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Thirty-Two Return

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A few hours had passed and all that the wolves had done was mill around some more and at least half of them had laid down and napped. "Do either of you think you can take a nap? Someone will need to stay awake tonight to keep an eye on the wolves."

"If they let me get in the back I think stretching out would let me sleep. Last night I tried sleeping in this seat and have a stiff neck." Joey had been rubbing at his neck for the past few hours.

"Ace, try to slide up here with me. Jude, when Joey get back there you can come up, too." I didn't want him on my lap while I was holding a pistol but there would be room enough for he and Ace on the passenger seat.

We were on a pretty flat part of the road, isn't most of west Texas flat? I could see quite a way in front of us and far into the fields surrounding us. The wolf pack hadn't gotten any larger in the few hours we had been waiting for it to do anything. A few of the wolves had fought with each other, I didn't think they were too serious as I didn't see that any of them were bloody. Twice the short battle had the wolves bumping into the truck from the front. I had set the brake the previous night so they didn't move us much but I did think they had pushed us a few feet.

Ace and Jude ate some of the snacks, drank some of the water and overflowed the jug we had started to fill that morning. We all tried not to drink too much. It was getting close to the time when we would normally eat dinner when the wolves started to gather closer together. I had no idea what it meant but had it been before the May 1st attack I would have thought they were gathering together for protection. They were all on their paws looking to the North. We didn't have a very good line of sight, they were looking towards the rear and right of the truck.

They may have been standing like that for close to a half hour when they started to howl. Not individually but almost as if they were in unison. The volume was so loud that it woke Joey from his fitful sleep. I was happy that he was at least able to sleep some since I knew that trying to sleep in the front seats was hard on your back and neck.

"What's happening?" He was trying to peer over my shoulder.

"I'm really not sure. They have been standing with their snouts to the North for the last half hour. Ace and I have been loading the rifles. I really don't have much faith that we'll be able to fight our way free."

"Have you thought about running over them?"

""Two or three of them in the road would leave us immobile, besides I think we are still stuck in the ditch I put us in last night." I would have liked to blame him for grabbing my leg but I knew it was my reaction not his action that was the reason we were in the situation we were in now.

Jude has better eyes than me. I had worn glasses for years but had broken them before we found the village where we didn't have anyone that could either check my eyes or make me new glasses. Ace saw what he was pointing at and gasped. It took another five minutes for me to see that two of the wolves that we had seen standing on their rear legs were headed our way.

"Joey, change places with me. I need to get back there so I can stand up and work the weapon Nino made." I had Jude get in the back with me, I didn't know if there was going to be a part of the truck that would be safer than the others but at least he was close to me. I quietly unlocked the window that Nino has fashioned for me to stand through. It was heavy enough glass that I didn't worry about an attacking wolf lifting it free.

"Should we attack the pack? We might be able to kill half or more of them before the other two get here." Joey was trying to get into a position that would allow him to shoot his rifle without shooting out the front window.

"They have been peaceful for the last couple hours, let's see if they remain that way. We don't want to have a battle unless we absolutely have to. I don't know how intelligent they are but I really don't want to find out if they know how to get in with us." I hugged Jude to my side, he hadn't stopped looking out the front window. That didn't give us a look at the two beings that were still approaching from the rear.

"The two on two legs are twenty or thirty yards away, Roger."

"Hold your fire, they may just leave us alone." I don't know what I was thinking. I was sure that Ace had to be thinking about the wolf that had mounted him. Jude was thinking about the huge teeth, or at least that is all he kept saying. Joey was muttering, 'damn, damn, damn' over and over.

"Joey, start the engine." We didn't have much of a chance against the wolves with their tails toward us but if they had loosened the truck enough Joey might be able to back it out of the ditch if we needed. Those that were closest to us turned with their teeth bared. The others were still howling as the two monster sized wolves approached.

Getting a good look at the monster wolves for the first time I was aware that we needed to be even more afraid than we had when we saw them at a distance while we were in the village. They were not actually wolves, although they had many of the same characteristics. We could hear them speaking to each other, it was a language that we didn't know. The fact they knew a language verified what we had thought about the attacking wolves, they were not Earthly, they were alien.

Unlike the wolves they had a broad chest. Their ears were not pointed but were furry and back on their heads. The two had snouts but not nearly as long as the four pawed wolves but the teeth were longer. It was the first time that I saw that instead of legs with paws the two had front legs that were much closer to ours with paws that had two talons, fingers, claws and an opposable thumb. Their torso were covered in hair that was shorter than that on the rest of their bodies. Their rear legs were the same as the wolves' and they had a tail. I couldn't miss seeing their cocks and balls. They weren't covered with a sheath like the other wolves but were standing erect as if they were held in place with a bone, they were both at least fifteen inches long and angry looking like their canine counterparts they didn't have a head on the cock but a point on the exterior tip.

"Sir, don't let them fuck me." If I had been Ace I would have been afraid, too. He had more of a reason to worry than any of us, I hoped he didn't think I had let the other wolf fuck him.

"We're going to try not to, Ace." As I said that the entire pack turned towards the truck as one, they had stopped howling but most of them were still growling.

"How much longer do you want us to hold off on shooting?" Joey sounded nervous but not too anxious to be shooting.

"HUMAN!"

The voice was deep and loud enough to shake the truck. Through mime they indicated that one side of the road "belonged" to the one that had spoke and the other side to the other. With seemingly little effort they pushed the truck back onto the road and pointed us to the west. Joey had the truck back on the road and leaving the situation in seconds. We were down the road at least two miles before anyone spoke.

"How do you think they learned English?"

"Joey, it didn't seem like they knew more than the word they spoke. I don't know but they may have learned it from humans they have transitioned into wolves or they have been listening to human broadcasts in outer space."

"It did seem evident that they are taking possession of Earth."

"I would say that was what they meant with the miming. But why did they leave us go? They could have destroyed us." There was no questioning the strength of the two monsters we had just encountered.

"Maybe we were fortunate to find two that were kind?" Joey said it but it didn't sound like he believed his own words.

"I don't know, but it doesn't make sense. If their race destroyed all of Earth why would they leave us go free? Do you think they were in awe of us surviving the destruction and deaths they caused?"

"I don't think we'll know until we learn to communicate with them. I don't want to be the one that tries that."

"Me either." Having the truck between us and the wolves was as close as I cared to get, they looked as if they would too easily crush us.

Another twenty miles down the road we needed to start clearing the way again. Until he was concentrating on clearing the road Joey and I had been trying to figure out the reason we were free and more importantly alive. The wolves hadn't followed us and we didn't see any others as we plowed our way into Amarillo.

"Dad, I need to go poo."

"Joey, pull into that service station." Unlike many service stations we had seen the tanks hadn't been damaged. There were two cars in the bays that were burnt but the office seemed unaffected.

Ace and Jude went looking for the restrooms. Jude was experienced enough to know what he would need to do if they did find a stall. Joey and I stopped in the office, there were a half dozen vending machines that all appeared to be full. Joey was glaring at them like he wanted to give any of the candy a try, we had not had much stocked in the village so it had been severely rationed. I hadn't ever had any in the house since I had been told that the boys wouldn't start asking for it unless they were given some at an early age. Joey and myself were different, we both craved chocolate and the little we got didn't help.

"Joey, its going to be stale." He had gone to the only desk looking for the keys to open the machines.

"You never know, some of these things are wrapped tight and have so many preservatives in them they will outlast both of us." Not finding keys he went back into the garage to find some tools. Tony and I had broken into vending machines for food at rest stops but that was fourteen years earlier. The machine that interested my the most was the one loaded with cigarettes. I hadn't had one since we first locked the garage door. We only had a few packs that we had found when we had helped the old man clean the diner and store the goods from the food truck, they hadn't lasted too long.

Joey used a screwdriver and a hammer to get the first machine open. We avoided the chips and crackers going straight for the Three Musketeer bars. The first couple we opened were moldy but after five minutes we found a couple that appeared to be in pristine condition and we sat down to enjoy our efforts.

"If we get food poisoning from these I'm not going to be as happy as I am right now." The chocolate was such a treat, every bite was savored.

"I don't care. This reminds me of growing up."

"Do you think we have room in the truck to take all the sodas?"

"We should if we can find the empty crates." I would have liked one right then but they weren't cold. Joey told me he really didn't want to but he broke into the cigarette machine, too. I thought they would probably be stale but even a stale cigarette sounded good, I looked for matches or a lighter.

"Dad? What are these?" Jude had two chicken eggs in his hands.

"Eggs. Where did you find them?"

"Sir, there are chickens outside." I had a hard time believing Ace, this would be the first time we had found anything living other than the few people and the wolves.

"Show me. I grabbed the Geiger counter that hadn't shown the candy to be too badly exposed. We followed Ace and Jude out the back door, penned in the space were a bunch of chickens and scattered on the ground were brown eggs.

"How can we tell if the eggs are any good to eat?" I hoped Joey had more experience with them than me.

"The only way I know if by breaking them open. But that really only will tell us if they are old, if they are carrying diseases we can't tell. We would have to cook them extra well." I couldn't Joey's mind working on what he could cook with them. I wanted to eat eggs, but I also wanted to eat chicken.

"If we gather all the eggs laying around and wait until tomorrow any eggs we find should be fresh." I hadn't wanted to stay there but this was a treat that was worth our time moving onto Amarillo could wait.

"Has anyone ever killed a chicken? I would love to eat one for dinner." No one had killed one but Joey and Ace thought they could figure out a way to do it. I told them that plucking the feathers was a real job I looked around but I wasn't able to learn how the chickens had survived. None of us were farmers so taking them along didn't sound too practical to me but it was something we should think about doing.

"While the two of you try to get meat for dinner I'm going to take Jude and see if we are able to find a building where we can sleep tonight. Another night in the truck doesn't sound good. Ace, Jude and I had been able to stretch out but I hadn't been able to toss and turn like normal so I really hadn't slept as well as I needed.

"I don't see any stoves or pans around here so if you are able to find a house that would be better than a motel." I hoped I could find one with working appliances but I had the feeling that we had been fortunate to find the one we had. We could see the city from the ground but most of the view was blocked by warehouses.

"Are we going to find more people?"

"Jude, we may find two doctors that I saw the last time I was through here. They worked with Tiffan and Rhoda at the Amarillo Medical School. They planned on staying close to the school and the hospital that was across the street. Their hope was that anyone that had survived would head to the hospital at some point."

"Why did you go there?"

"Karen wanted to get a look at Ton and Dana. She thought she was going to be the one that would have to cut me open."

"Is that what Rhoda will have to do to Ton?"

"Why?" I hoped to delay the conversation.

"He can have babies, too. That's what he told us the last night we were there."

"Yes. If he has babies the doctor will have to cut them out of him." Jude had seen me in the hospital after the girls were born but I had been covered with a sheet so he couldn't tell I had been cut open.

"Does that mean he's a girl?"

"Does he look like a girl?" I'd had this conversation with Junior so many times I hoped that I wouldn't have to have it with Jude.

"No."

"Have you ever seen his dick?" I didn't know what the boys had been up to, but I was pretty sure they had been at the clothing optional part of the playing field at the same time at least once. Jude had been there with me so many times there was no reason for him not to know what a dick was.

"Yes."

"Girls don't have dicks." I knew he had seen a couple of the girls naked.

"Boys don't have babies." He was starting to resist the conversation the best he could.

"I had you."

"But, Dad, you're different."

"I wasn't going to tell you this until you were older, Jude but you are just like Ton and I, you will be able to have babies when you're older.

"Yuck."

"That doesn't mean you have to if you don't want to."

"Would I have to let somebody put their dick in my ass?" I sometimes forgot how much he had seen living around me.

"You would. So if you don't want babies don't let anyone fuck you." I knew he was too young to be hearing that but he was already thinking about what would have to happen for him to get pregnant.

"How long before I can do that?"

"Tell someone no?"

"Let someone fuck me?"

"I hope you wait until you are at least fifteen. Almost another nine years."

"Ton and Dana were doing it the night they turned twelve."

"That was too early. I would have stopped them if I had known." I would probably have tried, but I was already having sex at twelve and if my father had said anything about it I would have ignored him just like they would have.

"Did you see them with anyone else?" If he had been watching them he should know it they had expanded their horizons.

"I saw Dana taking Jack's dick in his mouth but not Ton. Does that mean Dana is going to grow up and be like you?" I hated to think my son thought of me as a cocksucker but I guess he had seen me often enough I couldn't expect much else.

"Maybe. Or he might change his desires as he grows older." At least I hoped he would try impregnating one of the girls. The village needed to have as many different couples as parents as possible.

"Are you going to have more babies?"

"No. I am getting too old." I felt that was a good enough answer, I sincerely hoped that Rhoda had succeeded the last time she attempted to remove what was Left of the Ovary. I didn't need to be pregnant again, although Joey would have enjoyed another child.

"Dad, there's a house." I followed his pointing finger up a road to the side. About five or so blocks down the road was a badly weathered shack. From where we were it didn't look big enough to have two bedrooms. It was the only one that I saw that hadn't been burnt so we went to take a look.

I had never been in a house that was such a disaster. The walls looked like somebody had used them for a punching bag. The floor was covered in ashes and needles. There were mattresses scattered on the floor.

"We're not staying here."

I drove another mile having to push a lot of cars to the side of the road. We came to what looked like three townhouses. The two on the ends were scorched and had windows out but from the exterior the one in the center looked untouched. I was used to having to knock a door open with a sledge hammer we had put in the front of the truck. Looking in the ground floor windows the house looked almost clean.

Before I hit the door knob I turned it and the door swung open. Jude followed me in but took off exploring the rooms in front of me.

The house was cold. But as I walked towards the kitchen I felt a draft of warmth.

"Dad, the stove is on." He had been around Joey cooking enough to tell when a stove was on and not.

"So Joey can cook." He didn't grasp the importance of the stove already being heated up when we arrived.

"No. Somebody else is cooking." I ran in to see what he was talking about to find there was a huge soup pot on top of the stove radiating heat with a low gas fire under it. I took a quick look, there were vegetables stewing in the water.

"Someone is living here, Jude.

"HELLO! HELLO!" I didn't go up the stairs, not wanting to startle anyone the way we had the old woman with the dogs. I didn't hear any response to my calls so I tried again. There was still no answer. I happened to look out a window over the sink, working in a patch of dirt were four children not much older than my twins. They were bundled up against the freezing weather, I didn't want to walk out and scare them. If they had never seen anyone in a radiation protection suit they would surely be frightened at the way we looked.

While I was thinking about the best way to greet the teenagers one of them started walking towards the house. I picked up my son, that should express the warmth of a family instead of an aggressive enemy. I couldn't tell much about the teenager until he started to unwrap the scarf from around his face. It had been a long time since I'd seen a blond blue eyed boy. He threw me back to pictures I had seen of California surfer boys.

"Good afternoon."

"What? Who?"

"Don't be scared we won't hurt you. I'm Roger and this is my son Jude. We were looking for a house to use for the night."

"Steve, Harry!" It hadn't mattered that I told him I wouldn't hurt him, he was still scared by the appearance of two strangers in the kitchen. I waited until the boys he called arrived before saying anything. Harry rushed in carrying a machete and Steve with a shovel. I didn't pull the pistol I was carrying nor did I set my son on one of the chairs. I introduced myself and Jude again. After they all told us their names I explained that Jude and I had two friends down the road a bit that were fixing our dinner so they didn't need to worry about us trying to steal their food. I thought that might be their second fear.

They asked about the white suits we were wearing. I explained about the radiation around us that could make everyone ill. They didn't have any education and explaining any thing to them was difficult. I was still trying to talk to them when the last of the four came in, I hadn't expected there to be a girl since they had all looked alike in the garden but as she took off the outer layer it was very obvious. Gloria was their sister and pregnant. We talked for a while, I set Jude down at the table. He went over to the girl to talk but she backed away behind the boys.

"Gloria doesn't speak." The first boy that had come into the house seemed to be the one most willing to talk although I would have guessed he wasn't the oldest. I would have liked to take them back to the village but I had the feeling they had been exposed to too much radiation to allow them close to anyone else. As we talked I learned they had been in a root cellar when their mother had been burned from the attack. They were young and didn't know what to do so they waited for their father to return home but he never did. They went out the following morning to see the fires and damage. Harry had herded them all home and since that day they hadn't gone anywhere other than the the two houses next door to steal food.

When they heard me saying that there were very few people alive they started to act like they wanted to come with us but Harry said they had to stay at the house. I could tell he was trying to do the best for his family but I was sure they could have a better life if we could put them with the doctors in Amarillo. Or the other way around.

"When I asked if they knew of any other houses that hadn't been damaged they said the house to the right had only been damaged a little almost all of that on the outside. Jude and I went next door lead by Arthur, he was warming up to us and had started to talk more about his brothers and sister. He didn't know whether it was Harry or Steve that was the father of the girl's baby, he did know it wasn't him. When he told me that I looked closer hoping to see some sign that the boy wanted to be with me not my son, when he put his hand on Jude's shoulder I reacted like a jealous lover not an angry father.

Even though there were some windows broken I decided that we should try staying there that night. The stove top worked and there were three beds upstairs. I went out to the truck for the Geiger counter, the inside of the house was acceptable, not great but with the meds we would be okay. I didn't know how we would get it warmed up but I wasn't that worried, the blankets would do okay for the night. It didn't take much for me to get Jude back in the truck.

"Dad, they are creepy."

"What do you mean?" I had my own reasons for thinking they had problems but I didn't want to tell them to my son.

"They wouldn't let that girl talk. They haven't gone away from that house in years. They were really dirty and smelly."

"That's all true. For teenagers that is strange. You would think they would be out running all over the place."

"What is wrong with them?"

"I don't know. The first attack and losing their parents may have traumatized them. Or their parents caused it."

It only took a few minutes to return to the garage where we had Left Joey and Ace. They had two chickens cut up and bagged waiting for us. Ace brightened up when he heard about the four strangers. They would be about his age, perhaps he would be able to learn more about them.

"Do you think we can trust them? You already said that they were stealing food."

"So have we. Those chickens and eggs, for example. Plus that Three musketeer bar we had yesterday." I hated to think of myself as a thief but since I left my home in Maine I had been living basically by stealing food.

"I was more worried that you said they ran into the house carrying a machete. Do you think we need to worry about that?"

"Maybe. We should sleep with our pistols under the pillows." It was possible that Harry would try talking the others into violence for some reason but I didn't know why. I thought about Arthur and mentioned to Joey that he needed to watch out for our son, that the boy might be desperate for a young companion. I was thinking sex but didn't say it, Jude had refused to take one of the other beds and was trying to stay with us. I had been hoping to fuck Joey but with our son being clingy there was not much I could do other than finger him, he had a hard time staying still.

"You are going to have to start sleeping in a different bed, young man." I was trying to be stern but I must have failed.

"So you can fuck Joey? You can fuck him while I'm in bed with you." We both broke out laughing, the things he would say.

"Okay, everyone to sleep." I had stopped laughing but Joey hadn't and Jude would giggle every time he started again.

"Fine, you two can sleep in here and I'll go sleep with Ace." I pulled the pistol out from under the pillow I had been using and started to the next bedroom. There was a rustle of clothing, what was going on? Ace never slept with clothes if he didn't have to. The door was open and when I stepped inside I saw two of the boys with machetes raised. I probably could have found another way to protect Ace but I used the pistol in my hand and killed both of the boys before they were able to harm my slave.

We spent the rest of the night in the house with Arthur and Gloria trying to figure out why their brothers had been about to kill Ace. The girl did talk but she didn't give us any information other than 'food'. I was ready to stop questioning them when I remembered what Nino had said about the pair in Louisiana possibly being cannibals. Were these kids going to eat us? Or at least Ace? When I had the question framed right Gloria admitted that was why they intended to kill Ace.

I had a difficult time believing that they would have eaten us until she pulled a bone out of the soup pot that I thought had to be an arm bone. Arthur had been sitting crying. I assumed it was because his brothers had been killed but it turned out that he was ashamed that they had eaten another human and were going to eat us. Thinking about that I couldn't even get a hard cock looking at the beautiful blond.

"Joey, take Ace and Jude and get some sleep. If either of these two give me any more trouble I'll shoot them as well." I couldn't believe what I was hearing coming out of my mouth, I had really turned into a killer and wasn't shamed by it. I made them stay in one room. They stayed far apart and were soon snoring. Their rhythmic breathing soon had me ready to dose off. I walked around, not leaving that hallway. At the end of the hall I found a room that was strewn with the goods of the strangers they must have killed and eaten.

I could only thank my foresight in gathering meat on our way cross country. Would have the village turned to cannibalism? I hoped not. We were better educated than the children and had a moral compass. As I thought back on those that had died I realized that there were a few of us that might have turned to eating human flesh without too much coercion. I could become a vegetarian without too much persuasion although eggs are a treat that I truly love. What would it be like to eat the flesh of someone you knew? Could I do that? Or a stranger?

"Joey, you decide what we're going to do with them, I need some sleep." I wasn't in the bed two minutes before I was out. I had thought maybe Jude or Ace would come to see how I was doing but if they did it was after I was asleep. I had terrible dreams that morning not only were the kids eating human flesh but I was the one that was at the stove cooking it for them. Arthur would tell me how he preferred children to adults while the other three would complain if the flesh was over-cooked even a little. I woke to what I thought was chewing at my toes only to see Ace pull back as if I had surprised him.

"Joey, is ready to leave."

"Are Arthur and Gloria going with us?"

"I think he agreed to allowing them to ride in the back of the truck. They aren't going to try to eat us are they?"

"I doubt they will, but we need to keep our eyes open." I had to agree, leaving the two of them in that house was a sure way to have them continue their ways. I didn't know whether they were trainable to live in a different group but they should be given the chance that the Alien attack had denied them.

"Have they cleaned up any?"

"Joey made them wash. It took a few hours to find clean clothes that fit them but they aren't too bad, now." Ace didn't sounded very enthusiastic about the pair but he was accepting the fact they were coming with us. I needed to fuck enough that having Ace drinking piss had me hard as I get. Jude came running in and interrupted or I might have had the chance to get off before we Left.

"What took so long?" Joey didn't look to be happy to be alone with the pair.

"Ace was drinking his piss."

"Of course." Arthur looked at me hard, I couldn't tell if it was because of what he heard or he was angry that I had killed his brothers. As we walked out to the truck I thought he was flirting by flexing his butt but it was not muscular enough to tell.

"Do you think they will stay in the back or will they run away?" Joey had been with them that morning and knew more than I did.

"She might try to run but he will stop her. He understands that she is going to need help with the baby and that he doesn't know anything."

"Yesterday he was saying he wasn't the father. Did he keep up that story this morning or is he blaming his brothers?"

"He and his sister both say it was one of the brothers. It seems that for the last year they have both been fucking her. She had tried to run away but Harry had beaten her with a rod their mother used on them. It looked like a closet rod but only half as long, I'm sure it hurt. Arthur says that Harry fucked him, too."

"Did it sound like he enjoyed it?"

"I couldn't tell, he was crying again. That boy sure can cry."

"I don't know, Joey, but it seems like I ran into trouble when I found that house. I hope the doctors are still at the Medical Center and are willing to take them." We had made good time in pushing our way into the city. I had cleared the way to the last two blocks. When they heard the truck the doctors and two others came out to see what was happening.

Dr. Mars recognized me quickly, his trainee took a little longer. They had a hundred and ten questions they wanted answered. Maybe a third of them were about the twins, another third about Rhoda and the last grouping of questions was about the general condition of the state. When I finally had a chance to ask a question they let me know that the strangers were new, they had claimed to be attacked by children planning on eating them. Dr. Mars hadn't believed them. When Joey brought the two children from the back of the truck they almost fainted in shock.

"Doctor, I think you are going to have an opportunity that not many doctors have ever had, you are going to be able to see what a cannibalistic diet means to a pregnant woman." I didn't know if that would mean anything but I wanted him to know what he was dealing with if he had to help the girl.

"I'm not much interested."

"Well I hope you are at least a little interested, we don't plan on taking her with us when we leave."

"But you'll take the boy?"

"We haven't decided. If we think he can start to learn how to be civilized we might. If he wants to remain a cannibal, no.

"Are these the only people you have seen since we Left you here?"

"No. There have been about ten people that have come through but these are the first that have been willing to stay." They turned out to be from Northern Oklahoma and until they ran into the teenagers that had tried to kill them for food hadn't seen a person while they walked across the prairie. They had been attacked by the wolves once before they Left the home town. Rod had been a gun shop owner and was in the lead enclosed basement ammunition stock room when the Earth was attacked. For a few weeks he stuck around the small town checking on all of his friends and relatives. Raylene was from a farm outside of the town. Like the teenagers she had been in a root cellar that had been converted to a storm cellar, her husband had over built the cellar with lead sheeting that he thought would be their best bet against a tornado or radiation, it had protected her. Her husband had an old truck in the barn that he had been working on, she put the battery in and limped the rusted out thing into town.

"Rod had heard the truck coming down the street and went out to see who had survived along with him. He was in the center of the street when he saw her truck coming and saw a pack of wolves not too far behind, He primed an old flame-thrower that the mayor had him working on and went out to face the wolves. He got her into his shop, killing two of the wolves in the process. For the following few days the street was a gathering place for the wolves, then suddenly they were all gone.

"Rod tried to find a vehicle in town that would run but hadn't. They started out of town in the truck but twenty miles out of town it gave up. They chose to walk. They used abandoned farmhouses to sleep and eat, staying in some of them for months up to a year. He had burned one arm while trying to battle off wolves a month or so before they showed up here. We have been making sure they are taken care of."

Dr. Mars was thrilled when he found out that Jude was my third son and that I had three more children after him. He was especially interested to learn that two of the six were born intersexed just like me. He tried to get Jude to talk to him about it but my son was not cooperative while Arthur and Gloria were within sight.

It turned out that most of the ten people that had gone through Amarillo and seen the Dr.'s were heading towards Houston. They had all seemed to think that out of the four plus millions living there that some must have survived. The ways the survivors traveling through had survived the attack had all been different with the one constant they had all been completely encased in metal when the attack hit. They had been from everywhere along the mountain range from Wyoming through Colorado into New Mexico. An occasional solitary person had been met that intended to stay on his or her land until they died but only a few, the doctors had considered leaving but didn't want to walk to Houston.

The wolves had been less numerous the further north the people had lived. One of the women that had survived in Wyoming claimed to have seen a bear while passing through Jackson Hole. Other than that no other animals had been seen. As I listened to the tales the doctors had heard and those of Rod and Raylene I wondered if what Joey and I had set out to do was sensible. We had known when we Left the village that there weren't going to be many people if any and that we would be outnumbered by wolves by the hundreds.

"Do you still want to see the Ocean?" After Joey had heard the different tales I thought I should make sure he wanted to keep going not just following me.

"Yes. Why would I have changed my mind? Just because you had to kill a couple cannibals? That travelers are reporting the sighting of wolves? We knew when we Left that these were possibilities if not probabilities. Gas has been easier to find than I expected. There have been plenty of houses to use. There hasn't been a shortage of food anywhere. And the Radiation levels are not as high as we expected." I was glad Joey was thinking clearly. To have him pull me against his body and kiss me was enough to make me get over any doubts I had been having.

When he learned we were headed across the desert Dr. Mars insisted that we take a few anti-snake venom vials with us. He admitted that they were probably past their use by date but doubled up they should still work if we found snakes to be a problem. As I thought about it I was more than willing to take them, snakes were known to crawl into odd places and the chance there would be some that had been completely inside something metal was fairly high.

"Joey, we need to find out whether Arthur can be trusted to travel with us. The doctors are willing to have one of the brother/sister pair stay but they don't think they are equipped to have them both. I would rather have him than Gloria. What do you think?" Taking a boy that had been a cannibal didn't sound safe but I thought that we could possibly turn him back to normal food.

"Let's see if he told us the truth about Harry fucking him. If he's happy with someone fucking him he probably won't turn on us too quickly." I wondered when Joey had started to think the answer to so many of our problems was sex? Had he gotten that attitude from me? I had often said something similar.

"You just need a strange ass."

"Maybe, but he did say his brother had been fucking him."

"Have you noticed that he doesn't have much of a butt?"

"That's okay. We'll just get our cocks in deeper." Joey was playing with my cock, we had walked away from the group to discuss our plans. Jude ran over to be with us.

"Don't you two ever stop that?"

"Sure we do. Maybe for a half hour every day." I couldn't believe Joey was talking to his son that way. He knew I was starting to think about how much he was being exposed to our sexual lives. He had picked him up and was roughing up his hair.

"Is Arthur going with us?"

"That's what we were talking about. Are you scared of him?" The two adults were scared of him why wouldn't the child be scared?

"I don't want them coming after me while I'm sleeping. You might not wake up soon enough."

"I'll protect you, Jude. I'll always protect you." I had to think about that, how would I protect him from Arthur if we agreed to take him with us. And what did I need to protect him against? Making him dinner? Or making him his boy toy at night? Or did I have to worry about both?

"Jude we are going to leave you and Ace with the doctors for an hour or so. We'll take Arthur with us so Ace and the others only have to protect you from Gloria. I suggest you stay close to Ace and don't try talking to her unless she comes over to talk with the two of you. As long as she doesn't have a weapon you should be okay." Joey had gone from roughing up his hair to tickling the boy. When he sat him down beside Ace he was still giggling. I am so happy that Jude is such a happy child.

"Ace, we'll be back in an hour or so. We need to take Arthur for a walk to learn about him." Look after Jude, keep him away from Gloria and out of trouble."

"As if that's possible." Ace had gotten into trouble because of Jude so many times that he had stopped trying.

"Jude? Will you behave and stay here?"

"Yes, Dad." I gave him a hard look.

"You too, Dad. I'll be good."

Ace slipped me the tube of lube he always had learned to carry before I walked over to Arthur. My slave is able to read my mind so often that I worry about it. Still it was good that he gave me the lube, that meant neither Joey or I needed to go to the truck.

"Arthur, we want to take you for a walk to learn some things about you. If you are going to be riding with us we need to know more." I hated lying to him that way, but I guess seeing if we would be able to fuck him was learning something about him after all. At the other end of the school from where everyone was gathered to stay inside away from the radiation dust I remembered there being a dormitory that had been completely untouched by the fires.

"How old are you Arthur?"

"I think I turned seventeen a few months ago but I can't prove it." At least if what he thought to be true was he was legal in the old state of Texas.

"Are you willing to be separate from your sister?" I guess we should know that, otherwise why bother?

"Please. Gloria was the one that demanded that we start eating people." Now that he had admitted that he couldn't be stopped.

"The first one we ate was our youngest brother. Harry had volunteered to be the one we were to eat first but we thought we needed him. Kim was about five and useless. I couldn't watch as Gloria and Harry killed him and cut him up for us to cook. They ate parts of him that night, Steve and I didn't eat anything other than half a potato. The following day Gloria cooked more of our brother. Steve got over his revulsion and joined them at lunch. They wouldn't give me any of the other food. For four pr five days I didn't eat anything other than a raw potato.

"Finally I was so hungry that I took a bowl of the stew Gloria offered. I'm ashamed to tell you but it was the best tasting thing that she had ever cooked. That might have been because I hadn't had anything to eat but whatever, I finished the whole bowl and asked for a second. We kept the stew on the stove for a week or more. As we were getting to the bottom of the pot I started to worry about what we were going to do. Were my hetero brothers going to go after me next because they knew I like having boys fuck me or would Gloria and Harry turn on Steve because he was the weakest?

The night we finished that pot of stew we were found by the wolves. We used the only gun our neighbor had stuffed in her nightstand to defend ourselves although we might have hit a few of the wolves I don't think we killed any of them. Gloria kept yelling for us to kill one so we could eat it. That car that was in front of the house rolled down the street as we were fighting, scattering the wolves. One of our teachers ran into the house to get away from them only to find four starving children that had eaten one person and were prepared to eat another. Steve shot him through the head seconds after he was in the house.

"I don't remember exactly how long we ate him but it was longer than Kim had lasted. That was about the time that Steve and Harry ganged up on Gloria and raped her. After the first time they used to fuck her two or three times a day each unless Harry wanted my ass and then she was saved one or two fucks. It really wasn't anything new for me, Harry and I had been fucking since I was in eighth grade and he was in tenth.

"Back then he didn't have much of a cock and I would give up my ass to other boys in my class that had more of a cock. He would get jealous and by the time we made it to the summer vacation would fuck me every time he could get me alone. That summer it was quite often, Gloria and Steve were both in summer school and our mother was working two jobs. Harry got mad at me when I would try riding to the park to find a different guy to fuck me. He told our mother and she couldn't figure out what to do except chain me to my bed while she was working. Harry loved that, he was able to fuck me whenever he wanted.

"That was why I was suggesting that we accept Harry's offer to eat him. I didn't really think he would be that good, I just wanted rid of him.

"After those first two people we ate there was no reason to stop. There was no other meat in our house or the two beside us. How we were fortunate enough to have stray people come to our house I don't know. I had basically given up and thought we would die between each person that arrived. If they had suggested it I think I would have allowed the others to kill and eat me."

"I want to leave as much of that life as possible. I need to get away from Gloria, if I don't, I feel like she is going to want to go back to eating people."

It had been a horrible tale. I couldn't imagine living with a brother and sister like Harry and Gloria. But then, Arthur had given in and become a cannibal, too. He seemed to admit enjoying the sex although he wanted larger cocks than his brother had when that age. Should we do what we were considering or was that taking advantage of a boy that had already been mentally abused? And physically by his brother?

"Arthur, we have been talking about taking you with us. We are concerned about a few things. If you go with us you have to leave eating people in your past."

"That is what I want."

"You also will need to give up your ass to us and Ace." Joey didn't sugar coat it.

"What about Jude?"

"What about him?" I was starting to think my earlier worries might be true.

"Do you fuck him too?"

"No, he's our son. He knows we fuck each other but we don't ever have him involved." I didn't know whether to be angry or amused.

"Would he suck my cock?" This was getting disturbing. If this boy was thinking about my son that way there was no way we could agree to take him along.

"He is way too young to be having any kind of sex. No, he won't be sucking your cock."

"I need to get off. Who is going to help me?" We had gone into a room with two single beds. Arthur saw where we were and flung off his clothes. He wasn't that much heftier looking without clothing although he did have a slight protrusion of his chest and even slighter of his butt. When he dropped his underwear I saw what would be a cocksucker's dream, his soft cock was the same as Joey's and about the girth of mine. His balls were ideal, I almost dropped to the floor to suck them right then, they were already hanging three or more inches from his body. And looked full.

I was almost fully hard as I dropped my pants. Arthur's mouth dropped open. When Joey dropped his pants the boy dropped to his knees. He hadn't said a word about ever sucking cock but I could see in his eyes that he was ready.