We approached upwind of the cottage in case there were any animals in the near vicinity. That was Mark’s contribution which was very sensible; I hadn’t thought that animals may be present but Mark reckoned on dogs and possibly horses this high up, and their sense of smell and hearing would have given us away in seconds.
Sarah suggested we be quiet; which was a given as far as I was concerned and my contribution was that we should all go together; safety in numbers and all that shit. Not that anyone was safe these days.
Our gear was left behind the last little hill before the shack; a good five hundred yards away, and we slowly crept forward to investigate as much as we could. It was also Mark’s idea that we blacken our faces with mud to make ourselves look like Special Forces operatives. Personally, I think he had been reading too many books, but we did it anyway.
Mark was right, there were horses and I could clearly see them in a make-shift corral. There were two horses, meaning two people. Mark remained behind as we approached and Sarah and I split left and right.
I had to laugh when I saw Sarah creep forward like a Ninja; only Elephant would have been more appropriate, especially when she slipped and fell forward. At least she had the good sense to stay down for a while before raising her head up. I wanted to run to her aid, but that would have caused too much noise. I hadn’t moved very far and I heard Mark say fuck under his breath and I had to agree with him. I could have done with a fuck right then.
I kept on moving to the right and I ducked behind a tree stump when I saw the door open. My heart was beating fast and I stayed hidden for what seemed like ages. In reality, it was probably only twenty or thirty seconds. I peered over the stump and saw the outline of a man walk to the adjacent barn and fetch two saddles for the horses. I wondered if they were leaving or just going out for a ride. He saddled up one horse and left the other saddle over the fencing. I watched as he walked back indoors. After a while, he reappeared, climbed on his horse and headed down the path.
Once he was out of sight, I got up and rushed to the side of the cabin. I could see Mark waving to me to get away from the cabin, but I needed to know who else was inside. If it was a woman we could be in luck. I peered around the window frame but saw no-one. I desperately wanted to but the window opened onto the bedroom. I wandered around the cottage, silently; or so I thought.
I could see that Sarah was now back with Mark and I risked another look through the next window. My head recoiled and I stood upright and flat against the cabin walls when my eyes caught sight of a woman preparing vegetables at the table. I was terrified; scared shitless of being caught.
I was about to try a different route which meant moving to the front of the shack. As I was about to move around the corner a hand came up on my throat and grasped me. I let out a shrill scream in shock. My breath comes fast and my eyes wide open. I looked into the eyes of the man that I thought had left on horseback. He quickly pulled me towards him; turning me around and clasping my hands behind my back tightly as he did so. He raised my arms in the air and I was powerless to get out of the hold he had on me. He marched me into the shack and I was immediately faced by the woman pointing a knife in my face. He threw me across the table, grabbed her knife and placed it across my neck.
“Who the fuck are you? What do you want? Where are you from? Are you on your own?”
So many questions, but my rapid intake of breath wouldn’t allow words to form at all.
I looked from him to her and back to him. My lips quivered. My heart thumped and my body quaked. I was dead. This was it, the end for Melissa Brendan-Foster. I just hoped that Mark and Sarah would get the fuck away from here, back to the camp and leave. I didn’t want Sarah to experience what I had experienced at Braymaster Station.
The man shouted his question at me for a second time.
“Melissa. Hungry. Over the mountain. Yes.”
I could see that he was rapidly taking in the answers to all the questions he had asked. To avoid the knife cutting me, I offered a more coherent description.
“I-I’ve come from over the mountain, so much death. I want to find a nice place. Please – please don’t hurt me.”
“She’s scared stiff, hun,” the woman said as she reached for her man’s hand and slowly moved the knife away from my throat.
I started to breathe a little easier with the threat of death diminishing with every inch the blade moved away from me. The man pulled me up towards him and I was marched to a chair near the fireplace. The woman brought me a mug of water which I quickly drank.
“Thank you,” I said, smiling at her.
“We get a few nasty types coming over the mountain. We’ve got to be careful. The patrols take care of most of them but you must have got past somehow. You’re lucky you stumbled upon us,” the woman said.
“Yeah, if it wasn’t for the noise that I heard earlier out back, this could have turned out very different.”
Fucking Sarah and her stumble, I thought.
“My name is Jen and this is Doug, by the way.”
Jen, my eyes sank to the floor and my mind raced into the past one more time.
In the thirty minutes since my capture, I had told them all about my journey and where we had come from. Yes, I decided to trust them, and when I first told them about Sarah and Mark, Doug went outside to try and find them, but they were nowhere to be seen. I expected that because we had decided that if anything should happen to anyone, we would rendezvous back at the camp.
They made me comfortable and fed me. The food was glorious; carrots and peas with salted beef and potatoes. There was bread as well. It was heaven. Absolute heaven. By the time we had finished talking and eating it was halfway through the afternoon. Doug had decided to come with me back to the camp to fetch the others and he would take us down to the nearest town. The refuge would take care of us from there.
As we set off, he swiftly picked his gun up from inside the door.
Both of us approached the camp as cautiously as we had approached the shack earlier. We needn’t have bothered being quiet. As we walked from behind the tree into partial view I could hear sounds that did not indicate that they were distraught at my absence. I placed a hand out to stop Doug going any further and we stood next to each other watching Sarah perform.
She looked fucking horny.
I don’t know what he thought of them, or me, but I noticed a twitch in his jeans as we watched Sarah mount Mark and lower her groin over his erect cock. Her cries of pleasure coming every ten seconds or so as his cock thrust into her. I crept forward with every Oh Fuck that I heard come out of her mouth. Doug followed me.
I looked down at his crotch and I could see that he was aroused. I admit to wanting to take his cock out but it would have been wrong to do so; especially as he was our rescuer.
We let them finish; getting closer with each step. It was amazing that Mark had not even noticed our approach, and I was definitely not going to let them get away with this Scott free. I waited for the moment when –
Sarah started to moan and groan; telling Mark that she was about to come and that he mustn’t stop. Mark was indicating that he too was about to climax, this time, inside her.
“Missed me, I see?” I shouted.
Mark’s body stiffened as he sat bolt upright causing Sarah to be pushed from his lap; stones bit into her bottom as she fell onto the ground. She cried out as she hit the deck. It served her right, I thought.
It was Mark that recovered first.
“Who’s the man?” he asked, trying to cover his modesty as best he could. Problem was, Mark had a nice long cock and there was no way he was going to hide it in that state.
“Doug,” I said, “he and his wife, Jen, live in the shack.”
Sarah got up but never bothered to cover her wonderful body. Her breasts bounced as she sauntered over to Doug and offered her hand to him. He took it, though I think he would have liked to have swiped his palm across her breast rather than shake a hand.
“I could have been dead, and all you do is come back here and fuck,” I started to shout at them.
“We knew you were alright,” said Mark. We saw you get taken, I went to the window and looked in. I saw you on the chair, frightened but alive, we decided then to head back. We guessed you’d be back soon.”
“You bastards!”
Sarah smiled, sidled up to me and I instantly forgave her when she kissed me. I think Doug was astounded at that because his mouth fell open when we kissed for longer than a couple of seconds. This was no friendship kiss at all. This was a glad to see you kiss. A miss you kiss. A snog.
The two of them finally got dressed and packed up their belongings. We were to stay the night at the shack and make our way down to the nearest town in the morning. At least we would have our last night together in the warmth and comfort of somewhere safe. I couldn’t quite believe that we had made it. But we had.