by Misty Vixen
So he kept going, increasing the speed with which he stroked into her, fighting against the orgasm that was threatening to overwhelm and burst out of him.
“Come on, Ellie...” he moaned.
“Almost there, David! Almost...oh holy shit David yes!” she screamed, and he clapped his hand over her mouth.
She moaned and shrieked against it, the muffled sounds of her screams surprisingly hot, her eyes wide as she started to orgasm. He moaned loudly as he felt her vaginal muscles convulse and a huge increase in heat and wetness. She came again, she began coming all over his dick and he immediately lost his fight with his own orgasm. And he lost it gladly. He cried out, letting out a primal grunt as he started coming inside of her.
And they orgasmed together, locked in a blissful union of total ecstasy.
He moaned and grunted, trying to keep it down as he pumped her sweet, orgasming inhuman pussy full of his seed, blowing a huge load into her. He could feel his seed leaving him in powerful spurts, each one sending a new earthquake of rapture throughout his entire body. He came until there was nothing left in him, and then he was panting, laying against her, momentarily boneless from the exertion of the sex and the orgasm.
They laid there together for several moments, waiting for their hearts to calm down, and then he carefully pulled out of her and stood up on shaky legs.
He looked down at himself, then sighed. “This is why I wanted to take my pants off.”
“Sorry,” Ellie murmured, although she didn’t sound sorry about the big wet spot all over his pants and boxers.
He just sighed again and shed his clothes. He took a moment to dig new underwear and pants out of his pack, pull them on, transfer what was in his pockets to his new pants, then stuff the stained clothes into his pack and zip it back up. Once that was done, he pulled his shirt back on, then walked to the nearest window and looked out while Ellie began to dress. He saw a few zombies wandering around outside, very close to the cabin. They must have been drawn in by all the noise, but had lost track of them when they’d stopped.
“So we done out here?” he asked.
“Yes,” Ellie replied. “These are the last two places I know about in the immediate region. Which means we’re going to have to get a little more creative when it comes to getting supplies.”
“We should all sit down and have a talk tonight about our plans,” David replied.
“Yes, we should. I can help with the plan of attack,” Ellie said as she finished pulling her clothes back on.
“There’s some zombies out there. I think they heard your, uh, performance.”
“That wasn’t a performance, that was from the heart,” she replied, and pulled out her knife. “Now let’s get to work.”
CHAPTER THREE
The rest of the day passed with a comfortable regularity.
After getting done killing and searching the zombies that had gathered outside the cabin, he and Ellie had made it back to the campgrounds. He spent several hours helping Evelyn chop firewood and build their reserve back up. After that, he grabbed lunch, delivered the toys to Ann, then took a shift atop the cabin nearest to the main entrance to keep an eye out. As he sat watch, he thought about what Ellie had said, thought about the people that he had agreed to watch over and care for. Maybe he hadn’t fully appreciated the gravity of that situation.
Although David had done much to take more control of his own life, to become less passive and more take-charge, more active, more decisive, he had only really gotten used to making choices for himself. He had taken charge of his own life, and that rarely extended to more than one or two other people. Not necessarily control, but considering how his actions might affect them. For a little while there, he’d just had to think of how his decisions would effect Evie and April. But now he had four different groups of people to look over, families, all of them with children. That was...that was a lot. And he realized that Ellie was right.
In the back of his head, he knew that he’d fight to defend them, and he had basic ideas about providing food and firewood and medicine, but he’d largely expected them to take care of themselves. Thinking on it more, he realized that that wasn’t necessarily the wrong way to look at it, but as a community leader, he needed to have a more active role, a more direct participation in how these campgrounds were maintained and provided for. And hadn’t he given himself that responsibility? Not when he and Evelyn and April had moved here, but when he had begun inviting people. Maybe at first he was looking for, basically, roommates, but that clearly was not the case anymore. These people obviously looked to him and Evelyn and Cait for help and, to varying degrees, guidance, and protection.
The task felt daunting.
And he thought that was part of the reason it had slipped his mind. But the more he thought about it, the more powerful a motivation he felt, perhaps if only because the idea that his laziness or carelessness might result in someone getting hurt or going hungry or falling seriously ill was intolerable. Ellie was right, he needed to be more paranoid and more desperate in his actions, but smart and controlled at the same time. Paranoia and desperation were just the fuel for the fire, the fire needed to be tended with a careful and sure hand so it didn’t get out of control.
As he sat there, taking watch, he took stock of himself, and supposed that he was in a pretty decent position for this responsibility. He was young, he was fit, he had no serious injuries or ailments, either of the body or of the mind. He was a little dense sometimes, but that could be a good thing in some cases. He had pretty good endurance, he didn’t scare easy. Well, that might not be true. It was less that he didn’t scare easy and more that he was finding facing bad and brutal situations, despite his terror, was easier. He didn’t panic as easily, that was closer to reality. On top of that, he had a great place to live and several capable, smart, brave people to back him up and help him out. The more he thought about it, the better he felt.
Although he didn’t let himself feel too good, because Ellie was also right about the world they lived in. It was brutally dangerous, and this was the most dangerous time of the year, and it was during possibly the most dangerous year the human race had ever seen. The new undead variants were brutal, efficient, and relentless. He felt like they’d had it easy so far...for the most part. The worst they’d had to put up with at the campgrounds were some stalkers. David frowned and looked at a nearby hole in the fence surrounding the buildings. Yes, there was definitely much to do. But...David looked out over the campgrounds.
At least he was going to have a lot of help.
…
Dinner came after his watch was up. Jim had successfully bagged a deer and several rabbits, so that’s what they ended up eating. Ashley’s father relieved David from guard duty and he joined the others in the main office. For now, everyone tended to eat in their own places of residence. Consequently, he sat down at a table with Evelyn, April, Cait, Ellie, and now Ashley, who had left with Ellie for another one of their ‘excursions’ after the two of them had returned from their own trek, and had made it back just before dinner.
As he ate dinner and talked and laughed with the others, David felt a pressure growing slowly inside of him, because he planned on having the serious discussion as soon as they were done. Partly he was a little anxious, because he wasn’t sure how it was going to go. April and Cait seemed happy to abdicate responsibility, so did Ellie, and really just do what was asked of them by David and Evelyn, and Evie herself seemed pretty amenable to the suggestions he’d made so far. But he hadn’t really tried to necessarily directly step up and take charge of anything, and that’s pretty much what he would be doing here.
But also he felt excited, because he largely felt (and hoped) that it would go smoothly, they would agree with him, and they could start really getting shit done.
Getting shit done felt fucking great.
“All right, David,” Evelyn said after they had eaten and the conversation they’d been having had naturally fallen off for a fe
w moments, “you’ve had that look on your face ever since you came back with Ellie. You want to say something. What’s up?”
He chuckled nervously. “You’ve gotten good at reading me.”
“You’re easy to read,” Ellie murmured.
“Yeah,” Cait said.
“Definitely,” Ashley agreed.
“Thanks,” he replied. “Okay, anyway, serious discussion time. Ellie made a few good points, the primary one being: we aren’t serious enough about running this place.”
“Yeah,” Evelyn murmured.
“What do you mean?” April asked.
“Yeah, fuck you Ellie, I do a lot,” Cait said and stuck her tongue out at Ellie, who flipped her off.
“Eat me,” she said.
“You first,” Cait replied.
“Focus,” David said. “I want to start involving everyone more. We need to do a lot more to build up our stores of food, clean water, and firewood, and medicine and ammo. Pretty much whatever we can get our hands on. We need to stockpile stuff, have weeks of supplies on hand in case the worst happens.”
“Like what?” April murmured.
He shrugged. “I have no idea. No one could have predicted that the virus would jump to inhumans and make the world roughly fifty times more dangerous. River View’s burning came out of nowhere. But basically, the more prepared we are in general, the more ready we’ll be to face a crisis when it shows up on our doorstep. So, Evelyn, you’re good at organization. Will you be willing to draw up a schedule for everyone, work with people, figure out what they think is a reasonable amount of time to offer to work and also what they’re good at, what they feel comfortable doing? And drawing up a more solid guard schedule?”
“I can definitely do this. I’d love to,” she replied.
“Excellent. I think we also need to start hunting more. We should go in pairs at minimum. But...before we can get serious about long-term changes and improvements to this place, we need to address the real problem. The thieves. The assholes who’ve been harassing everyone in the region. They need to be put down. Does anyone disagree?”
“Fuck no,” Ellie muttered.
“They need to die,” Cait said flatly.
“Yep,” Ashley agreed.
“Agreed,” Evelyn said.
He looked at April. “I mean, as much as I’m against killing people...yeah. They burned down an entire village. They gotta go. I just...I’m not sure how much I can do...”
“Don’t worry, April, you won’t be going along when we attack,” David said.
“So you are attacking?” Evelyn asked.
“Some of us are, yes,” he replied.
“There’s not nearly enough of us,” Evelyn protested.
“I know. We need help. This is a problem that’s fucking with the whole region, and more than us live here. So we should ask for help,” he replied, and looked at Ellie and Cait.
“We should definitely ask the farmers,” Ellie said. “They’ve got muscle to spare, or they should. Although they might be reluctant. They’re pretty insular.”
“I can go to the doctors and ask them. Katya and Vanessa will want in on this, and I’m sure they’ll be willing to spare at least one of them,” Cait said.
“What about Jennifer?” David asked.
“Maybe. She’s not as much of a fighter, but she is a wraith, so she’s pretty tough...” Cait murmured.
“We should also go down to the fishing village,” Ellie said.
“Where’s that?” Evelyn asked.
“West of here, by the lake. It’s a group of several dozen that lives among some old dockyards and fishing cabins. I’m almost sure they’ll commit to our cause,” Ellie explained.
“Okay. Well, that’s a few different people, potentially...” Evelyn murmured.
“I want to ask those soldiers,” David said.
“No,” Ellie replied immediately. “We don’t want, nor need, their help.”
“We could use their help,” Cait said quietly.
“No! I’m not fucking going to that fucking asshole!” Ellie snapped.
“Ellie...” David said. She turned to look at him, her anger obvious, but he held her gaze, staring back at her. Finally, she let out a disgusted noise and looked away.
“Hale might help,” Cait said.
“Who’s Hale?” he asked.
“Lima Company’s second in command. That’s what they call themselves. Stern’s in charge, but his second in command is a Lieutenant named Lara Hale. She’s...far more diplomatic. We can probably reason with her.”
“All right then. Anyone else?” he asked.
“No one I can think of,” Ellie murmured after a moment. David glanced at Cait, but she shook her head.
“Okay then. So we go around, ask for help. But we definitely are missing a huge piece of the puzzle: where are these assholes hiding?” David asked.
“I’ve been thinking about that,” Ellie replied. “I can think of three likely places. They seem to be coming from across the river, and they can’t be all that far away. I’ve been over there, all over that place, and I’d bet that they’re either in the hunting grounds, down in a valley, or in a quarry. They’re all pretty decent locations to hide out. Though if I were gonna bet on it, I’d say the hunting grounds. There’s a lodge and several cabins all in one area there.”
“So we’ll scout the locations and see what we can see,” David said.
“I’ll scout them. I’m the best scout out of all of us,” Ellie said.
“I’m not letting you go alone, Ellie. And don’t fucking sneak off, you agreed to help. You agreed to be a part of this,” he replied, surprising himself as he stared across the table at her. He didn’t think he’d ever taken such a firm tone with her.
She stared back at him, looking a little surprised herself.
“Fine,” she said after a few seconds.
“Thank you,” he replied. “Okay, we’ve got all the pieces figured out, how are we actually going to do this? I think we should ask for help first. We could hit everyone up tomorrow.”
“I can go see the doctors and ask for their help, and track down Jennifer, as well. I need to go see them anyway,” Cait said.
“What for?” Evelyn asked.
“Oh, um...you know...time for a checkup,” she replied.
David glanced at her. That sounded like an evasion if he’d ever heard one. He considered pursuing it, but decided to let it drop. If it was important, and relevant to him, he trusted her to tell him. If not, then it wasn’t exactly his business. Just because they were dating didn’t mean they couldn’t keep some things their own business.
“Okay,” he said, “sounds good. Ellie and I will go talk to the farmers. It’s about time I go visit them anyway, get some more food. Ashley, we’re going to need your help. You’re probably the best shot and most capable fighter out of everyone else who lives here. I want you to have a more active role in protecting this place.”
She frowned. “You want me to just hang around here, playing guard?”
“Not all the time, but coordinate with Evelyn, set up watches, find our weak points, figure out plans of action for emergency situations when we get attacked. I can help you with it after we get this business with the thieves settled. I know it’s not exactly what you had in mind and it’s not permanent, but...I’m asking you to do it. We’re all going to need to pitch in,” he replied.
She sighed. “Okay, fine. Yeah, I’ll do it.” She leaned forward. “You have to fuck me tonight, though.” She looked at Evelyn. “Both of you.”
“Deal,” Evelyn replied.
“Obviously I’ll do you,” David said. Then he looked around the table again. “So that’s it then? Cait goes for the doctors and Jennifer, then comes back here, Ellie and I go for the farmers and then come back here, then all three of us will go and ask the fishers for help, and then the military assholes. Evelyn, April, and Ashley will stay here and begin organizing a schedule and beefing up security. That sounds l
ike a plan?”
They all agreed that it did, and he felt relief sweep over him. Well, that had gone better than he’d thought it would. Now it all had to actually work. Planning was easy, acting was where it got risky. But he’d have to see how it actually played out. Now that they’d gotten that out of the way, they all got up and began cleaning up the remains of their dinner. They gathered up the bits of leftovers that remained uneaten and placed it all in a small bowl. David placed the bowl on the floor, near a little hole in the baseboard of the kitchen, and sure enough, a few moments later, a little pink nose emerged, twitched a few times, and out came Frostbite.
“He is so fucking adorable,” Cait said when she saw him.
Their mouse scampered over to the bowl and began eating out of it.
“Definitely,” David agreed. “I kinda wish we had a cat, but then that might cause problems. Plus...would that be weird? Would it make you feel weird?” he asked, looking at Ellie.
She shrugged. “Monkeys were a thing, although they didn’t really keep them as pets, from what I hear. I don’t think so. I just look like a cat, it’s not like I identify with them or anything. I mean, I’m very against, you know, hurting them, but I don’t see anything wrong with keeping them as pets. They seem to enjoy it, from what I’ve seen.”
“Good to know,” David replied.
They finished cleaning up and then split up, as they had a few hours left before they went to sleep. Evelyn and Ashley sat down and began some preliminary work on setting up a schedule, and April headed up to her room, as did Ellie, to her and Cait’s shared bedroom. Cait, however, tracked him down as he was on his way to give April her books. He was on his way up to the third floor when he heard her whisper his name from the base of the stairs.