by Holly Ardent
“Hold out your arms. I'll let you hold her while she's eating her scratch,” he said.
Vivian eagerly held her arms out and Ted transferred the bird to her. He kept his hand close so the hen could keep pecking at the scratch while Vivian petted it.
“She's so soft,” Vivian exclaimed.
Ted nodded.
“I was surprised at how soft and silky they were also, until I thought about it. There's a reason people use feathers in mattresses and pillows.”
“That's a horrible thing to say in front of her,” Vivian said, curling her arms around the hen in a protective motion.
“Not too worry, if I ever did that I'd just use the feathers and down that they seem to shed constantly.”
He pointed over to the pile of debris he'd pulled out of the coop over time. There were feathers stuck all over the place in the pile.
“See, they drop enough that you could just use those if you want. Stuff a pillow in just a couple of months that way.”
Vivian looked over at the pile and then down at the chicken. Her protective stance opened up again.
“Sorry, I get a little defensive about pets.”
“But they aren't pets really,” he said, “I got them as livestock, mainly for the eggs. But, yeah, they do kind of edge their way towards pet status pretty easily.”
They stayed out with the chickens for a little bit, Ted talking her ear off about his birds. She didn't seem to mind in the least, but did finally interrupt him.
“Didn't you want to get a travel cage done for them before dark?”
Ted cursed, he'd let himself get carried away talking about his birds to a pretty lady.
“Yes, yes I do. So, let's get to it?”
He'd stored the materials for it out near where he kept his truck since he planned on building the cage right into the truck bed. It wouldn't take up the whole thing, he still needed the back of the truck bed for carrying all the food and scratch he'd picked up, but there was a three foot wide area right behind his tool box that he'd reserved for the chickens.
He started knocking together a cage that would be stable in the back of the truck. Vivian proved to be more useful than he'd feared and because of that he thought he could still finish before dark.
They did finish, just as dusk was settling in.
“So, can I drive you home now?” he asked.
“How about something to drink first?” she said. “I'm parched.”
He led her into the house, somewhat embarrassed by showing it to her, and started some coffee brewing.
As they sipped at the coffee, she straightened somewhat and took on that serious look again.
“I don't know exactly what setup you have,” she said. “But I know there were some other guys involved, Amy mentioned meeting them also and said that they were as weird as you were. But...”
She bit her lip.
“Well, I doubt any of you can even come close to the medical skills or equipment I possess. I was wondering if you had room for another person there. I can offer something to seal the deal too.”
She leaned over closer to him, one large, soft breast brushing against his arm and making Ted intensely aware that there was a desirable, if older, woman in his home. Her lips moved back to his ear and she whispered softly.
“I've got a case of TametheFlu tucked away at my house also.”
Fuck! Ted thought, trying to will away the erection that had just popped up.
Why was I thinking she was about to offer herself to me for a chance to go to the retreat? Silly, silly boy, he thought.
Then her actual words caught up to him.
“A case?” he said. “I remember last year when the flu went around, you could barely find the stuff at all.”
“I remembered too, so when the first hints of this new flu strain came from some nurses I know overseas, I immediately placed an order for the hospital. I ordered enough to fill its stock of it, plus one extra case. I cleared it with my immediate supervisor and paid for it myself, but still got dressed down for it. So it's not like today's problems were the first I had there.”
“I can't make that call myself. I'll have to clear it with someone else.”
“Why?”
“Well, the property is his. We've all done work improving it, but he got the house and a bunch of acreage from his grandfather as an inheritance. So, I'm all for it, but I'll need to run it by him.”
She sighed.
“Alright then. When can you do that?”
Ted already had his phone out and was typing a text to Bill. He lifted the phone and pointed at it.
“Right now,” he said.
He finished typing and set the phone down.
“There. I don't know how long it'll take him to get back to me, but I'm sure we'll hear by morning. Would you like me to drive you home now?”
Vivian looked around the single-wide trailer, catching sight of the door to the bedroom.
“That all depends,” she said. “Is your bed big enough for two?”
Ted gulped.
“Only if they're friendly.”
“Then let's get very friendly,” she said. “After months of feeling like the hospital was my entire life I suddenly find myself wanting to experience real life again. And one of my favorite things about it always took two people.”
* * *
Ted led her back into his bedroom, which was dominated by a queen-sized bed. There were a few other pieces of furniture in there as well, but only a few.
“Friendly? I think two people could sleep on that bed without touching in the slightest,” she said.
“Um, I kind of sprawl out when I sleep. Don't even realize when I'm doing it, but I frequently wake up taking up almost the entire bed,” he replied.
“We'll see about that.”
Vivian started stripping, almost gleefully it seemed to Ted. He was a bit more hesitant, slowly starting to undress and being very distracted by her as she did. As a result, she was completely nude when he was still undoing his pants. His eyes were locked on her large breasts where they sagged forward onto her chest. The nipples were large and pink, slightly darker than he was used to seeing. He didn't realize that he'd frozen, stopped undressing himself entirely, until she spoke.
“Here, let me help you with those,” she said, dropping to her knees in front of him.
Her kneeling put the waistband of his pants at eye level for her, it also put his, now fully erect, cock just under eye level. He gulped and let her pull his pants off, his boxers bulging out towards her face from his erection.
She glanced down at the bulge in his boxers and smiled, at least he thought she did. When she tilted her head up slightly to look him in the face he knew for sure.
Damned if she isn't smiling. Why is she smiling? he wondered nervously.
A moment later he found out when she reached for his boxers and pulled them down. His erection straightened out a bit more when it was released and she simply opened her mouth and leaned forward, trapping the head of it between her lips.
She fussed for a moment, making sure he was entirely out of his boxers, then pushed her mouth forward, engulfing more of his cock. She surged upwards slightly, pushing him back, and Ted found himself sitting on the edge of his bed, his cock sliding deeper into Vivian's mouth.
Holy shit, this is really going to happen. I wonder if she was teasing me to test my reaction when she leaned forward to whisper in my ear earlier on.
When he realized that he didn't care if she were, he just cared about what was happening now, his brain went into shutdown mode. He leaned forward and sent his hands down to capture her breasts. He couldn't take an entire one in his hand, they were too large, but he was more than happy to be holding as much of them as he could.
Meanwhile she was swallowing more and more of his cock, almost literally. He could feel that the head of his cock was bumping up against some kind of restriction when suddenly she pushed forward again and his cock head slid somewhere much tighter t
han her mouth. That was when she started swallowing.
He could hear the sound of it and see her throat ripple, at least he could if he'd been looking or listening, but he was completely out of it as he felt the muscles of her throat massage the head of his cock over and over until she finally came up for air.
He was sure he had a dazed look on his face when she tilted her head up.
“Do you like that?” she asked.
He managed a nod, not sure he could speak.
“Good,” she said, then leaned her head back down and proceeded to swallow his cock again.
Ted groaned at the feel of it and let go of her tits so he could flop back onto the bed. She kept going for several minutes before pulling her mouth off of him.
“I'm kind of tired after the last couple of days, so this will have to be quick. Okay?” she asked.
He looked up to see what she was talking about to find her swinging a leg over him. He nodded as she positioned herself over his cock.
“If your retreat has me feeling safe, we'll take a much longer time over this type of thing starting tomorrow,” she said. “Assuming that this goes well anyways.”
Then she lowered herself down on him. Her pussy was tight, but he slid in with no problem, the wetness he could feel surrounding his cock doing a thorough job of lubrication. She lowered herself right down, taking him all the way inside of her. Once down, she stopped for a moment. The smile returned to her face and, as she started to move up and down on his cock, he was sure he heard a quiet moan from her.
He reached out for her breasts, caressing them as she rode him. He took her nipples and tugged, feeling them elongate and harden under his touch, but when he tried to keep going she stopped him.
“Not right now, just lie back and enjoy yourself for now,” she said.
Her pussy was still tight even with the lubrication and Ted knew that he wasn't going to last very long.
But if I don't so something to bring her some pleasure of her own, I don't know if I'll ever get a chance to do the rest of the things I want. If I bring her to the retreat Bill and Andy are sure to try to seduce her and I don't know if she'd want to stay with me or go with one of them.
He laid there for a minute or two fretting, his doubts and fears combating with the pleasure she was providing. Then he decided to go for it. Vivian's eyes were closed so he ran his hand down his own stomach. Once he was almost to his cock, he paused and looked. He timed it just right and got his finger on her clit where he started rubbing, moving his arm in unison with her body as she rode him.
This time she didn't say anything, although she did gasp slightly at the first contact. Her breathing sped up as she continued to ride him with him rubbing her clit and, before long, she was panting and trying to ride him even faster. He reached up and wrapped his arms around her back, pulling her down against his chest. Then he rolled over, putting her on the bottom.
Ted thrust for all he was worth, pounding her pussy as hard as he could. It was completely opposite to the slow movements she'd been making, but within a minute her body tensed beneath him and he felt a flood of moisture in her pussy as it clamped down on him. The added tightness was too much and he knew that he was about to cum.
“Gonna cum...” he managed to splutter.
“Mmm,” she purred, “Please, right where you are.”
A few more thrusts and he came, his own tension from the last couple of days washing away in the wave of pleasure that washed through his body as he filled her pussy with his cum. Once he was done he slipped his cock out of her, biting his lip at his own boldness.
She said to lay back and enjoy myself, but I always like it a lot more when my partner gets to cum too, he thought.
“That was naughty of you,” Vivian said. “I thought you were just going to lie there and enjoy yourself.”
It's like she's reading my mind, but I'll just tell her the same thing I told myself.
“Sorry,” he started, then realized it was wrong. “No, actually I'm not sorry. I just enjoy myself a lot more when my partner gets to cum also. So, I took your 'enjoy myself' to heart. And I did lie there for a while at first.”
She smiled at him.
“It's fine. I was just trying to make small talk. I've always been horrible about it. I didn't mean it to sound like a bad thing or anything. I just wish we could have had more time and that I felt safe enough to let go.”
He nodded.
“Speaking of which,” he said. “I'll be right back.”
He got up and left the room, returning with his phone.
“Awesome,” he said. “Bill says he'd love to have someone with professional medical training at the retreat and that the case of Tametheflu is an added bonus.”
“He'll love seeing my first aid kits then,” she said. “Can we stop by my place in the morning to pick them up? I've got a couple of other things I'd like to bring as well.”
“Sure? It won't take too long, will it?”
“Should be less than an hour. Most of what I want to bring is all packed and ready to go. I'll just need to grab some clothes and the like and pack those. But my trauma kit, my first aid kit, and my freeze dried food are all just grab and go.”
Wait, her what? he thought.
“Did you say trauma kit? And freeze dried food?”
She smiled at him.
“I always thought Amy was a sensible girl until she dumped you because you were prepping. When I looked into it after she left you because of your hobbies, I made a few preparations of my own. Besides, she's got impeccable taste in men, I should know since she got it from me. She just second guesses herself too much and doesn't have her priorities straight.”
“So you did some prepping?” he asked.
She nodded.
“But I didn't have a bug out location. I was always too busy to find one. I suppose I should've made the time, but so far I'm pretty happy about how this is working out. Now let's sleep, we've got a big day tomorrow.”
She curled up on her side almost in the middle of the bed. When Ted tried to lie down without touching her he had to get on his side also so he wouldn't. She was having none of that though, she scooted back until her back and ass were firmly pressed against him.
“Wait,” he said. “If we're going to sleep like this, can we move to the middle of the bed?”
“That's where I was, waiting for you to spoon with me. When you didn't, I moved.”
“I didn't understand what you were after, I do now.”
“Good,” she replied, then moved back to where she'd been.
Vivian was right, pressed up against her back and ass with his hand draped around her, Ted didn't move in his sleep at all that night.
* * *
They were up shortly after dawn at Vivian's urging.
“There are fewer people around this time of day,” she said. “I don't know how much people know by now, but if they see your truck with chickens and all that feed? Anyone who's aware will want it.”
“Good point,” Ted said, still rubbing the sleep from his eyes. “Let's get some coffee and get moving.”
“I suggest loading the chickens while the coffee brews then? How long is that going to take?”
“I've got no idea, never done that before.”
“Use that scratch maybe? It'll make them happy and easier to move.”
“I'd already planned on that. Let me get the coffee brewing and I'll go see if they're awake yet. If not they'll be even easier to move.”
The chickens were still asleep so Ted just left them closed down, hoping they'd stay that way. After coffee, he came back out and discovered that they didn't stay asleep while he carried them to the truck, they woke up and made a horrible racket at having their sleep disturbed. Somewhat the worse for wear, they left the house a little more than an hour after they'd woken up.
The streets were mostly empty as they drove to her house, a smallish one set in the middle of a suburban neighborhood. The postage stamp patch of lawn was
empty and the house was dark when they pulled up.
“I don't know that all my stuff will fit in your truck bed with the chicken cage and the feed in it already, so let's load my car up and I'll follow you,” she said.
They went inside and Vivian pointed out where the freeze dried foods she'd accumulated were. While Ted loaded those into the trunk and back seat of her car, Vivian packed a suitcase. She loaded her trauma and first aid kits on top of the boxes in the back seat and turned her suitcase sideways to fit into the available space in the front passenger's seat.
“Okay, I'm good. Let's go,” she said.
The stop at Vivian's had taken only half an hour.
Ted shook his head, amazed at how fast it had gone, then he put the truck in gear and pulled out of the driveway with Vivian following in her own car. As they drove through the city Ted noticed several broken windows on shops.
Already? he thought. I was sure it would be a week or more before anyone started looting. But nearly every store has a closed sign on it and most of them would normally be open by now. Maybe that's why things are devolving so quickly.
It took less than an hour to get to the retreat and when they got there, they discovered that Bill hadn't closed the gates yet.
I'll have to let him know that some looting has started in town already. We'll want to close the gates and hook up the wire so the fence is charged. I'm glad Bill studied solar layouts and set one up here. If the power goes out, we should still have enough electricity for almost everything we're used to, he thought.
When they pulled into the attached garage Ted had her park in the spot closest to the door. Most of the things in his truck were going out back or being stored right here, but he thought that all of her stuff should probably go into the house.
Before unloading, he brought Vivian into the house and introduced her around. She clutched his arm possessively as he did so and the worries he'd had about her deciding to take up with one of the other young men at the retreat faded. They faded even more when he introduced her to Andy, who in turn introduced the woman hovering possessively near him as Scott's mom, Jackie.
