Gerre put the phone back in its holder and headed to his SUV. His niece had just called; she asked if she could visit for the evening. That was no problem. Since he started the consulting contract in this city, he loved having her around to share dinner, talk with, and generally spend time together. The guarded tone in her voice bothered him. The usual laugh or uplifting tone was muted. That missing element was more than enough to get him moving.
The college was less than 15 minutes from his townhouse. As Gerre pulled into the parking lot by the sorority house, he took in the usual people movement around the campus. He always took care to drive slower than usual for two reasons – some dweeb, with no attention to their own reality or surroundings, and invariably talking with friends, would walk out into the street. The second was the better reason; the sheer volume of fine pussy worth looking at. The numbers of women in tight jeans, shorts, or short dresses on a college campus purely pleased his male spirit. He counted himself fortunate he had all his senses, and especially his eyesight while 'skirt watching and nipple counting' in the female population.
"Yer gonna get whiplash trying to see 'em all, Gerre!" kidded his niece Darlene as she walked up to the SUV and kissed him quickly.
"Ah, yep... probably, true," answered Gerre, "but I'll damn sure be happy while recovering. You ready to go?"
Darlene indicated she was. As she put her leather book bag in the back seat and started to enter the front, he noticed she was favoring her left side. Years in the military and playing sports had taught him how to watch people's motions. The issue of her side he'd pursue back at his townhouse. He continued with light conversation and bad driver jokes as they maneuvered through the usual rush hour traffic on the return trip.
With a light dinner in the works, Gerre poured his niece a glass of wine and asked how things were since he had last seen her a month ago. He was looking her over, head to feet, front and back, as he always did. He'd decided years ago she was truly beautiful. Here they'd spent time together and learned to know each other as adults, not uncle and niece. He was more convinced his niece was a well-built, intelligent, stunning little package. She was about 5-4, maybe 105 pounds; his guess was probably a full 34-cup, a tight waist and superb ass end with near perfect legs. She was probably a 32 across her hips. Mother Nature had certainly said, "Bless thee my child, and BLESS THEE some more in creating this particular woman-child. She's a Man-killer to the maximum, Gerre pondered as he poured more wine.
"Now, what did you want to talk about", asked Gerre as he replenished the wine in her glass after dinner. "I know it can't be about my underwhelming methods of preparing a baked potato."
"Remember what you told me about no topics being taboo with you," responded his niece, "and you'd always respect my privacy, no matter what you heard or knew?"
"Certainly I do," said Gerre. "What I said was that this place, the things you share with me personal or otherwise, and anything we talk about or do, stays right here. In no manner does anything said, done, or learned here, leave here – especially to go anywhere near the 'Parental Control Units' as you so fondly call your parents. But... as long as your physical safety wasn't an issue," Gerre added, ' that I'd decide who to contact."
"Okay," said Darleen, " then I need to show you something, and get your opinion on what to do. Just don't go all spastic and freaky on me."
"So, show me; I promise to not be any more horny, bizarre, spastic, or outrageous than I usually prove myself be!"
Darlene giggled a little, then, as Gerre watched, his niece slowly removed her sweater over her head, leaving just a light blouse covering her chest. He knew immediately she was hurt by the slow, deliberate way she moved. He continued to watch as she stood next to him, and then using her fingers, she lifted the bottom edge of her blouse up to just below the bottom curve of her breasts. Along her left side, just under the larger part of her breast, heading all the way down her side, were angry red scratch marks that were obviously painful.
"How, or where, did you get these war wounds, " asked Gerre, "and how long ago?"
"3 days ago, playing touch football outside the sorority house," said Darlene. "Some asshole from the frat house next door was wearing a metal watch band. He pulled me down with him as he fell and it raked my side. I punched him in the nuts cuz it hurt so bad right then."
Gerre continued to look at the angry red welts down his niece's side. Nothing really serious in what that he could see on his niece's body. There were some deep scratch marks that needed cleaning up. He had herbal medicine materials to handle the scratches, and a body oil to rub in to the raw skin, but he had to get her agreement to let him take care of her. It was necessary that she told him it was okay before he would touch her.
"Not too terrible, at least what I can see," said Gerre, "how far down does the scrape mark go?"
"It goes down to the point of my hip," his niece replied as she pointed with her hand, " these places really hurt the worst." As she was saying this, she pointed to the places just below her breast, and just where the waistband for her jeans was located.
"Ok, here's the deal, I can help ease the burning and the pain in the scrape marks, but you have to let me do it my way. So, I have a question for you," Gerre continued slowly, "do you trust me that what I do is in always your best interests?"
"Yes, always...no doubts," said his niece, "so what's the question?"
"Do you trust me enough to let me see you without your blouse on," said her uncle, "or pull it up enough that I can work on your side and not have to fight holding it away from your skin. That means I get to do the 'really happy dirty old man thing and see all of your boobs without straining myself!"
Darlene laughed, and then winced with a twinge of pain "I really don't care what you see, how much you see, or for how long. I trust you enough to know you'll do what I need.." She was looking up at her uncle's face, and into his eyes as she unbuttoned her blouse. She took it off and folded it before placing it on the back of the sofa chair. She turned her back to him for a moment, and turned back around to face her uncle. She wondered what he was thinking as she stood there watching her, taking all of her into his eyes. The warm smile on his face told her he was very pleased with the view before him.
"Thank you for letting me see you," said her uncle. Gerre knew it took some guts and courage for his niece to do what she just did. They had become close compatriots in the past 8 months since he moved into the area. He also knew she trusted him more than anyone else in the family. Now, she was standing before him, nude from the waist up, with a huge red streak of scratch marks down her side. He had to be very careful in how he handled this to make her feel this was the right thing for her to do.
"A small comment, and then I'll start on your side," said Gerre, "I knew I was right. You're absolutely stunning dressed, but even more so undressed. If I start drooling and slobbering on myself, just scratch me behind the left ear every now and then."