TiredFingers
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"Perpetuating the Species"
(Looking for a female writer. Please PM me to learn the story's direction.)
March 2030:
A dozen years had passed since the Great Plague nearly wiped out the human race. The virus had been the perfect killer: highly contagious but with a long incubation period, it spread to every corner of the globe before the first victims began to show symptoms. And with a mortality rate of 98%, it wasn't long before the entirety of the planet was in turmoil and mayhem.
The survivors fell into two categories: those who were immune and those who simply had not been infected and, thus, didn't know their immunity status. And then there were the rumors that the virus was constantly mutating, making those immune to the original bug susceptible to the new variations.
The result was that many survivors hid themselves away, in secured buildings, in isolated wilderness cabins, on islands in rivers, bays, and oceans. The Great Plague had killed 7 billion people outright; and the mayhem of the weeks, months, and years to come had killed many of those who'd survived the bug. And yet the population of Earth continued to dwindle because ... well ... there was no one to fuck anymore.
Robert Thomas laid on his back, staring up at the clear blue sky. He saw clouds and birds, as he did every day. Nothing else. It had been a decade since he'd last seen the slowly dissipating contrail of a jet cut a path through the lower atmosphere. It had been a gigantic military cargo plane, and at the time Robert had thought, hoped, and even prayed that maybe that linear cloud meant civilization was already on the mend; that there was still a working government and military; and that he would be seeing more and more of the exhaust trails as things began moving back toward normal.
Of course, it hadn't been. The sky was empty of aircraft. The freeways empty of freight trucks. The city streets empty of taxis, soccer mom SUVs, bicycles, and skateboarders. In those early days after the outbreak, there had been some residual human activity in places. But, very little anymore.
Robert lifted his head to look to his wife as she toyed with the obvious feature near the middle of his naked body. It was a beautiful, sunny late spring day, and on days like this all Emma ever wanted to do was get naked and fuck. Who was Robert to argue to that? They'd fully unzipped his sleeping bag, laid it out upon the top of a grassy knoll, and driven each other to orgasm before laying back in one another's arms to stay at the wondrous sky above.
"Are you prepping it for another go around?" he asked, watching her fingers fiddle deftly with his semi-hard cock.
They laughed together before he pulled her atop him, positioning himself as they kissed passionately. Soon, he was hard and inside her again, heading them toward another--
That was when a deep boom echoed over the landscape, startling both of them. Robert immediately rolled Emma to her back, laying atop her as he searched in every direction for the source of the rifle shot. It took a moment for him to realize that the shooter had to be some distance away.
"Get dressed," he told her, rolling off her and dressing quickly as his eyes continued to scan all about. They were well hidden by the three foot tall wild grass that had long ago taken over the former wheat field, but Robert knew that if they'd been seen moving this direction in the first place, the shooter could very well know where they were. Once he had his clothes back on and looked to find Emma dressed as well, he told her, "Stay low. We're gonna try for that little grove over there ... for cover."
He took her by the hand and -- bent over at the waist -- led her the seventy yards or so to the little grove of trees surrounding a massive, ancient oak tree. Once under cover, Robert dropped his pack, and pulled out the 9mm pistol he had packed away. He knew it was empty -- had been for almost two years -- but he also knew that it was better to appear armed than to appear not to be.
Several minutes passed without Robert finding any evidence of the shooter. Then, his heart practically exploded from his chest when a huge white dog appeared in the grove and began barking, growling, and gnashing its big teeth. Robert didn't recognize the breed but he knew it came from a general group of dogs called Livestock Dogs, popular with ranchers for their willingness to protect herds from coyotes, wolves, even cougars.
Robert had spun and pointed the handgun at the dog, hoping it understood what a firearm was. For what seemed a lifetime, the two stared one another down: the dog menacing the strangers, and Robert trying to talk the dog down.
"Carly!" a male voice called from somewhere out of sight. The dog went quiet yet continued to stare down the strangers. Perhaps less than 100 feet away yet still out of sight, the man ordered, "Guard!"
The big dog went silent, closing its jowls to hide its teeth as it sat on its haunches. A moment later, the man asked, "Are you going to shoot my dog?"
Robert searched the grass for evidence of the man, and while he thought he had the general direction down, he still couldn't find the stranger. After a bit, Robert responded, "Is your dog going to eat me?"
"Depends," the man answered after a moment.
"On...?" Robert asked without hesitation.
After a moment, the man answered, "On whether you plan on putting that gun back in your pack."
Robert considered his options for a moment, then stuffed the semi-automatic back into his pack. He was about to tell the man he'd disarmed himself when movement caught his attention to the left ... not where he thought the man had been hiding and only half as far away. The man wore desert style camouflage, which had hid him well in the brown, tan, and yellow grasses; and he leveled an over-under shotgun -- large, likely a 12 gauge -- from his chest at the couple. As the man moved slowly forward, Robert raised his hands as if surrendering, urging in whisper for Emma to do the same.
"Are you immune?" the man asked. When Robert didn't respond, the man stopped -- now about 30 feet away beyond the edge of the little grove -- and stressed as he lifted the long gun higher, "Are you immune to the bug?"
"Yes!" Robert snapped, angry with himself for having let them get caught like this. "Yes, we've been exposed ... years ago, during the outbreak ... then again a couple of years ago."
"Mutation?" the man asked with a concerned tone as he took a half step back.
"No, original strain," Robert said reassuringly. "There was no mutation. I swear. I was a virologist. I promise you, despite what the Press was saying back after the Plague. There was no mutation."
Robert began to have the same concern that the stranger was showing, and after a moment of studying one another, he asked the man with the gun, "Are you immune? Were you exposed?"
The man hesitated, then nodded. "Yeah. Me and my whole family. Must have been something in my blood, 'cause I lived and my children lived ... but ... my wife died."
The man studied Robert and Emma for a long moment, then -- lowering the shotgun to his waist but remaining on guard -- half turned and nodded down the hill. "I have a home down on the creek. Are you hungry? You look like you could eat."
Robert looked to Emma for her feelings about what had happened and about this man and his invitation, but before she could answer, the man said, "My name is Carl. Carl Younger."
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(I am looking for a female writer to write 3 characters: Emma (who you can rename if you wish) and Carl's two daughters, one of whom is an 18 year old virgin and one of whom is a 19-23 year old whose sexual experience you can decide for yourself. The gist of the story is that Carl is going to ask Robert to breed with his daughters, in exchange for some badly needed traveling supplies. To learn more about me, look at this post in the Seeking Thread