In the barracks Diesel lay quietly and stared at the ceiling. The snores of his fellow soldiers permeated his consciousness only slightly. He was used to the sound, it was like silence to him now. He had forgone a shower. His hand was shoved into his pants, caressing the length of his shaft, which felt soft, had lost its damp stickiness. He removed his hand from his pants, put his fingertips to his nose. As he had hoped, her scent was still there. He had planned on staying away from the base as long as possible, yet after he left Madison, he hadn't wanted to be alone, even if that company meant enduring the harsh presence of his peers.
She had ended their third round of feverish lovemaking quickly after realizing that she had another appointment in ten minutes. "The room smells of us," she had laughed, laying her head on his sweat dampened shoulder. "I haven't been fucked like that in...ever." After the intensity of it all, Diesel hadn't said much, reverting almost instantly back to his introverted quiet self as he dressed. He had stood by the door, his hand on the knob, watching her dress, forgoing the knee highs since they had been run during the course of the afternoon's activities. "You have my card," she'd said, blindly reapplying her shiny sheer lip gloss. "Call me before you shove out." Diesel had left wordlessly, the elevator ride downstairs allowing time for the gravity of what had just happened to sink in. He supposed it wasn't that big of a deal, yet everything seemed to matter a bit more than it should have.
In his car he had seared his flesh on the black leather seat, yet he had barely flinched. He'd felt dazed, drunk. How he ended up at the base was beyond him but he had decided that since his subconscious had brought him there he'd better stay. Now he was anything but tired, could seemingly feel the bulge of her business card in his pocket, however imagined the bulge was. In the morning he was supposed to meet with his sergeant, take Dr. Attard's clean bill of mental health to the office just at the edge of the base. It would be hard for him not to keep on through the gates when he went there. But where would he go? This was a lifetime away from Georgiana. He had no one to go to, no one to call. But her.
Diesel coughed suddenly, a nagging phlegm laced act that had been born of the sands of Iraq. He didn't have the mental stability to admit what this could imply. This thought led to that of Dr. Attard's diagnosis. She hadn't wanted to give him a clean bill, said he needed many more sessions, had some deep rooted issues probably, things she felt bad for not delving into as deeply as his dick had explored her. But that couldn't be helped. The snores seemed to stop suddenly, and just as suddenly Diesel was asleep, he had not slept in months.
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In the heat of his departure they had forgotten their plan to sell the ring. She didn't need the money, but she was sure that Diesel could have used it. She had the nagging feeling that he wouldn't have taken it though, probably would have considered it charity and become hostile, offended. She knew his type well. She simply didn't know how to repay him for this feeling, she loved this feeling, the one every woman gets after a good round of sweaty, hard fucking. She felt satisfied, could feel the tickle of the spent orgasm still in her depths. Diesel had done for her what no other man had ever been able, she had come while he fucked her, a smashing, mind blasting orgasm that had made her fingers numb and set her mind ablaze with nothing, bright, flashing nothing. She wanted to see him again. She hadn't yet admitted that. In her large plush feather bed, she felt alone, dissatisfied. She needed his presence, to feel his warmth, smell the manliness that emanated from every pore the man possessed.
"Shit, he leaves tomorrow night," she said to herself. She picked up the phone, then put it down, afraid of what she was contemplating doing. She sat up, let the silk sheets fall way from her, revealing her breasts, bruised and tender from the severity and roughness of Diesel, a roughness she had never known she craved. She imagined him now, his broad sculpted chest, scarred from the blows of his life, the way his narrow hips tapered into his groin, where his powerful manhood stood like an entity of it's own, smooth, beautiful, with its purplish and blue veins standing out like graffiti. The feel of it inside her was too much for her to relive. Before she knew what she was doing, her hand was trailing down to her bare pussy, still slightly sore and swollen. She began rubbing in a circular motion, her mind playing down the image of Diesel as he thrust into her, again and again, his gaze never leaving hers, a vein playing dangerously in his temple, his teeth clenched. As she came of her own accord this time, it all became very clear. She couldn't help herself, she had to do it, there was no other way. She rolled over onto her stomach as the last tremors of her climax ebbed a wave of spasms through her body. She pulled her briefcase off of her bedside table, opened her patient profile book, she found Diesel's name quickly, and did what she had to even quicker.
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Diesel laced up his combat boots, black and deeply shined with a mix of his spit and a polish concoction he had created and swore by since he'd been issued his first pair of boots. He left his footlocker and bag near his bunk, everyone who remained in the barracks right now were deathly afraid of him, and wouldn't think of touching his things. He put the file from Madison under his arm, and began his trek to the office. The sergeant greeted him with a look he couldn't discern right off, yet it was not pleasant, Diesel knew that much. Diesel stood at attention before the sergeant's desk before the man barked, "at ease."
"Yes Sir First Sergeant Ford, sir!" Diesel barked before taking a seat before the Sergeant's desk. He placed the manila folder containing Madison's recommendation on the desk, sat back, waiting for the man to peruse it, and give him clearance to ship out to Germany that night.
"What's that?" Sergeant Ford asked, looking cryptically at the envelope.
"It's my clearance, I guess you would call it, from the therapist."
"Clearance, from the therapist? That makes no sense, because clearance would imply that she gave you the ok on the mental health screening."
"I know, she did! It's in that folder, on her letter head."
"Well, either you got a forgery or she's a nut job because she called the base last night and left a message that I needed to call her back, that it was urgent. Do you know what was so urgent?"