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Reelin' in Iraq
A story of Love awakening
by Vivian Darkbloom
He woke up in the dark room, for a moment imagining
himself cozily at home in Montana. But as he tried to
add up the shapes he saw, to impose the doorway he
knew against the pattern of light, the old woman
against his mother, her old wooden chair against the
familiar ones of his home, his mind reluctantly
dragged into sufficient wakefulness to realize how
many thousands of miles he was away from home.
The old woman smiled to see that he was awake, and
lovingly pressed the back of her fingers against his
cheek. Her dark hair, the old-fashioned glasses, her
wrinkled and dark-freckled olive skin, the
foreigner's features of her face made him wish to
cringe with xenophobic revulsion, had he the strength
to do so. But she must have read the expression on
his face, and withdrawing her hand, with a knowing
wisdom, spoke a sentence in their impenetrable tongue
to the girl standing behind her, about 10 years old.
The girl drew forward.
Aside from the dark hair and similar features, the
two were about as opposite as could be. One young and
thin, with large, dark curious eyes, leaning on the
shoulder of the other old and chubby, wise with the
ways of the world.
He was starting to remember. The blast. The roadway,
the people all around.
"Where's my patrol? Where is everyone? What have you
done with them?" He demanded, hoarsely.
The girl seemed to understand a little of what he was
saying. Her face was one of sadness. She simply drew
a line with her finger across her throat. The same in
any language: dead.
His feeble energy collapsed again.
He remembered the day before the patrol, receiving
the news. "Johnson's dead. I'm sorry." His sergeant
know how close the two had been. After that, setting
out, northwest of Fallujah. In spite of the news,
getting out of the bunker the mood was jovial. Smiles
played on the lips of his five companions in the hot
sunlight as they cruised the crowded street in the
armored vehicle. The gears growled as wheels gripped
the uneven surfaces. The driver, an african-american
woman he felt an occasional yearning for shifted and
plied the steering wheel, satisfied with her job.
As they drove jovially, his mind had drifted again to
Johnson, the numbingly repetitive shock of hearing
about yet another attack on American troops, another
anonymous statistic to the newspapers back home, his
buddy of ten years back now. Wondering how it had
been for him, had it been quick? Or was it minutes or
even hours of consciousness, feeling the blood
filling his lungs, gasping for breath? Thinking he
might have a chance, only to realize the fatal
hardening clutch of death was upon him. That's one
journey you can only travel alone.
No, Johnson would not come marching home, but would
arrive instead inside a giant zip-loc bag. A larger,
more opaque version of the ones used to package the
weed or hashish he and Johnson used to score every
weekend.
He hated the girl and the woman even more for what
they had done to Johnson. OK, maybe it was not them.
But the woman's son, the girl's older brother.
Madmen, lunatics, every one of them. He hated the
incomprehensible words they exchanged, the
unfathomably knowing looks.
The old woman sighed and placing her hands on her
knees in the dimly lit room, worked her way out of
the chair. One more sentence to the girl as she
waddled out of the room, and the girl took the old
woman's place in the chair.
"I take care of you," said the girl, in broken
english. "Sleep now."
The last thing he saw before his eyes shut was her
eyes, beautiful dark wells of curiosity, her
infuriatingly long black lashes.
He remembered two days before the patrol, the last he
saw Johnson still alive, the two of them performing
reconnaissance on a school that had been bombed.
He and Johnson were grappling with the question: How
did one explain to the young boy that what had once
been his arm lay in a pile of limbs in the corner?
That American Bombs had condemned him to a life of
otherness, of crippledom, that a few moments of
horrible, wrenching impact had altered his future
forever?
The worst part was that the boy was so quiet, so
uncomplaining, so accepting. He wanted the boy to
rise up shouting, demanding, screaming at the
unfairness of it all. He spoke no english, but the
translator relayed the message. "He just wants to
know, where is my arm," said the old robed man with
the turban and long grey beard.
Johnson cursed about it afterward. "Fuckin' W Bush,
more perverted than a dozen pedophiles. Look at what
he done to those children. How many lives has he
fucked up? All `cause of some playground petty
argument. Saddam insulted his daddy, so he sends in
the troops and fucks up everybody's life. Shit.
Fuckin' W bush ain't no more grown up than a 4-year
old."
Clever Sergeant, said nothing, simply glared. A mere
few months ago (another lifetime) such talk would
have been unthinkable. Disloyalty, unpatriotic. But
now, with morale crumbling, the mission dragging on,
Sergeant knew the troops needed to let off steam. He
was obligated to glare, to cling to the remains of
established order, but in his heart he knew the same
feelings of conflict, wrestled sleepless with what
grueling duty required.
"W fo' WORTHLESS!" shouted Johnson, after Sergeant
had left the room. "WORTHLESS FUCKIN' BUSH!"
Typical Johnson, voicing the frustration he himself
felt deep inside. But now Johnson was gone, an empty
silence where the cantankerous familiar voice of his
friend had once been.
And now he supposed the others who had been on patrol
with him were dead as well. His dreams of passion
with the beautiful afro-american lady-driver,
fantasized nights of sweaty rhythmic exertion and
release, were now char-broiled steak riddled with
shards of glass. He remembered bits and pieces now,
how he had been sitting in the right rear seat,
perfectly positioned to flirt with the eyes of the
beautiful black woman driving, exchanging knowingly
arched eyebrows, the sound of her lusty
almost-masculine laughter.
He remembered how he had seen the bomb, something
resembling dynamite sticks tied together with wire,
flying towards the windshield. He had ducked,
accidentally pulled the latch causing the door to
fall open, him to fall out. The blinding flash, the
thundering din, followed by the silence of his
ringing ears. Perhaps the car door had shielded him
from the blast. Some cursed miracle that had spared
him while it released his companions from this hell.
He knew that the gloriously silky-soft smooth
feminine face of the driver, a great work of
beautiful art, had been mercilessly shredded, rudely
vandalized by unfeeling flame. Obscenely graffitied,
courtesy of Nasty Worthless Fuckin' Bush and his
stupid, arrogant, childish playground bickering and
bullying.
In her last heroic act, the beautiful negro woman had
slammed on the brakes, so that when he hit the ground
the velocity did not kill him. There was her final
goodbye-kiss, a profound act of tenderness, their
final lovemaking, her foot jammed hard on the brakes
gently, caressingly, touched his body through its
jarring impact on the hard, bumpy road. He felt
himself falling once more, and darkness closed around
him and he tumbled into dreams of confusion and
decay.
________________________________________________
When he awoke, the room was filled with daylight. The
girl stood before him, holding a tray with food on
it. Weird, foreigner's food. What happened to good
ol' steak and potatoes? The kinda breakfast that
sticks to your ribs! She stood on tiptoes, to set it
on his lap. Even more infuriatingly beautiful in the
innocence of morning sunlight, God's new day.
His hunger awoke with the aroma of warm grain. The
food was good. He wasn't even sure what it was, but
it filled him in a way those army rations didn't,
quite. The girl sat, Indian-style (Persian-style) on
a mat on the floor beside his bed. Endlessly
watching, fidgeting childlike, her eyes deep pools of
secret beauty. She had an elusive quality of the ages
of time. Sometimes when he looked at her face, he saw
the contours of ancient civilizations. She seemed at
once ever so young, yet ancient and wise beyond the
years of the earth.
He tried to hate her again, but now bathed in the
warm cleansing rays of innocent sunlight he found it
difficult. His mind drifted to the time he and
Johnson had found a couple of Iraqi whores, how she
opened her moist vein of pleasure for his throbbing
desire, her above him like a stormy sky, the sounds
of pleasure in the next room from Johnson and his
girl. How when he shot his shrapnel into her abdomen
it reminded him of the feeling of firing off his
machine-gun in battle. How his trusty M-4 carbine
danced like a feather in his hands as it sprayed
harsh metal U.S. bullets, pain searing through the
greasy Al-Qaida sleazeball, tearing into the flesh of
the enemy like nails into bleeding flesh on the
cross. The sleazy whore, he imagined her moans to be
cries of agony, her nipples like the hardened tips of
bullets protruding from the soft flesh of her
dangling round boobs, hanging above him like strange
fruit swaying in the branches of the water-balloon
tree.
Nearly finished eating now, he muttered to himself,
"I wonder if these people have any coffee." The girl
re-appeared (he hadn't noticed she had gone) with a
large mug full of steaming dark liquid. Gingerly he
tasted, and instantly almost spat out the
bitter-sweet syrupy stuff. But coffee it was, and it
satisfied the need (at least, until he abruptly
reached the sandy grounds at the bottom)
When she saw him finish she grinned and held out her
hand to take the mug. Leaning forward she snatched it
and bounced away out the door. In the few seconds
that she was gone, he found himself missing her.
Damn.
She returned with a long, cream-colored robe, and for
the first time he realized he was naked. She held it
out to him. Where was his camouflage? His equipment?
His machine-gun?
He slid, rolling out of the sheets to standing,
unconsciously running his hand along the back of his
shaved neck, when he noticed the swelling in the back
of his skull. Nervously he probed with his fingers,
until he hit a tender spot that sent sparks of agony
across his field of vision. OK, better leave well
enough alone.
He realized he was standing naked in front of this
gaunt, beautiful 10-year-old girl, waiting patiently
for him to take the robe she held, her eyes
alternating between gazing at his face and glancing
down at his manhood unfolding in front of her.
Annoyed at the half-erection, he snatched the robe
and held it between them.
Again he tried to be angry, but her fawning gaze
melted his rage, and try as he might he couldn't
connect the jumper cables between her and the greasy
Al-Qaida and the soft sweet loving eyes in front of
him now.
He held out the robe in disgust. "I can't wear this,"
he said. Apparently she mistook his ethnocentric
narrow-mindedness for the technical uncertainty of
how to don the garment, and she lifted it from his
hands and circled behind him, expertly draping it
over his shoulders. As her gentle fingers smoothed
the wrinkles down his back, he felt a tingle of
affectionate yearning.
Not the kind of yearning he was accustomed to, not
the usual pelvic twitch, but something softer than
that. It was a shift within his breast, a calming of
his heartbeat. As though the egg in the nest shifted,
finally the warmth of the hen's thighs had yielded
its fruit, and ready to hatch, the shell began to
crack and crumble. That was it, a softening of his
heart. The hardened shell to be replaced by something
soft and alive.
He shook his head. He had to hate these people. his
sanity demanded it. Or did it? They were being so
kind to him (so far, at least).
She smiled up at him, and the brightness of the
innocent morning sunlight filled his soul.
His mind spun with a million questions. Who were
these people? What did they want? When were they
going to let him return to his patrol?
The mischievous warmth of her smile made all the
questions fly away like a row seagulls that had been
standing on the beach being chased by a dog.
Maybe it was his hatred of her that fanned the flames
of her affection, the impossible challenge, the
mountaintop in the distance. Whatever the cause, she
had succeeded in sinking her hooks into his fragile
heart, and ever so gradually (but unrelentingly) she
was reeling him in.
She took his hand, and led him out into the hallways,
around a corner, through another door, and he was
astonished to find himself standing on the edge of an
enormous beautiful garden, his senses flooded with
sunlight, sweet floral scents, the buzzing of
insects, and the fluttering of butterflies.
The garden was enclosed on the four sides by the
graceful arches of the home they were in, open to the
sky above. Pulling on his arm, she led him over to a
wooden bench, where the two of them sat down
together, her leaning affectionately against him. He
sensed unseen eyes on them, and thought he glimpsed
through the leaves in the other corner of the garden,
the eyes of the older woman, smiling smugly,
knowingly behind her glasses.
His mind was filled with crazy imaginings ... He
pictured the himself and the girl getting married in
a big expensive wedding, living together in a big
expensive house, her by his side as they drove their
SUV on vacation in the mountains...
He shook his head. No, he couldn't even be imagining
such things. Maybe it was something they put into the
food. Or the coffee. He tried to force his mind to
reason through the predicament. Surely, he couldn't
just attempt to escape. First, he would need to find
his things, don his grubby, grimy, scratchy, heavy
uniform in place of the comfortable, loose clean
garment he was wearing.
Then what? It was well known that the life-expectancy
of a lone American in this part of town was not long.
He sighed. Ok, so he would just have to wait.
She swung one leg from the bench, crossed over the
other knee that dug softly into his thigh,
rhythmically with the swinging.
He found his resolve to escape melting in the
sunlight, with his fascination of this feeling he had
never known before. Sure, he had had girlfriends back
home before. Everyone else did, it was expected. But
this was different, special. Just for him. It made
him feel like a celebrity.
He tried to put his finger on what was different.
Those other girls had been like something he had
owned. With the girl beside him he had a strange new
yearning to make her happy, to do everything for her,
to turn him into the queen of his life.
Sheer insanity.
________________________________________________
He had known the way things were headed when she had
leaned her elbow intentionally against his hard-on in
the afternoon sun.
Dinner had been more than he could eat, and as he lay
down in the bed to sleep, she curled up on a mat
beside him. He wondered, did she usually? Or was this
her bed? He tried to take her place and put her up on
the bed, (Whoa, where did that act of compassion come
from?) but she refused and so they lay together
separately.
Until the bombs thundered in the distance. She sat up
with a start. At her innocent age, she well knew the
twisted perversion of what a bomb could do. Boom,
Boom, in the distance, they could feel the impact
through the floor.
She climbed up under the sheets beside him, and he
felt the intense heat and trembling of her tiny body
against his naked skin. She was really scared.
Awkwardly, he tried to comfort her, caressing and
putting his arms around her, holding her. At this
point, he was too numb to be scared, too numb to feel
anything except tired of the violence. She pushed
herself against him, and the trembling eased.
Eventually the bombing ceased, but she stayed with
him, cuddled in his arms, facing away in spoon
formation.
They dozed lightly, and in the middle of the night he
woke up to find her lovingly running her finger up
and down the length of his almost painfully hardened
penis. She started to see him awake, but did not stop
running her finger, from the base to the head and
back again, lightly sending tingles up his spine with
each gesture. the mysterious huge dark orbs of her
child's eyes penetrating unblinkingly all the while.
We could be dead tomorrow, he thought. How could it
be a crime to make love tonight? And he knew it was
wrong, but he waited in vain for the voice of his
conscience to scream out for him to halt. Silence.
She turned around, and he brushed the tip down the
crack of her tiny buttocks. His finger slipped
between her legs, and he felt the dryness of her
sacred valley, so he began to gently knead her
clitoris. Startled, she moaned softly, spreading her
legs to grant him better access. With his other hand,
he ran his fingers lightly up and down her thin, flat
chest, each time when he touched her flat penny-sized
nipples, a jolt of electric ecstasy pulsed through
her body. Her moans grew in volume and intensity. She
closed her enormous eyes and relaxed her head back
onto his chest.
He kissed her sweet innocent lips, and she responded,
chasing his tongue as he ran its tip around her
mouth. The fingers of his hand in between her legs
were now dripping with delightfully slimy stickiness,
and he probed gently the hole, eliciting a gasp of
pleasure.
He felt an intense longing, desire, partnership,
friendship with this strange beautiful young girl. "I
love you," he said, wondering if he had ever
truthfully said it before to anyone. Sure, he knew
that saying I love you got girls to have sex with
him. But this time, unlike the rest, the words sprang
from a deep inner fount of emotion, of intense caring
for this exquisitely wonderful tiny person.
More than anything, he wanted to make her happy. He
ignored the hard-on, and it subsided to some extent,
but he knew it would come back. His heart raced as he
turned her around, and traced with his tongue a thin
line from the bottom of her throat, to her belly
button, down, down, down...
His mind swirled with a never-before known thrill as
his tongue engulfed her sweet smooth sexuality, the
forbidden secret honey-button, oh so sweet. She threw
back her head, legs spread, caressing his ears as the
rough surface of his tongue stimulated the flowing
juices, opened the floodgates of ecstatic pleasure.
He had read somewhere that even a girl as young as
four years old was capable of orgasm, but he had
never believed it. That is, until tonight. When her
writhing thrusts slowed to a climax, and she exploded
around his mouth, hands ripping at the stubble that
covered his scalp, there was no mistaking.
The time had come. His machine-gun had reloaded, and
stood like a grand sentry before her, harder than
ever before.
He kissed her again, smearing her juice against her
lips. She responded with passion he had never known
with a "real" woman, reaching her tiny hand down to
guide the barrel of his gun towards her waiting,
dripping, burning, aching valley of desire.
Once more he ran his hand up and down her smooth,
hairless torso, simultaneously sparking the ecstasy
of contact with her nipples and poking the tip of it
into her hole.
She gasped, and shuddered, arching her back to force
him inside of her, surrounding him with the loving
hot sliminess of her nurturing lower mouth. He felt a
ripping, and release, and she whimpered softly but
continued pushing and pulling, working him into her
like a fishhook, relentlessly reeling him in.
As they made love, it was as if every particle of
animosity between their two cultures had
disintegrated and flown away like leaves in the
breeze, leaving the sky clear as if after a newly
fallen rain. In their love, they had discovered the
language both shared, that words could never
describe. And somehow in their union, they felt
unknowingly a new hope for the human race, for the
generations on the planet, for the nations and
rulers.
As he exploded into her, they came together, and he
gave her the gift of his seed in exchange for her
nurturing, as both shared sweet secret sacred symbols
in the common tongue of sexual pleasure, the walls
and barriers of culture and values tumbled down.
Their orgasm was like a trumpet before the walls of
Jericho. His release set free a pure white dove of
freedom and equality whose wings beat powerfully the
winds of change spreading over the entire earth.
The walls of hostility dividing classes, races, and
nations crumbled to dust before the brazen defiance
of their forbidden orgasm. They dared the fates, the
destinies, the graces, the winds, the gods and
titans, the mountains. They defied the world of
division and agony, and as it receded a new one
sprang up in its place. A world, maybe imagined, but
in which they lived for the duration of their
blissful bubble, a world of equality, of plenty, of
laughter and celebration.
As if lifted in an enormous colorful hot-air balloon,
or looking back through the picture-window in a
taking-off rocketship, the walls and boundaries and
laws, rules, and morass of mores that had seemed so
overwhelming shrunk to antsize as the landscape
receded and blended into one circle of light and
life.
In their laughing, giggling, gleeful giddy bubble
they soared above all the commotion of judgment and
division, laughed refreshingly in the face of old
identities that fluttered to the ground like
untethered fetters, tattered costumes of the old
regime as they pirouetted and lept naked over the
starlit moonscape below.
________________________________________________
Days passed, he lost count of how many. He grew so
accustomed that his old world seemed now to be the
foreign one. The lump on the back of his head was
healing, and he even started to get used to the
Turkish coffee.
And there was the girl. Though it hardly seemed like
his love for her could swell to greater proportions,
every day it did. But overhanging their passion and
emotional caring was the knowledge that someday it
would need to end, soon they would come looking for
him, and eventually somebody would ask the right
questions, leading them back to him.
The ecstatic orgasms followed in the moonlight by
gentle caresses and the coziness of each others
warmth as together they watched the birds flying
across the cloudy night sky, the sunshine of daylight
warmth as she methodically moaned in pleasure,
impaled on the stiffness of his staff, drawing out
the sweetness again and again as they made love day
and night, both sensing the impending shadow of
approaching reconnaissance mission, until one day as
they were sitting together (fortunately clothed --
but holding hands) the old woman in glasses ushered
in Sergeant, along with two other uniformed and
musket-toting soldiers.
"How are you doing?" Sergeant asked.
The reply was a sigh, and with misunderstood
reluctance "Alright."
Their parting was simple, daydream-like. He gave her
a hug, and she squeezed him tighter than ever before,
and when she finally let go he was ushered through
the milling crowd of glaringly sullen onlookers into
the armored vehicle.
The last he saw of her was her enormous dark eyes, as
she sadly gazed through the curtain of dust rising
behind the vehicle, watching him being taken away.
He looked down and covered his face to conceal the
tears from the men next to him.
________________________________________________
The debriefing (the first of many) was brief.
Sergeant walked in as he was sitting in his bunker,
studied the scene, sat down opposite diagonally in an
adjacent chair. Sergeant and soldier, soldier
continued staring off into nothingness.
Sargent, seeing that the other would remain silent,
opened the conversation. "Guess they'll be sending
you back soon."
Soldier looked up blankly, eyes filled with
deep-seated confusion. He recalled the time Sergeant
had made them march in a circle chanting "Kill Osama,
Kill Al-Qaida!" Then flashed the image of the
beautiful people who fed him, who loved him.
The gun that had once danced as a feather in the
palms of his hands lay before him on the stern metal
coffee table. He picked it up and held it, in his
arms, sensing the familiarity. But even without
ammunition, its cumbersome heaviness overwhelmed him.
His arms grew weary, sagged with the burden, and he
allowed gravity to defeat his grasp on it as he
gently set it back on the table.
"I can't kill these people," he said simply.
"Now let me ask you straight," said the sergeant.
"Did they use any force of manipulation or torture to
coerce you or break down your willpower?"
He smiled. "No sir. They took good care of me."
"You're sure about that."
"Yes sir."
"Alright then." Sergeant stood up again. "I ain't
gonna try and pry it out of you, `cause when you get
back there'll be a dozen head-shrinkers to do that.
So I guess I'll leave you to your contemplations."
"Yes sir. Thank you sir."
________________________________________________
Sooner than he imagined possible, he found himself
high in the sky on an airplane, staring out the
too-tiny round plastic window down at the houses
below, wishing her in the empty seat beside him,
studying the landscape, the palaces and gardens,
wondering which one was hers, until all gradually
receded and vanished behind him to be replaced by the
monotonously dull gray expanse, and finally the
ocean.
Even without her, he felt his heart lighter than ever
before, a dove in flight, soaring beyond the rainbow
bridge to eternal peace bliss and harmony.
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