Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 21:23:16 EST
From: SpecialPopcorn@aol.com
Subject: After The End- Part III

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With a pounding head and blurring vision I woke up hours later, and
opened my eyes. By the look of the light in the room if was very late at
night. I sat bolt upright, then crashed back down clutching my head.
"Ow." I managed to mumble.
"Oh, your awake."
As fast as I could without increasing the pain waves in my head, I
turned to where Rob was sitting on the other end of the sofa where he
must have moved me after finding my unconcious body. I asked the obvious
question that had first popped into my mind.
"How is she Is she ok?"
He looked at with sadness and pity in his face, and his eyes slid away
from my gaze. My heart dropped like cement. He didn't have to answer, but
he did anyway.
"Crystal's dead."
Every nerve within me froze. My whole body went cold, I felt as I was
frozen in time, the love of my life was dead. Then my heart burst.
My voice cracked as I let out a wailing screech. I tried to get off the
couch, but my legs wouldn't work, and I stumbled and landed on my knees
beside the couch. Rob wrapped his arms around me, and I yelled again and
began to sob into his shoulders. Unbridled grief would be an
understatement. Dead! Dead! She was dead! I would never see her beautiful
face alive again! No more smiles, no more of her shining blue eyes!
Nothing! Nothing! Nothing ever again!! Nothing!
I pulled away from Rob and somehow made my way up the stairs. I rushed
into her room and gasped.
She wasn't awake to greet me this time. She lay quietly. her eyes
closed, her hands lay folded on her chest. I ran over and knelt by her
bed. I wanted to think she didn't look dead, but she did. Her face was
pale and her lips were blue. I was afraid to touch her. Still, slowly, i
moved my trembling fingers towards her still face. She was cold. Her skin
was hard. But the most chilling and awful part that I experienced, was
her breath. It wasn't there. No breath came from her lips or her nose. It
was that final experience that drove it into. Crystal was dead. The only
person I had ever really loved, was dead. She was gone from me forever.
I don't know how long I knelt there by her deathbed. But then I heard
Rob's voice behind me. "Do you have a desicion now?"
I wrenched my eyes away from her cold face to turn and look at him.
"She's dead, Jamie. She's gone. And now, there is nothing here for you.
Will you help me lay down her body? And after that, will you leave with
me?"
I didn't know what to say. But I did tell him that I wasn't going to
tell him whether or not i'd leave the valley with him after Crystal died,
until after she actually died. And now....now the time had come..I had to
make a decision. I looked back at Crystal's pale face and passed my hand
over her face without feeling her breath. I shut my eyes and sighed,
turning back to Rob slowly. My decision was made, and I slowly opened my
mouth to answer.

Then...I opened my eyes. I was in the living room again. The light in
the room showed me it was very late at night. What the....didn't this
already happen? I sat bolt upright, then, once again it seemed, the
pounding in my head forced me to throw myself back on the couch. I was
too dumbfounded to say ow. Again clutching my forehead, I growled in pain
and confusion. I was on the couch again! What the hell was going on,
didn't I just go through all this?! I tried to settle down and calm
myself. This wasn't possible. Did God hate me so much he was making go
through the torture of learning about my love's demise again? Did that
tumble down the stairs kill me and this was my purgatory?? Or was
it......something else...no it couldn't be.
I gasped. No way...it couldn't be possible..was all that had just
happened a vision? Was waking up and learning that Crystal was dead
all.....all a dream?
"Oh, you're awake."
I sat up again, forcing myself to ignore the pain. Rob was sitting
there. "NO!" I screamed. Not this time! This time I was finding out for
myself! I stumbled clumsily up the stairs(I was still a little
lightheaded) and to Crystal's door. I paused. I didn't know what to
expect, I had never felt this much anxiety before. But I wasn't going to
find out anything by just standing there, so I held my breath and thrust
the door open wide.
The room was empty. The bed was empty. She wasn't there. Now I was more
confused than ever. And I was getting really pissed off.
Leaving the room, I ran down the stairs, but as I reached the bottom the
fact that I got up too quickly from a near-concussion caught up with me
and I nearly fell down a second time. Luckily arms were there to catch my
fall. "Hey, easy." I heard Rob say.
I looked up, expecting the voice to match the face, but what I saw
stopped my heart dead.
Crystal's face was above me. She was holding my shaky frame in her
delicate hands, and she looked at me with concern. "Are you alright?" She
asked softly. Rob was just a few feet behind her.
Her voice nearly brought me to tears. It sounded the same as it did when
we first met. Bright and cheerful, yet with definite seriousness. It was
the most beautiful thing I ever heard.
"Crystal..." I breathed. Her lips formed a small smile as she helped me
down to the floor to sit. I looked at her body....she was dressed in my
clothes, a small white cotton t-shirt and some pajama bottoms. She looked
dry, and she sat still, no more feverish sweating or uncontrollable
trembling. Timidly I reached my hand up to touch her face. Yes! Her skin
was warm and soft, and...oh God! I could feel her breath on my wrist! I
started to cry gently. "Oh God," I gasped. "You're alive!"
Crystal wrapped her arms around me and I fell into her embrace. I never
thought i'd feel those arms around me again. I hugged her back hard and
cried and sobbed into her golden long hair. Suddenly, to my surprise, I
could feel her hot tears hitting my back and neck. "Yes," She said. "I am
alive. And i'm going to stay alive. It's because of you. You helped me
live."
I drew back to look at her. "You gave me hope. Thank you." She
whispered. Her eyes were clear, and her tears were running down her
cheeks; I gently brushed them away with my hand. It was all I could do to
keep from smothering her newly healthy body with my love.
I couldn't say anything else, I don't know if there was anything else to
say. I turned my had and leaned forward but hesitated. Somehow I felt
like I didn't know what to do next. My senses were almost overloaded. But
she took my face in her hands and brought our lips together, and we
kissed again. Sparks when off in the pleasure centers of my brain as our
lips touched That was the most wonderful kiss of my life. My arms went
around her shoulders, and our kiss deepened, as our tongues wandered out
of our mouths to meet each other. As we sat there on the floor, and
slowly french kissed, it felt as though we were kneeling in a pool of
light. Our tongues danced in and out of each other's mouths, tasting each
other's flavor. Our hand were in one another's hair, we reveled and each
other's softness, purity, and exsitence. Nothing could be, or had ever
been more perfect than that moment.
After a few minutes Rob spoke again. "I guess I don't have to tell you
that Crystal is alive. What happened in the bedroom before you got
knocked out was just like an aftershock, like a last reprecussion after
the poisoning has passed. According to all of my tests, though, i'm
pretty sure she'll be ok. I'm glad you're ok too, Jamie, you took a
really bad blow to the head, there."
Crystal and I finally parted lips. "Yeah." I whispered, not really
paying attention. I looked her right in the eye then, my face serious. "I
love you."
"I love you, too." She murmered. Then we embraced again. I would never
love again the amount of love I felt at that moment for her. Time was
momentarily stopped as we held each other, memorizing the feeling of each
other's soul.

The next few days were spent making sure Crystal got a lot of rest, and
was in full health to travel. Because now that it was sure she was going
to stay alive, we began to make plans for leaving the valley. Rob had
been right; no matter what, there was nothing left for us in it. All it
was was a reminder of the pain and suffering that had taken place in it
since the world ended as we knew it ended. It would be for the best to
leave. As Crystal rested, I tidied up the house and yard. For some
reason, I wanted it to be clean when i left it. I guess just to make it
feel like I had finished here, like I didn't just leave without having
time to make things right.
We packed as much as Rob's small car could carry. I was disappointed
that i'd have to leave the big things behind, but it was worth it. In the
end we took some clothes, some jewlery, and a few books with us. By the
end of the fourth day of Crystal's recovery, we decided the time had
come. I was finally going to leave my little house in the valley.
We all dressed in the bright blue radiation suits. Both Rob and Crystal
had had an extra when they came into the valley so I was set. As we piled
into Rob's car, I hesitated, looking back at the place that I hadn't left
for months and months that felt like years. Now, I was kind of afraid to
leave it.
I gazed for awhile, then felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked over to
meet Crystal's vision.
"It's scary, isn't it?"
I nodded.
"Will you be ok?
"Yeah." I said. "It's just....it'll be hard to change after so long, you
know?"
She leaned her head on my shoulder. "I'll be here to help you through
it."
I sighed. "I don't know how else I could."
We got in, put on the helmets, and Rob started the car.

It was a two day journey, one of which Rob had luckily brought enough
fuel. As we drove through the neulear-wasted southwestern landscape, I
saw for the first time the horror the world had become outside of my
little haven. There was nothing green anymore. There was no grass, just
the barran, dusty dirt. Gnarled stumps of what used to be trees were
scattered along the terrain, and the remains of skelotons of deer and
coyotes and other creatures were littered about. The sky was an eerie
combination of dull orange and blue. It was an awful sight to behold.
"I've never actually seen it." I said breathlessly. "I mean the world
after the end of the war. This is the first time I've seen it..."
Crystal looked out of the window gravely with me. "Yes." She said. "I
wandered through it for over a month, and i'm still not used to it. It's
such a waste."
"Yeah." Rob. "But the place I found is a lot like the valley you lived
in, Jamie. It's perfect compared to this."
"Anything is perfect compared to this." I said with a hint of bitterness
in my voice.
Near the end of the last day, as we passed over the California border,
nervousness stirred within me. I expressed my thoughts to Crystal. Ever
since she got better i'd been talking to her and Rob constantly, I
suppose to make up for no one to talk to for months and months. I never
really though before talking anymore, so I just told Crystal about my
anxiousness as soon as I felt it.
"You know I haven't been around other people for....for quite a long
time. I'm uh...i'm feeling a little..well, nervous, you know?" I
stammered with an awkward laugh.
She smiled at me. "Yeah, it'll probably be hard getting used to acting
around people again right?"
"Well its not just that." I lowered my voice to a whisper. "I mean, when
you live by yourself for a long time...you start to develop practices
that...well that one wouldn't normally do when there are a lot of..people
around...like uh..."
She lowered her voice and grinned at me. "Like walking around the
outdoors naked and forcing yourself on unsuspecting strangers?"
I blushed madly. "Well that....and walking around naked indoors as
well...and masturbating yourself on everything in sight."
Crystal nodded. "I thought your place smelled a little like pussy."
I cocked an eyebrow. "How, may I ask, do you know how pussy smells?"
Now it was her turn to blush. "Well...i'll explain later...but as for
forgetting old habits like that, I think it'll be easier than you think.
It'll be ok, don't worry about it." She snuggled up to me, and even
though it must have looked silly with us wearing our blue suits, but it
felt good to have her so close. She was right, it would be ok. Meanwhile,
my mind was swimming with ideas on how often she had gotten close enough
to a woman's cunt to take in it's scent....

Our small red car drove into the town Rob had found, probably a little
after 11 PM. It was dark, but we could see distant flashes of light come
up in the distance as we made our way in. The town was in a valley, a
little bigger than the one I had inhabited but otherwise just like it.
The flashes of light, as it turned out were flashlights, and they got
closer and closer as the people holding them ran towards us.We pulled up
to a stop eventually, and when we got out, there were about 20 people
there to greet us, all of them looking extremly happy and relieved. We
took off our helmets and introduced ourselves, then after about an hour
of explaining, we were all quite exhausted, and we retired to the house
Rob had been living in. As we entered, he explained where we were to
sleep.
"I've made a nice bedroom out of the basement. I have a cot set up, and
then a mattress because originally, I assumed you'd be sleeping
seperatly. But now..." He looked at us with a mischivous smile on his
face. "Am I correct in assuming you only need the cot?"
Crystal and I looked at each other, and I blushed again. "Only if it's
alright with you, my dear." I said.
She gave me a small kiss and smiled in response.
I sat alone on the cot in the basement about 15 minutes later, in my
nightie, waiting for Crystal to finish changing into hers upstairs. When
she came down, I stood and embraced her. Our lips met breifly, but we
were tired, and slipped into bed quickly. She lay on top of me, her arms
around my middle, and my arm draped around her back. "I'm so glad we're
here, together." I whispered
"Me too." She breathed sleepily. "Goodnight, angel."
I closed my eyes and sighed with happiness. "Goodnight."

The next day, we got ourselves moved in. We walked around town and met
some more people, and learned what it everyone did and stuff. That night,
after we ate a little dinner, Crystal and I ajourned to our room where we
did something that we not yet done before. We sat down, talked, and got
to know each other.
That night I learned she was born and raised in Oklahoma, went to
college at Ohio State, that her favorite color was green, and that she
had always had a liking for showtunes. I told her I was born in New York,
spent my teen years on a farm in Arizona, and that my favorite animals
were horses. We talked for half the night. Finally we got around to the
question I had been aching to ask.
"Crystal, have you ever been with another woman? Other than me?"
She looked at her feet suddenly, as though she were ashamed. "Yes...I've
always been a lesbian....but in a last couple years i've tried not to
be."
This surprised me. "Why?"
"Because of my family. They disowned me when I told them, and I wanted
them back. I started dating Rob to show them I was straight, I just
wanted them to love me again." She was beginning to cry quietly. "I only
wanted them to love me. But now they have to be dead."
I put my arm around her. She continued. "But i've gotten over that. And
i've accepted what I am once and for all. I like women." She turned to me
and looked into my eyes. "And I love you."
I smiled. "May I ask how many partners you've had? I'm just curious,
thats all."
She flushed again. "Well, not that many really. My best friend in high
school became my lover for about a year, and after that I only had a
couple more girlfriends before I went through my little straight phase ."
"Were you in love with her? You're high school sweetheart?"
"I think I was...but she cheated on me and I left her. Looking back we
didn't make a very good couple. We only made love once. In fact
that's....that's the only time i've ever made love to a woman. That's why
I said I didn't really know what to do when we..." Her voice trailed. I
knew she was referring to the first and only time we had properly made
love.
"Hey it's ok, don't be ashamed to say it."
"It's not exactly that, it's just that, I'm worried...that time, did I
do alright?"
"Did you do alright! Crystal, you were wonderful! I've never felt that
good!"
"You're just saying that." She said smiling widely.
"Well...if you want the chance to do better..." I let the sentence hang,
and trailed my fingers along her arm.
She shivered and licked her lips. I drew her close and craned her neck
up, and kissed her forehead. Then the bridge of her delacate nose. I
kissed the places of her face, tenderly, breathing on her softly. Her
eyes were closed and her breathing was getting more shallow. Finally I
moved onto her lips. She held me tight as our lips touched, making our
kiss loving, yet passionatly urgent.
"I love you so much, and I want to make you feel so good."
I caressed her tongue with mine. "I want to take you as hard as I did
when I first saw you. But this time I want your permission."
She looked at me. There was hunger and lust in her eyes when she
answered. "You have it."
I pulled our lips together again suddenly, and shoved her back roughly
onto the bed. I pinned her arms down and told her to keep them there, as
I moved my mouth onto her neck and began using my teeth on it, biting
her. She let out a moan of arousal. With my teeth still attached to her
neck, I moved my hands down to the fly of her pants, and shoved the
zipper down, and her pants and panties went next. I found myself staring
at her naked pussy again. I growled my need, but I had said I wanted to
take her like I did the first time I saw her.
I withdrew from her beautiful pussy and she looked at me with such
longing it almost looked like she was in pain.
I postitioned my crotch near her face. "Take off my pants." I said
hungerly.
She grabbed the zipper and pulled it down so violently I thought she was
going to rip the inseam out. Then, once again with almost ripping
strength, she tore off my panties. With them off, I moved on top of her
again, and looked her straight in the eyes as I lowered my pussy onto
her, and pushed my hips down.
Her eyelids closed at the contact, and she moved her hands on my hips,
trying to force me to hump her. But, I grabbed her hands, and pinned them
down. Like the first time, I was going to fuck her at my own pace. Which,
I might add, was very fast, and very hard.
I lifted my hands from hers to massage her breasts. She didn't move her
hands after I left them. I sucked on her almost rock hard nipples as I
humped her madly. Too deaf I had been the first time, to hear her noises
of pleasure, but I let myself hear them now loud and clear. Her moans and
cries of lust went through me, heightening my pleasure. She was so loud I
wondered if Rob could hear us.
"Jamie! Ohhhhhh god harder! ohhh god!"
I began to moan in earnest now, our clits were sliding against each
other, I rubbed our pussies together harder, my cunt sliding up and down
hers, our erect, hard clits throbbing against each other. We were fucking
so hard, it didn't take long for us to reach the orgasm we both so
desperatly needed now. With a loud groan and a hard shudder for both of
us, we came. I think it had taken about three minutes.
We lay panting and breathing heavily in each others arms for a moment
before moving again. Finally she moved her head to look at me, and I
looked at her. She was so beautiful in the afterglow of orgasm. She
looked at me for a second, then, to my immense surprise, she raised a
hand and slapped me straight across my face. I wasn't sure what the hell
that was about. Before I could ask, Crystal whispered,
"The first time you took me like that, I was so shocked and it felt so
good, I forgot to get mad. I guess what I did was a delayed reaction, but
that was for raping me."
I thought for a second, then nodded and said, "I did deserve that. I am
sorry for what happened."
She held my face within her hands and kissed me gently. "I understand."
I held her closer in my arms and we french kissed tenderly and lovingly.
It was perfect. Niether of us had a care in the world at that moment,
there was only us, Crystal and I framed in this everlasting moment. Time
became oblivious, as we lay there in each others arms for I don't know
how long, no feeling dwelling inside other than the love we felt. Nothing
mattered, not the fact that the world had been reduced to a gray waste,
or that as far as we knew, our newfound colony was the last remaining
human habitat on earth, and that we and the 60 other people in this town
were the only people on earth alive. It didn't mean anything to us right
then, it was only Crystal and I. There was nothing else, and nothing else
mattered. We were our own world.
Finally the spell of our kiss lifted. We we staring in each other's eyes
again. Two words suddenly came to mind.
"Your shirt."
Crystal wriggled her arms underneath her t-shirt and threw it off, and
she helped me to the same with mine. Instinctivly I took one of her
breasts in my hands and began massaging it, playing with the nipple,
which was fast growing firmer. She groaned slightly and leaned forward,
kissing in my cleavage. When I felt my nipple get enveloped in her mouth,
I moaned and put my own mouth to her delicate neck, while my hand travled
down between her legs, finding her already beginning to leak her
heatedness onto my hand. I moved my face down, between her breasts, over
her naval, and down to where the most treasured part of her body lay. My
tongue dragged from the bottom of her naval to her mound, over that to
her clit. She trembled and whimpered. My tongue went in circles around
her clit slowly, before I surrounded the sensitive button with my mouth,
then released it, pulling on it slightly.
She let something between a sigh and a moan. "Jamie......."
Her clit went into my mouth again, and this time I sucked slowly, while
tracing my finger around and around her hole. I didn't tease her like
that for long, she was already so wet when I sank two of my fingers into
her. She began to moan and tremble in earnest now.
"Ah! Ohhhh Ohhhhhhhh harder, please.....ohhh my......"
By "harder" I didn't know if she meant my sucking or fucking, so I
increased my speeds of both. That was the ticket. Her hips were now
moving up and down, forcing me to use my fingers harder. Opening my eyes,
I looked up at her. There was a look of absolute pleasure on her face,
she was in heaven, I could tell. I wanted to keep her there forever, but
I also wanted to make her feel an incredible orgasm. So I gently nipped
at her rigid clit with my teeth, and, tenativly, moved the little finger
of my free hand to her asshole. I massaged it gently, and when I felt her
whole body stiffen, I thrust my finger inside her tight ass.
Crystal's back arched as she let out a loud scream, her hips bucked and
her warm girl cum spilled out of her cunt as she came. Feeling her vagina
and ass close around my fingers at once was almost too much for me, as I
had a mini-orgasm just feeling and watching her. I massaged her clitoris
as she came down, setting off another small climax for her. After she was
done, she opened her eyes to find me looking into her face. She held me
around my neck and buried her face in my hair, and just breathed. "That
was sooo good..."
She might have been relieved, but I wasn't even close. My arousal had
been brought up to very high levels while making her cum, and now I
needed her to make love to me. "Crystal..." I breathed, and moved her
hand to my breast. "I need..." I almost laughed; somehow I couldn't tell
her.
But Crystal didn't need words to understand me. She looked at me
breifly, with love, and moved us up so that we were both kneeling. Then
her mouth moved to my tit, suckeling my nipple. I moaned, I needed her so
bad. But again, as if there were a telepathic link between us, her hand
was suddenly between my legs, fondling my pussy. "Mmmmmmm unhh" I groaned
as her fingers found my throbbing clit, and began to stroke it. She moved
her mouth to bite the nape of my neck. Suddenly my whole body spasmed; I
felt her teeth dig into my skin, and my mouth opened in a silent gasp of
pleasure; she had given me a hickey. I barely had time to recover when
she thrust not only three fingers in my soaking cunt, but her pinky
finger slid into my ass. I couldn't kneel any longer, with a loud moan I
began to fall back onto our bed, and she helped me lower down so that I
didn't land hard. Without removing her fingers from me, she moved her
mouth to my ear and said, "That felt really good when you did it to me. I
knew you would like it too."
"Please Crystal....honey, please fuck me, make me cum!" I begged her
without shame to give me the pleasure only she could give. With most of
her hand still inside me, she kissed me, and then moved her face down to
my mound. She began pumping me much faster and harder, and gave my erect
clit the oral attention it needed. I felt it go into her warm mouth and
get sucked hard. Finally I reached my peak, thrashed wildly and came
harder than I ever had; i'm sure I coated her hand with at least a gallon
of my love fluids; I could almost feel it squirting out of me. I screamed
out loud and moaned over and over until I finally came down, what had to
be a good forty seconds later. I lay back on the bed, panting, unable to
move until my breathing finally returned to normal. I was exhausted. Her
arm went across my chest. Opening my eyes I looked at her dreamily.
Crystal gave me a small smile, and leaned closer to my face. Her fair
face was now serious. "Thank you for everything. I don't know what else I
can say except...." She smiled again. "I love you. I love you so much."
I thought I saw tears of happiness in her eyes. I know they were in
mine. "Thank you." I whispered. "And I love you so much too. I want to be
with you forever."
She leaned forward, and we kissed again, sweetly, but with enough love
to fill my entire being. When we pulled away, she said the words that
truely gave that wonderful night a perfect end.
"You will."


We slept away the rest of that night, peacefully. It is now six months
since then. Crystal and I are still together, and are still very in love
with each other. Not much has changed, we're still living in Rob's
basement, since there is no where else to go, but we've taken an active
role in helping our new community sustain us all, and be as good as it
can. Rob's been elected the leader of our little group, which is great.
He has wonderful leadership skills, and as a scientist, he can really
help us learn to live in this post-war environment. He says that in about
another six months, the radiation levels will be low enough for us to
venture out without radiation suits, to see if anyone else is out there,
to see what's left. There isn't a lot of hope among most of us that we'll
find anything, but I know better. Crystal and I knew better. We know that
it is useless to give up hope, because even when we do, it might find us
anyway. Crystal had unwittingly been my hope, and I unwittingly hers. Now
I wonder...did Crystal find me? Or is it vise versa? Both? It doesn't
really matter I guess, but it's interesting to think about. What does
matter is that we were both found, we were saved from a life of hell,
alone and lonely after the end. Crystal and I are still here, still
together, still in love. We still hope.


Thank you so much for reading my story, and being so patient with how
much time it's taken. Questions and/or comments are welcome at
hyperspiderfight@aol.com, or specialpopcorn@aol.com.