You ride a motorbike, but you drive a sidecar rig. I'd taken a long-cut, away from major highways and primary roads in California, to get to a nice place I knew of. I was about half-way there when things kinda got strange.
I was about an hour outside of Barstow, California, on what was rapidly becoming a joke of a road. The guy at the service station had said that a street bike could make it to Vegas by this back road, but the edges of the pavement had crumbled well toward the center line, and there were more potholes that road surface.
I rested at the crest of a low rise, and stowed my helmet in the under-seat storage, choosing to put on a brim-hat for sun protection, as the temperature was well over 100 deg. and still rising.
I idly scanned the desert surface with my binoculars, looking for interesting rock formations in the distance, and maybe a bird, when I chanced to see a black speck moving. Since nothing else was moving, I scanned back, and saw the black speck again. I couldn't make out details in the heat shimmer, except that it was doing a stop-and-go motion, out at the long range of my optics.
Saying, "Oh, shit," I looked ahead and saw a turnoff about a hundred feet ahead. My rig was a Suzuki Burgman 650, which is a big, powerful maxi-scooter, with a sidecar rig, but NOT suited for off-road travel at all. Hard-packed gravel and hard-pan dirt were its limits, but I had to try. I scanned again, and the black dot wasn't moving at all. I took a careful compass bearing, and did a reference on my GPS, and started down the packed-dirt trail. I moved slowly and carefully, mentally noting where I could and couldn't go on the way back.
I got to within a couple of hundred feet of the speck, now revealed as a prone human figure, maneuvered the scooter rig back the way I came, and started off on foot, carrying basic supplies and lots of water.
I reached the figure in about half-an-hour, finding what' I'd hoped I wouldn't. It was a short-haired guy, dressed in a leather riding suit, complete with riding boots, but no hat. He was flopped forward, hands stretched out, breathing shallow, with bright red skin, and not sweating at all. I diagnosed severe heat exhaustion, and set to work.
I pulled out one of my liter bottles of water, and gently poured some liquid into his mouth. There was a gurgle, and then a convulsive swallow. I fed the rest of the bottle to him as rapidly as I could. I heard a raspy voice say, 'No ... throw up," so I said, as plainly as I could, "It's an old wives tale. You're severely dehydrated, and you stopped sweating. Drink until you slosh. Then drink some more."
Next came the hard part. We couldn't stay there, because the heat and dry air would pull the water back out faster than he could replace it. So I had to hoist him up, over my middle-aged shoulder, and slowly walk back to the bike. I had to rest twice, and each time, I got him to drink more.
We reached the bike and I set out a couple of mattress pads, and then rapidly set up a big space-blanket with rocks on the ends, tying it to the scooter. I had to get him—and me—out of the mid-day sun, into shade. I kept pressing water on him, and then started to pull his riding suit off, thinking to replace it with my spare cotton clothes.
He kept muttering in a dry, raspy voice, "No, no," as I pulled off his boots and started dragging the bottom half of his riding suit off, when I finally realized what the problem was ... since 'HE' was a 'SHE'.
I didn't hesitate, and I grabbed her head and made her look directly at me. I clearly said, "No force-fuck. Listen to me. No rape! No strings, no conditions, no fucking, no blackmail. No force! But, I've got to get you out of these hot leathers and into lightweight clothes, which have to be mine. Got that?"
My rescued damsel-in-distress somehow managed to smile a little, as she whispered, "Ok, do it. You can look if you want."
So I looked as I skinned her out of her off-road riding leathers, including her crusty panties and sports bra, and into my socks, pants, long-sleeve denim shirt. I told her that I looked. I made up a pillow for her out of my spare blanket and I made her drink and drink.
Finally, she told me she had to piss. This was good, and I tried to give her some privacy, on the other side of the space-blanket tarp, but she called out that she couldn't balance. So I helped her out of the cotton polyester pants, and, braced against me, she squatted and urinated. I came out very dark yellow, and stunk. She wiped with my spare tissues, and I helped her into the trousers again, and got her to drink even more.
Never go into the desert without plenty of water, and a means for shade. Figure how much you can carry, and then take twice as much.
As the first hour in the tent wore on, I simply asked, "Who?"
She looked down, and then back up, meeting my eyes. "I'm Elizabeth Prescott. Call me Liz. I'm a lesbian. If you call me Liz the Lez, I'll break your nose"
I thought this over for a couple of seconds, and answered, "Ok. I'm Tom Cattus, and I'm straight. Now that we have the important stuff figured out, tell me how you got out here, up to the time I showed up."
I won't go into a long boring explanation. Sufficient to day she had a longish affair with a dominant and possessive woman in Barstow. So, when Elizabeth said she was going away, said lover promised she would never have another partner. Liz had an old dirt bike, and took off on the back roads out of town, and things started going wrong about an hour out. Loosing oil. Battery dying. Strange noises from the engine. After a few minutes, the engine seized.
She had to abandon the bike. Then she did what most city-folks with no desert experience did—she decided to try to walk out, during the day. She had no hat and no signal mirror. Her GPS was dead, with no power, and she had no compass. She made a good 8 miles, over rough, no-road terrain. She found her liquids were contaminated with bleach.
She started hallucinating and falling about an hour before I found her.
I said, "Probably another hour or so, and you'd have been in heat-stroke territory, and dead by tomorrow." I added, "It sounds like your lover was one of those folks who decided, if she couldn't have you for herself, no one would. Guys do this, too, you know."
In the early afternoon, I said, "I think one of us ought to look at your feet, your scrapes and where you were chafed. You or me?"
Trying to sit up, she fall back, and wanly smiled, saying, "You!"
I pulled off the socks she wore, and attended to her blisters and chaffed feet, and her hands, using more water, antiseptic cream and big Band-Aids from my first-aid kit. Then I looked pointedly at her waist and raised my eyebrow.
She grinned a little, and nodded, as I pulled her borrowed trousers down, exposing her bare skin. She said, "Go ahead and look. I trust you."
Her hips were clean, only a little red where her belt had chafed. But parts of her crotch were red and raw ... which I could see clearly, because her pussy was shaved clean and smooth.
Looking alternately at her pussy and her face—to check for signs of panic and fear—I cleaned the raw spots with a little wound cleanser and water, and then patted the skin dry, and applied some cream. I looked back at her face, as she said, "Keep going. I know you like it."
"Tease," I muttered, as I attended to her raw spots. Then I raised the big question.