Thank you for reading my story, I hope that you enjoy it. Love Mica xx, Yorkshire England.
Please note that I am a British female, and I write in British English and vernacular, so for me a fanny is the correct term for female genitalia, a pussy is a pet cat, and the ass is a bum or arse.
I apologise for any typo errors in my story - I edit these myself, and I'm not perfect...
This is a continuation of my Worlds End series, reading the first stories will give useful context.
It had been over three years since the incident that pretty much brought about the end of the world. We were a small community inside an old Government Nuclear Bunker. Myself and my two nieces Alice and Amanda, and our children, Harriet and Rebecca the twins, and Geraldine by myself and Alice, and Hope and Charity by myself and Amanda. Also with us were Natalie and Joe and our children Natasha and George, also twins. Finally we had Mary and Martin and My twins with Mary, Elspeth and Christina.
We couldn't be one hundred percent sure about paternity with Elspeth and Christina, but I had shagged her for a few weeks before Martin had, it was pretty unlikely that he had impregnated his sister, not that it would have mattered if he had, rules like incest died when the asteroid hit Europe. Also, I did seem to father twins.
"Adam," Joe said as we sat around after dinner, a dinner of venison stew. We had decided that our home killed venison was better stewed, it wasn't that tender. We thought it was probably down to how we butchered it, but we had no knowledge between us of how to kill and prepare an animal, we just made it up as we went along. At least it was protein. Our attempts at growing vegetables hadn't been a success, mice and rabbits pretty much decimated everything we tried to grow.
"Yes Joe," I answered.
"Martin and I were thinking that we might go on a reccy, you know, see what is out there. One to drive and one to literally ride shotgun."
"Oh?"
"Yes, see if there are any more survivors."
"Okay. Your call, I have to say I am not relishing the idea."
"No, but, well, we are a bit thin on the ground, especially DNA wise, and well, if we want the children to have a future, I suspect that we need to find more people."
"What are you planning then?"
"We take a land rover out of the tunnel door, and drive more around the countryside than go towards the towns, see if we can find any signs of other survivors."
"And if you do?"
"We will try and make contact without violence."
"And then?"
"Well, that is the question, do we join them, or do they join us?"
"Okay, but I think that is a decision that we all need to make, and until that decision is made, we don't let them know where we are. That is assuming that you make contact."
It was decided that they would go out early the next morning. The clouds were full and hopefully the rain, and the low air pressure should mask the sounds of the land rover. We went down that evening and prepared a land rover, primarily ensuring that it started, that it had plenty of fuel, and that we had a number of loaded guns and crossbows.
Martin and Joe left early in the morning. I ensured that their tyre tracks were as obscured as possible and also pulled the wire mesh fence back across the exit to the road. I then closed and secured the vehicle door, and had a shower in the wet room by the door. Martin and Joe couldn't get back in that way after I secured it from inside, but if necessary they could come in via the front entrance where we would see them on CCTV. We had agreed an 'okay' hand signal, as well as a 'not okay' signal.
It was a stressful day. They were gone for nearly twelve hours, just after dawn until just before dusk. I was watching the CCTV when I saw Martin waving his hands at the edge of the field with the 'okay' I went down and opened the vehicle door, the Land rover drove in. Amanda went to let Martin in via the bookcase.
"I've already done the fence and hidden the tracks," Joe said, "I did it whilst Martin was coming to signal you."
"What did you find? I asked."
"Let's all sit in the lounge, then I can tell you all together, save me repeating it."
We went up and the girls were already in the lounge, coffees made for the explorers.
"There is a community about eight miles into the dales," Joe said. "We spotted their smoke and so parked up and walked, that way they wouldn't know that we had a vehicle."
"How many are there?" Alice asked.
"Okay, well, as best as we could tell, they are around fifteen adults and five children. They are living as couples, we don't know if they are siblings or not. They hid out in the catacombs under their parish church, and have lived on the tinned food and dried pasta that they scavenged and then fruit that grew and some deer and wild bore that they managed to trap and kill."
"What are your thoughts?" Amanda asked.
"They seem harmless and very wary. They haven't seen anyone else roaming around for over a year. They have been coming and going outside, and no one has suffered any ill effects. They too were wary of the atmosphere at first, but after a year, with needs being what they were, they just had to come and go as they needed."
"Why did you say 'as best you could tell' when Adam asked you for their numbers." Natalie asked.
"If I had been them, I would have kept at least one or two people hidden with weapons if necessary, being the countryside, they would have found shotguns. Joe and I talked about it on the way back and decided that is what we would have done. We doubted that they could have survived this long without some form of self-preservation tactics."
"What did you tell them about us?"
"Just that we were a small community that kept ourselves to ourselves. I didn't tell them where we were, nor exactly how many of us there were."
"Okay." I said, "well, obviously we could accommodate them, the question is should we, and do we want to?"
There was silence for a few minutes and then Alice spoke up, "I think that I should go with Martin or Joe, and talk to them. Tell them about our situation, how we live, but not details of the bunker. Say that they could join us, but that we are not changing our way of life for newcomers, that they would have to follow our lead, our way of life."
"How were they dressed Martin?" I asked.
"Old and tattered clothes, but they are living under a church, they don't have the warmth that we have."
"Okay. Let's take a vote on Alice's suggestion. All those in favour raise your right hand."
It was unanimous, and we decided that Alice and Joe should go the next morning, Alice driving and Martin riding shotgun. This time they would stop and park much nearer the community. It was a fitful night for me, I was worried for Alice, and to a degree Joe also. I didn't want to risk their lives. We cuddled but did not have sex, I really didn't feel like it and to be honest, neither did Alice or Amanda, and by the sounds, no one else in the bunker did either.
They left at dawn and again I tidied up behind them, masking as much as possible the traces of the vehicle and the exit onto the road. They were back early afternoon. Alice was walking across the field at the front of the house, it used to be a lawn, but was now just a field, but she wasn't alone, she had another woman with her.
Alice carried on walking up to the house, talking with the other woman the whole way. I grabbed a couple of crossbows and opened up and greeted them at the house front door.
"Adam, this is Sophie," Alice said. "Joe is waiting down the drive, Sophie wants to talk with you."
"Okay," I said, "let's talk."
"There are more of us than you why should we adopt your rules?" Sophie said.
"Because this is our sanctuary, our rules. You would be welcome to join us if you adopt our rules, they have worked exceedingly well for us and have enabled us to be safe, secure, healthy and manage the resources that we have available."
"What rules do you have?"
"One, If you come to live here, you can't leave because we do not want anyone to know about us, that is the prime security rule."
"And if we do want to leave, what can you do about it?"
I tapped the crossbow. "Whatever is required to protect the safety and security of the larger group."