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Seven in Wichita Falls, TX.
Please, please remember the warnings you have seen on every beginning page you have seen on every story on Nifty. You must be of legal age in your locale to read my stories. While this story is set in the future when HIV has been relegated to the medical history texts, in 2019 that is not so, be careful. Yes, U = U but you still need to have more than a random partner's word on his status, choose a condom if in doubt.
Next week we will celebrate HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day, June 5, 2019. There has always been controversy over those words. Are you only a long-Term survivor if you were diagnosed before the coming of P.I.'s? How about the caretakers that also lived through that horrible part of the epidemic? How about if you were diagnosed ten years ago? All of these are fair questions and you need to answer them for yourself if you want to celebrate someone that has out-lived the virus in his or her system. The one definition I have heard twice within the last week is not acceptable: just because you are fifty and HIV positive does not make you a long-term survivor, infected at forty-nine and HIV positive for less than two years, no, AGE does not matter. For me, I accept the premise that HIV survivors can self determine what they wish to call themselves, they have earned it even if they have lived on medicines for 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years. Congratulate a friend that is still living and help him celebrate his/her life.
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We left Oklahoma with two more than when we crossed the river into Kansas. Ginger was still a squealing bundle that needed constant care but with another driver Karen was more able to take care of her daughter and the separation that seemed to be between them quickly fell away as Karen depended on Jesus and Tony less. We didn't plan on staying in Wichita Falls more than over night but there were three food distributors within a mile of the motel we had occupied, Kraft, Sysco and H.E.B.
All their warehouses had survived almost unscathed. Sysco had one room with rotted produce but the freezers and coolers were all running on Solar and Wind power not even generator emergency power. Everyone other than Karen wanted to take what we could of the frozen meats. First thing after finding the treasure troves Jesus, Henry and Tony and I separated to search for the best portable freezer containers we could find. I thought there was supposed to be an Igloo plant in the city that was experimenting with the idea of embedding a solar panel on the top of their extra large chests, that would be a saving grace, we could carry as much frozen and chilled food as we wanted, if we were able to stack them on top of our other supplies without crushing any of the boxes.
The kids had kept me awake most of the night. If I was going to be living with that for more than a short time I was afraid I might have to have them removed earlier than would be optimal. That morning Karen and I had discussed the fact that I had not had any morning sickness with the pregnancy, guess what that discussion started?
Yep.
I wasn't running to a commode every time I turned around but as soon as I ate breakfast it was gone. I took a sweet roll from one of the walk-in freezers to take with me to help settle my stomach, crackers really didn't sound like they would be that helpful or appetizing, I needed something that would give me some nutrition along with filling me up. As soon as I thought it was defrosted I started to eat the honey bun one bite at a time, I hoped that being easy on my stomach would help. I didn't even carry tea or coffee with me, just a bottle of apple infused water.
I was glad Tony had stayed at my side even though the idea that going in four directions might have given us a better chance at finding what we wanted told me otherwise. He and I had walked what I guess was likely a mile and a half west when we saw the big Igloo sign sticking up off the roof of a massive production plant that looked like it could have been set down on a football field and expanded to take the entire space. There was a parking lot with more than three hundred cars and trucks totally free of any blockage.
"If they were building the chests we hope to find we should be able to load up any truck with them and force our way back to the motel." The streets were partially blocked, but some of the trucks looked like what country boys drove fifty years earlier, tires almost as tall as either of us and exhaust pipes Ginger could be stuffed in to sleep. As long as the chests weren't too heavy we should be able to load at least a half dozen in one of them and bowl over and around the cars and trucks stuck in the middle of the streets.
"Or one of us could go back and get a plow."
"I'm not up for another walk. We should try one of these trucks, if it doesn't work then you can go back to the motel and get one of the plows. This is one of those times I wish that we had a way to communicate with the others, they could help load up."
"Any chance that phones that didn't have the battery installed would work?"
"They probably work, but the towers that send the signals are most likely fried. If we could find some place that sold the universal phones that bounce the signals off of satellites we might be able to rig together a network, but I haven't seen any of them anywhere we've been so far. How about you?"
"Not since we left Iron Mountain. If I had been thinking better back then we could have taken some from the security force."
"Those were most likely fried in the event. We should keep an eye out for some kind of surplus store that sells Army equipment, there might just be some stocked up without their batteries." I didn't know if that was our best shot but I was willing to spend the time it would take to try and get a few working if we could find them, if we found good enough batteries we should be able to use them as walkie-talkies.
The Igloo plant was as huge on the inside as it had looked from the exterior. Every pallet of chests was well labeled, once we found the warehouse section of the plant we started a deep search for what I wanted. It took us at least three hours to walk up and down the aisles reading the packing labels but it was time well spent. We found a lift that had been deserted by the dead driver coming out of the plant heading into the warehouse with a full pallet of operational solar ice-chests. A few of the containers were damaged but we were easily able to remove eight of the boxed chests, inspect them and then move them to a loading dock where we were easily able to load them into the monster truck Tony hot-wired.
"Okay, you are driving, Tony. Have you ever driven one of these?"
"Back in my teens I had a friend that had one sort of like this. I can shift and hopefully not turn us over." The roar we had heard when he had chosen the truck warned us that we were dealing with an excessive amount of power, the owner must have enjoyed running those tires over anything in sight. The tiny cab sat higher than the ones for the plows, I had never been that high off the ground while moving down a street, what we could see was amazing it was almost like riding a drone.
"I feel like a teenager, again. That engine and the power of running over a car has my cock hard and dripping precum."
"Want to stop for a blow job?"
"No. I love the feeling and want it to continue. Think I can drive this the rest of the way to Ector?"
"How are you going to keep it filled with gas?"
"That was the purpose of the ladder in the bed. But, it may eat a lot of gas. I want to give it a try, okay?" I was a bit sad that he had asked me.
"We're being more democratic now that there are six of us. I don't want to be making the decisions and leave you all without a leader when I am down from the surgery." I had been thinking about that since the first day I was sure I was having an issue, two kids would take a lot from me.
We were within sight of the motel when Tony stopped the truck. "That looks like it is the end of our happy trip." Four lanes of street were blocked with cars and trucks.
"Later you might want to look around and see if there is another way for you to get this truck around the side streets." I wouldn't tell him so, but I really hoped he could. The ride in the truck was actually much smoother than what we had in the plows or I had on the Harley. The bucket seats were well padded and seemed to have independent suspension, I wasn't able to lean over to reach his cock so I gave him a kiss.
I doubted that even the two plows would be able to clear the tangle of semi's and cars between us and them. If there hadn't been wrecks involving semi's and truck we would have had a chance.
"What is that for?"
"Tony, I am enjoying being with you more every day." As I said it I held on to his prick, if he had wanted I would have sucked him before we got down.
"Is that the pregnancy hormones talking or do you think you are really feeling something for me?" He put a hand on top of mine. I didn't like that he doubted me but I had been adamant about not being a one man's man when we met and when Jesus showed up, so he had a reason to not want to get too serious..
"I think it's real but take it with a grain of salt until a few months after I give birth if you want. Hormones do crazy things to the way the pregnant think and feel." At least I hadn't said that I was in love with him. That would have destroyed me if he had responded the way he did to me enjoying him.
Henry and Jesus appeared on opposite sides of the truck as we were climbing down. They had small packages and back packs Henry had found in an office in the industrial park. It didn't look like they had found any ice chests that either of them thought would do what we needed. I let Tony show them the contents of the truck, I was getting tired so I went to sit with Karen.
"You look a little pale, Roger. Are you feeling okay?"
"Just tired. I'm glad I won't have to drive the Harley to Lubbock and down to Ector. Have you thought anymore about what you think the age of my kids might be?"
"I'm getting set at the age of six months. It isn't rare that a mother gets morning sickness in the third trimester rather than earlier. Why you would follow normal patterns is beyond me, after all you are not the typical mother."
"I can't even think of myself as a mother, Karen. I think of the kids and I think I am going to be a father. Is that strange?"
"Probably not for you. You are going to be both after all."
"No, there was a sperm donor. Some day I may have to tell the kids about him, he would have been ecstatic to learn I am carrying his children. That's the reason I lost him, he went to a woman that wanted his children and could pay him to live with her."
"Doesn't sound like much of a father."
"He would probably be a great father. The pay thing? She only paid him for expenses that he wouldn't have normally had, she was up on the social ladder and he would need tuxes etc. She wanted him to dump his old electric car for a new limo. That kind of thing, he worked and made fair money but not enough to keep up with her."
"But still, he didn't love you enough to stay with you."
"We tried a share program but I was too possessive for that to work more than a few months. Some time during those months of weekend visits he managed to impregnate me. It was my choice for him not to return." Maybe I knew inside that I had everything I could want from Luis.
"Hopes and dreams instead of what he had in his bed."
"You really are bothered that he left me aren't you?"
"I had a man leave me while I was pregnant with my first child. Granted he knew I was pregnant so there is a difference but I think a man like that isn't worth the time it takes to talk about his reasoning."
"Where's lunch?"
" I stuck some plates in the mini-fridge." She was nursing Ginger, I marveled at that, it was something I would never have.
The guys spent the rest of the afternoon packing the chests and guaranteeing the solar panels were powering the cooler. I didn't quite understand how the chests worked and wanted to tear one apart but it looked like they all could be filled with more food we might need. It was a late dinner since they had fully stocked the trucks so there would be no shifting under the new chests. Tony had driven the truck around until he found a path through the Industrial Park that allowed him to pull up outside the motel.
One by one the guys joined Karen and I. Tony brought me a plate of food and insisted that I eat something, he knew that I hadn't eaten enough that day for two living humans. I ate slowly not wanting to have another episode of "morning" sickness. The twins were sleeping or at least they were resting, I thought I could tell they were pressing towards the center of my abdomen. I didn't think there would be room for them but what was I to do? Spank them?
"Roger, Karen, we were talking while loading the trucks across the street. What is the need for us to go to Lubbock? If we headed to Amarillo we could save a day or more and probably some of the roughest roads. Staying on country roads from here west we should always be able to pass the blockages by riding on the berm. Texas farmers have been doing that since the nineteen-fifties when they first started using the big powerful tractors."
"We wanted to stop at a medical school before we arrived in Ector." Thank you, Karen, I didn't want to have to be the one setting up road blocks.
"Amarillo has a Medical training school and three or four hospitals. You should be able to find anything there you can find in Lubbock. I've been there a dozen or more times and there isn't much to see in Lubbock." Henry had been going about all day without a shirt and since he had returned to the motel had fashioned himself a breech-cloth from something that had looked like a skirt when he arrived. I wished I had enough of a connection to any of my roots to have the knowledge to do that.
"Now if I could only find a pony." Not only had we seen no horses, we hadn't seen any cows as we rode through what should have been cattle country. We had seen roadside signs that said such and such cattle ranch was to our left or right a few miles ahead as we rode the last hundred miles or so. I thought that was strange, many horses are as large as the moose I had seen, was it not his size but where he had been resting when the event occurred? The bear, too? We had seen some barns that looked to be built of sheet metal as we rode along but as they were all open it hadn't seemed worth the time to search through them.
"What would you do, leave us, Henry?" I could see Heim riding off into the sunset to live his live as a solo explorer but hoped he would remain with us for Karen and Giinger if not for a future child.
He looked at Karen before speaking, "No, I don't want to leave. I just want to take off across the prairie for a few hours and enjoy my birthright as a feared Apache horseman. Seeing all this vacant land with no white men makes me long for the land my fore-fathers had once conquered."
"Okay, if you find a horse go hunting buffalo."
Tony may have thought he was being a smart ass, he had still not completely warmed up to Henry or his way of speaking. I knew there was supposed to be a ranch near Wichita Falls where Budweiser raised Clydesdale new born colts into the magnificent animals that they had been using in parades for a hundred years. I chuckled at the thought of Henry trying to get his legs around the huge animals. If they had survived the event would they have survived the past few months without human care? After all the time they had been domesticated would they have the instincts necessary to lead them out of the barns and fencing that held them captive? I didn't say anything about the possibilities.
Back to the topic. "Karen do you know anything about the Amarillo Med School?"
"Never even heard of it."
"Henry, how do you know about the school?" She was more than just curious.
"I had to take an uncle from Enid down there for cancer treatment. I spent a few weeks there so I had the time to check out the school while my uncle was getting treatment. He lost his nuts and his prostrate but he survived for another twenty years. They were doing some good work there, including training mid-wives for the reservations." The twinkle in his eyes told me they had been trained by more than just one person.
Karen perked up on hearing that. If there was a place we could find a photo array that we could use to match up with the ultra-sound picture in her satchel that sounded ideal. She was sold on the change in plans, I wasn't about to stand against the whole group when there seemed to be an equal chance of success either way we went
"I'm tired. The bed is calling. Stay up and talk, make plans plot out a new path and wake me in the morning." I wanted to grab Tony and give him a passionate mouth to mouth kiss but I hadn't expressed any PDA in front of Henry and didn't feel comfortable starting until I knew him better. I was happy I hadn't had to wear my leathers at all that day, I had walked around Wichita in loose cotton shorts and a tank top, both loose enough for the breeze to cool me. Any of the nightly swelling of legs and ankles was unconfined by the pants, I wished Tony would follow me to bed and massage my feet and legs but I could hear him next door talking and joking.
A long, warm shower followed by a soak in a foot of water and another shower had me ready to collapse as I made my way to the nearest bed. I hadn't been laying down for more than five minutes when my feet cramped. I had always carried a salt shaker in my motor-cycle jacket in case of leg cramps so I struggled to the other side of the room to find the jacket, the salt was in the side pocket where I remembered placing it. The half teaspoon of salt didn't help at all; it did wake the twins, they started kicking. If you had asked I would have thought they were crying, too: I don't know what made me feel that way but I talked to them through the pain and they settled down. Karen had made the suggestion when I had told her about their uncontrolled kicking..
I hate being dependent on anyone. The pain was getting unbearable so I pounded on the wall and yelled for Tony. He and Jesus rushed into the room to see what I needed. I couldn't really speak through the pain any longer, I pointed at my feet and squawked out,
"cramps."
Tony had massaged my feet other nights after I had ridden most of the day, he and Jesus helped me get my legs up on the bed and each one took a foot in both of their hands. Tony explained to Jesus what he needed to do. Jesus was too gentle on my foot and when Tony saw he wasn't using enough force swatted him on the chest. It shocked Jesus, I don't think anyone had slapped or hit him since we had been together. He had lived with a constant barrage of slaps, punches and kicks from his father and uncles, a huge part of the reason he had left home. I felt sorry that Tony had brought that all up in a minimum to the back of his brain, "Mas Fuerte, Jesus."
He understood what had happened and started using almost as much strength as he had on the arch of my left foot. "Demasiado, Jesus."
Finally he settled into applying a comparable force to what Tony was using and as they worked their way up my lower legs I started to relax. I could see the smile on Tony's face as my body responded to them. "Still hurting too much for sex?"
"I'm not hurting that much but I want to try to go to sleep, Sorry to disappoint the two of you."
"You really think we're going to go away disappointed?" Jesus understood what he was saying, he leaned over and licked at my balls.
"I'm sure they need massaged. How about that cock, it looks sore." Tony was right, I was standing hard and my cock looked brighter red than usual, maybe the salt?
"Tony, my butt"
"It's cramping, too?"
"Yes."
They both took one cheek and started a deep massage while licking and sucking my cock and balls. The twins were settled, I was cool and relaxed, totally enjoying the mouths working my sex. That is the last thing I remember about that night. How long they may have sucked and licked I have no idea although they did say I gave them a huge load before they stopped. Is that possible? Can you really orgasm and not be awake?
Jesus and Tony were talking about the previous night.
"You better not do that to me." I don't know how much of what the boys were saying that Henry heard but they looked at him wearing the breech-cloth and scratching his balls, they both broke out laughing. I didn't blame them, it was easy to see that something or someone had gotten his dick half hard and pushing our at almost a ninety degree angle.
"You're awake but it looks like you could use our help."
"Not today thanks," he adjusted his cock and walked towards Karen.
"Henry, is everything packed and the trucks full of gas?" He had promised me that he would oversee both of those functions so I hadn't thought about them all night, now that we were going to get on the road in less than fifteen minutes I thought it fair to ask.
"We tried filling up the Monster truck but haven't been able to tell how much gas is in the tanks. Whoever owned it had an extra tank installed, that should help get you down the road further."
"These tortillas are 'horrible'." Whether they were or weren't Jesus ate at least three of them with the eggs and bacon Karen had cooked. I was surprised he could taste them he had so much picante sauce covering the eggs.
"Tony pack up what's left over, we can have some of it on the road for at least the next three hours. Is there enough for lunch?" Karen always made sure she left any kitchen she used as clean as when she started, she was busy wiping everything down with a spray cleaner I had never seen.
"Unless Jesus eats like he is now." Everyone chuckled.
The twins had woke up with me. I didn't chance eating much, I didn't want a repeat of the previous day, especially in or on the truck. I had switched back to drinking tea at least a week earlier, the coffee had been making my stomach turn: we had found a case of Twinings IB in the HEB warehouse, that made me happy. Karen and Tony had made sure we were bringing more sugar so I was set for quite a while.
Henry lead the caravan out of Wichita Falls trusting his sense of direction to get us to Amarillo by following the back roads that we had learned were much less congested with car wrecks, there were a few tractors and more trucks but they were generally easy enough to push out of the way or to go around. There were many fewer semi's or dump trucks blocking the way. Although at least twice we went for a mile or more on the side of the road to avoid trailers hauling hay that had overturned and spilled on the road..
I was ready to start the twins off the first day out of me with a spanking for making me needing to piss so much. I had only planned for one quart bottle when I climbed into the truck, fortunately Tony took one glance at what I was doing and had me hand him the steaming piss to drink as we went down the road. When I needed the bottle again it was empty except for a few yellow drops on the bottom, he was smiling as he handed it over, "fill it up, I'm getting thirsty.".
By the time Karen needed to have us pull over we were one hundred and forty-five miles closer to the next Med school. Everyone was glad to stretch their legs. Karen moved Ginger's stuff from the truck Jesus was driving to the one Henry drove. I would have moved over and rode with Jesus but Tony asked me to stay with him, we had been talking about our declarations of becoming closer and what that was going to mean, once the twins were born I knew there would be a time that I wouldn't be able to satisfy any of his sexual needs. He thought he would be alright having Jesus to suck, he said he wouldn't even think about allowing the youngster to fuck him but he had gone without for long stretches of time before and didn't know why he couldn't wait.
"Henry, do you want me to drive?" I knew that Karen was never happy as a passenger but why hadn't she asked Jesus or Tony, they were both weaker than Henry? Was she trying to establish their roles as a couple? If I knew how to use the shifts on the big trucks I would have been happy to drive for the next eighty miles none of the guys driving wanted to give up their seat or to teach me. Tony promised he would teach me how to drive the Monster truck if we were able to take it all the way to Ector. I knew he was thinking he could put me off until after the twins were taken out.
After we started out again I asked Tony if he had noticed that the sky was no longer yellow and black but a deep orange where the yellow had been. I still hadn't figured out why the sky hadn't returned to it's normal blue. We debated the causes and what it was going to take to return the sky to normal. As a pilot he had a better grasp of meteorology than me but he was not certain about the color shift. We were still on the outskirts of Amarillo when all the trucks needed to start using their lights, an automatic shift on any vehicle built within the last twenty years for when darkness unexpectedly falls.
"You don't think we are seeing the preview of a family of tornadoes do you?" The wind had picked up enough that the Monster truck was rocking even when not rolling over anything of substantial size.
"At least hail, look off to your right. That is a hail storm battering the fields." Tony seemed to be having some trouble holding the truck on its paths
"We need to get these trucks under some type of cover as soon as we can. Most of what is in the beds would be damaged by either hail or a tornado." Henry and Karen must have been thinking the same, their truck had pulled to a stop under a low bridge. Tony pulled in alongside it before Jesus saw Henry waving him in tight. It started to rain as soon as Tony turned off the engine.
I waved to Jesus to roll down his window. "Come join us until we start out again."
Three made the truck seem crowded but none of us minded having the others tight against them. The rain beyond the bridge was hard enough that we could no longer see the city or any of the vehicles blocking the road. "I hope you were wrong about tornadoes, Roger. If they hit us even this bridge isn't going to be enough protection.
"Jesus, why don't you get down on the floor and do what you do best? I'm sure Roger would like to cum while he's awake." Unexpectedly he tweaked a nipple as he said that, these guys drive me nuts.
He didn't need to, but Jesus pulled my shorts down my legs. I was surprised he found enough room to do the same for Tony.
"Dos pingas, buenos. Tengo hambre y Roger? "
"Que?"
"Quiero alguna meada para beber."
"Bueno! Ahorito!" He opened his mouth just in time to catch the first of the piss flowing out of my cock. The twins were pressing down on my bladder so he had as much as he wanted to drink.
"Okay, Jesus, now suck us off." Neither Tony or I were paying any attention to the wind, hail and rain outside. The truck rocking just made the feel of Jesus's mouth a little more extreme he might not have liked it though since we were pounding his throat.
He had Tony's prick buried as far in his throat as he could take it when I saw the first roof fly towards us. Both of the bigger plows were a few feet further towards the open road, they stopped the roof although I could see they suffered some damage before the trucks were hit again and pushed back until whatever hit them hit us, too. For the next twenty minutes we were constantly hit with flying objects, the second roof had landed in such a way that there were beams protecting the windshield on the Monster truck. Honestly I don't know how the boy kept doing what he was, but neither Tony or I went soft as the wind howled and piles of trash built up around the trucks.
The heavy rain continued for a couple hours. The road we were sitting on became a small river with trash and building materials washing ahead of us. I couldn't climb through the windows but Jesus and Tony were able to get out of the Monster truck and make their way through the plow Jesus had been driving. I could hear Henry and Tony talking about the possibility of using the plows to free the Monster truck from the remains of the two or three roofs piled on the front. Tony didn't want to try starting the truck until he had a chance to be sure there wasn't any trash built up under the hood.
Henry and Jesus agreed with that and the three went over the plows looking for anything that might hinder our progress. The flood had stopped shortly after the rain but we could still hear the rain and hail pounding in the near distance. I hoped they would be able to clear whatever needed to be pulled or pushed away without me, I would have helped if I could have gotten down to the ground. I hadn't heard them for thirty minutes when Karen opened her window and handed Ginger over.
"Be careful, there are probably nails and screws everywhere."
"Keep my baby, safe and don't worry about me." She disappeared out the other door with a quick wave after looking back at Ginger. It felt like I was never going to see any of them again, I sat with the baby for at least an hour before I heard Jesus start up the truck to my right. At least he had survived. Once the truck was pulled away Tony put the ladder up my side of the truck and I was able to climb down to see the damage we had suffered. The Monster truck lived up to its name and was barely scratched.
"Karen and Henry were pulled out from under the bridge when that last blast of wind rocked the trucks. I hope we will find them down the road, I don't know what kind of condition they will be in, there was a mass of trash that blew past right as they disappeared. They might be buried or badly hurt. Jesus and I haven't been able to find them yet." Tony sounded panicked but I knew he could contain himself until afterwards.
A selfish thought was the first to run through my mind and then I looked down at Ginger and realized that she might need Karen even more than I did. If nothing else I would have to trust Tony with a scalpel, Ginger would have no other nipples to suckle. "We don't have a choice, we have to find Karen. I hope she and Henry are safe, most importantly Ginger needs a mother."
The sky was almost completely black by the time Jesus hollered that he had found Karen. With Tony the three of us were able to free her from what looked dangerous but had actually been a safe enclosure that had even held her up out of the water. She ran back to Ginger who we had left maybe thirty feet away. We had no choice but to eat cold food and spend the night in the trucks, I was glad to have the fold away blankets that were supposed to either keep you cold or warm depending on the side you put in to your body. There was no way to get comfortable in the bucket seats so none of us had a good nights sleep other than Ginger, she had the basket she had been using while we traveled and never woke any one other than Karen.
The sky was back to a neon yellow when we crawled out of the trucks. We questioned Karen relentlessly trying to find a direction to start our search for Henry. I hated even thinking about moving on without him but we all agreed that we shouldn't search for more than four hours. It was arbitrary and perhaps we would have stretched the time out more if we hadn't found him limping his way back towards the bridge after three hours. He had an ankle that Karen thought might be broken but couldn't tell without an X-Ray. Getting him into a plow truck required all of our help, moments later we were pushing our way through the trash the storm had deposited on the road. The short, strong flood had moved most of the cars off the road so we were able to detour around the heavier trucks without any problems.
What had still been green the day before was no longer. We saw no flowers, grass or standing trees as we made our way along the streets to where we hoped the Med School would still be standing. There were roofs everywhere we looked. If there hadn't been a disaster on May 1st this would have qualified for national news coverage on a constant loop for the following three of four days. Finally downtown we had less obstacles in our way although both plows were pushing broken glass off the street.
"If we lose one of these tires we're sunk. The owner of this thing probably couldn't afford a fifth tire so there is only a regular size spare that will not do much good."
"We could leave the truck here and follow the plows on foot. That might not do us any good when we're ready to leave but we will know that there is a chance to get out of here."
"Do you think you can walk that far?"
"Tony, I'm not an invalid. I have been carrying these kids for six months so a few miles shouldn't be that big of a deal. You and Jesus may have to massage my feet, legs and butt tonight but you don't mind that do you?" I knew that he loved getting his hands and mouth on me and it didn't matter to him how he managed to get what he wanted.
"No, Jesus wants to learn more about how I do that so you have two willing workers. Maybe tonight we will even be able to get you butt to relax enough to spread."
"You're not fucking me in front of Jesus!"
"I was thinking about the two of us licking your asshole."
"You might be able to get me into some position without too much of a problem. On my right side with a leg pushed up along the mattress? Damn, I'm ready for your tongues right now." And I was, my hole was clenching and relaxing in a rhythm that could only be deciphered as EAT ME.
"And I'm ready to have your cock up my ass."
"Keep talking like that and we'll find a way to do it before we meet back up with the others." He did and we did. I was a little bit awkward but doing it felt wonderful, I hated that I would be missing out on fucking for months.
We caught up to Karen, Jesus, Henry and Ginger standing outside what looked like a dilapidated hospital. They were circling four people seated on the stairs of the entry-way. When we got close enough we could see an older man with salt and pepper hair, two women that looked like they couldn't be more than twenty-two and a young man that was probably twenty-one. Where had they come from?
"We were worried that the truck broke down and you were spending time trying to get it back on the road. Why ARE you walking?"
"We didn't want to get glass in the tires. The truck doesn't have a full size spare. Introduce us."
"This is Tony and Roger, we spoke to you about them. Tony, Roger this is DR. Mars and his interns Catherine House and Rhoda Black. The young man sitting to the side is Tiffan Turner. Before you ask they survived the event because they were all in an X-Ray operating room that had been completely encircled with lead because it served the hospital and three operating rooms, even the single window had been a heavy lead compound. Tiffan was operating the machinery while the others were looking over his shoulders attempting to learn more about what an X-Ray could show you while operating" There was a gush of greeting, the survivors were as desperate to see other humans as we were. Only Tiffan seemed distracted and non-talkative.
Of all the great fortune possible, Dr. Mars was a thoracic surgeon. He took one look at me and began a barrage of questions that I had a hard time answering in front of the interns. After about an hour the new survivors told us about the conditions inside the surrounding buildings. They had been eating enough and drinking water but they were starting to run out of potable water and had been boiling water for cleaning the last two days. Why they didn't move out to the surrounding buildings to search for water was soon answered by what I assumed were wolves. Henry agreed that the howls sounded like wolves, but where had they been that allowed them to survive?
The medical school had been shut down at the end of the previous semester. The interns were two of the last remaining students that were supposed to graduate the month of the event. I had the basics, I went over to talk to Tiffan. He was slightly darker than me, I assumed he might be an Afro-American but I didn't want to assume and get him more angry. "Tiffan, you don't seem to interact with the others very well, is there a problem we need to know about before we join the two groups together?"
"He gave me a quick look and nodded his head."
Was he a mute? I hoped it was just that he didn't want to speak in front of the others, having a mute in our group would be difficult unless everyone learned to read sign language. "Take me into the hospital. We need to know if there is any equipment that is still running, especially an ultra-sound or an X-Ray machine."
He stood. He was a fine looking man, about my height and maybe ten pounds heavier in the shoulders and chest. I looked him up and down, slowly. He understood immediately what I was doing and flashed me a smile that was a hundred watt glow. Okay, we were going to be having another guy join us in playing around.
They had been working at opening the entrance when Henry and Karen had come upon them. It took us two minutes to clear enough debris away to squeeze through. There were a few emergency lights glowing but none of the regular hallway lights or any of the over head lights in the rooms. I was disappointed by the lack of usable equipment but there was still the deserted school across the street, would they have had time to strip out the equipment?
"Tiffan if you want to join our group you should know that Tony, Jesus and I have sex. Karen has been having sex with Henry for the past couple of weeks, he is new to our group. At this point there are no exclusive relationships in the group although I think Karen and Henry may be on their way to deciding that is the way they want to live. Tony would like he and I to become exclusive but he knows what I've said about not being a one man's man is best for the three of us right now.
"Do you have room for me in your trucks?"
"There is one bucket seat empty. If the others want to join we're going to have to make room in back of one of the trucks, probably the monster truck since it is almost loaded with diapers."
"Why so many, there is only one baby?" I didn't know whether I should trust him with the information or just say we hoped for more babies. I was debating what to say when Jesus came running down the hall.
"They have Rosita's Refried beans in the kitchen. How many cans can we take?"
"You met?"
"Yeah."
"Jesus, Tiffan is coming with us. He wants to join Tony, you and I." Jesus got it quick.
"Man., can I see your dick?"
"You'll get used to it, Jesus is ready for sex as often as the breeze blows. If he's not on his knees he has his pants around his feet and is bent over."
"Don't tell him that, I need someone to fuck."
"Let me see your dick."
Jesus didn't wait a second, his shorts were down and his dick was half way to standing. I hoped Tiffan wasn't expecting to find a long cock, but as thick as Jesus was anyone would be full trying to take him.
"I thought fun was dead. Jesus as long as you are willing to flip flop we are going to have a good time." Tiffan had his hand on my cock while talking. I could see that there wasn't going to be any problem introducing him to our part of the group.
"Did you tell him?" Jesus almost spilled why we were looking for functioning equipment but a hand to his mouth had managed to save me the embarrassment. I wanted him to get to know us better before telling him what was going on. Stupid, if we found working X-Ray equipment he was the one to work it. Oh well, it was put off for a little.
"I don't know about the three of you but I'm going with them, where is it? Ector? The other side of Midland right?"
"You know about it?"
"Only that there was a court case a year or so ago about promises not being fulfilled and bankruptcy being filed before anyone was able to take possession of the homes they had paid to build." Tiffan was looking like he was trying to think about any thing else he might known about Ector or the court case.
"I was supposed to have one of those houses. Mine never even got started when they shut down, I did get most of my money back since it was in escrow." I could see Tiffan glare as the doctor spoke about his money.
"Can any of you cook? The interns and I have never learned and Tiffan is pretty bad although he has kept us alive." He received another glare from Tiffan, there was obviously bad blood between them.
"Tony and I can do our fair share in the kitchen." Karen didn't admit that Tony was the best of us. the doctor had been examining Henry's ankle but was unable to say any more than Karen, it might be broken. He would need an X-Ray machine.
Jesus, Tiffan and I forced our way into the deserted school. Dr. Mars thought the teaching X-Ray machine was on the ground floor but he wasn't exactly sure where it was located, he had worked in the hospital not at the school.
"Tiffan, let me see your cock."
"Find the X-Ray machine and I'll give you a look." I think he had the idea that he and I would have a better chance of finding it but Jesus took off running through the halls throwing open every door he saw. I guess he couldn't read some of the words so he did it the fastest way he could.
"We better go the other way or he is going to circle the whole floor before we get a chance to examine any of the rooms."
We found an Ultra-sound machine with too many parts missing to even try to get working. There was some other equipment that I had no experience with in the next few rooms, Tiffan said one of them was a .chemical treadmill which made no sense until he gave me a brief idea of what it did. Most of the equipment we found had missing pieces or whole parts that had been taken. I was getting discouraged the further we went. We found an operating room and two doors down what was I hope just a fake morgue.
"There's a sign. Jesus is ahead of us, he just disappeared down the stairs." That sign must have been easy enough for him to read although his English reading was no where as good as his speaking. I was the opposite, I could read Spanish but my speech was halting at best, most of the time I didn't try..
"As long as there are plates and they didn't take the lens we should be able to scavenge enough parts out of the hospital to make it work if we have enough power."
"Emergency power won't run it?"
"Not too likely unless they built the emergency power to run the operating room when there was a shut down."
"Here's hoping." I was willing to spend two days there rebuilding the equipment if we had to, Henry and I needed it to work. Honestly he needed it more than I did although the DR. should see what was happening inside me before he ever used a scalpel. I couldn't believe our luck in finding a thoracic surgeon, I just hoped he and the interns wanted to come along with us I had no desire to stay in the washed out and tumbled down city waiting for the
time the twins were ready. Until that moment I hadn't thought about anyone not wanting to gather together in one pack.