Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:36:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: niftystoryteller <niftystoryteller@yahoo.com>
Subject: My New Summer Job, Chapter 5

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consenting adult males.  If you are underage or do not wish to read such
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	The next day was a killer.  Cap'n roused us before the sun had even
shown itself.  His plan was to reach our destination before noon, unload
Will and Sam and me and all of our gear, and then turn around with enough
daylight remaining that he could cover a fair stretch of water before
dropping anchor for the night.  It probably wouldn't have worked if Rory
and Sean hadn't started competing with Sam and me, to see who could work
hardest, but that male instinct kept us moving fast enough to complete the
job in record time.  And so at two o'clock sharp we waved goodbye to the
skipper and his crew as they steamed away.  Rory and Sean looked like they
would have preferred to stay with us, but at least they could look forward
to returning to resupply our base in three weeks, midway through the
expedition.  Turning around to face the piles of crates that were strewn
around, I wished that they were staying for at least the rest of the day.
In our haste to unload we had piled everything up on the beach in the
little comma-shaped estuary where we had landed, and we still needed to lug
our gear up to the higher ground where we would establish our base camp.
The dig site itself was a quarter mile into the jungle, reachable only by
hiking up a clear stream that ran through the dense jungle canopy.

	The tropical heat and humidity soon had us soaked with sweat.  One
by one we shed our shirts as we wrangled a mountain of crates up to our
temporary homesite.  I think that we were all eager to be done with the
job, and we just powered through it.  Soon the outlines of our little
encampment began to take shape.  While Sam unpacked the crates of living
supplies and tools, Will and I erected four room-size tents.  Sam and I
would share one, Will would have his own, and the other two were for work
supplies and storage for all of the samples we hoped to unearth.

	The sun was getting low in the sky by the time we finished stowing
everything, and we were too exhausted to do anything more than open a
couple of cans for dinner.  Before preparing our meal, though, we jumped
into the natural pool formed by the lazy curve of the stream just below our
campsite.  The water was only about four feet deep, but it was cool and
refreshing, and it soothed aching muscles.  With the addition of a little
soap, it even washed away the grime and sweat.  Sam and I lingered a bit
after Will pulled himself out and walked, dripping wet and clad only in
sandals, back up to his tent, where he put on some clothes and began to
prepare some food.

	"I might regret coming on this trip if every day is like today,"
Sam observed wryly.

	"I think that Will mentioned something about hard work when he
signed us up.  But I see what you mean.  Just remember, though.  What
doesn't kill us makes us stronger."  I wrapped my arms around him from
behind and pulled his smooth body toward mine.  I couldn't resist tousling
his wavy brown hair as I rested my chin on his shoulder.  "I'm glad you're
here."

	Sam turned his head and planted his lips on mine.  "Me too.  Now
let's go check out what's on the menu."

	Canned beef stew had never tasted so good, especially washed down
by our few precious cans of cold Fosters.  There was no reason to save it;
the ice would soon be melted and, with it, any ability to keep beer
properly cold.  Will had lit a small campfire for atmosphere, and, after
the dinner dishes were done, he and I relaxed there in our collapsible camp
chairs.  Sam had stumbled off to take a leak and had apparently decided to
go straight to bed.  My aching muscles probably would have benefited from
getting horizontal, but I could feel inertia setting in, so I stayed put
and enjoyed the flickering flames.

	"So how did you find this spot?" I asked.

	He looked up at the starry sky.  "You mean why did I decide to dig
here?  Yeah, it is a little off the beaten track, even in my business."  He
took a long drink from the sweating can he was nursing.  "A couple of years
ago, my partner and I were working on a different island, excavating a
Stone Age site.  We had found some amazingly preserved skeletons, and tools
like we had never seen before.  They really were much more refined and
advanced than what we expected for their time, which was around 3000 years
ago.  And then right at the end of our dig, I found something really
strange.  Another skeleton, buried with a polished slab of magnetite.  And
that was covered with some remarkable carvings.  It just didn't make any
sense.  There didn't seem to be any way that these people could have had
the tools to work stone like that.  We really couldn't figure out what it
could be, or what it was doing there, especially since there's not a single
source of magnetite in the region.  It wasn't until later, the next year,
looking at some photographs I had taken, that I realized that embedded in
the carvings was a map of an island.  And after comparing it to every map
of the archipelago I could find, this island was the closest match."

	"Where's the other site?"

	"That's one of the strange things.  It's more than a thousand miles
away."

	"Wow.  How'd those people know about this place?"

	"Exactly.  How could they have?  And that's not the only strange
thing.  When I had the skeleton radiocarbon dated, it turned out that it
wasn't 3000 years old.  It was 15,000 years old.  Not only was it in the
wrong place, it was in the wrong time."

	Will sat in silence for a moment.  "So Doug and I were going to
figure out what was going on together, or at least I thought we were.  But
then things changed."

	"Did something happen to him?"

	Will bit his lip and shook his head.  "I guess he finally just
showed his true colors.  He'd been working behind my back with our contact
in the Ministry of Culture to get himself named sole investigator of the
other site.  They gave him exclusive access to all of the artifacts, and
exclusive rights to use them in publications.  I was frozen out.  I guess
that becoming famous by himself was more important than working with me."

	"But what about this place?"

	"Doug was pretty sure that the skeleton and the carved stone were
dead ends.  They didn't fit into his theory of Stone Age civilizations, so
there was no point in pursuing them.  He even accused me of planting them.
We had already parted company by the time I figured out that we had in fact
found a map.  Even though he still had the stone, I had kept the
photographs.  Of course, I wasn't sure there was any point in pursuing it.
Finding anything here seemed to be like finding the proverbial needle in a
haystack, because I really didn't have any sense of where to start looking
once I got here."  Will took a final gulp of beer and crushed the can in
his hand.  "But sometimes you just need to know whom to ask.  I have an old
friend who is an expert on this region, and its folk tales.  When I
mentioned this island she knew exactly where I was talking about.  We
visited last summer, and after talking with the locals it seemed that this
was probably the place to start.  Apparently they've been finding bones and
spear tips here for years.  It makes sense; there is a pretty good
outcropping of obsidian right by the dig site.  So here we are."

	We sat in silence for a few moments before I asked the obvious
question.

	"Were you and Doug just research partners?"

	Will looked up at the sky.  I could see the firelight reflecting
off of his glistening eyes, and his masculine features were tempered by an
expression of vulnerability and loss.

	"No, I thought that we were more.  I thought we were life partners.
We'd been together since grad school, and it seemed that we were making it
work, even long distance, since we were at different universities.  But I
guess he wasn't the man I thought he was."

	"Is he the guy who is in that picture in your office?"

	Will nodded.

	"Why do you keep a picture of him around, if he screwed you like
that?"

	"So I don't forget," Will said softly.  "So I don't trust anyone
like that."

	We sat there silently for a few minutes, illuminated by the dying
fire and the waning moon that had risen higher in the sky.  Will was
hurting.  He was hurting in the way that is possible only when you give
another person the ability, the permission, to hurt you.  When you trust
him, even though he might not love you and care for you forever.  It is a
hurt that can never completely heal.  The scar tissue is always there,
stiffening and hardening around your heart and soul, hurting when it
stretches and tears the next time you fall in love.  But you know that you
need to take the chance again.  And so you do.

	I reached out and placed my hand on top of Will's, which was
resting on his bare knee.  He turned his face to mine and smiled weakly.

	"Don't worry, you won't need to take care of the professor the
whole trip."

	I nodded in reply, and then instinctively leaned over to kiss him.
At first it was just a peck of friendship and support, but then his lips
parted and his hand gripped mine, and it became something more.  I could
taste the beer on his breath as we kissed very softly.  It was gentle,
despite our respective stubble from two days without a razor.  But it was
also a little strange.  Despite the age difference, despite the difference
in our respective positions, I felt like I was in taking care of Will.  It
wasn't because of weakness on his part, far from it.  He was nothing if not
strong.  He just needed for someone to show him some compassion.

	It felt right to stand up, take him by the hand, and lead him back
to his tent.  Once inside, I unbuttoned his shirt and slipped it off of his
shoulders, exposing his broad, hairy chest.  He pulled my T-shirt up over
my head, and I leaned in to resume our kissing while I ran my hands down
his strong back and up over his arms.  Gripping his biceps, I pulled him in
to me, so that our chests could touch.  He rocked from side to side,
grazing my hard nipples with his fur, causing electric pinpricks of
sensation.  God, it was boner inducing.  We kissed hungrily for a few
moments, lips locking and tongues dancing, until I sensed that we were both
ready for more.

	Still taking the lead, I reached down and unbuttoned my shorts.
They dropped to the ground, exposing my naked body.  Sinking to my knees, I
pulled down Will's shorts, revealing that he too had forgone underwear
after our earlier dip in the water.  His long, meaty dick bounced into
view, and I leaned in and grazed its leaking tip with my lips.  I breathed
deeply of the smell of sex and became a little light-headed.

	Wrapping my lips around his plum-shaped glans, I snaked my tongue
out to stimulate the underside of his head and shaft.  He groaned
appreciatively and reached down to run his fingers through my hair.  As I
began to inhale inch after inch of his hard cock, he bent his knees
slightly, dropping his crotch down a few inches and improving my angle of
attack.  Even so, I had to fight my gag reflex as my nose came to rest in
his thick triangle of pubic hair.  Rocking back and forth, I worked my way
up and down his length, occasionally allowing him to pop out of my mouth so
that he could bounce against my flushed cheeks.  Meanwhile, with one hand I
braced myself by gripping the back of his thigh, while with the other I
gently tugged at his beautiful balls.

	I guessed that he was getting perilously close to cumming when he
reached down to move me off of him.  I really couldn't argue with his
judgment; there was no point in needlessly rushing things.  Still on my
knees, I leaned back, allowing my hard cock to jut up at a forty-five
degree angle.  Will dropped down on all fours in front of me and went to
work.  He started by gently nipping and sucking his way up and down the
bottom of my shaft, teasing me, slowly building up the level of my
excitement.  Before long I was leaking a steady stream of slick precum,
which mixed with his saliva to provide copious lubrication.  He gripped the
base of my cock between his index and middle finger, which he then used to
stroke up and down the shaft while nursing on my pulsing head.  Every hair
on my body was standing on end.

	As Will worked on me, I reached down and pulled his asscheeks
apart, giving my index finger access to his hole.  He did not resist as I
gently probed at the puckered flesh.  If anything he sucked me harder, and
he couldn't stifle a groan when I lubed him up with my saliva and slipped
inside up to my second knuckle.  Exploring around a bit, I easily found his
prostate, which I began to massage.  He responded by beginning to jerk
himself with one hand while continuing to frig my tool with the other hand.
Watching him writhe in pleasure in front of me, I was seized by a desire to
share his experience in the closest way possible.  Reaching back with my
free hand, I poked through my own clenching ring and began to give myself
the same pleasure I was giving him.  It was awesome to work, to play, in
tandem with him, with this strong and powerful man.  He was what I hoped to
become.

	In that moment, as my cock swelled to its maximum dimension, as my
balls tightened up, as his ass gripped my finger like a vise, as our vital
male juices welled up in both of us and erupted simultaneously, in that
moment I felt a deep connection to him.  It continued after the powerful
explosion of orgasm, after we reared up and fell together into each other's
arms, mouth on mouth, cock on cock.  It continued as I sucked the sticky
residue from his persistent erection and his calloused fingers.  It
continued as we lay together, my body folded around his, wedged in his
backside.  It continued as he gripped my hand wordlessly.  It continued as
he fell asleep, and I gathered my things and went to my tent, to the tent
that I shared with Sam.