued walking through the woods and before I got more

than twenty five feet from my original location, I was

tapped on the shoulder. I jumped and let out a shriek before

turning around and noticing a young woman giggling slightly

at my panicked reaction.

"Who are you?" I tried to recompose myself.

"I should ask that of you. We do not often get strangers in

these parts, and certainly not ones who are dressed

so...oddly." she looked me over with an almost humorous

gaze. I suppose it was the way you'd look at any

anachronism. "My name is Samantha. Samantha Corning. And you

are?"

"John, uh, John A."

"A? Your last name is A? What an odd name."

"Well it's more of a nym than a name. See I really didn't

take the time...never mind."

She giggled at my awkwardness and I couldn't help but smile

at her.

"I saw what happened to your companions. It has gotten

terrible here in Salem these past few months. Everyone can

accuse anyone else of being a witch with no proof

whatsoever. Those two poor sisters were arrested for being

witches. The reverend testified that they were panting and

screaming out incantations when all they were doing together

were...oh, my. Pardon me." Samantha blushed when she

realized what she was alluding to.

She sighed, quickly trying to change the subject. "You and

your friends dress strangely, where do you come from?"

"Uh, France. The style of dress is much different there."

"I'm sure it is," she said matter-of-factly. "I don't

believe you, but I don't think that you're lying to conceal

a malevolence, but rather to protect me. Besides, it doesn't

matter. I have a keen sense about people, and I trust you.

Come with me. You need shelter, you can come with me to my

home."

"I appreciate that, but I have to do something about getting

my friends out of the stocks."

"There's nothing that you can do for them during the day, My

sister and I will help with your friends, but we'll need to

work during the cover of darkness. Now come with me, before

you're captured too."

Samantha led me through a path in the woods that led closer

to the town's center, we approached a small nondescript

federal style house at the end of a cobblestone street. We

managed to slip in through the back door, unseen by anyone's

eyes.

"Samantha, can I ask you a question?" I took a seat in her

sparse dining room as she nodded her assent. "What were you

doing in the woods before?"

"I was gathering wild mushrooms for my... for cooking." She

turned away and walked into the pantry.

There was a lot to this girl that I couldn't figure out but

she was my only hope to help me free my companions, so I had

no choice but to trust her. I told her about our

predicament, leaving out a lot of the pertinent details like

coming from the 20th century or the messy bit about the time

travel and the leprechaun. I'm not sure she believed my

story -- she seemed to be tremendously perceptive -- but she

didn't challenge it, anyway. During the middle of my

account, her sister Tabitha came in and cast a suspicious

glance in my direction. They talked for a couple of minutes

before Tabitha volunteered to take some food to Wijit. I

gave her rough directions to the train car and she seemed to

know the area well enough to find it. I tried to explain

that it was our carriage that overturned and the horses had

fled -- after all, train travel was a good 150 years away.

I'm not sure either one of them believed me, though.

"Don't forget your potions, Tabitha."

"Potions. What do you mean potions?" I was a little wary of

what they had planned for Wijit.

Samantha just laughed. "I said potions, but you would think

of them as medicines. Tabitha and I have quite an extensive

supply of ... medicines that have great healing power.

She'll bring some salves and your friend's shoulder will be

as good as new. Tabitha has a ...sense about what people

need. She's very intuitive."

That pacified me a little and I thought that if she really

had any evil intentions, all she'd have had to do was to

turn me into to the constables and I'd be up in stocks with

the women.

"You must be hungry, John. I was just about to make the

evening meal. Would you care to join me?" Samantha asked.

"Yes. I'm starving. Thank you."

"I thought I'd make brown bread, corn and boiled mutton. Do

you like boiled mutton?"

"Does anybody?" Diplomacy, diplomacy, I reminded myself. "I

mean, anything will be fine."

What the hell animal did mutton come from, I wondered. Not

that it mattered; I was hungry enough to eat a horse. Wait a

minute, it couldn't be, could it? No, I think back then

horses were too valuable to eat. At least I hoped so.

All through the meal I found that I couldn't help but gaze

at Samantha. I hadn't noticed it before, and it was

difficult to see because of all of the layers of thick black

clothing that she was wearing, but she was a stunningly

beautiful girl. Her black hair peeked out teasingly beneath

her bonnet and her blue eyes sparkled with everything that

she said.

"So, how is it that two women come to own a house by

themselves?"

"This was our parents' house. But they passed away last

year, so now Tabitha and I take care of it." She brushed

some loose hair out of her eyes and there was just something

so innocent yet seductive in her action.

"That's an awful lot of responsibility for two women back

th...now, how old are you?" It was difficult to tell with

all of the clothing that she wore, but I wouldn't have

guessed that she was a day over twenty five.

"I am nineteen and Tabitha is eighteen. It *is* hard work

for women without husbands -- but we don't want them either

-- we have skill at dressmaking, and grow our own

vegetables in the garden out back, so we can provide for

ourselves. But not having husbands is why my sister and I

are looked down upon. All those men; they're all hypocrites.

Narrow minded idiots. Tabitha and I were raised by very open

minded parents. You could say we're a little different than

most other people here in Salem. They're so intent on

finding that someone isn't as pure as they *pretend* to be.

One of these days, they're going to accuse the wrong

person..." she stopped herself after working up her

emotions. "But enough of me, what about you? Is one of those

women your wife?"

I laughed, maybe a bit too loudly. "No. They're just

friends. We were traveling and sort of got sidetracked

here."

"The clothing they wear, and you too. It's all

so...revealing. This is truly the way you dress where you

come from?"

"Pretty much -- well, except for Virago. She has her own

unique way of dressing. But the rest of us are dressed

normally." Actually with the leather leggings and vest she

was wearing, Virago could have fit in nicely on Hollywood

Blvd. But I wouldn't be the one to mention that to her. I

had learned first hand that Virago had quite a temper, and

I'd just as soon have her on my side than against me.

"It's so fascinating. So...so revealing. They all look so

wonderful, though."

"I'm sure you look just as nice, you're just covered with

this heavy clothing." It was more like draperies that she

was wearing. These puritans certainly had modesty down to a

science. "You should allow yourself to get more comfortable.

You could at least take the bonnet off."

I reached over and gently removed the bonnet that was

restraining her hair. She had a look of apprehension as I

did, but as soon as it was off she smiled and shook her jet

black hair out, letting it flow smoothly to her shoulders,

shining as it caught the rays of the late afternoon sun that

filtered in through the window. It was amazing how beautiful

she looked with this simple transformation. I took a wisp of

hair in my hand and brushed it back, grazing my hand lightly

against her cheek as I did.

We stood breathlessly next to each other as I let my hand

linger on her face.

"You're so beautiful. It's a shame you don't show more of

yourself. I'd very much like to see you dressed

more...casually."

"I'd like to, but I don't know. It all seems so...wicked."

Samantha blushed.

"You just need to relax. Just because they say it's wicked,

it doesn't mean they're right. You said yourself how narrow

minded they are. Look at me, do I seem evil?"

"Isn't that what the devil would say? 'Trust me, you can eat

the apple'." Samantha threw her head back in laughter. She

had no idea how lovely she was. "I'll be back. Wait right

here."

Samantha skipped out to a back room, an impish grin

brightening her face. After a couple of minutes she emerged

from her room, wearing nothing but a simple white cotton

evening gown. As plain as it was, the gown was so much more

flattering to Samantha than her black dress and I was

overwhelmed.

"You're beautiful, do you know that?" I smiled at Samantha

and her face boiled crimson. Her breasts pressed against the

front of her dressing gown and rose and fell with her deep

breathing.

"Do you really think so?" Her voice was almost a whisper and

she was shaking like a scared little girl.

"Absolutely." I brushed her cheek with the back of my hand

and leaned in for a kiss. She hesitated at first, pulling

back slightly from my advance. I held her firmly and tried

to steady her nervousness. After appearing to be wrestling

with her conscience she looked deeply into my eyes and took

a deep breath as she brought her lips to mine. We kissed

standing in the middle of the room for what seemed like

hours. Her unsupported breasts pressing against my chest

felt heavenly and I think I could have stayed like that

forever. I slid my hands down to her firm ass and kissed her

neck. I nibbled on her earlobe and she began to writhe in my

grasp, trying to grind her pussy against my thigh. I don't

even think she realized what she was doing; she was acting

solely on instinct.

"Why don't we go lie down. We'll be more comfortable," I

suggested.

"Oh, I don't know what I'm getting into. This is so wrong."

She pulled away from me slightly, yet was still staring in

my eyes.

"Come on," I whispered. "Trust me. Has anything felt bad, so

far?"

"Well, I suppose not. But relations with a man I'm not

married to seems so...so..."

Not waiting for her for finish her protest, I took her hand

and led her to the bedroom. When we approached the bed, I

gave her a tender kiss on the lips and placed my hands by

her sides and began to lift off her dressing gown.

She was shaking like a leaf, and I had my doubts about what

I was going to do. She was a virgin after all, and her first

lover was about to be someone 300 years younger than her.

This was not a late 20th century girl with late 20th century

morals and ideas about sex. For Samantha, this violated just

about all of the social mores of 17th century Puritan

society and I had some serious doubts as to whether or not I

was willing to accept that responsibility. All that having

been noted though, my rational side was still quickly losing

out to my lust for this girl. I'm sorry, I was years away

from home and had expected to be at a Roman orgy right about

now. I was horny. Not that my circumstances affected my

lust. I'm pretty much horny all the time. And being with

this incredibly sexy young woman was certainly not doing

anything to quell my passion.

Just as I was questioning my resolve, she gave me a shy

smile that let me know that whatever her doubts may have

been, she wanted this to happen.

I pulled the garment over her head and was taken aback by

her utter beauty. Her puritan skin, untouched by the light

of day, was a silky alabaster and was unimaginably smooth.

She had beautiful flared hips and wonderfully firm breasts
that stood out proudly, their nipples puckering in the

slight chill of the room.

Samantha lay on the thick quilts of the bed as I took my

shorts and shirt off. She giggled slightly at the sight of

my erection, and I was taken aback by her reaction. Hell,

it's not the most comforting thing for the ego to have one's

wood laughed at by a woman, a virgin no less.

"Surely you can't expect *that* to fit inside me, it's so

big." I smiled broadly, knowing that there aren't many

things a woman can say to a man that are as ego boosting as

it's so big.'

I assured her that it would, indeed, fit and I sidled next

to her on the bed. Samantha took a deep breath as I began

kissing her body from her neck down to her navel. I wanted

to show this girl how pleasurable that sex could be, but I

thought twice before bringing my mouth down to her pussy. I

wasn't sure if cunnilingus was even done *anywhere* in 1692

-- although I was pretty confident that those kinky puritans

didn't go around eating pussy. I was trying to relax

Samantha, not frighten the bejeeses out of her.

I reversed my direction and began climbing back up her body.

I clamped my lips over her left nipple, and then the right.

The rosy peaks stiffened at the contact with my tongue and

my she started writhing under me and moaning as I took turns

nibbling each one.

I positioned myself above her and ran my cock over the lips

of her now engorged labia. She was much wetter than I

thought she'd be as I began to press myself into her. She

smiled nervously as I pressed my cock inside her slowly. I

was determined to be gentle with her; it had been years

since I'd made love to a virgin, and I didn't want to repeat

the mistakes I made as a bumbling teenager.

She winced a bit as I stretched out her vagina. God, she was

tight. I had forgotten what a virgin pussy was like,

especially after being on the train for the past week. The

women on the train whom I'd been with were all wonderful and

incredibly sexy, but let's face it, I was definitely not

their first. However, this girl's vagina had a vice like

grip on my cock and I had to concentrate my utmost at not

losing it too quickly.

I was kissing her neck and brought one of my hands down to

play with her clit as I drove my cock in and out of her sex.

The added stimulation from my fingers was all she needed.

Her moaning increased and she started thrusting up at my

cock, trying to get as much of me inside as possible. As her

orgasm neared, she had a look of terror in her eyes that was

quickly replaced with ecstacy as she surrendered to the

pleasure she was experiencing. She began to pant in orgasm,

and I lost all hope of self control and just three strokes

later was emptying myself into her pussy.

I rolled off of her and pulled a quilt up to cover us as we

snuggled together. She laid her head on my chest and I found

myself absentmindedly running my fingers through her shiny

black hair. She was still breathing heavily when she looked

up and smiled contentedly at me.

"Remind me to trust you more often. That was amazing," she

looked at me lovingly through heavy eyelids and placed a

brief kiss on my lips. She may have thought I was amazing,

but then again, I was her first, she really had nothing to

compare it to. Damn, I hated it when self-doubt crept in. I

placated myself that amazing was amazing, no matter how

little experience that she had. In addition, she considered

me 'so big'. I really, *really* liked her.

I smiled as I returned her kiss and realized at that point

that it would be hard to leave this girl. However, 300 years

would be stretching the definition of a long distance

relationship, and Louie had made it clear that we couldn't

bring anybody from the past back on the train with us.

Fucking wee bastard.

We laughed together as we snuggled, tickling each other,

playing footsie, and pretty much just enjoying the

proverbial post-coital bliss. I checked my watch and saw

that it was just shortly after nine o'clock.

"Is that a time piece on your arm?" Samantha marveled at my

watch. "That's such an odd looking item. Nothing like the

time pieces we have here."

"Well, like I said. I come from far away." I really didn't

think she could ever really comprehend exactly *how* far

away.

"We still have the matter of rescuing your friends," she

reminded. "Although I have half a mind to keep you in this

bed with me forever."

"As tempting as that sounds, I can't let them stay in stocks

any longer. It's night now, and I need to go out and try to

rescue them -- although I have no clue how I'm going to do

that."

"Don't worry, John. I have everything all worked out. The

two guards now on duty get replaced by one at midnight. At

that point, we'll go out and I'll distract the guard while

you sprinkle some powder I'll give you at the guard. Then

he'll go to sleep and we'll take his key and free your

friends."

"What kind of powder are we talking about? Your sister had

some special salve that she was going to use on Wijit, and

now you have some powder that's going to knock the guard

out. Is there something about yourself that you'd like to

tell me?"

"Let's just say that I oppose the witch trials for a more

personal reason." Samantha smiled sheepishly as it dawned on

me that I had just finished having sex with a witch. Well, I

didn't have warts on my face, and my dick hadn't fallen off

so I figured that I was probably safe. It's funny, witches

don't have cold tits after all. It's amazing the things time

travel teaches you.

I convinced Samantha that we could take a little nap and

wake up in time for the changing of the guard. I tried to

explain to her what a watch alarm was, but I resigned myself

to ask her to take my word on it. She was so tired that it

didn't take much convincing at all and within a minute she

was fast asleep. My only thoughts as I was drifting to sleep

was that I hoped I remembered how to set the alarm properly.

The last thing I wanted was to wake up to the light of day

to get a ringside seat for my friends' hangings. There was

no hope that they wouldn't be convicted. I had a funny

feeling that these people knew the outcome of the trials

before they actually took place.

Fortunately, the alarm went off at midnight and we rose and

dressed sleepily. I looked over at Samantha and realized

that the dream I had been having was not borne totally out

of fantasy. She was absolutely adorable, perhaps even more

so with her hair all mussed after a couple of hours of

sleep.

Samantha went into a cabinet and retrieved a small bag from

a cabinet before we crept silently out of her house. We

walked along the dark deserted streets to the town square

where the public stocks were. I chuckled as we passed the

House of Seven Gables, realizing that it didn't look quite

like I had remembered it. The gardens that were in front of

it were in my time a parking lot and the field across the

street was occupied in 1999 by a bank and a Dunkin' Donuts.

I snickered to myself that I liked it this way better,

although a strong cup of coffee sure would have helped to

wake me up.

Samantha led us to a secluded spot that gave us a good

vantage point of the stocks and we could see a lone guard

walking back and forth behind my friends, who were bent over

with their heads and arms restrained.

"Look at the way they have these people in stocks, this is

like the fucking inquisition."

"Shhh. He'll hear you." Samantha admonished quietly.

"What kind of women are you, to dress like this," we could

overhear him lecture. "Why, if any of you were my wife, I'd

teach you a lesson in...."

"Hey, flaco," Maria cut him off. "If any of us was your

wife, you would have died from exhaustion years ago."

"Well, tomorrow you'll learn your lesson. Harlots. Witches!"

The guard took up a position behind the girls and we noticed

that he was staring intently at the backsides of my three

companions.

"Why is that guard staring so intently at your friends? This

is what I meant about all the men in town," Samantha

whispered. "They all profess to be so pious, but they're all

just hypocrites. Look at him stare at them. They do have

lovely, um.....backsides but he seems so intent..."

"Come on Samantha, you can do better than 'backside.'"

"But I shouldn't...it wouldn't be proper."

"Come on, you know you want to. Trust me. It'll feel good."

"But..."

"Come on you can do it. Remember I told you to trust me

before and it felt good."

"ASSES, are you happy? Ass. Ass. Ass. Ass. Ass. Ass. Ass."

Samantha giggled as she freed herself from her puritanical

bonds. "That felt good...although not as good as the things

you were doing to me earlier." She blushed.

"I told you it would -- both times." I smirked.

"The question remains, why is he staring so intently,

especially at the one with the ungodly short skirt?"

"Actually, Allison's skirt isn't that short, women where I

come from wear their skirts above the knee. That's actually

fairly conservative compared to some. I guess people around

here don't get to see women's legs too often. It must be a

shock for him to see Allison's legs and Maria in her shorts

and Virago with that leather...well...thing, that barely

covers her...her..."

"Ah, now you are the one who's tongue-tied. What's the

matter, can't say what you want. Come on, you can do it."

Her eyes sparkled brightly as she was enjoying teasing me. I

was really falling for this girl, even though I knew it was

impossible for her to leave this time and impossible for me

to stay. Still, there was something incredibly special about

her and I knew I'd miss her when it would be time to leave.

That is, if we were ever going to be able to leave.

"Well, I didn't want to offend you, but if you insist." It

was time to turn the tables on her. "That thing barely

covers her pussy... Happy?" I smirked and Samantha's cheeks

invented a new shade of red. I could be a real prick when I

wanted to. "But you're right, he really does seem to be

staring at Allison. I wond..." I paused, struck with the

realization of why Allison's backside was holding the

guard's rapt attention. "Now I understand. She's not wearing

panties again."

"No undergarments? Surely not."

"Oh yeah. She's riding the breeze." I laughed quietly.

"How unseemly. Does she do this often?"

"She says it happens by accident, but we're beginning to

think she does it all the time. I think she secretly loves

flashing herself around."

"You and your friends do some things very strangely. It must

be a fascinating place you come from. I wish..."

Samantha looked up and stopped herself as we saw someone

approaching the stocks. A short, rotund fellow exchanged a

few words with the guard and soon after the guard left his

post with a smile on his face, apparently pleased to have

been relieved so early in his shift.

"Who's that?" I asked.

"That's the Reverend Chambers. He's always making speeches

about the danger of sin, and how witches are trying to

destroy the community," Samantha's jaw clenched in anger.

"He's such a small minded man. He was the one responsible

for the hangings of those two sisters. He said they were

pawns of the devil. The reverend had their father convinced

they were witches. They all preach piety, but they're

nothing but hypocrites, trying to control the community

through fear. And that Reverend Mather, so high and mighty,

he's not much better than the others. He had the chance to

stop this, but he chose to say nothing. Only now is he

beginning to raise questions about the trials. . . . They're

all a bunch of *asses*." Samantha giggled quietly, pleased

at her use of her new word.

The portly Reverend Chambers waddled behind the girls,

staring lecherously at them as he did.

"You three need to repent," he said in a booming voice.

"Admit that you are witches, the Lord will look favorably on

your admission."

"We're not witches, why won't any of you believe us?" Virago

protested.

"Liar! Repent. Who else but witches would dress in such a

manner as to seduce good men into your evil trap? Admit it.

Admit and repent! Fornication and witchcraft; two sides of

the same coin."

"Hey, porky. Why don't *you* admit that you're an asshole?"

Maria asked impertinently -- well, as impertinent as she

could get with her hands and arms being restrained as they

were.

"Oh, you three are evil, indeed. You all shall be hanged in

the morning and you will perish in hell." Chambers snickered

sinisterly. This guy really was an asshole. He was taking

obvious pleasure in the fact that the girls were going to be

sentenced to death. I got the distinct impression that this

sadistic bastard got off on these hangings. I wouldn't have

put it past him to make up stories just to watch people rot

in these stocks. When he replaced the guard on watch, I was

feeling a little guilty about having to knock out a man of

the cloth with Sam's powder, but now I was going to enjoy

it. Hell, I was considering foregoing the powder and just

hitting the fat fuck in the head with a rock instead.

"Impudent wench. Look at you all, parading your backsides

like the women the sailors visit in Boston. And you two on

the ends, with those large breasts of yours just hanging

down, attempting to bewitch good men everywhere." Then he

addressed Allison. "Apparently your witchly skills aren't

quite equal to that of your friends. The devil hasn't

possessed your breasts as he has your companions."

"Hey, weirdo, not that it's any of your business, but I'm a

perky 34b," Allison replied flatly.

"Oh, you're all evil. You all need to be taught a lesson."

"What kind of lesson?" Virago asked warily.

"You'll be sorry you ever asked that question, witch."

Chambers snickered as he fished his little penis out of his

pants and began stroking it with his left hand.

"What's he going to do?" I started to jump up. I wasn't

going to allow this little prick to rape my friends.

"Wait, look at him," Samantha pointed at the reverend, who

was leaning against a post behind the girls, grunting as he

jacked himself off. "His...you know...is so small." She

giggled.

"Hey, pervert. What are you doing back there?" Maria tried

in vain to turn her head to view the reverend's actions.

"Are you playing with yourself? You better not get any of

that stuff on Allison. She doesn't like it when it makes a

mess."

Crack! His right hand came down hard on Maria's bottom while

his left stroked his small penis furiously.

"Hey!!! What do you think you're doing asshole? I don't do

pain! Pami's the one into that, and she's in England now

trying to teach some king how to be a submissive."

Crack! The reverend ignored Maria and brought his hand down

hard onto Allison's ass. It seemed to me that he let it

linger for an extra moment.

"Owww! Stop that!" Allison cried. "My husband's a lawyer and

if you..."

Crack! The reverend's hand found Virago's backside and the

sound of the blow striking the leather silenced Allison.

"If I were not shackled you would see what it's like to face

the wrath of a warrior. You coward."

"Let that be a lesson to you three. Now silence or there's

more punishment to be meted out." His hand pumped furiously

over his tiny penis; he closed his eyes as he neared

release.

"Such a horrible man. He's supposed to be a man of the

cloth. Do you have such terrible people where you come

from?" she wondered.

"Yes, they're called reviewers."

I was seething as I witnessed the public spankings. I wanted

nothing more than to run out there and snap that scrawny

little reverend in two. I finally could take no more of what

I was watching, and I started to get up from our concealed

position. "He's just about finished. Give me the powder. You

won't even have to distract him, his eyes are shut."

I crept out of out hiding spot and silently approached the

hypocritical prelate. Just as I neared him a little semen

dribbled out of his undersized member. He grunted and I

quickly closed the last three steps and emptied the contents

of Samantha's bag on his head. He immediately collapsed in a

heap on the ground, with dirt adhering itself to his semen

covered fingers and prick. I laughed at the thought of him

being discovered with his penis out of his pants and covered

in dirt and come. The fat bastard was probably just going to

blame witches for it anyway.

"Do you ladies hang around here often?" I realized it was a

bad pun, I just couldn't help myself.

"John, is that you?" Allison voice was hopeful.

"I'm here to rescue you," I said proudly, heroically. "I

couldn't let the three of you go to trial."

"Well, it's about damn time. What were you waiting for?"

Virago asked somewhat angrily.

"Yeah." Maria added. "Do you have any idea how painful these

things are, especially for someone as shor... as not tall as

me? Hurry up and get us out of these things." So much for

being given the hero treatment.

Samantha came up out of our concealed spot and retrieved the

key from the reverend and began to unlock the stocks.

"Hello." Virago said questioningly to Samantha, obviously

wondering who this girl was.

Samantha said hello and I proceeded to introduce her to my

friends. Maria shot me a questioning look, but I pretended

to ignore it. We had to get out of there fast, before anyone

noticed what we had done to one of the town's leaders, and I

didn't want to linger any longer than we needed to.

Before we left, Samantha showed Virago where her sword was

stored while Maria and Allison helped me place the good

reverend in the stocks. We stepped back and laughed as we

let him hang there with his pants down to his ankles. If

only we could be there in the morning to witness the

townspeople's reactions to their oh, so upright Reverend

Samuel Chambers.

"We have to get going, before anyone spots us and signals an

alarm," Virago adjusted her sword in the sheath.

"Good point, let's go." Maria was shaking her arms out after

being in stocks for the better part of the day.

We headed out of the town center toward the outskirts. We

walked along the roadway without fear of detection. Salem in

1692 wasn't exactly teeming with nightlife. Hell, in 1999,

Salem wasn't teeming with nightlife either.

After just leaving the town limits, seemingly thinking that

we had avoided detection, we kept hearing sounds coming form

the woods. Every time we approached to investigate, the

noises would stop. We tried to excuse the sounds as deer or

squirrels rustling through the fallen leaves, but we weren't

sure that we believed that.

"Come on, let's get the fuck out of here. This place is

giving me the creeps." I started to get a little nervous

that our escape was just a little too easy. I had a real bad

feeling. Maybe it was just the mutton coming up on me.

After we had gotten twenty minutes or so out of town, we

started to relax, confident that we had left undetected.

Well, *I* started to relax; I think the girls were already

at ease long before I was. I tried to convince myself that

it was because they felt safe and secure with me around --

yeah, *that* was it.

Samantha edged closer to me and we began walking hand in

hand. Occasionally one of the other girls would eye us

suspiciously, whispering something to each other, but said

nothing to me.

When the trail narrowed and out path became more indistinct,

Samantha took the lead, guiding us easily through the dense

forest. Allison was up front, talking to her, while Virago

and Maria joined me in the rear.

"So, what's up with the girl?" Maria asked quietly.

"Jealous?" I teased.

The laughter from Maria and Virago at that point would have

awakened the dead. They certainly knew how to keep my ego in

check.

"She's just a girl who I met who decided to help us, that's

it." I felt myself getting defensive. That was essentially

the truth -- part of it anyway.

"Oh come on, John." Virago snickered.

"*What*?" I tried to feign ignorance.

"She *is* very pretty," said Virago.

"How old is she anyway, 21-22?" Maria chuckled derisively.

"Um, something like that." I mumbled and hoped the subject

would change.

"Oh, she's not even 21 is she? You're too much. How old is

she?"

"Nineteen. Are you happy now, she's nineteen. But it's not

like that. I really like her. She's very special." I tried

to whisper so Samantha couldn't hear me.

The two of them tittered at me. "You're pathetic. She's

young enough to be your daughter."

"In the mountains, maybe," I protested. She was 19, after

all, and I was only 34.

"What is it with you and teenagers, anyway?" Virago shook

her head at me. "People are going to be confusing you with

MichaelD if you keep it up."

"Well, if I keep it..."

"Be quiet, that was an unintentional pun, I meant

'continue'," she giggled.

"There's definitely something to be said for making love

with a tender, innocent virgin. She may have been

inexperienced but at least she didn't bite holes in my lips

like someone else did to me."

"You have whining down to a science, do you know that?"

Virago countered. "Can you drop that already. That whole

trip on the Enterprise was screwy. How many times to I have

to apologize about that? And I don't seem to remember you

complaining any of the five times we did it -- so I don't

want to hear any more out of you."

Apparently that was the punctuation on that statement and

there was nothing else to be said. I chuckled to myself but

said nothing and we walked in silence as we continued

tramping our way through the fields. Samantha had separated

herself from Allison and came back to join me. Maria winked

overtly to me as she and Virago eased forward to give us

some privacy. Samantha teased me a little about a few of the

things Allison was telling her about me -- there was never

an unspoken thought with these women was there? I should

have given Allison a spanking myself when she was in the

stocks.

"I like your friends a lot. They're a lot of fun to be

around." Samantha clasped my hand and gave me a kiss on the

cheek. "So are you," she added sweetly with a gleam in her

eye that sparkled in the light of the full moon.

"I think they really like you, too. And I know I do."

"So...what's going to happen now?" her voice was mouse like

and she averted her eyes from mine.

"Well, hopefully we can get the train back on its tracks and

continue on to our destination." She looked at me strangely,

not fully comprehending my words. "It's complicated."

"I meant...with us?" she was hesitant and her voice was

barely audible. "I'm not so naive to think that we're going

to rush off and get married or anything like that -- I know

you must have other women in other places -- but I'd really

like to spend some more time with you. Other than the house,

Tabitha and I have nothing holding us back here. Salem is

not a place for free thinkers to reside. I wouldn't mind

doing some traveling with you and your friends....if you'll

have me."

Shit! What was I going to say? What could I say? I really

liked this girl and I couldn't bear hurting her, but Louie's

rules were explicit. No passengers from out of time.

Something about upsetting the temporal balance, or something

like that. But what could I do? I had real feelings for

Samantha. How could I reject her like that?

"Samantha, honey. You'll probably never understand this at

all, but I'm forbidden to take any passengers on the train."

I sighed deeply and felt terrible. "This has nothing to do

with you and it's not an excuse at all. All while we've been

walking I've been trying to think of a way we could stay

together. I'm forbidden to stay here and you're forbidden to

come back with me. I wish there was something I could do,

but the man in charge of the train made it clear about

passengers. I'm sorry."

Samantha's eyes reflected the deep sadness she was feeling

but she tried to force a smile. "I guess I understand. You

have your exciting traveling life. Why would you want to be

stuck with an unsophisticated small town girl like me?" She

turned away, shielding me from her tears.

"Samantha. Sam, please." I stopped and reached out for her,

trying raise her eyes to mine. This was not how I expected

this whole thing to end up. I'm not sure how I expected it

to turn out, but leaving a beautiful girl heartbroken in

tears certainly wouldn't have been my choice. "You mean a

lot to me. *A lot*. This isn't easy for me, I'd love for you

to come with me. It just can't happen, though. It's against

the rules." Of course, I wasn't exactly telling her the

whole truth. I couldn't bring her back for another reason

too. How would I have explained to my wife a 19-year-old

girl -- or perhaps 326-year-old girl -- coming to live with

us. I somehow didn't think she would want to share me with a

teenaged fuckbunny -- even if Samantha was accustomed to

doing a lot of housework. Still, I knew I needed to come

back and see her again. What was it going to take to

convince Louie to make another stop in Salem? Probably a

lot. Wee green bastard.

"Besides," I continued. "You have a lot to do here."

"What do you mean?"

"These witch trials. You have to something about them.

They've gone on long enough. How many people will be

persecuted before it ends?"

"What can I do? I'm just a woman. I can't even address the

townspeople at assembly." She said dejectedly.

"You're a very strong willed woman. There's a lot that you

can do. Plus, it seems as if you have a trick or two up your

sleeve." I wasn't sure what her actions would do to the time

line, but injustice is injustice and it had to be stopped.

Louie said that our actions would change the time line, but

he said nothing about the people we met, and something had

to be done.

We approached the clearing where the train car was located.

Samantha marveled at the magnificence of the coach. This was

probably the most opulent thing she'd ever seen -- even if

it was lying on its side.

"I suppose Wijit and Samantha's sister are both asleep. We

should try to be quiet." Allison said considerately.

"Wait, look in the car. Is that Tabitha's hair that's

shining in the moonlight?" I pointed out.

"Where?"

"It was there a minute ago...there it is again. Now it's

gone." I pointed out where Tabitha was bobbing her head up

and down.

"What's going on in there?" Samantha asked naively as Maria

started to chuckle.

We neared the coach and Wijit's moans were audible. We

walked in, apparently just as Tabitha had finished her oral

ministrations.

"Tabitha! What on earth are you doing?" Samantha was

shocked.

Tabitha's face turned crimson. "Well, Samantha. You know how

I have the ability to know what a person's deepest need is?

Well, after we finished the supper I brought, it was

apparent what his thoughts were consumed with. You know how

empathetic I am. I had no idea what it was...but it was

fun." She giggled shyly.

"Amazing, guys." Wijit scrambled to pull up his pants. "That

was well worth the wait, eh. Whichever great philosopher it

was who said 'blowjobs are cool' was telling the truth."

"Uh, Wij, I think that was Kivi." Maria pointed out.

"No. I don't think so," he gave us a pensive look.

"*Really*? Well, she was right."

"Hey, how's your shoulder?" Allison asked.

"Not too bad. A lot better since Tabitha rubbed her medicine

on it. It's still a little stiff."

"And when we came in, so were you." I teased.

We got the introductions out of the way before we decided to

call it a night. It was already 3am, so we weren't going to

get many ours to sleep. And looking at the makeshift

conditions we'd have to sleep in, we'd be lucky to get much

sleep anyway.



A squawking from the train coach's loudspeaker awakened us

rudely. The sound coming from it was the unmistakable brogue

of everyone's favorite leprechaun, Louie.

I looked around the car as we heard the static coming from

the speaker. Wijit had apparently already awakened and had

gone for a walk. Maria, Virago, Allison, and Tabitha were

all lying closely together, in a mass of arms and legs,

while Samantha opened her eyes and snuggled closer to me.

She just felt so right, lying next to me. Damn, it was going

to be tough to say goodbye to her.

"All right people, listen up." Louie's voice came through

fairly clearly -- especially considering that he was

broadcasting from another time. "We had a wee mishap, but I

have everything under control now. I'll be reversing the

engine and picking up cars one at a time. The whole

procedure will take about two hours. Sorry for the

inconvenience." Louie didn't sound very contrite. I think I

even detected a little glee in his voice. I discovered that

I really hate leprechauns.

"What was that?" Samantha asked, unaccustomed to hearing

someone's voice come out of a box. "Is that magic?"

"That was the way the conductor of the train can communicate

with us. No, it's not really magic, just kind of advanced.

Like the way several hundred years ago everything needed to

be written out long hand, and now there are printing presses

that allow for the making of books and pamphlets."

She just smiled, not really interested in my explanation,

and snuggled closer to me.

After a little while, we all decided to get up and stretch
our legs in preparation for the return journey.

The next hour or so just flew by and before we knew it, the

end of a train was emerging from nothingness. Samantha and

Tabitha were both shocked at the sight, and truth be told,

it was pretty amazing to us too.

"Top o' the mornin' to ye." A smiling leprechaun jumped down

from the train.

"It's about time. What the hell happened?" Allison asked

angrily.

"Now, now lassie. It was just a wee mishap. All is right

now."

"All isn't right, shorty," Maria was happy to be able to

call someone -- anyone -- shorty. "We were scheduled to be

killed this morning."

"And we want to be in our regular compartments -- none of

this segregation shit. We're exhausted and need to sleep."

Allison whined. "But not before a nice meal -- lobster

maybe. The only thing we've eaten in the last day is some

disgustingly mushy porridge."

"Oh, lassie. Not to worry, not to worry. You'll all soon be

snuggled in your own compartments with bellies full of food

and wine." Louie tried doing his best to placate us.

"Yeah, well hurry up lucky, sprinkle some of your new blue

diamonds over here and get this fucking train back on the

tracks." I said.

"The name's Louie, bucko," the leprechaun spat back. "Ever

since we let that feebleminded moron appear in that freakin'

cereal commercial, we wee folk get no respect."

"Of course not -- how much respect do you think you're going

to get if you go around calling yourselves 'Wee-Wee Folk'?"

"Listen stretch," Louie was very pissed at me at this stage

-- his face was actually getting greener. "I don't need any

of your fancy smart-ass word twisting. I have half a mind to

leave the lot o' you here."

As tempting as it was to comment on his half a mind'

statement, the prospect of being stuck in 1692 with the

Reverends Chambers and Hale and the rest of these 17th

Century McCarthyists was not very appealing at all.

Louie shot me a final dirty look before he took out some

green clovers -- he was such a stereotype -- and threw them

at the train car. Magically -- of course -- the train coach

righted itself and floated gently to the tracks, coupling

itself automatically to the last car in the line.

Wijit, Allison, Maria, and Virago said their goodbyes to the

sisters and hopped up onto the train. I was expecting more

of a difficult parting between Tabitha and Wijit, but they

were vary brief in their parting. Perhaps Wijit was still

exhausted from the four blowjobs he had received over the

past twelve hours. Maybe there was nothing more to it that

Tabitha fulfilling his need.

Samantha and I moved aside, trying to avoid everyone's

prying eyes.

"I've been thinking about it, and I think I can do something

about these trials. Someone's got to stop them, why not me?"

Samantha smiled broadly. "But, I *am* going to miss you."

"I'm going to miss you too, more than you realize. But

there's not much we can do is there? I'd like to say I'll

come back to visit at some point, but I don't want to make a

promise I can't keep."

I leaned in for a kiss and Samantha's lips met mine

tenderly. As we were breaking the kiss, Samantha sucked my

lower lip into her mouth and bit down gently on it. Then she

lightly compressed it between her lips and traced her tongue

over it before releasing it and giggling.

"I can certainly see the appeal of this lip biting thing

that Virago seems to like to do," she grinned impishly as I

looked dumbfoundedly at her. "Oh, I heard everything you

said. I think you're special too." She giggled.

I smiled warmly and gave her hands a final squeeze and

turned away and boarded the train. I waved as the train

started to phase out of her time; my last vision was of

Samantha blowing me a kiss.



Epilogue



"Hey John, why are you so happy?" Pami asked me as we passed

each other in one of the refreshment cars.

"She did it!"

"Who did you just sleep with now?" she rolled her eyes at

me. "You know, John, you're not the only one getting it.

This train has been one non stop orgy ever since we got on."

"And it will be until we all get off." She laughed at my

double entendre. "But that's not what I'm talking about. Do

you remember the girl I told you about? Samantha?"

"Yes, you mentioned something about her. Why?"

"Well, I just went into Denny's..."

"There's a Denny's on this train? What did you eat?"

"Denny Wheeler, the *editor*, not the restaurant." I shook

my head at her. "Anyway, I just went into his compartment

to look in one of his encyclopedias."

"I though he just had dictionaries." Pami said.

"Oh, no. Those editors have every type of reference

book there is. I think he even has the Guinness book of

World Records and some book with all sorts of obscure quotes

in it."

"Does this story have a point?" she was twirling her

handcuffs impatiently.

"Yeah, hold on. What's the rush anyway? A submissive isn't

actually going to get mad at you, he'll probably think he

deserves your tardiness...Anyway, like I was saying, I just

looked in the encyclopedia and Samantha changed it."

"Changed *what*?"

"The witch trials. When I learned about them in school, we

were taught that they lasted over five years and there were

over 600 people sentenced to death. Well, when I just

checked, the encyclopedia said..."

"You mean read," she corrected. "The encyclopedia couldn't

have *said* anything."

"Ok. Whatever." That's what we needed, another editor.

"Anyway, the encyclopedia *read* that the trials lasted only

seven months and fewer than thirty people were put to death.

I'm just so proud of her."

"That's terrific." She smiled then furrowed her brow.

"So...do you think that any other history was changed?"

I hadn't thought of that. "Well, maybe some small stuff.

Probably nothing major." I shrugged. "It's not like were

going to get off the train and find out that Bob Dole is no

longer the president or anything like that."

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