It's getting warmer. If it keeps up it might even break the zero mark today, I thought, as I entered the key code for the big blast door.
I didn't know what had caused it to happen, but daily evidence was always there - gray snow in August; a constant "dirtiness" on everything; giant salt-water lakes hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean. Whatever had caused the change had happened 22 years earlier and had been catastrophic. The Yellowstone Caldera, the Hawaiian Islands, hell, the entire Yucatan peninsula all gone. Millions of people killed in huge volcanic eruptions. Massive tsunamis decimated millions more. The continual winter, caused by the ash and dust, had just about wiped out everything else.
Not my problem, I thought for the thousandth time, as the door swung open on its huge hinges.
It had felt good to get out and hunt. Two days of being around tears and sad faces was as much as I could take. Now that I was The CO, I was going to put a stop to it and claim my rightful place. Tonight.
I mean, he's dead... nothing we can do about it, is there? I mused as the huge door swung open wide enough to drive three trucks through. That is if trucks still ran. It was plenty wide enough for my horse drawn sledge on which rode the gutted carcass of the elk I has shot.
After stopping long enough to enter the code to close the blast door, I led my horse to the stable area, unloaded the elk carcass and went down the steps to the living area where my mother and sisters waited. Yeah, Dear Ole Mom, but not for much longer, I ruminated as I felt myself getting hard from the thought of her.
I knew that dealing with the repercussions of all that had happened had been difficult for my mother. She had been born and educated before it occurred so it had been much more traumatic for her.
Nevertheless, in reality, my mother was one of the very luck few who had survived. She had been the daughter of the Commanding Officer or CO of this place. During the years when there were still enough starving people to riot and later, when there were the roving bands of savages, she had been protected and safe. Yeah, safe and sound with Daddy, I sneered to myself.
I put my things in the storage room and went down the hall to the living area. Taking a fresh jug of Dad's – no, I immediately corrected myself – Bob's corn liquor I went and sat down in the kitchen and proceeded to take several big swallows from the jug. The liquor was very potent and made me more relaxed than I had felt since Dad – no, damn it – Bob died two days ago. I figured that if a few swallows were good a few more would be better. Then I had several more. By the time my mother entered the kitchen to prepare lunch I was drunk.
"My God, Peter just what do you think you're doing? Put that jug away and go to your room until you sleep it off, young man," my mother scolded.
I looked at her through gimlet eyes and said nothing. At twenty, I was a several inches taller than my mother, but she was still a statuesque woman. Not as thin as my sister, my mother had a lush figure and beautiful long auburn hair that went well with her light complexion and green eyes.
She couldn't have picked a worse time to start her usual ravings. The alcohol in my system had released the inhibitions that had kept my anger in check. Anger at my "father" and mother. Anger that had been brewing for the last three days.
Then she spoke the fateful words, "What would your father say!"
I leapt from my chair and screamed "Don't you dare call him my father again." Completely overcome by my anger, I seethed, "He told me, damn it. I talked to him for hour's before he died, remember? He told me everything!"
My mother let out a slight gasp, turned deathly pale and meekly asked, "what exactly did he tell you?"
Embolden by her change of demeanor, I pushed my mother against the kitchen wall, holding her there with hands on each of her shoulders. "He told me everything. He told me that my real father was your own Daddy. That you were in your Daddy's bed the day after your own mother died! He told me that after dear old Dad, you stayed in The CO's bed, only it was with dear ol' brother Bob now, wasn't it?"
"And now Maggie," I said, using my mother's given name for the first time in my life, "you're still going to be in The CO's bed." Grabbing my mother's face with my hand, I stuck my face directly in front of hers and growled "And who is The CO now, Maggie?"
"You are" Maggie murmured while keeping her eyes lowered. "And what are you?" I snarled. "I'm one of The...The... CO's women. One of your women" she stuttered, even more quietly.
Driven by my rising lust, I moved my face the remaining few inches and deeply kissed Maggie's lips as my hand moved downward from her chin to fondle one of her full round breasts. Surprisingly, Maggie didn't resist.
Still drunk enough to want to elicit some form of a fight, I moved my hand further downward and cupped her sex through the folds of her dress and said "Good. Have Megan fix lunch. You and I are going into the bedroom so that you can show me that you truly believe what you just said!"