Quaranteam-Northwest: Part 23
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Let’s review the characters
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House Black
'Harri' Black; Sheriff of Black County, 'Jason Momoa-looking motherfucker'
mountain man (mixed heritage), former Army MP
LaCosta; Fiancée of Harri, Leo's sister, Italian Tattoo Artist, Dark Brunette
Bautista; Trained dancer, Pilipino Spy, Harri's Deputy Sheriff, Raven hair
Peters; Construction Forewoman, Daughter of Brent Peters the head of the
construction project, Brunette
House LaCosta
LaCosta; Harri's best friend and former roommate, Italian carpenter, Erica's
'Joss the Boss' Draper; Professional Wrestler, Athletically Trim Blonde
Natives
'Gerty' Swiftwater; Kara's second cousin, Tribal police on the Rez, Voluptuous
Swiftwater; Harrison's high school sweetheart that ended poorly, community
leader of the local Native band, Raven hair
Kara's neighbor on the Rez
Military
Colonel Miriam Abarbanel; Military friend of Harri's, Air Force Lt Col, Jewish
heritage, Commanding Officer for Valhalla Hills construction and the Oregon
Quaranteam research project
Doc'; A female doctor from the Portland Serum Test facility. Was part of
Harri's care team when he was shot, and then the emergency response team
following the Hostage rescue.
Referenced Characters
'Dani'; Australian stripper, Brunette
Gauthier; Quebecoise stripper, half-tattooed, Dirty Blonde anal queen
De Luca; Helicopter Pilot, former Air Force Para rescue Pilot. Friend and
Laura Bloomberg; Air Force JAG serving as Miriam's second, Blonde
We reached the end of the
little entry hallway, nodded with our firearms and split left and right. Ahead
of me was a dark corner of junk. It looked like discarded materials from
whenever they erected the big garage structure. I kept my eyes scanning,
pivoting to check what ended up being some sort of a coat closet that was
filled with piles of clothes. Coming back out, I pressed my way up the back
side of the basement and had to weave around a thick concrete support pillar.
There was some sort of music going on above us along with the loud thrum of the
generator, and if the rain was loud on their roof then I wasn't surprised that
the hillbilly fucks hadn't heard our shots from earlier, or even the door
around one of those big fabric partitions, but quickly ducked back as I found what
I could only think of as the central area of the cluttered basement. And what
I'd seen in that brief flash needed a moment to parse out.
Just ahead and to my left,
set up along the back brick wall, had been an illuminated area that looked
something like a photography setup from back when I'd get school pictures taken
in the primary school gym. Even down to the backdrops on rollers. A camera with
a tripod on it had been set up but dim. Just beyond it was a sectioned-off area
with more of the fabric room dividers, but it had a makeshift roof on it and
red light had been coming out; some sort of a shitty black room, I guessed.
areas, however, had been the cage. It was big; bigger than the one out in the
garage, but constructed the same way out of chain link fencing. The lights were
dull and yellow in that direction like behind me, but I'd clearly seen it was
Somewhere past it, there was
also a man, sitting in a shitty lawn chair, watching a little old TV with a
beer in his hand. He was turned about three-quarters away from me, but he had
something in his other hand propped on the floor. It was hidden from my view;
it could have been a bat, or a rifle, or a fucking broom. I really couldn't
I murmured quietly into the comm. "One hostile near cage watching
murmured back. "I don't have a shot; he's backed by the cage."
comm. No one outside was saying anything, holding their security out in the wet
I slowly unlimbered my M4
from its shoulder strap and set it down on the ground, then did the same with
the MP5, before double-checking my sidearm in its holster and then pulling out
Lots of civilians, especially
those in the city, didn't get the whole thing about a good knife. People in the
backwoods got it though. Rural folk who had to work for a living. A good knife
was a useful tool. You could open things with it, close things, poke holes,
slice slits. With a good knife you could even hammer a nail or two, do survival
procedures, and draw in the fucking dirt if you had to.
To a soldier, though, a knife
was almost as important as a rifle. It could do all those things that a rural
civilian could use it for, and then you could also kill someone with it.
It was almost always the last
line of defense a soldier could have. When shit really went wrong, and the
bullets ran dry or the enemy was up on you, knowing how to use a knife
half-effectively was a really potent tool. I'd never gotten myself into a spot
like that before, and in almost any situation what I was doing was stupid as
But even with the thrum of
that generator, and the music, and the rain, and the excavator running outside,
there was absolutely no fucking way that anyone upstairs could ignore a gunshot
I owned several knives; I
wasn't a collector or anything, there were just different knives for different
jobs. Suiting up for the raid, however, I'd fallen back on tried and tested. I
pulled the ka-bar out, its dull grey coating keeping the gleam down if it
happened to catch a bright light. It was a good fit for my bigger hand, and it
Leaving my rifles behind,
hearing Sergeants in my past chewing out idiots for pulling this kind of shit
echoing through the back of my head, I stepped forward quietly.
The photography area didn't
reveal anything else to me as I slipped past it; the camera would likely have
evidence on it we might need later, but now wasn't the time. I did catch a
quick glance of Julia up ahead and to my right, closer to the guard. I came up
on the boxy, jerry-rigged dark room and came to a halt, almost losing my
Someone was working in there.
There was a black curtain
pulled across the entrance, but I could clearly see a pair of shoes in the red
I couldn't leave him at my
back if I made my approach on the guard.
I clicked the comm once and
saw Julia look back at me. I gestured to the dark room, held up a finger, and
then shrugged and headed towards it. Julia flashed me a grimace but nodded.
The plan formed in my mind
quickly. Slide the curtain aside, one hand claps over his mouth, and the other
puts the knife to his throat. Whisper a threat in his ear. Use him to approach
the other guard; we take them both prisoner, gag and tie them up with anything
we find, or extract them for questioning outside.
I pulled the curtain aside
and stepped into the dark room, everything turning red from the single overhead
bulb. He didn't turn, didn't even look. He was focused on the photo he was
developing, sloshing it around in the chemical baths. I loomed up behind him,
my knife and free hand raised, ready to grab him.
And then I saw the pictures
hung on the walls from clothespins. Naked woman after naked woman. Terrified.
Trying to hide their nakedness and forced not to. Numbers were written on the
corners. 6/10. 7/10. 9/10. 4/10.
I clamped my hand over his
mouth and he grunted in surprise, his body jolting as I yanked him back hard
against my chest. My fingers stabbed into his cheek and my palm partially
He was limp when I stopped.
Six, maybe seven stabs. I
couldn't remember them, but I could remember the feel of them. The feel of the
blade glancing off ribs, seeking internal organs. It was... crunchy. Blood was
only just starting to ooze out of him and I lowered him to the ground. His eyes
were glassy, his jaw hanging open. I grabbed the picture of Kara, crumpled it
in my fist, and shoved it into his dead mouth.
I was cold inside. I was the
It had been six stabs. I'd
gotten at least one lung in the first couple, and his heart in the last couple.
That was the one that did it, but even if I'd stopped at four he would have
died. It just would have taken longer.
I was red hot with rage, and
He wasn't the first man I'd
killed, wasn't even the first one I'd held in my arms after I did so. But it
was the first I killed with anything other than a gun.
I came back out of the dark
room a different man than I had been when I entered. My fears, the really dark
ones, hadn't been confirmed yet. But they were real damn close.
The cage was to my left and
ahead. The guard was a straight shot, still watching what seemed to be a taped
football game. The little TV had a VCR built into its base, so it had to be an
old game, maybe a Superbowl or something. It didn't matter.
Someone in the cage spotted
me as I drifted under the hazy yellow light, and started to say something, but
someone else gave a sharp
Shush.
He had a baseball bat in his
hand, twirling it absently with his thumb as it balanced upright under his
I took his life as I clamped
my hand over his mouth and yanked him backwards and to the side, stabbing the
knife into the exposed part of his neck in a blow that made almost no noise but
immediately sprayed blood across me, the floor, and the TV. It was hot and
cloying in my nose and I didn't care.
He died even faster than the
Julia said over the comm.
"Keep looking, there's got
to be a set of stairs," I murmured back.
I turned to the cage and held
up my finger to my lips. I didn't look at faces. Couldn't.
At least one of them nodded
in acknowledgement, and I pushed forward, pulling out my sidearm one-handed and
bracing it with my knife-hand.
There was more crap at the
far end of the basement. Another cage too, but it was empty. Two more closets
full of what looked like military MRE and other supplies. And the stairs.
They were stone and built
into the original structure, about fifteen steps up to a landing and then it
doubled back above us heading to the first floor. Julia met me there.
asked me quietly off the comms.
I nodded, then quietly spit
off to the side. She reached over to a pile of what looked like folded napkins
and pulled one free, handing it to me. I wiped my face and it came away
splotched with red. I wiped with it one more time and dropped it to the ground,
still probably looking rough.
hostiles down," I murmured into the mic. "Securing interior
stairwell. Wait for intel."
We got a double-click back in
your gear and talk to the women," Julia said.
shoulder as she took up a position with her shotgun covering the stairs. The
quick walk back was a lot faster since I could stand up and stride confidently
rather than sneak. I focused forward, not looking at the cage or the body, and
quickly went and secured my rifles, slinging the M4 and holding my MP5 for the
Then I went back to the cage
and finally looked more carefully at what I was seeing.
women. All younger than the ones we'd found out in the garage. All naked. Most
were trying to cover themselves, and many were looking at me fearfully but
approaching the cage. It had a door at the front but it was padlocked.
"Kara? Are you there? Gerty?"
said, squeezing to the front. She kept an arm over her small tits but didn't
cover her lower half, instead holding up a hand to warn me away. It took me a
moment to realize who it was.
cage!" she hissed, her eyes large in warning and making me hesitate. I
felt like I wanted to rip the fucking thing down with my bare hands, but I
didn't touch it. She pointed to the upper corner of the cage and I followed her
direction, seeing a pair of decently thick copper wires looped around the metal
of the cage tightly and secured messily with some sort of rubber caulking. I
followed the lines of the wires up and back to the ceiling, where they
disappeared through a hole in the thick wood.
upstairs when they take one of us out," another woman said.
examining the wires again. They could be hooked up to the generator, but more
likely they had a couple of car batteries up there or something. I looked back
down at Tanaya. "Where are;?"
"Gerty is here, in the back," Tanaya said. "She's... she's sick.
We've been trying to hide the ones who are sick behind everyone else. They've
already taken a few of us out who were starting to cough and bleed and we heard
response coming," I said quietly. "We'll get Gerty safe, and anyone
else who's sick. What about Kara?"
Tanaya's look was stoic in
that way that a woman could have when she knew she was giving you bad news. I'd
seen it a couple of times before in my life, one of which was when my CO
delivered the news that I was being relieved of duty after I'd punched the Air
Force commander who had been assaulting Miriam. Tanaya wasn't pretty so much as
striking, all sharp lines in her features and skinny like a runway model, so
the look was particularly severe coming from her.
a little while ago," she said. "Along with a couple of other women.
I grimaced and closed my eyes
for half a moment, my silent, wordless prayer more of an internal scream of
opening my eyes again as I looked at Tanaya, and then met the eyes of several
of the other women in the cage. "Has anyone been up there?" All I got
were shaking heads and I blew out a breath. "Okay, that's fine. We've got
people outside, too. We're going to need to attack them up there, then I can
cut the battery and come back and get you all out of there. We've already found
the kids and the other ladies. This is almost over."
said, and I focused on her face again. "What you did to those men..."
deserve," Tanaya said, her husky voice making it sound like the words of a
primal god. "Don't let them do this to us. Your people. Make them pay in
I grimaced a little harder,
my face likely stuck with that expression for now, and nodded. "I'll be
back as soon as I can," I said.
I left the ladies behind,
opening up my comm as I returned to Julia. "Hostages are behind an
electrified fence," I said quickly. "At least three have been taken
upstairs. We're going to peek, then prepare to breach."
Dylan started calling the
shots outside, getting them into position. I reached Julia, settling in beside
her. "Anything?" I asked off comm.
said. "Did you find her?"
friend, and her cousin is sick down here. Sounds like the graves were for women
who were showing final-stage Duo Halo sickness. I don't get why these guys
would wear masks on the raid, but take them off when around them here."
sighed and shrugged. "So who's peeking, you or me?"
do," I said. "Depends on what's at the top of the stairs. I can
probably give you a lift to peek instead of climbing up."
She considered for a moment
and then nodded. We moved out from her cover and headed to the base of the
stairs. The double flights were all stone, and I leaned in and looked up; there
was a railing at the top blocking off the drop instead of a wall. I slung my
MP5 off my shoulder and went up a step, then crouched and put my hands together
into a saddle and motioned with my head to Julia. She set her shotgun down
leaning against the wall and pulled her pistol, setting her hands on my
shoulders and one foot into my hands.
cheerleader?" I asked, just as quietly.
ground and I lifted with my arms, and she pivoted at the waist and then turned
fully in my hands as I kept lifting, her other foot joining the first. This let
her get high enough to peek through the bars of the railing, her pistol held
level with her chin just in case someone was right there. She
looked for a couple of solid seconds, peering back and forth as I struggled to
keep her up there in an awkward position. If she were going higher I could have
gotten her up onto my shoulders, but she was just at the right height.
Finally, even if it had only
been a few seconds at best, Julia signaled and I lowered her down, then dropped
her and caught her by her waist. We both got off the stairs and she holstered
her pistol, picking up the shotgun. "Looks like it's one big room up there
from what I could see," she said through the comms. "But I couldn't
see the whole thing. At least six hostiles, maybe more. It's some sort of a
main chapel. The D-side where we entered has a stage and an altar, and there
was activity over there. Closer to us on the B-side, it looked like there might
have been some sort of group working on something."
"Large single room, two entrances. Did you see hostages?"
three women were taken up there recently," I filled in.
said. "Is there a reason to rush here, or can we pick them off as they
come outside or downstairs?"
I glanced at Julia, who was
looking at me. We didn't know what was happening up there, and thinning their
ranks with ambushes was probably the right thing to do without solid proof.
trafficking expert," I said. "You make the call. I've got thirty-five
plus naked women in an electrified cage down here, and they took three of them
upstairs. Is this an imminent threat?"
the barn," Jeanine said. "And then we go."
There was a long minute of
silence on the comms, and then Dylan said, "Team One set."
replied after a quick nod from Julia. I had a flashbang in hand, and she had
one as well. "On three. One. Two." I pulled the pin, holding the
forward and turned on the stairs, heaving our stun grenades up over the
railing. She aimed right while I aimed more left. At the same time, the others
would be pushing open the main doors and tossing in one or two of their own.
Julia and I had ducked back
down, and as the flashbangs went off she took off up the stairs as I fell in
behind her, emerging into the brightly lit sanctuary. It was a big chamber
spanning the entire width and length of the old building. The roof high above,
well over twenty feet, was vaulted and the sound of the rain was coming heavy
from the wooden rafters. For a split second before I got a good look at the
details all I saw was a church. At the far end was a pulpit and altar up on a
stone stage, with a big wooden cross to match the one outside mounted to the
wall. Old, heavy pews were mostly lined up facing towards the pulpit, though
space had been cleared in a couple of areas and some of them were stacked up
started to fill in. There was a hot tub right in front of the stage and a guy
wearing an off-white gown was in it. It was so stained that I could see some of
the filthy rings from across the building. The walls weren't decorated with
motifs of Christianity; instead, there was an eclectic mix of old shooting
targets, posters, and a variety of flags. Someone had spray-painted a message
in Latin on the wall across from the main doors. There was also what looked
like a small armory set up behind the altar, right under the cross; rickety
racks of rifles were lined up along with boxes of bullets.
Beyond the man in the hot
tub, I immediately took in three other spots where there were people. First was
the group to my forward-right; they were sitting in some pews and were reeling
away from the explosion of the stun grenade near them. Next closest was a man
standing most of the way towards the stage and hot tub. Two dark-haired women wearing
simple white gowns that might have been tablecloths were clutched in his fists
by the back of their 'dresses.' And lastly, there were several men up near the
Those ones were a problem
because they weren't anywhere near where a flashbang landed.
The front door was swinging
open and Jedidiah was first in, followed quickly by Maggie and Dylan.
Julia was the first to shoot,
her shotgun blast echoing in the open, stone-walled space as she released
buckshot at the closest group of men to us. It was shooting fish in a barrel at
that range while they were at least partially blinded and deafened, and I left
them to her as I knelt and aimed down range towards the armory. The M4 would
have been a more secure bet at the range, but the MP5 could still get it done
and I didn't have the time to swap.
My first shots spanged off
of the metal shelving but the third bullet tracked into the chest of one of the
militia. By the time I had my first shots off the room had turned to chaos.
Jedidiah, Maggie, Dylan and Jeanine
were all inside and firing. There had been a couple more knots of men I hadn't
noticed prior, closer to the front door, and they were ducking for cover. Julia
was shooting blasts hard and fast, taking bites out of the wooden pews and
people with equal savage efficiency.
My second burst of rounds
sent one of the armory militia reeling away but didn't put him down. I was a
little distracted, however, because the guy in the stained priest robe was
shouting up towards the ceiling and struggling to hold something under the
water of the hot tub. Or someone.
moving forward down the central aisle through the pews, Julia following me. I
took a moment, aiming down the pews to my right and putting a few bullets into
scrambling men, and Julia did the same with her buckshot. They weren't my
priority, though, and I swung back around and aimed down my sights briefly at
the man who'd been holding the two women by the scruff of their dresses; he was
still up, and trying to use them as human shields. My muzzle drifted back to
center-front though, looking down the aisle at the hot tub. The 'priest' was
struggling to keep the person underwater with both hands, but was still
shouting his prayers through the blast of guns. I felt the tug of a bullet
whizzing past my ear from the direction of the armory but I didn't raise my gun
higher; Jedidiah and Maggie were laying down fire on them already and I wasn't
about to let the fucker in the hot tub drown someone.
Pop pop pop-pop pop. The sound of my shots was lost in the cascade of
booms rattling through the old church, the stone walls just magnifying the
noise. I felt each one though, the kick of the recoil against my hands and
shoulder. Each little dot of the grouping appeared on the 'priest's chest one after
the other. He fell backwards and the woman he'd been holding underwater burst
out, gasping for air and clawing to get herself over the side of the tub and
away from him. She had long black hair.
stopped, but the sound didn't. Dylan, Maggie, and Jedidiah were shouting
orders. The survivors were surrendering. 'Get on the floor.' 'Slide the gun out
of the way.' 'Let go of the women.'
The guy holding the two women
was still up. Jeanine was approaching them, her rifle held off to the side
non-threatening, but her other hand was behind her back and gripping a pistol.
As she got closer, saying something non-threatening, the guy let one of the
women go and she bolted. There was a split second where he was only
half-covered, and Jeanine swung her pistol around and shot him right in the
balls. The other woman was free to bolt after that as he collapsed.
I wasn't paying attention to
the survivors or the surrender. I was heading for Kara, naked and scrambling on
letting my rifle drop to my side on its shoulder sling. "Hey, hey, hey,
I'd gotten within a couple of
feet of her and had to dodge back as Kara spun, swinging a broken chair leg at
me. Her eyes were wild, and her teeth bared in a feral snarl of fear and
adrenaline. Her wet hair clung to her shoulders and forehead and cheeks.
said, holding up my hands to show her they were empty. "It's me, baby. I'm
She was panting hard, her
eyes flickering around for another long moment until they finally focused on my
face, and then the panic broke and she broke with it, curling down on herself
as she clutched her body.
baby," I said, going to her and kneeling next to her, wrapping my arms
around her as she started sobbing in my arms. "I'm so fucking sorry I
wasn't here earlier. I'm so fucking sorry."
sobbing breaking her voice, and then she was trying to push me off.
"Don't; Harrison, don't touch me. It's not safe!"
I let go, letting her pull
back from me. "What do you mean?" I asked.
She looked anguished and a
little horrified as she looked at me. "The water," she said.
"It's contaminated. It's; God, Harri, they were trying to cleanse the
virus with some fucking baptism bullshit. They kept saying that the others died
because they didn't repent. They; they were trying to forcefully convert me
because I; I was on the tribal council. But that tub is full of water that the
others were coughing and bleeding into..."
I clamped my mouth shut for a
It would be fine. I would be
I wasn't worried about me. I
wasn't even worried about Kara; we'd get her sorted.
and heard her approaching behind me. "Can you help Kara get covered up and
dried; Actually, shit, you're not vaccinated. Um. Can you find something for
I said, opening my arms to Kara. "Just; I'm so sorry."
She came to me, wrapping her
arms around me despite the vest and the gear, and I held her tight and didn't
sorry," I whispered hoarsely to her again.
"Stop apologizing. You; you came, Harri. God, you saved me. Us."
called. "Sorry to interrupt, but we need to talk."
softly. "I; I need you to go downstairs. I'm going to get the battery
disconnected from the cage. I'm pretty sure your clothes are in one of the back
closet spaces down there. I'll come get you in a couple of minutes."
changed," she said, pulling back and looking me in the eyes. Her beautiful
brown eyes were the same warm color even if she had dark rings under her eyes
from sleeplessness and panic. "What's wrong?"
She nodded, and I helped her
stand. Julia had come back and handed me a big tablecloth. It was dirty, but I
wrapped Kara up in it so she was covered. "Go with Julia," I said.
Kara nodded, blinking and
standing a little straighter as she looked around the chapel. The place was
hazy with smoke from the gunfight and had the smell of gunpowder thick in the
air. Bodies were scattered across the stage and altar, the pews, and the
'priest' was still half in the hot tub. There were a few sprays of blood across
the walls and a lot more pooling on the heavy oak floorboards. Soon that iron
smell of clotting blood would overtake the gunpowder.
Dylan and Maggie had five men
facing the wall near the door, hands on their heads. Dylan was rubbing his
chest with a pained expression; he'd caught a bullet with his vest at some
point during the firefight but had bounced back, probably jacked full of
adrenaline. Jeanine and one of the other native women who I guessed had been
waiting for her turn to get 'baptized' were trying to coax the third woman out
from where she'd wedged herself between the wall and several tables against one
wall. Jedidiah, meanwhile, was methodically moving through the room and
flipping over bodies to make sure they were actually dead. One groaned, and he
grimaced and the boom of a single shot as he put an end to the
man echoed through the room. He was bleeding from a wound on his arm, but it
didn't look like it was incapacitating him in any way.
me," Kara said to Julia. "I'm covered in contaminated water. Just
help me get Olivia and Wanda downstairs."
Julia nodded and shot me a
look that I had a hard time interpreting until she looked over at the
surrendered militia. I wasn't sure if she was encouraging or discouraging me in
regard to what I might do next.
I pulled Kara into my arms
again, hugging her tightly. "It's over now," I said. "We just
need to do a little housekeeping."
I let her go and sent her off
with Julia, and they headed towards Jeanine and the other women.
Meanwhile, I went over to the
generator that was still chugging away and quickly found that I'd been right;
the wires connected to the cage down in the basement weren't hooked up to the
generator but were attached to a bank of car batteries in a couple of milk
crates using a jerry-rigged booster cable situation. I stopped myself from just
kicking it or shooting it and instead released the clamps by hand, breaking the
I turned and headed for Dylan
and Maggie. Of the five men, two were clearly injured. One was bleeding from a
wound on his side as he shook on his feet, and another was standing on one
foot, his leg dripping blood on the ground.
that guy," Dylan said, nodding towards the hot tub. "And that we're
all going to hell for murdering the Mouthpiece of Wrath."
D bullshit to me," I grunted.
with them, Sheriff?" Maggie asked me.
I took a breath and let it
out heavily. "What's the ETA on the medical QRF?"
less," Maggie said, checking her watch.
want to tell us in ten minutes," I said. "Let's take them
We marched them out into the
rain. It was coming down hard again, all of us immediately getting soaked as I
led them over to where the excavator was still rumbling. I climbed up and found
the key, reaching around the body still sitting in the driver's seat to turn
the thing off, and then got down and looked at the militiamen. They were all scruffy,
dressed in old hunting clothes, but had patches on their shirts and vests with
red crosses that were just a little too similar to the medical Red Cross than I
at them. Jedidiah and Jeanine had followed us out, and soon all five of the men
were on their knees as we surrounded them. The rain was beating down on us, the
light a cold grey. Even the mud was grey and washed out, the freshly dug
half-graves behind the line of men.
what the fuck made you think any of what you were doing was a good idea?"
None of the men opened their
mouths, though a couple glanced at each other out of the corners of their eyes.
the women and children?" Jeanine demanded.
for the glory of god," one of the men said. He had a split lip and I
wondered who had hit him.
saved? Living with you here in this shithole?" I asked.
to take them," another man said and got shushed by several others.
I pulled my sidearm and shot
one of the shushers in the head.
a dull echo through the compound. The rain dulled everything.
down," I said, mostly to the men but partially to the others on my team. I
had no idea how they were feeling about this, but my heart was empty.
them," I continued. "Thousands of prisoners, guards and staff dead.
There isn't anyone left to man most of them. Justice doesn't come with a gavel
and a sentence of years these days." I looked to the others, who all had
grim looks on their faces except for Jeanine, who had a righteous smile on her
face as she nodded to me. "And anyone we do arrest and take in will
eventually need to get the serum."
That got me eye contact as
they each made the connection.
She looked up at me, her eyes
soulful, and she seemed to make a decision and hugged me tighter.
you said," Kara said quietly. "To the guy in charge."
gave us some justice," Tanaya agreed. "And on days like this, that's
the most we can ask for."
other go, more of the women were hovering nearby and they started to thank me.
They took my hands, squeezing hard. They looked into my eyes. They said the
I felt cold as I accepted the
thanks, and I quickly had to move on or I'd get overwhelmed.
I could still feel the way my
knife plunged into a man, over and over, taking a life.
One of the doctors came over
to confer with me and Jedidiah once he was finished with his chemical shower;
apparently, the Captain didn't want to deal with me himself. We quickly
organized the first group that would head back to their staging ground near
Grand Ronde. There wasn't enough space in the Army ambulance trucks for all of
the hostages, so we would need to take it into two goes. Several of the women
and children were related so we had to keep them together, but otherwise, it
was more of a rough estimate of who was more at risk of Duo Halo than others.
And that included our team.
I spoke with Gerty quickly as
they were loading her into one of the ambulances, showing her that we were
going to be right behind her in my truck. She was on a gurney and under a
protective hood with a ventilation system since she was still coughing up
flecks of blood. I pressed my hand to the plastic and she gave me enough
pressure back that I wasn't worried about her for the drive time. Kara and
Tanaya were in the ambulance with her.
bundled into my truck, the gear stowed in the back, that we finally had a
version of quiet as we started to follow the ambulance trucks out of the
compound. That was when I could start to hear the ringing in my ears from the
gunfight. When I could feel my adrenaline finally start to wash out of me,
letting me feel every ache and pain. My leg with the gunshot wound that still
wasn't fully scarred over was on fire. I'd picked up a dozen little scrapes and
cuts. My eyes felt like they were too big for their sockets.
sorry," I said as we pulled onto the highway. I was looking at Kyla.
said. "For any of it. And I love you too."
I knew we would talk more,
and would likely need time to cry and shout and rage. We didn't have the
privacy of the Spring Pond anymore, so we'd need to figure out how to do that
Reaching back behind me, I
held my hand out to Dani and she took it. "Thank you, and I'm sorry,"
I said. "I love you, Dani."
Dani said, squeezing my hand. "I,” She hesitated, her eyes watering as she
looked away and out the window without releasing my hand. "I wasn't, um, I
knew it would be bad. But seeing those women, hearing what they'd gone
through... I understand."
"Don't be. What you said out there in the rain, you were right. Harri,
people need to know that they have someone who will do the
things they might not be able to. There are predators out there in the world,
and; God, I feel like I'm garbling up six different movie speeches at once
here. The wolves need to know there's a Lion out here in the forest. One that's
be Jesus?" Julia said a little sarcastically. "I don't think that's
from a movie, that's a bible thing."
said. "Wolves and Sheep Dogs, then. If society is failing people, we need
people like you to help make it whole again. I love you, and I trust your
judgement. What happened back there... it wasn't pretty, but it was
She let go of my hand, and I
pulled it back and adjusted the rearview mirror so I could look Julia in the
eye behind me. "Thank you for coming, and being my backup," I said.
"I can't think of a way to thank you enough."
you?'" Julia asked with a little smirk.
getting you wrapped up in what happened after," I said.
all did," Julia said. "Let's just say that with my tours in
Afghanistan and hearing stories from the Special Forces I was piloting for,
what we saw in there was bad but not the worst people can do to each other.
Those guys were a necrosis that needed to be cut out before it spread and got
worse. It wasn't pretty, but surgery and amputations rarely are."
how we need to think of it," Kyla said. "Cutting out an
agreement, and most of the rest of the ride was quiet until we got near the
staging base. It was built up around an old highway motel, several army tents
set up on the premises and another half dozen trucks lining the parking areas.
A pair of the new Oshkosh L-ATVs topped with M153 CROWS turrets were protecting
seeing the heavier firepower. I'd finished my tours and left the Army by the
time they had gone into service, but I'd watched some YouTube videos about
them. They felt like overkill to have sitting in the middle of nowhere, Oregon.
Serum on site, so maybe it was more about that than anything else.
activity as we pulled in. There were a dozen doctors and nurses awaiting the
arrival of the hostages and wounded, and I saw both Jedidiah and Dylan get
whisked off. I waved off a nurse trying to direct me for triage when I spotted
a Doctor that I recognized from my stay in Miriam's base in Portland. She was
at the back of one of the ambulance trucks.
jogging over. She looked over, recognized me, and nodded. "Did we get
"Colonel Abarbanel sent a dozen doses, so not enough to cover everyone.
It's enough to get everyone who is showing symptoms or is at high risk."
high risk," I said. "My team included."
sorted. Anyone not covered here, today, will get shuttled up to the Portland
seemed to reconsider whatever she was thinking. "Word came down yesterday
evening. The Oregon rollout is starting in three days. We've already started
getting shipments up from California in preparation this morning. There will be
I exhaled heavily, putting my
hands on my head as one more weight lifted off my shoulders. Leave it to the
government to be a day late and a dollar short, but at least all our efforts
as she climbed out of the back of the truck. She was followed by a pair of male
nurses I recognized from Miriam's medical facility as they were manhandling the
gurney Gerty was on out of the back.
said, immediately scooping her into a hug.
Gerty?" I asked her, nodding towards the gurney.
entered the final stage of the virus," the Doctor said. "But is still
early on. She's sick, but not enough that we can't save her. We'll get her into
one of the rooms we've prepped here and she'll need to get vaccinated and then
imprinted as soon as possible."
to do the Oracle?" I asked.
I raised my eyebrows, looking
at Kara. "What do you mean? Does she have a boyfriend we can get here
imprinting, Harri," Kara said. "You're the obvious choice. She knows
you, she trusts you. How many other men in the world can she
say that about right now?"
swallowed, glancing at the Doc, who gave me a look back that said, 'If you
think I'm going to give you some privacy and miss this drama, you've got
turning back to my ex. "I,” I had to take a breath to steady myself.
"I want you. I want you in my life forever. I can't lose you
again. Gerty is your cousin, I can't imprint her
and you."
She grabbed me by the head
and pulled me down into a kiss.
Fireworks burned behind my
eyeballs. Racing up and down my tongue. I suddenly felt hot, and cold. It was
life, and home, and nostalgia. Her lips felt the exact same as I remembered,
even despite the soft bitterness because of the chemical wash lingering on us
both. I held her firmly, kissing her and feeling like the moment could freeze
like that forever, until it finally ended and she pulled back. Her eyes bored
into mine. "Gerty is my second cousin," she said. "And I love
her like a sister. And I love you, Harri. And you've always loved
me, even with all the shit I put you through. I see that, I've seen it for
months now. I just didn't know how to... fix it. I'll pick you. I'll do the
vaccine thing, and pick you. This world is making us all make choices we never
thought we would be faced with. I'll already be sharing you with other women.
What do I care if you're with one of my other favorite people
Kara said. "For both of us."
excuses and just do it, Harri," Kyla said, almost making me jump because I
hadn't realized she was right next to me.
"Okay. If Gerty says that's what she wants. Um; Kara, this is my partner,
and girlfriend, Kyla. Kyla, this is my high school sweetheart Kara. You'll, um,
about," Kyla said, offering Kara her hand. "We should find a spot to
talk while Harri saves another life. Your friend Tanaya can come too."
I interrupted their exit by
taking Kara by the cheek with one hand and kissing her again, unable to let her
go without it. She kissed me back and it was like nothing had happened from the
time we were seventeen. Then, when it ended, I turned and kissed Kyla, and it
all felt new and fresh and burning with a desire that was similar but different
and I was reminded that Kyla was pregnant and going to be the
mother of
our child and I poured my love into the kiss.
She looked me in the eyes and
smiled softly, and then nodded. "I'll call Erica, Ivy and Vanessa to let
them know we're safe, and we got them," Kyla said. Then both of them went
to grab Tanaya, and then to look for a place they could talk.
Miriam all about it, aren't you?" I sighed.
"I'll never hear the end of it. Alright, just to double check, is there
a reason it shouldn't be me?"
of," the Doc said, shaking her head. "There's an obvious line drawn
on how close a Man and a Woman can be on a family tree, but a Man getting
partnered to two sisters unrelated to him wouldn't cause an issue, let alone
"Take me to Gerty and we'll see if she wants this, too."
be weird, but not a scientific problem," the Doc said as she
led me in the direction Gerty had been taken. "Just a
you problem."
The Doc led me into the motel
room that had been prepared as part of the Field Clinic for the Quick Reaction
Force staging area. It looked like the place had been sterilized through saran
wrap as opposed to chemicals or scrubbing; I felt like I was walking into Dexter's
kill room and not a medical suite. The walls, the floor and all the furniture
including the mattress were smothered in a couple of layers of the clingy
plastic wrap, while a thin foam mattress topper seemed to be the only thing
that had been brought in extra.
Gerty was lying on the bed,
still in her t-shirt and sweatpants, sitting up a bit and propped up by a
couple of saran-wrapped pillows. She opened her eyes drowsily as we entered and
then broke into a fit of coughing. She lifted her arm weakly so she could cough
into her elbow, but the fit kept going.
The Doc waved me off from
approaching and went to the native woman herself. We'd both gotten dressed up
in beige coveralls, though we thankfully weren't wearing the full hazmat hoods;
not that I hadn't already definitely been exposed to Gerty. Still, the Doc was
wearing a medical mask. She opened the medical bag she'd been carrying and
pulled out a tissue box, setting it down next to Gerty and pulling a few out,
offering them when the coughing fit ended. I got a brief glimpse as Gerty
lowered her arm; the inside of it was smeared with mucus and viscous,
red-tinged phlegm, and it was on her cheeks and chin. The Doc helped her get
cleaned up, then waved me forward.
"Gertrude Swiftwater, I think you're well aware of it, but you have
contracted a virus called Duo Halo. As you can see, it's an extremely
unpleasant experience. I also have to tell you that, in women, it has a 30%
mortality rate even with standard medical intervention."
sighed, her breath sounding rough. "I couldn't imagine why."
sign," the Doc said with a smirk behind her mask. "As I believe
you've been told in brief, Miss Swiftwater, there is a new vaccine that is capable
of combating the virus and ridding you of it for good. But it comes with some
peculiar side effects. Usually, you would receive a multimedia presentation
about the vaccine and the program, and be able to ask all the questions you
wanted, but to be frank; you're entering the final stages of the virus. I can't
tell you for certain how long you have, but it's close enough that I don't feel
we have the time to beat around the bush. The vaccine will save your life, but
it will also tie you for the foreseeable future to a man and will require you
to have at least weekly sexual activity with him. Without the vaccine, I will
do what I can for you, but as I said, current mortality is a little under one
in three women even with our best efforts. Do you want to proceed with the
It felt cold and abrupt, but
if what the Doc was saying was all true then Gerty could be heading downhill
faster than I could even imagine.
Gerty looked at me though,
worry in her eyes. "It's Okay, right?" she asked me.
and all for the better," I said.
She nodded, looking back at
The Doc took Gerty's hand and
held it reassuringly, but turned to me to give the answer. I stepped closer,
going to one knee beside the low motel bed. "Gerty, if you want, it can be
me," I said. "Kara and I talked and she's for it."
Gerty immediately asked. "Harri, she,” she coughed, just once, and closed
her eyes at the pain of it. "Kara's still in love with you," she
continued after a moment. "She always has been. Splitting with you has
always been the biggest regret in her life. She's just never known how to do
I swallowed at that, the knot
of tension sitting in my throat. "She's going to imprint on me," I
said. "So part of the decision is if you want it to be me, and the other
part is if you're Okay sharing a... partner with her."
Gerty closed her eyes and I
thought she was coughing again, but then I realized she was chuckling a hum
before looking back at me. "Lucky dog," she said with a weary smirk.
impressive woman, Gerty," I said. "And I think you have the same sort
of instincts I do when it comes to protecting people. I... still love Kara too,
but I've learned quickly that love is something that needs to be shared as
liberally and quickly as possible in a world like this. I would be honored if
you'd let me start figuring out the special ways I'm going to learn to love
much," Gerty said, teasing me as she smirked lightly again. She let go of
the Doc's hand and reached weakly towards me, and I took it in both of mine.
"So are we gonna fuck or what? I'm not exactly looking hot right now, but
I guess you already saw me naked on the floor in a dungeon so I can't look any
of you?" The Doctor asked for confirmation, and we both said yes. My gut
clenched a little, knowing what I was saying yes to. My life was changing
again; and there wasn't exactly a ton of room left in the RV. One more person
in the bed, maybe, but two? Not to mention everything else.
"Good," the Doc nodded. "Then I don't need to go out and
randomly pick a soldier for you. Alright, Gertrude. Harri. The process is
fairly simple. I'll administer the vaccine serum, and that should slow the
process of the virus significantly enough that I'd like for you to wait half an
hour before initiating the imprinting process. You'll have the privacy of the
room for it; Harri, you know the drill and I'll let you explain it to Miss
Swiftwater, but as a reminder; Gertrude, he'll need to reach orgasm and
ejaculate inside of you in some way. Orally, vaginally or anally. The DNA
proteins need to hit your bloodstream through soft tissue."
in peak form here," Gerty said, glancing at me. "Butt stuff probably
don't even know if regular sex is on the table," I said, letting go of her
hand so I could run my fingers through her silky black hair to pull it from her
face. "Oral should be enough, then we can have our first real time
together be a little more mutual."
The Doc stepped out of the
room, leaving the two of us alone for a long, awkward minute as I continued to
hold Gerty's hand. She broke into another coughing fit, thankfully not as bad
as the last one, but as she opened her eyes I saw a little bit of blood at the
corner of the left one. Thankfully the Doc came back with what looked like a
high-tech lunch cooler. She set it down on the saran-wrapped table in the room
and opened up her medical bag next to it.
process, Doc?" I asked. "I've never actually seen it done, and my
partners haven't really talked about the actual shot."
Doc mused. "No. At least not with a little practice on my part." She
pulled out a strange-looking syringe from her bag that had two tubes and
needles side by side, then took out a small glass bottle of liquid from the
cooler and pulled a precise amount out of it into one side of the syringe. It was
a bright blue color, almost shocking in its vibrancy; I couldn't think of
another medicine I'd ever seen that looked that much like slurpee syrup.
"To be fair, Gertrude, if you have any problem with needles, I'd suggest
you look away before I come around. But I've become very proficient with this
process, so you'll feel a slight pinch but that's it."
Gerty said, glancing at me again. She looked nervous rather than worried, and I
realized that she had a lot of the same tells as Kara; I'd spent all of twenty
minutes total with her in person, and another half hour talking to her on the
phone. I really shouldn't have been able to read her so well, and it just
reminded me again of the
strangeness of the whole situation.
She smirked a little and used
the hand not holding mine to pull a tissue from the box and wipe her mouth
again. "Couldn't hurt," she said.
I stood up and leaned over
her so she didn't have to adjust on the bed. I didn't hesitate as I approached
her, knowing how much that might affect her psychologically, and told myself
again that I was already well and exposed to the Duo Halo in her. Hell, I'd
probably had it in my system since getting within five feet of Kara after she'd
come out of that hot tub in the cult church. Kissing Gerty wasn't going to get
Our lips met and I did my
best to try and let her know that even in this state, I was going to be
everything I could for her. It wasn't the fireworks moment I'd had kissing Kara
outside; the history there, the memories and nostalgia and pain and relief just
weren't the same. But Gerty was a good-looking woman, and every interaction I'd
had with her told me she was also just a good person. If we'd met
without everything else; no pandemic, no cop stuff, no connection to Kara, I
would have been attracted to her. Impressed by her. A police officer for her
own community that barely appreciated the effort, a heart for helping people
and a dislike of bullshit.
No tongue in the kiss, but her
hand squeezed mine tighter to keep me there as our lips pressed together for
much longer than a simple peck. When I finally pulled back we both blinked our
eyes open and I looked into hers deeply. "You're a special woman," I
told her quietly. "And I'm lucky as hell to have a chance to help."
She smirked softly, her eyes
tired and a little bloodshot but also still holding those nerves. "I'm the
lucky one," she said. "A big, sexy fuckin' mountain man saving my
life twice in under an hour? And from what Kara's let slip while
she's tipsy, you're hung too."
The Doc cleared her throat,
standing close behind me, and I doubly flushed both from Gerty's words and the
Doc hearing it. Gerty flushed as well, then chuckled softly and shook her head.
I backed away, letting the
Doc closer. "No problem," she said. "I've seen; well, let's just
say I've seen all types during the trial period and leave it at that. The
sexual nature of the vaccine has all of us researchers a little desensitized to
the shock value of genitalia and sex acts." She took Gerty's arm in one
hand and shifted her grip on the dual syringe. The other side was now filled
with an orange liquid, a little paler than the blue and looking more medicine-like
to my eyes. Then, without pausing or saying anything, she brought the syringes
down into the fleshy underside of Gerty's forearm and depressed both plungers
Gerty sniffed in through her
nose at the pinch of the needles, looking away from the act and blinking
Just as fast as the Doc had
started, she was done and withdrawing the syringes. She let go of Gerty's arm
and pulled a gauze pad from one of her coverall pockets, pressing it to where
the needles had gone in. "There," she said. "The vaccine has
been administered. Harri, set a timer on your phone for thirty minutes and then
you should begin the imprinting process."
the coverall?" I asked. My phone was in my pants pocket underneath.
"Yes, now that Miss Swiftwater
has agreed to be imprinted to you, there shouldn't be any issues. You'll need
to go through a decontamination shower again when you leave the room,
though," the Doc said as she pulled the gauze away and took out some band
aids. She held them up to Gerty. "Squirrels or Black Bears?" she
asked, then looked and barked a laugh before snapping her mouth shut, coughing
twice and grimacing. "Um, black bears, Doc," she said when she was
done. "I'm not much of a squirrel girl."
The Doctor applied two small
kids' band aids with black bears on them to the injection spots and then stood
up, heading back to her gear. "I'm sorry I can't stick around and give you
more information, Miss Swiftwater, but while you were the most advanced case
who was rescued, there are others showing symptoms as well and they need to be
briefed on their options."
The Doc cleaned up quickly
and efficiently, heading for the door and turning back to us. "You
shouldn't feel anything strange beyond the usual slight ache in your arm from
an injection," she said. "If you do feel anything strange, please
make a note of it for me. You should only be alarmed if something feels
painful, in which case you need to call for help, Harrison."
Doc said with a nod and then left.
taking a seat on the edge of the mattress and taking her hand again.
"So..." I said, not sure what
to say.
I smiled a little and traced
my fingers over her forehead, sweeping her hair from it again. She was sweating
a bit, the silky black strands clinging to her. "You tell me what'll
distract you," I said. "Want to talk about what comes next, or trade
embarrassing stories about Kara, or tell me about you?"
She hesitated a moment and
shook her head. "Tell me what happened," she said, sitting up just a
little. "With the; Those assholes. What do we know?"
slowly, starting with apologizing for not getting their calls and texts sooner.
Gerty, like everyone else, told me it wasn't my fault; that wasn't going to
stop me from owning it though. I had four, soon to be six, people depending on
me directly. Not to mention two pregnant partners, plus Leo and his
family, and the Valkyrie Falls ladies, and my duties for the whole construction
site. I couldn't leave my phone out of reach or hearing distance ever again.
Hell; I probably needed to buy one of those stupid watches that could make
calls and texts as a backup.
My story continued, running
Gerty through everything that had happened. She was heartbroken for Virgil, the
little boy Kyla and I had found; she'd grown up with his father, and knowing
that both parents were gone hurt her. I couldn't give her details on where he'd
ended up. She was also stoically horrified by the confirmation I gave her that
we'd found executed people in their homes. Our best guess was that, by the time
the attack had happened, most of the men and all of the teens on the Rez were
either dead or dying. The militia cult members had executed any man, and any
woman showing signs of sickness.
Gerty filled me in on what
she, Kara and Tanaya had done when they'd heard the gunshots. All three of the
ladies had snuck out the back of Kara's place and gone to try and see what was
happening; it wasn't the first gunshots they'd heard through the outbreak, but
the number of them was what had been most concerning. They'd found the caravan
of trucks, including an old school bus, and had spied on it for a few minutes as
they tried to figure out if there was anything they could do. Realizing there
wasn't, they'd backtracked back to Kara's trying to decide what to do. Someone
must have spotted them because while they were trying to decide whether to run
or defend themselves in the house several of the men broke in through the front
and back doors. They'd taken the three of them at gunpoint, spouting off about
how they were being 'saved.' Kara had tried to smuggle her phone but they'd
been searched and it had gotten tossed into the front yard where I'd found it.
Gerty felt guilty that she had hesitated and hadn't known what to do in the
moment, and it was my turn to assure her that all the training in the world
couldn't prepare someone to handle what she'd been faced with.
That brought the story back
to me, and I told her briefly about making the deal with the Bikers and finding
the Sovereign Citizens dead at the Golden Beaver. The name of the bar made her
The timer on my phone went
off before we could pivot back to what had happened with them after they'd
gotten picked up, and part of me felt like that was a good thing. For her, not
to need to think about it again immediately, and for me to not have it in my
mind's eye for what came next.
She took in a deep breath,
which was a little less ragged than before, and she shifted to sit up a little
more again. "Like shit," she said. "But maybe not quite as
guess," she said. "Here, help me get my shirt off. I know guys love
said, grabbing both her hands and holding them as I looked into her eyes.
"You're also cute as hell, and have a great ass. Erica and Kyla both
commented on it the first time we met you."
"And you're not just tits and ass."
She smiled a little and took
another breath, letting it out slowly. "So you don't want to see my tits
when they aren't covered in grime from a dungeon floor?" she asked.
That made me chuckle and I
leaned in and kissed her again, and this time it felt a little more intimate. A
little more wanting. "I never said that," I said as I pulled back.
T-shirt, and as it came over her head her tits spilled out of it. They were
large, maybe a bit bigger than Erica's, and hung heavily with large areolas a
little darker than her naturally warm skin tone and wide nipples that each had
think?" she asked, running her hands under them and hefting them a bit.
bending down and kissing the top of one and then the other.
with a little smile. "I like a Tit man, and I thought you might be one
with the rack on your fiancée. But then I made the connection between you and
Kara, and I'd seen your partner, and I wondered if maybe it was a fluke."
said. "But all tits are fantastic." And I proved that to her by
gently grabbing both of hers and massaging them as she groaned a little.
She snorted gently and rolled
her eyes. "Let's get this thing moving, Harri," she said. "The
Doc said the virus is slowed, not stopped cold. Get that cock out; if I'm going
to be competing for attention with other ladies, I gotta start figuring out how
competition," I said as I stood up and started undoing my belt. I was
already down to my shirt and jeans, my tac vest and equipment left in my truck.
"It'll never be like that."
Gerty said. "But let's be real; a bunch of women sharing one man, you
don't think there'll be some friendly banter about who gives the best
I chuckled and shook my head.
"Just never ask me to be the judge."
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I got my pants off, and she
grinned at me and flicked her fingers, so I took off my shirt as well and let
her see me in just my briefs. Her eyes roamed my body, not quite hungrily but
definitely appreciative. "Nice," she said. "A little hairier
than I'm used to, but I guess that goes with the name."
It was my turn to snort and I
shook my head with a grin. Then I lowered my briefs and she sniffed in a
breath. My cock wasn't hard yet, only sort of just starting to get there so it
was heavy with blood flow but drooping forward.
said. "Harri, that's a
cock."
undersold you," Gerty said. "Shit, you sure you didn't get bigger
since you two were together?"
I said truthfully. "I guess it's possible."
said, shifting again. "I guess bring that tool up here. I might not be up
to giving you the full Disneyland experience, but I'll be damned if I can't
work that pole like a stripper in front of the Saturday night crowd."
That got another laugh out of
me and I climbed up on my knees on the bed, and she shifted a little down again
so I could straddle her soft stomach and bring my cock within range of her
mouth. Her tits pressed against the front of my thighs as she wrapped a hand
around my cock for the first time and she licked her lower lip cutely. Then,
before she could hesitate anymore or come up with something else to say, she
leaned forward and wrapped her lips around my cockhead and started to blow me.
I groaned, the feel of her
lips on me a strange pleasure after all the stress of the day, and for a moment
I wondered why she wasn't having that priming orgasm that was supposed to
happen before I realized that required some precum and I wasn't at that point
Gerty was always pretty and
cute, but as she looked up at me with my cock in her mouth I was struck again
by her resemblance to Kara in her eyes and nose and I thought she was
sighed, running one hand through her hair. "That's good."
She pulled off, stroking my
cock with her hand as it firmed up to full mast and she grinned at me, still a
little tired but rising to the occasion. "God, I can't wait to have actual
sex with you and this fucking tool you've got," she said.
Then she closed her lips and worked her jaw and seemed to suck on nothing for a
moment before she dribbled a big wad of spit out of her mouth and between her
tits, smearing it quickly with her other hand. "Here," she said.
"Get it between these beauties. We can at least knock that one off the
shifted a little, and soon I had my cock wrapped up in her pillowy tits. Her
spit was an alright lube and she pressed her tits tightly around my cock as I
started to thrust with my hips and groan. It wasn't the first titfuck I'd had;
Erica was a fan of teasing me with hers as well. It was a
great feeling and visual as I watched Gerty's face and she looked from my cock
poking out between her cleavage, up my body to meet my gaze.
she said. "Fuck my titties. Fuck these big fucking tits."
I groaned and then she moaned
as I thumbed both her nipples at the same time. "You're so sexy,
Gertrude," I said. "Fuck, I'm a lucky man."
woman," she said back. She licked her lips and then bit the lower one, and
I knew I had to have some precum leaking out of me by now so I shifted, lifting
my cock from her tits and towards her mouth. She opened her mouth to accept my
cock, and it slipped through and the head touched her tongue. “Uh!"
she hummed, her eyebrows shooting up and her eyes going super wide as she came.
Her hands were clawed onto my thighs to an almost painful degree and she went a
little cross-eyed for a long moment as she was lost to the overwhelming orgasm.
I pulled back and she exhaled
heavily and then broke into a coughing fit, quickly covering her mouth with her
arm again. It did interesting things to her tits but didn't exactly turn me on
because I knew what was causing it.
as she pulled her arm away. Less blood than that first one she'd had, but still
some. I dismounted from her and grabbed more tissues, helping her wipe up her
arm and then the spit between her tits as well. Once she was clean she sighed
roughly and looked at me. "What the fuck was that, and why the hell is my
cunt suddenly swamped? I'm fucking dripping for
you now. I'd be climbing all over you if I didn't also feel like my joints all
orgasm," I said. "That's what Erica and the others called it. It
means we've started the imprinting process."
precum," I said. "Just that one time though. The imprinting orgasm at
the end is supposed to be even bigger."
asked, her eyes still wide.
she said, pushing herself up to sitting and then shoving her sweatpants down
from her waist. She wasn't wearing anything underneath, and I'd seen a glimpse
before but now confirmed that she had a short, thick bush of black pubic hair
on her mound that told me she hadn't exactly been sexually active in the last
while. "If I'm going to have the best orgasm of my life, I'm not getting
it without this cock in me properly. I might not be able to ride you or fuck
back at you, but I can bend over and take some back shots."
It was hard to argue with
what she wanted in the scenario, and I helped her get her sweatpants off all
the way. She ended up on her stomach on the bed, her hips and ass hanging off
the edge as she braced her feet on the ground. Her ass was meaty and round,
chubby but with a firm core of muscle underneath from her physically active
said as I gave it a little smack and then gripped it with one hand, massaging
her booty. "A fantastic ass."
groaned, reaching back with both hands to knock mine away and then spread her
cheeks herself, revealing her fuzz-covered cunt and dark little asshole to me.
She was sopping wet. "I feel like I'm gonna fucking melt or something if
you don't fuck me. Just pick a hole and get that cock in me."
That one had me shaking my
head a little, but I did as requested and pressed my cockhead up against her
mound, sliding it through her slick labia as she moaned and humped her hips up
and down a little. Then I lined up and pressed in.
moaned, her head falling forward to press against the bed. "Go deep,
I did that too, carving my
cock into her in a few strokes until I was deeply rooted. Her cunt was hot and
wet and I groaned back at her as her core muscles fluttered and squeezed and
she got used to me being inside her. She let go of her ass cheeks and grabbed
the mattress cover with both hands, clawing into it.
gasped. "Fucking fuck me."
I palmed both her ass cheeks,
delighting in the feeling, and I pulled almost all the way out of her before
I kept my pace slow but my
power firm; part of me wanted to just unload on her and pound Gerty into the
mattress, but she was still weak from the Duo Halo and might not have been able
to handle that even if she wanted to. What I was a little surprised by was that
the slow pace was doing it for both of us. Every stroke into her was like I was
pushing into her for the first time; her cunt didn't feel like it was adjusting
to the sex, if anything it felt like it was squeezing tighter, urging me to
gasped. "God, fuck. Okay. I believe it. I believe it all. Fuck I
can feel it building up behind my eyeballs. I feel like I'm gonna
come so hard I fucking pass out into a goddamn coma. God. Your cock
feels so fucking good in me. Your hands on my ass; Oh, fuck,
yes, squeeze my ass, Harri. You can do that every fucking day of our lives. My
mauling it a little with my hands, feeling the supple flesh in my grip.
she moaned. "Fuck! I'll fucking walk around naked so you can bend me over
and fuck me whenever you goddamn want. I'll be your fucking free-use
slut. Gawd, fucking fuck. I feel like I can fucking taste the
orgasm. Fucking dump your load in me, Harri. Please come in
me. That's the only thing I fucking want in the world. Just pound that cum into
me and make me fucking yours. Fucking own my ass. Own my heart. Own my
fucking
soul, you fucking bastard."
I leaned over her wrapping my
arms around her chest and kissing her on the cheek as I humped into her from a
more upward position, my cock grinding against the front of her cunt.
"Mine," I grunted. "You're all mine now."
yours," she panted. "God; Fuck, yes. Every day for the rest of our
lives. I'm your woman. Forever."
I came, feeling it pump out
of me like I was a geyser erupting in a national park. My balls felt huge and
heavy, my entire pelvis clenching as I unloaded into Gerty. She gasped
raggedly, turning her face to me as her jaw lowered in a silent scream and her
orgasm ripped through her. I mashed my lips to hers in a soul kiss that she
managed to return, and I felt my hips naturally humping at her, trying to push
deeper as rope after rope of cum rocketed out of me until I was spent and left
It took a force of will for
me to not pass out right on top of her. I groaned, pushing up onto my hands,
feeling myself still hard in her; if I was with any of my partners, I would
have just started fucking again. I wasn't some superman who stayed hard after
every orgasm, but on the occasional time it happened, I didn't let the moment
pass. Erica, Ivy, Vanessa, Kyla; all four of them would have been thrilled for
a second round immediately after the first.
Gerty, however, was out cold
except for one thing. "Imprinting. Imprinting. Imprinting."
little smile on her lips, strong and steady.
slowly standing up and pulling out of her. My cock felt super sensitive, but
not overly stimulated. I took a long, deep breath and let it out slowly, then
walked deeper into the motel room to the washroom. It wasn't entirely
saran-wrapped too thankfully and I grabbed a toilet paper roll from under the
sink and quickly wiped off my cock before going out to Gerty and carefully
wiping between her legs and easing her back up onto the bed. It took some doing
to get her sweatpants back on, but that was easier than getting her shirt over
her head. By the time I was finished dressing her, she'd stopped with the
'Imprinting' thing and was asleep like a native Snow White.
Standing next to her, I knelt
down again and kissed her lips gently. "I promise to do everything I can
for you," I whispered, meaning every word. She'd been rushed through every
decision about this. I had to make sure she didn't have a reason to regret the
The decontamination shower
wasn't quite as abrasive as the last one, but I was still left with the
chemical taste on my lips and my whole body felt like I'd gotten a light
sunburn for a few minutes afterwards. Once I was released, one of the army
medics giving me the go-ahead, I thought I was going to be looking for Kyla and
What I hadn't been prepared
for was the stormy look on Lieutenant Colonel Miriam Abarbanel's face as she
waited for me. She was in full field fatigues, her hair back in a tight bun,
and judging by the look on her face I was in trouble.
She stepped towards me and
hit me with a two-handed shove in the chest. "Hey? That's all I get is
"You don't call? You don't even fucking text?"
said. "I was dealing with a lot of shit on the ground. You're right, I
She slapped me, making me
blink as it shot a little thrill of adrenaline through me. I turned my head
back to her and she wasn't backing down at all. Didn't look guilty, or
I didn't think. I just acted.
I grabbed her and kissed her.
she kiss me back. Her tongue pressed between my lips as she grabbed the front
of my shirt and pulled me close. I had one hand on her hip and the other on her
shoulder and I slid both around her more, my hands flat on her upper and lower
back as I growled a little into the kiss. Then her hands let go and she gave me
a soft thump on my chest with her fists, and our kiss broke as I loosened my
shaking her head. "Asshole," she said softly.
She kissed me this time, much
shorter and no tongue, but firm and sure. When she pulled away again it was out
of my grip as she straightened her fatigues and wiped the corner of her mouth.
"I got the report from the QRF Captain," she said. "And then
another couple, off the record, from one of the soldiers and one of the medics.
have been," I said. "But who knows how far it would have gone if we
hadn't gotten there sooner."
Miriam nodded back behind me
towards the other end of the motel where I'd been holed up in the room with Gerty.
"So you found her?" she asked.
and shook my head. "I wasn't imprinting Kara," I said. "That was
Gerty. Gertrude. She's a former Rez cop and a good person. She was the sickest
of the group that hadn't been murdered yet. She's also, uh, Kara's second
cousin. They both thought it was best if I imprinted Gerty now and then Kara
"They both agreed to that?"
the closest relation I've red about in the reports," Miriam said.
"People are making some pretty wild decisions when it's life and death,
rest of your life kind of stuff. There have been multiple accounts of sisters
joining Teams together; sometimes one sister hooking up with her sister's
husband, or both of them hooking up with a long-time friend or one of their
boyfriends. Second cousin doesn't even rattle the cage at this point."
world coming to?" I sighed, feeling a bit of pressure ease off my chest on
shrugged. Then she took a breath. "I'm getting replaced at the top of the
food chain in the State."
I frowned, then grimaced.
"What does that mean?" I asked.
isn't going to have a public announcement or anything; they want to keep it
quiet for as long as possible; but it starts in three days," Miriam said.
"Which means they wanted a General in charge. I got my marching orders; my
command is getting shrunk to my initial posting, which is the Black County
Military Base. That means no more big favors like this."
"I'm sorry, Miriam. This doesn't have to do with what I've been doing,
stepping forward a little and reaching out to hold my arm. "Nothing at
all. It would have happened no matter what; they were never going to let a
brand new Lieutenant Colonel get the accolades for a State rollout, even if me
and my team have done most of the work. I was ordered to wrap up any ongoing projects
not immediately on base, or in the HQ, and hand over all remaining work to the
General's staff tomorrow. Which is probably a good thing or else I'd be working
closely with the General who just took charge of the Washington State rollout.
said. There was only one General who I knew would definitely be bad news for
gritting her teeth. "Probably for the best I'm not in the same room as
him. But the timeline means all of this is still in my purview, so I decided to
come down. I got here maybe fifteen minutes after you and the first load of
I sighed again and nodded.
"Okay," I said. "Have you,”
of my orders though," she said, pushing through. "I told you before
there was an unofficial push for all members of the Air Force to get
vaccinated, and I was kind of skirting by. Well, it's official now; not
military wide, but all commissioned Air Force officers affiliated with anything
vaccine related are to be partnered up. I need to either report the name of the
person I have a relationship with or I need to go through the Oracle process
and they'll pick up and move whoever my best match is to me. So I need to know
if you plan on paying me back for all these favors by being my boyfriend, or if
I should expect that Gordan Ramsey dinner sometime in the future."
Kyla had told me. Erica and
Vanessa had both bugged and teased me about it. I'd downplayed it. Now, though,
mine. "It's going to be crowded," I said. "But I guess we're
both used to crowded bunks."
like barracks living to give you an appreciation for open spaces."
between Gerty and Kara, I'll be up to six partners," I said. "You'll
be number seven. That's a lot of women in my life."
of it," Miriam said. "I won't let it, and neither will my rank, I
Miriam smirked, then closed the distance and kissed me again. Sweetly, this
time, as she brought her arms up to circle my neck and I held her by her waist.
"I should have just had sex with you when you got kicked out of the
military on my behalf," Miriam whispered as she hugged me once our lips
parted. "I thought it might have seemed a little weird after what you did,
out if I hadn't thought it would be weird," I chuckled.
never," Miriam sighed. "And after you're already engaged."
thrilled by this," I said. "You have no idea how many times her and
the others have tried to tell me you would end up in our family."
"Oh, Erica already agreed," she said. "She was the first person
I called when I got the orders. And Laura is going to join your friend Leo's
team. I think it was an honest toss-up between you and him; in the end, she
said she wanted to stay close enough that she could still cover us both as a
lawyer, and it would be harder to do that while on the same Team, but I
honestly think she wants to get her hands on that brunette on his team."
I snorted softly and grinned.
"Dani is pretty special, so I don't blame her. I'm surprised I was so high
on Captain Bloomberg's list though."
what you've been doing," Miriam said. "Even if it was giving her some
headaches. And you're fucking hot, you big lug."
little abashed hearing that from her.
with a happy exhale. She straightened her spine a bit, patting my chest before
stepping away. "I'm going to go connect with Dylan. I spoke to him briefly
when I arrived, and I think he should probably be done with the imprinting he
"He's imprinting one of the hostages?" I asked.
Jed, and four of the soldiers. We basically did some speed dating for the
ladies since we couldn't do any Oracle checks. It's unscientific as fuck, but
all six of the ones starting to show symptoms will be safe. We've got the next
round already filling out Oracle right now, and we'll run them against everyone
here as a priority pool to see if there are any particularly good matches. The
faster we can get them partnered up the better. What they've been through
already..." She shook her head, grimacing. "Anyways, Dylan let me
know he gathered up all the intel. I might not be in charge of this operation
much longer, and I might not have much of a base to be in charge of right now,
but I can still sling data and analyse bullshit with the best of them."
nodded, then took a breath and nodded again. "Thank you, Miriam. For all
of this. For trusting me."
a second," she said and crashed into me with another hug, both of us
We parted after one last,
brief kiss that put smiles on both our faces.
What I needed to do was go
find Kyla and Kara, but after how that conversation started I knew there was
something else I needed to do first. The whole motel lot was the staging point,
but there were lots of nooks and crannies where I could find some privacy like
where Miriam had confronted me near the decontamination showers. I ended up
circling around the end of the motel and found a little concrete area that had
held a pool, though it was empty and the bottom was lined with rings of dirt
from water pooling and then evaporating over and over. After the storm from
earlier, it had about six inches of murky water at the bottom and smelled a
table, however, and while it creaked as I sat down it seemed like it was going
to hold my weight. I pulled out my phone and called Erica.
husband," she answered almost immediately.
said, unable to control the smile on my face as I shook my head and looked at
the concrete between my feet. "I love you."
she said. "Kyla sent us all an update. We told you that you would find
"Thank you for believing in me."
but I've imprinted Gerty," I said. "Kara's going to join us as
knew that would happen," Erica said. "And if there's someone else,
'ten' still echoing in my head a bit from Miriam. "I ran into Miriam as
well. She told me you two talked."
said. "And I've already got that lawn chair back out for her. It'll be
complicated for a bit while she's back and forth between the site and Portland,
but we'll figure it out."
anything like that, but then I had to assume Miriam had a lot of stuff going on
and she'd had more time to chat while making the drive down. "I guess
you're all caught up, then," I said.
said and I could hear her smile.
husband," she said, her voice getting a little thick. "Bring your
girls home with you. And Julia; she needs to pick up her helicopter anyways."
I snorted softly and shook my
head. "Might be a little busy for that threesome, dear."
for a threesome," Erica chuckled. "Especially if we're going to
convince her to join us."
badass on the mission with you?"
said. "And the decision doesn't need to be made right now. Just... keep it
fight you or Kyla on this stuff," I said. "You're proving to be right
with a concerning degree of accuracy."
said. "But I should call Ivy and Vanessa."
Erica said. "She'll appreciate it. She's been worried sick all
We traded a few more 'I love you's before I actually got off the phone.
My call with Ivy was short
and sweet. She rambled in French, her words music in my ear even though I
couldn't understand more than her tone. Then she asked me how the sex with
Gerty had been, and if she was excited to join our family, and I had to break
it to her that 'excitement' hadn't really been in the cards due to the
circumstances. She understood, thankfully.
Vanessa was another matter
entirely. She answered the call brusquely, realized it was me and asked me to
hold on a minute. I could hear her giving orders to people up at the site, then
the sound of her trudging along outside, and then she stopped and must have
raised the phone to her ear again. "Harri?" she asked quietly.
She broke down in tears of
relief, stifling her sobs. My eyes watered, realizing how utterly worried she
must have been for me. I always thought of Vanessa as such a tough cookie
because of her attitude and her job, and then I'd be reminded that she might
have been tough but she had a mushy inside.
safe," she finally managed to whisper.
soon," I said. "Did Kyla and Erica tell you the rest?"
texting," she said. "I know everything. Just come home soon. I swear
I'm going to fuck any infection out of you if it's the last thing I do."
believe you, baby," I said. "I love you."
bastard," she said. "I gotta get back to work though. I've been an
absolute bitch since you left and I think I have some smoothing over to
For the third call in a row
it was hard to hang up, but we managed it. Then I was looking down at my phone
again, trying to decide what to do. Erica said I should call Josie, but if I
called her then I felt like I needed to call other people as well. Dani had
probably called Leo already, so he knew, but... And then even just among the
ladies at the Falls, I knew there were others who would be worrying.
I called Leo first. It was a
he said. "But it's a relief to hear your voice."
living on Black land, huh?" he asked, and I could hear the smirk in his
on
that particular joke for at least a month," I said.
enough time for it not to be too soon?" Leo scoffed.
be more appropriate," I said. "But with the way our lives have been
going, who knows what wild shit will have happened in a month?"
one getting new partners."
soon," I said with a grin. "I gotta make more calls though. Love you,
fuck," he said in exasperation.
asked, practically in a panic.
I can," I said. "I just wanted you to hear it from me that we're
safe. I'm gonna need a good and proper hug from you soon."
out with Spencer and Yvonne," she said. "Trying not to think about
you and Kyla and Dani risking your lives by playing some WWE games."
I chuckled and couldn't help
my smile. "Okay. I can't wait for that hug, Joss. And thank you for
would," she said. "We all do."
for your prayers when I can," I said. "Mind if I speak to Spencer
and there was a rustling.
said. "Erica told me you wanted to come to the big sendoff but there
weren't enough seats, and that reminded me you wanted to talk last night. Sorry
me?" Spencer asked. "With everything else going on? No shit you
couldn't stay. Are you Okay? You didn't get shot again or anything, did
said. "I'd have to get pissed off at you if you got shot again."
woman in my life," I said. "Did you need to talk to me about something
important, hon? I'm probably not going to be able to come to the Falls for a
few days with all the fallout from this stuff."
Harri," she said. "It's not important."
"If you want to talk about something, it's important. Okay?"
voice, Spencer," I said. "I'll try to come out as soon as I can,
Joss a hug for me, and say Hi to Yvonne," I said. "Then could you go
find Abi and let her know that I'm safe and that I thank her over and over for
We signed off and I lowered
my phone, shaking my head slightly. That covered everyone who needed to hear
from me immediately, I was pretty sure.
Well, everyone except the
women that were within a hundred yards of me, and their stuff was a little more
I ended up finding Kyla, Kara
and Dani, along with Tanaya, sitting on a patch of grass under a tree on the
far side of the motel. The hostages that we'd rescued were being processed
through a series of big tents that had been erected and it looked like the
ladies were trying to make sure all the kids were being watched over. About a
dozen of the women were working on tablets, probably filling out their Oracle
surveys, and I could tell as I walked up that Kara was keeping an eye on
everyone even though she was sitting with her back to the tree trunk.
After everything she'd been
through, she was still looking out for her people.
Dani was the first to see me
coming based purely on where she was sitting in their small square and she got
up and approached me. The others looked over then and saw me, but didn't stand
Dani came over. She slipped close and into my arms, and I wrapped her up in a
big hug as we swayed a little. "Are you Okay?"
lot," I said. "And you had to do more than I would have ever wanted
along for a reason," she said, still hugging me. "I... might need to
talk about it sometime, but I'll survive."
She pulled back now, looking
up into my eyes with concern. "You mean... the end?"
together, then took my hands in hers and squeezed my fingers tightly.
"What you said to that army Captain? It's all still true. All of
this," she gestured to the staging area. "Like I said in the truck,
this wasn't going to fix that without you. It probably should
have, but it couldn't. The army can't be the police. Not here, not back in
Australia. You're a Sheriff, and this is the Wild West, and some people need
your help and there are other people who... who need to be taken off this earth
for the good of everyone else. They used to hang cattle rustlers, right? And
that was just over horses or cows. The people we took care of today, they were
I smirked sadly and shook my
head at the idea. "I've had a couple different people call me 'cowboy'
the part, but you act it in all the ways that count," Dani said.
"Maybe we should find you a horse, that should help."
snort. "Thank you, Dani. For today, and for being in our lives."
guy," she said, hugging me again. "Now, just so you know, I did offer
second," she said, then let go of me as she stepped back. "I'm going
to go check in with Julia and Jeanine; they said they were sorting through the
intel stuff in Room 108."
"I'll make sure not to leave you behind if we drive off into the
She headed towards the motel
and I had a moment of... something. That thin waist, her perky ass in her
jeans. Her gorgeous face and beautiful personality. She'd almost been mine.
I blinked, frowning deeply at
the intrusive thought as I turned to head to the others. I'd appreciated how
utterly hot Dani was since day one, but I'd never had a feeling like that before.
Kyla asked with a frown as I approached them.
said with a deep breath, then sat down with the three of them. Kara and Tanaya
both looked tired, like the last twenty-four hours were catching up with them,
and Kyla didn't look much better. It was kinda funny, seeing all three of them
sitting next to each other; Kyla had so much in common physically with a
Native. Similar tanned skin, and silky black hair with just a touch of a wave
to it. But then there were the stark differences that stood out immediately to
someone who had grown up around Natives. Her eyes, the structure of her lips.
From far away she could have blended into a crowd, but up close there was no
mixing up my Filipina girlfriend with my Ex.
I shifted a little, getting
comfortable, and then sighed. "Okay," I said. "So Gerty is
vaccinated and safe. She's going through the imprinting process and; Did you
ladies get the information about the vaccine?"
already given me the broad strokes and I'd told Tanaya and Gerty," Kara
with what you thought, so we, uh, bonded," I said. "She'll probably
be out for at least ten hours, so... yeah. I'm not sure what the overall plan
is, but we might need to transport her back up north with us somehow."
had about the ladies being imprinted for their safety," Kara said.
"The Doctor who gave us the information said it's all been arranged
already and they'll be brought to the same facility in Portland the rest of us
"That's actually probably a good thing. Miriam is still in charge up there
for another day or two so we should be able to,”
going to be in charge?" Kyla asked.
said. "She's actually around here somewhere. Turns out the public rollout
of the vaccine is going to quietly start happening in the next few days, and
some General has been put in charge of it. She hands off the keys to the kingdom
at that time, and she'll just be in charge of the Site and the base that'll be
sounds like a demotion," she said.
not," I said. "There's more to it, but I'll let her explain it
she... passed out?" Kara asked.
got the shots she started to perk up a bit and her breathing got easier, and
that seemed to get a bit better as we did the imprinting process."
nodded, closing her eyes and resting her head back against the tree as she let
out a stress-filled breath. "That's good."
the way," Kyla said. "We've been talking."
slowly, looking at the three women. Kyla was mostly deadpan, but couldn't hide
the little smirk at the corner of her lip from me. Kara brought her eyes back
down to look at me, her lips pulled into a thoughtful pout as she met my gaze
firmly. Tanaya was chewing on her lip, sitting with her legs crossed and
fiddling with the grass between her legs. "What's up? Did you change your
mind, Kara? Because I'd,”
quickly. "No, Harri. I; Just no. The only decisions I wish I could change
is every single one about you starting about three weeks ago and going back to
when I broke up with you in high school."
me," Tanaya said, her lower, sultry voice a lot more withdrawn from the
surety she'd had when she'd been talking to me through the cage in the
basement. It looked like she bit the inside of her cheek and then looked up at
me. Her black hair was loose and with how tired she was she almost looked a
little haunted. "About what I should do about the vaccine."
deciding?" I asked. "Or is there someone you think you want to
reconnect with? I know you're not from around here..."
back in Oklahoma," she shook her head. "Or anyone else for that
matter. Not that I care about anyways."
to?" Kara asked, reaching over and patting Tanaya's arm. The skinnier
woman nodded quickly and looked down again. Kara turned back to me.
"Tanaya was in an abusive relationship for a while. She finally got out of
it a little over a year ago when she shot him in the chest as he was
threatening to kill her with a hammer."
heavily, then looked to Tanaya. "I'm so sorry that you had to do
said. "Tanaya, seriously. I'm so fucking sorry, and I extend that apology
on behalf of every man who didn't know and would or should have done something
She glanced at me and smiled
a little, then looked back down.
bit of a trust issue with men," Kara continued. "So the vaccine, and
needing to bond with a man whether or not he's a 'perfect match' for her, is a
little daunting. The obvious answer is to try and find someone she does see
herself trusting, but that list is pretty short."
fuck me?" Tanaya blurted out, looking up at me. "I know I'm not,”
cutting her off firmly as I raised a hand partially towards her. "Please,
Tanaya, don't continue that sentence." Her jaw literally clicked shut as
she looked at me with genuine fear in her eyes, and I really hoped it was fear
of rejection and not fear of me. I took a breath. "Don't you ever put
yourself down, Tanaya," I said. "First, you are runway model pretty.
I can't imagine who could have said whatever bullshit to you in the past, but I
can easily see you strutting your stuff down a catwalk wearing some ridiculously
expensive and fancy dress, sleek lingerie, or just about anything in between.
Second, you are a courageous, tough woman who can act in emergency situations.
You kept your head in that hell hole we came to get you ladies out of, you
communicated clearly and effectively, and then you proved you were a loyal
friend when you persisted in trying to help Gerty. Plus you have great taste in
movies, a cool clothing style and give off good vibes. And that's just the
stuff I've figured out about you in three very quick encounters so far. So
again, don't you fucking dare start a sentence with 'I know I'm not' unless
you're ending it with 'an astronaut' or 'a mythical dragon here to terrorize
the countryside' because you are so, so many good
All three ladies were quiet
after my little rant and the soft sounds from over in the processing tents were
all that was around us for a long, long moment. Then Tanaya broke, squeezing
her eyes shut as she lowered her head and started silently crying.
I glanced at Kara, gesturing
quickly that I wanted to go to Tanaya, and Kara nodded. I shifted over to sit
right next to the thin woman and I wrapped my arms around her, and she grabbed
my shirt and practically headbutted me in the chest, she buried her face into
softly, rubbing her arms. "It's Okay, Tee. It's Okay."
She sobbed softly and hugged
me back, and I looked over at the other two. Kara was smiling and gave me a
little nod as she wiped a bit of moisture from her own eyes. Kyla was smiling
too, but knowingly and she winked at me and then mouthed
'Good job.'whispered softly once the sobs were down and she was just holding me. "If
you feel safe with me, and feel like you can trust me, then I would be honored
to be your partner for this. It means you'll be stuck living with Kara and
Gerty some more though, so I hope they haven't gotten too on your nerves
muffled by my chest. "They haven't."
softly. Then I pulled her from my chest and used my thumbs to gently wipe the
tears from her cheeks as I looked into her eyes. "And, just to be clear,
if you ever feel like I'm doing something that makes you think maybe you can't trust
me, you can feel free to tell any one of the other women in my life and they'll
take me to task about it and I'll correct the behavior immediately, Okay?"
Harrison," she said, taking a deep breath and nodding. "I; After
everything Kara's said, and you doing everything you could to get to her... I
mean, you're a good man. But the thing that makes me know it's gotta be you is
what you did for all of us. You brought us all the only justice we could
I knew what she was talking
about, and I nodded solemnly but didn't want to dwell on it. I'd have time to
brood on that when I was alone, late at night in my own head.
to tell you three all at once," I said, turning to the others while I kept
a hand on Tanaya's back and softly rubbed it. "Miriam, or Colonel
Abarbanel, has also made it clear she wants to join the family."
Kara looked surprised and
then grimaced a little, but Kyla broke into a grin.
called in the National Guard in on our protest?" Kara asked.
I went to answer, but Kyla
beat me to it. "Kara," she said sternly, making the older woman turn
and pay attention to her. "Harrison had an entire life separate from you,
including an entire career in the military. Miriam's help was absolutely
crucial to all of this happening today, and she did it because she
trusts and loves Harri, and she's a good woman. So you might think of her as
just some bitch from the military who represents the government, but she's been
more of a sister to me and Harri's other partners right now than you have.
Hell, she's been more of a sister to you too, with what she's
swallowed harshly, then had the decency to look a little sheepish.
"Sorry," she said to Kyla, then looked at me. "Sorry."
"It'll take a little time for us to adjust to the new normal," I
said. "But if you don't think you can, just say the word, Kara. I love you
and I always will, and I can see myself in love with you again
easily. But I'm already in love with the women in my life, and that includes
Miriam, and I can't risk their happiness if you're going to have a problem with
with just as much vigor as when she'd denied changing her mind. "I; You're
right. It'll take some adjusting, but I'm going to do it."
Then I looked down at Tanaya. "Any reservations about any of it?" I
with a weak smile. "But nothing that'll change my mind, and we need to
designated for immediate imprinting if possible," Kyla said. "Kara
because of her experience with the water, and Tanaya because she was directly
now," I said, raising my eyebrows.
I took a deep breath and let
it out, nodding. "Whatever is best for you two. Just..."
later, dear," Kyla said, cutting off my train of thought. "You want
to assure Tanaya some more, but she doesn't need it. You want to talk to Kara
about everything, but that's a conversation that's going to need to happen over
hours and days, not minutes. You still love her, she still loves you. That's
usual, I'm being outpaced by the women in my life," I said. "Okay.
Kara stood up and offered
Tanaya a hand. "We just need to go tell the Doctor we've made our
choices," she said. "They'll have a room set up for us."
asked, surprised at her wording. As far as I knew she was straight.
Kara hugged an arm around
Tanaya. "You still want me there after this conversation?" she asked
alright," Tanaya looked at me.
feel more comfortable," I told her.
Harrison," she said softly.
Tanaya," I said, then glanced at Kara. "And whatever makes you
They left, heading for the
Miriam," Kyla said from beside me.
I turned to her and growled,
scooting over and pulling her into my lap. She chuckled and straddled me,
pulling me towards her by the beard so she could kiss me. It lasted a long
moment before she pulled away, looking into my eyes. "How are you?"
up," I said honestly. "Until I can let it out appropriately.
barely," she replied just as honestly. "I'm going to need you soon
too. A few times. We're both pretty much guaranteed to be infected. You need
Erica, Ivy and Vanessa too."
"Are you really Okay with all of this? This is a big change, adding four
more people to the family in a short amount of time."
ride," she said softly and rubbed her stomach lightly. "Whatever
comes, I know we have you."
agreed and kissed her again.
said, turning off the alarm on her phone. She'd been surprised when I'd met
them in the motel room and had handed it over to her, having fetched it from my
truck. I'd had it plugged in with a charger since we'd found it, a silent
prayer willing into the universe that I'd be able to hand it back to her.
The room was done up exactly
like the one where I'd been with Gerty, everything saran-wrapped including the
pillows except for a thin mattress topper. The Doc had come in and administered
the dual shots to both Kara and Tanaya, and then we'd sat and talked for a little
while. Kyla had been right, the stuff between Kara and I was going to take a
lot longer than a half hour if we got into it, so the conversation fell to
Tanaya and I getting to know each other a bit more. I told her about growing up
on the Black homestead, and gave her the broad strokes of my life, and what the
whole living situation plan was. In return she explained a bit more about
herself as well; she was from Oklahoma originally where her family had been
into Native Relay horse racing. She'd gone from that to participating in
rodeos, which was where she'd met her ex. When the last of her close relatives
had died in Oklahoma she'd moved up to Oregon with her ex, but he'd made her
stop competing in rodeo and the relay races, wanting to focus
on his career, and things had gone downhill from there.
It hadn't exactly been a fun
conversation, but it had been informative and had helped me understand her
more; in my head, I had a vision of Tanaya before she'd gone through what she
did; she was a vibrant, boisterous woman. But then, maybe she'd always been
quiet and intense, and that's what made it harder for her to reach out for
to do this?" I asked. I'd spent the half hour sitting on a saran-wrapped
chair while they'd both been sitting on the bed.
first?" I asked. Both women focused on me and nodded, so I continued.
"Before any clothes come off or anything, I'd like to kiss you. Both of you."
said, chewing on the inside of her lip.
got him once outside, you go first," Kara said softly, urging her to get
I stood and held out a hand
to Tanaya, and she took it and stood. She wasn't as short as Ivy, and was
probably closer to Vanessa in height, but she was likely going to be the second
shortest in the family which meant that I loomed over her a little as I stooped
down slowly. She looked up at me and blew out a soft, nervous breath. I took
her hand in mine and held it between us as our eyes locked, and I leaned closer
and brought my lips to hers. I could feel her nervousness, but she didn't pull
away, and I pressed a little firmer and kissed her fully. It wasn't passionate
so much as it was slowly welcoming; Tanaya kissed me back like she was
realizing that maybe she actually wanted to.
followed me a little before pulling back, blushing slightly as her face went
better," she mumbled, then blushed a little deeper. "I mean, we'll do
better. I'm just getting used to... this."
but I'm still a little tongue-tied just from that," I teased her lightly.
She shook her head at me and
then stepped back, turning to Kara. "Your turn."
Kara stood and closed the
distance with me, sliding into my arms and again I was struck by how natural it
felt, like nothing had changed between the last time we'd done that back in
high school and now. Her one hand on my chest, her other curling a finger in my
belt loop. My hand falling on her hip and the other around onto her back
looking at me with an intense gaze. Neither of them had makeup on, but that
didn't change how striking their features were in different ways. And I'd loved
Kara during the most impressionable part of my life; she would always be a bit
It was hard to say who kissed
who, and maybe it was a purely mutual thing. She pulled me towards her by the
belt loop, and I tugged her closer by her hip. She came up to meet my lips
while I leaned down to meet hers.
Outside, we'd kissed and it
had been fireworks and nostalgia and a tornado of emotions.
This time it was the deep
peace of a still lake in the early morning. It was hot sun and a cold beer on a
beach around a bonfire. It was driving with all the windows down and singing
I could have been sixteen
again in that moment because it felt like nothing had changed even if almost
Our lips separated with a
soft smack but we stayed close, our noses brushing against each other as our
foreheads gently touched, and then we kissed again, soft and intimate, and then
again. Then I wrapped my arms around her more and pulled her to me tightly as I
pressed my lips into her dark hair and found her ear.
work, baby," I whispered barely above breathing, "I'm going to need
you to adapt a bit. I need you to know I forgive you and you don't need to
apologize anymore, but I also need you to remember this is only happening
because four amazing women have been encouraging me to follow my heart with
you. I've always loved you, even if we didn't like each other much for a while.
So please just... Be you."
She pulled back a little,
looking me in the eye again, and then shifted closer again. "Okay,"
she whispered. "We; I need to say some things to you still, but it can
wait. We need to make this about Tanaya though; she needs you to be you,
alright? And once she's imprinted, you and I can make up for lost years."
I pivoted my head and little
and gave her a kiss on the cheek, then pulled back and kissed her lips lightly
It was utterly wild that I
had Kara. She was mine again, after all this time. But she was right and based
on everything we'd talked about, this had to be about Tanaya first.
Kara stepped to the side,
keeping a hand on my side as she looked at her friend. "So," she said
snorted, shaking her head and slapping my arm. "That's one old inside joke
we don't need coming back." She turned to Tanaya.
"I'm sorry. Pocahontas was my favorite Disney movie even if it was
horrendously inaccurate and super problematic. Harri used to tease me about it
Tanya matched my smirk and
shook her head. "It's still a good song," she said.
so you're the most comfortable?" I asked. "The last thing I want to
do is say anything, or call you a pet name or something, that will trigger
something." The brief clash with Spencer was in the back of my mind, and I
definitely didn't want to do a repeat of that. Especially during an imprinting.
strip down?" Kara suggested.
first?" I suggested. "So I'm the vulnerable one. Then you two can
take off whatever you're comfortable with."
Both of them agreed, so I
went over to the bed, kicked off my boots and started to strip. Once I got my
shirt off and was working on my pants I heard a sniff from Kara and looked up.
Both of them were watching me with wide eyes, not in an 'overwhelmed
schoolgirl' way and more in a simmering adult sexual tension; I was learning
that I might have been a little more fit than I'd been giving myself credit
for. But I could also see Kara's eyes darting over the scars I'd earned since
she'd last seen me shirtless. I hadn't had any particularly major injuries
while I was in the service; no IED hits, no big gnarly bullet wounds; but I'd
gotten slashed across the ribs once, and I'd been on the far fringe of a frag
grenade explosion that had given me some small pitted scars on my left side.
Not to mention the much more recent wound in my leg that still hadn't had a
I could tell that Kara wanted
to ask me the hows and the whys, but she held them in as she bit her tongue.
The pants went next, bringing
me down to my briefs, and I kicked them off my ankles before looping my thumbs
in the elastic of my underwear and finally hesitating. "I get I'm the
headliner show here," I said. "But I'm starting to feel like the
music on for you?" Kara asked.
good routine to Pour Some Sugar on Me," Tanaya said with just a little
smile, proving she had decent taste in music along with movies.
comedian," I said, shaking my head with a grin. Then I took a quick breath
and pushed down my underwear to my ankles, standing back up and spreading my
arms. "This is about as vulnerable as I can get," I said, my cock now
before, but the heat in her eyes and flush to her cheeks made me feel like a
million bucks. It wasn't fair to really 'rank' my partners in terms of beauty
since I thought they were all super attractive, but if all of them were going
in for an audition or something I knew that Ivy and Kara were the most
classically 'magazine-level beautiful,' with the others running close behind.
Having a woman like her give me a look like the one she was, despite all our
history, was an ego boost.
And then there was Tanaya's
nervous fascination. She was biting the inside of her cheek again, her eyes
wide and her nostrils flared a little, and her eyes kept jumping from my face
to my cock and back like she was trying not to stare. Her hands, fidgeting in
front of her, clenched when she realized I'd caught her and she looked away.
said. "Getting a good look is kind of part of this, I guess."
She turned her eyes back to
me, flushing a little more, but took the invitation to really look me over.
breathing out and shaking her head. "Get on the bed, Harri."
shifting to sit in the middle as the motel bed creaked and groaned a little. It
wasn't exactly a super comfy experience, but it would do.
said, turning and taking her friend's hand. "How involved do you want me
'together' had been more about having someone in the room to support the slight
woman rather than a sexual thing. Kara and I had never had a threesome way back
when, and as far as I knew she hadn't switch-hit for the other team, but then I
didn't know much of her personal history from through our twenties.
do the foreplay together, and then I'll go first?" Tanaya suggested.
whole explanation you ladies got, but it doesn't need to be sex," I said.
"We can take time for that. It can just be oral. Hell, I think I could
technically just jerk myself off into a cup and you down that."
grossed out. "Yeah, no," she said. "I'm... dealing with stuff, but
I'm not 'make do by drinking cum out of a glass' traumatized."
All at once Tanaya took a
fast breath and let it out, then pulled her t-shirt over her head revealing the
bra I'd seen her wearing back while we'd been helping Gerty in the cult
basement. She dropped her shirt and quickly reached back, undoing the hooks.
"Harri, I know you're trying to be whatever I need, and not upset me or
anything," she said. "But I'm a big girl. I've already got some moral
support here, I don't need you to treat me like I'm gonna break or
nodding as her tits came into view. They were small and capped with cute little
dark brown areolas and nipples that bobbed lightly as she started working on
her belt. It was the one with the big rodeo buckle on it, and now that I knew
she'd been a relay racer I had to ask. "The buckle," I said. "Is
getting it undone and starting to work on the button and zipper of her jeans.
"Barrel racing, first place at the Oklahoma State Fair the first time I
entered. Bunch of bitchy white chicks were muttering shit under their breath
after we did a proper relay race, so I signed up and I think I won out of pure
making her stop as she was partway wiggled out of her jeans, just a pair of
plain dark panties hiding her privates.
she mumbled with a little smirk.
Kara was following Tanaya's
lead, and as the skinnier woman was shucking her pants my ex pulled her own
shirt off. Where Tanaya had been wearing a bra, Kara wasn't and God damn if I
didn't think her body had gotten even better with age. Her skin was a naturally
darker tan than Tanaya's, and I found her torso to be utterly sexy. She was
thin but still naturally soft, just a touch of her ribs peeking through as she
bent to set her shirt aside, and I was pretty damn sure she must have gone up a
cup size since we were teens. Her tits were perfect and plump, probably a
little over a good handful for my big hands, with softly puffy areolas capped
by a pair of pouty nipples standing at attention.
strip off the rest of their clothes. Tanaya, as I'd briefly noticed in the
basement, had a full bush going much like Gerty, while I was surprised to
notice that Kara was neatly trimmed down to a small wedge on her mound. That
meant she'd been keeping up her personal grooming before all of this and while
they were quarantining during the outbreak... and made me wonder if it had been
in hopes of this happening with me? Maybe?
cleanliness of her companion, looked down at her own bush and clenched her jaw
for a moment before looking at me. "I, um, I wasn't exactly thinking I'd
be spreading my legs for anyone any time soon," she said.
said, trying to be reassuring. "I'm not afraid of a little hair. Except
for that one time I almost choked on one of Kara's pubes."
Kara dropped her jaw, her
eyes wide as she glared at me, and then threw her pants at me as she guffawed
and I laughed. That got a smile and a chuckle out of Tanaya, thankfully helping
her relax a bit. "Come on," Kara said, reaching over and taking
Tanaya's hand for a moment. "The longer we wait, the more time he has to
loudly, crawling up onto the bed. She moved quickly but gracefully and shut me
up by kissing me as she pressed her chest to my side, her hand landing on my
hip and sliding to my half-hard cock. I groaned against her lips, the
combination of sensations again throwing me back and forth through memories and
reality as I slid my hand up her thigh to her hip and then back to squeeze one
I felt Tanaya climb up on the
bed as well, approaching but not touching me. Using what felt like all my
willpower I pulled my lips from Kara's and turned to the other woman. She was
sitting on her knees right next to me, nervously working her cheek again.
She nodded, and I gestured
for her to come to me and she leaned in until our lips touched in what might
have been the softest kiss I'd ever received. Then she moved in a little
closer, turning it into a proper kiss, and I gently placed my hand on her arm
to signal I wanted her to stay.
girl," Kara said. "Make out with him a bit. I'm going to start
getting reacquainted with Harri's cock."
shifting her stance as she lowered herself down to me more and her small chest
pressed down against mine while our kiss deepened. At the same time, Kara
dragged her tits down my side, her ass moving out of range for me to grope but
her mouth moving in range of my cock. Part of me wanted to stop kissing Tanaya
just so I could see Kara blowing me as her lips met my cock
head with a soft kiss, and then she took a little more in and started to kiss
it more and more while she slowly stroked the base.
I managed to split my focus,
reveling in the feeling of both women. I ended up slowly rubbing Tanaya's back,
feeling her thin frame and surprisingly dense muscles, while my other hand was
held tightly in Kara's as she started to slurp a little more, really getting
into the blowjob. Part of me would have liked to say that I recognized her
technique, or it felt special, but we'd been young and despite vigorous
practice hadn't known what we were doing. Now we were adults, and it was
said, coming off my cock with her mouth and stroking me from root to tip with
her hand in a slow squeeze. "I think you got bigger."
one," I said, breaking the kiss after a moment. "I think your tits
I turned to Tanaya again, her
face hovering close to mine, and kissed her lips gently again. "Mind
swapping places with her so I can teach her a lesson in fishing for
kissed me again firmly, before sifting down in a mirror to Kara. My ex was
still stroking me and they did a hand-off, Tanaya taking over and Kara watching
for a long moment like she wanted to make sure the other woman was doing it
right. She waited long enough to confirm Tanaya was sucking me between her lips
and then started to climb back up towards my head but stopped in surprise when
Tanaya grunted and her eyes rolled up into her skull as she came. Hard.
said, her eyes wide as she took control of my cock with one hand and helped
Tanaya not gag herself on it. "So they weren't kidding about that priming
sitting up and reaching down to Tanaya, pulling her towards me. She naturally
clung to me as the big climax started to drain out of her and she began
one?" Kara asked, sitting up as well as she rubbed Tanaya's arm and
said. "I wasn't producing any pre-cum yet, probably."
double-checked that Tanaya was coming down and breathing fine, before dropping
her mouth to my cock and sucking hard. One heartbeat later and she was moaning.
hummed, half my cock in her mouth, and she came harder than Tanaya even had as
her body started to shudder and she actually snorted as she tried to suck a in
a breath through her nose.
pulling her off my cock so she could breathe properly, and she gasped and
"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck,"
Kara moaned, her voice strained as her hand snaked between her legs and worked
her cunt while she rode out the wave of pleasure that had just taken her.
about that first orgasm," Tanaya mumbled, still holding me as she watched
said," I said, smirking a little.
To be continued, Based on
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