(edited by Kenji Sato...many thanks!)
Fiona rushed across the deserted early morning highway to the waiting pickup truck. "Bill!?"
"Yes Fi... it is me."
"Jeez, Bill..."
"Get in, Fi. I don't want some late for work commuter hitting you... besides it must be cold." Bill held back saying 'considering how you are dressed.'
As Fiona had run across the road, Bill could clearly see that all she had on were some plaid boxer shorts and a ratty old wool shirt with most of the buttons missing. Fiona was bare legged and barefoot, and the foothills of the Green Mountains were damn chilly this time of year at dawn. Fiona was pretty flat chested, but her nipples, erect from the cold, almost poked through the threadbare shirt... causing a stiffening in Bill's crotch.
Bill was silent as Fiona settled into the passenger seat. Upon further visual assessment of her, his boner withered. He was aghast at her appearance. Her eyes were bloodshot, her hair a tangle--like she had been almost drowned in a mucky pond. Her nose was running.
"Oh shit, excuse me, Bill--" Fiona exited the truck in the nick of time... vomiting and then her body was wracked with dry heaves.
"Sorry," and Fiona rushed to the nearby underbrush to relieve herself--lowering the boxer shorts just in time...
"Bill! Bill!"
"Yes, Fi?"
"Could you come here, please...".
"What is the matter, Fi?"
"Ohh...well...Bill, I just shit myself...had to wipe myself with the old boxers."
"Okay, hold on..."
Bill trampled through the brush carrying a jerry can full of water and some towels and an old pair of jeans.
"Keep this stuff in the truck just in case."
He could see Fiona several feet away from the soiled boxers...
She was standing in a small clearing bathed in the first rays of the dawn that poked through the gaps in the forest canopy.
Fiona's posture was not shy, not bold, not seductive...she was just there,... like a tree is just there...
"Fi...with your permission, I will clean you up."
Fi Fiona simply nodded. Unasked, she removed her shirt...
Bill winced at the sight. There were bite marks on her chest, bruises and scratches on her torso. Once lean and muscular, but now a bit flaccid like an athlete that had not trained for months; yet, still had some residual muscle tone.
She held herself as one who needed all her concentration to remain upright.
"Fi, Fi? You can sit on that stump if you're more comfortable..."
Fiona turned, forced herself to focus on the stump, nodded, and shuffled over to the stump.
"Bill, I wanted to meet... you... but, not like this..."
"Fi, don't fret. Sorry, this water is cold," as he poured a bit on a towel and started to wash her upper body. A body for which he had felt so much lust for... for so long... now he had washed all that away, as he took care of her immediate physical needs.
"Bill," Fiona sobbed, "I am so fucked up."
"Fi, we can talk after you're cleaned up and in a warm, safe place. Fi, can you stand, so I can wash the rest of you."
Silently, Fiona rose, but all she could do was bend over the stump. Bill noted that her anus was oozing blood, semen, and shit; her asscheeks were bruised; and her anus lacerated--Fiona winced as he cleaned her.
"Oh, Fi..." Bill lamented softly, as a tear trickled down his cheek.
"Okay Fi, turn around." Bill tried to sound matter of fact.
Fiona had her eyes closed as she sat on the stump. She spread her legs and leaned back.
Bill's heart sank.
Fiona's vagina was swollen, her clit bit and bleeding. Her previously virginal channel--now wide open, red and swollen. Her dip in that pond had removed most of the blood and semen.
He was left to clean up the clotted blood and secretions.
"Bill... I feel... like... shit."
"Let me get you home. Put these on. I just have to make a call, and we can get you to my place in the hills."
"Okay, Bill." Fiona got into Bill's old jeans, secured with a rope around Fiona's narrow waist. The legs were no problem--Bill was actually a bit shorter than Fiona. Wool socks and a spare shirt from the truck completed her wardrobe.
Fiona slept as Bill drove to his studio/workshop twenty minutes down the road. Bill's property included acres of woodland and pasture. Set closer to the main highway, the original workshop now also housed Bill's art studio, where he painted portraits and landscapes.
Long retired from his college jobs, Bill kept busy with some forestry work. Small jobs cutting up fallen trees. Some were destined to be firewood; but the 'good wood' he could saw into planks and dry them until they were suitable for custom furniture.
Because he might work late into the day and not wishing to traverse mountain roads at night for the one hour drive to his home in Massachusetts, Bill had set up rough but comfortable living quarters attached to his workshop/studio. A small kitchen, a bed, and a bath with a solar hot water shower.
When they arrived at Bill's property, he had to help Fiona out out of the truck. He noted that the jeans he had given her were newly stained from secretions from her wounds... both vaginal and anal.
"God damn. I will kill whoever did this to Fi." he thought. More immediately, he hoped that his call to his friend, the local healer, would be answered. The woman was out when he called, and cell service was uncertain in the mountains; yet, he hoped that she would be on her way to his place even though she had not replied to his text.
Bill had called this healer rather than a conventional doctor because he sensed that the circumstances were murky. Her mind was not clear... whether from drugs or trauma...she would not respond well to the legal requirement that an M.D. had to follow.
Meg Strongbow was a traditional healer... descended from the Abennaki whose land this was...
The Abennaki did not follow any DNA trail to prove their legitimacy. If spiritually you were Abennaki... that was good enough for the tribe. It was how you lived, what you believed that was important--not some blood test.
As though she had just arrived through the spirit world, Meg was at his door, just as he settled Fi Fiona on a chair in his kitchen. Indeed, she had probably hitched a ride from a friend; but nevertheless, she had arrived silently and properly Halloed the house before approaching. Bill opened the door and beckoned her to enter.
Meg saw right through him to Fiona. "Oh you poor wounded bird," she softly cooed, so as not to startle the wounded and still groggy girl.
Fiona opened her eyes and turned to face the voice. Through slitted eyes, she could make out a well past middle-aged woman squatting before her, gazing into her--Fiona could feel herself being examined. Here, she thought, is one of the 'wise women' the fairy tales speak of. Dressed in an old UVM sweatshirt that covered braless heavy pendulous breasts, and a multi-colored ankle length skirt, much faded from years of use; clean, if well faded. She was above average height as far as Fiona could tell.
Meg straightened to stand and asked Fiona if she would allow Meg to touch her. Fiona was somewhat surprised at how strong and lean Meg was; despite her enormous breasts, her hips were narrow, her belly round, but not saggy, her feet bare and dusty.
Nodding her assent, Fiona first felt Meg's stubby, but strong finger touch her head.
"Girl, you need a good washing," said Meg, matter of factly.
Bill volunteered, "I think she tried washing in a stagnant pond."
Meg gave Bill the 'WTF do you think I am stupid and blind' look.
Bill... bowed his head, "Okay, I will be quiet."
Meg smiled, "I know you can't help it, Bill. Those who have balls speak before they are asked."
Meg inquired, "So much going on in there, girl--what IS your name?"
"My name is Fiona... but friends call me Fi."
Meg said, "I will call you Fiona... until you decide if I am a friend, or not. Fiona... I feel so much going on in there--all of it confused. Your mind has been messed with in many ways. Your body... I know the plants, herbs, and sweat baths can heal... when do you bleed next?"