The Devil's Triangle
By: Lorraine B.
© 2004 Lorraine Bank
We have all heard about the mysterious disappearances of
people, ships and aircraft in this area called the Bermuda Triangle or the
Devil's Triangle for those that believe in the demon. This is an area between Florida,
the Bahamas, and Cuba where strange things and occurrences tend to happen such
as ship, plane and person disappearances. Some mariners say when you see a
strangely colored dense fog and the magnetic compass readings go bizarre, it's
time to turn about and sail away at full speed, if you can. There are many
scientific explanations to this phenomena but are they true? What would happen
if you escaped from the clutches of the phenomena? Let us see as this story
progresses.
A neon purple hull with yellow lightening bolts and a white
superstructure, ninety-six feet of sleek ocean going racing boat had just
pulled away from the pier at Bahia-Mar Marina in Fort Lauderdale Florida. There
were many things that made this craft special besides the speed it could attain
for long periods. This type of boat was the favorite of drug runners due to its
speeds and abilities to make fools of drug enforcement agents, if piloted
correctly. It was similar in style to the Cigarette boats and had many hull
changes. Yet had a crew of five, pilot, navigator, navigator/engineer, one back
up pilot and one engine mechanic. It was also highly experimental with the revolutionary
hull and engine design.
The Craft was to participate in a race from Fort Lauderdale,
Freeport Bahamas, to Nassau Bahamas, to Key West, Miami and back to Fort
Lauderdale. The crew was to be two experienced crewmembers, the pilot and
navigator/engineer that were husband and wife with the wife as Navigator and
the husband as Pilot. A husband and wife team occupied the other two seats also
with the husband as back up pilot and the wife as back up navigator/engineer.
Down in the bowels of the massive boat there was a crusty, old, marine mechanic
named Lee that stayed with the experimental engines that rested in the
experimental hull. The two couples were in their late twenties and late teens
with the women being sisters. The older couple, Nick and Gayle Miles had been
doing this type of racing for the past two years and were madly in love not
only with the adrenalin rush of the speed but with each other. The other
couple, Mark and Edith Barnett had been married since leaving high school and
were currently preparing for their second year of Pre-Med courses. This was a
dream vacation for them both along with additional money to help them with
their tuition and living expenses, if they placed in the race. They were
assured by Nick the Glamour Girl; the name of the craft would
place into the top three spots giving them each more money to live on then they
would earn in two years. Little did they know that Nick and Gayle had decided
together that this was a sure way for Mark and Edith to accept money from Nick
that they have always refused in the past.
Nick you see came from an extremely wealthy banker family
from old Boston. His banks (Since his immediate family was deceased.) and
others sponsored this race and many others that were similar. His boat, Glamour
Girl was one of the best that was ever hand built and designed,
anywhere. His hobby of boating had grown into an empire of building any type of
craft that traversed the water and owned many boatyards. Yes it was true he
named the boat after his wife Gayle, Glamour Girl was his pet name for her. He
adored his wife of five years and she adored the man she loved.
Nick winked to Gayle as they traversed the Intercoastal
Waterway paying attention to the No Wake areas going past all of the Cruise
Liners docked at Port Everglades waiting for their ships to come alive with the
many vacationers seeking sex, relaxation, fun and the sun. Nick turned on the
monitors and cameras controlled from the onboard computers letting them all see
the amassed crowds that had come to see them off on the shore as well as the
comprehensive variety of small and larger boats. Mark briefly adjusted the
joystick to the cameras position and saw his father and two of his younger
brothers.
The Father in Law had pleaded with them all not to go, as he
sensed that there was a danger ahead of them, a father's love, terror and
intuition. They had all explained that every eventuality was looked into and
compensated for; the boat was state of the art technology, the perfect blend of
mankind and machine. These points made his worries somewhat subside but back
into the mind yet they were still there not saying a word of his fears to the
others of the family.
Over the intercom they wore into their helmets they all
heard Nick say to Gayle, "Hey what's wrong with dad? He seems so sad about
something."
"He had another of his gloom and doom visions, honey.
I'm just glad Callie didn't find out or she'd be swimming out here to get us
off the boat and save us all from harm. Sometimes I wish were babies
again." Gayle said laughing with Edith saying, "Damn I still remember
dad forcing Mark to allow him to drive us to the prom. Now that was that
epitome of embarrassing."
"Yeah well, I think he saved our asses that night,
there was a short in the electrical system and the car caught fire in seconds
on my way home the following day. I wish I could just be younger. The car that
night was a total loss I thank the powers that be that I had kept up the
insurance." Mark said with Lee saying, "Captain, are you sure you
want this guy to helm my boat? He seems to be a Jonah to me." A
Jonah by a seafarer was a person believed to bring bad luck to those around
him. These persons would usually wind up being thrown overboard, marooned or
set adrift in a lifeboat to free the ship of its curse.
"Lee, just take care of those engines and stop picking
on my brother in law. He's a good guy; besides when he starts practicing
medicine with Edie maybe they could both take that attitude out of you. "
Nick said with Lee saying, "Yeah through my ass, that's my bloody nature,
if there weren't any women present my language would be stronger. I wish I was
younger to kick your ass."
"Lee honey, since when has a woman present or in the
area you're in, ever stopped that foul mouth of yours? I have to admit after
spending thirty years in the navy you'd probably enjoy the hardness of an
engine over the softness of a woman's body. Maybe if I was a man I'd kick your
butt too." Gayle said with her musical laughter flowing with Nick
laughably saying, "Lee, I better not catch you humping those girls back
there. Maybe if I was a woman too you'd take care of me like the engines."
"Only if you young and beautiful. If you hear the
contented, purring sounds of love from my girls you know they've been pleased
into orgasm. As for women, I've been married three times and never understood
any of those bitches they were as mean as Bo' suns Mates without a drink or a
whorehouses entertainment." Lee said making them all laugh with Nick
saying, "It's funny Lee that the only time you're in a good mood is when
you're onboard a boat or the boat's leaving port. The fourth prospective wife
not cleaning your pipe or is it…"
"Shit that bitch is insatiable just like all women are,
her yammering about marriage is the shit that drives me from my home. This is
the only place I can go to get the peace and quiet I need, maybe I should have
been a woman." Lee said with Edie saying, "I'll come back aft and
hold your hand you poor boy."
Lee retorted by saying, "No hands dearie but I'll teach
you my engines, Captain I think she'll hit two fifty plus, damn close to or
over three hundred on this cruise. One screw up and we'll all be shark bait
from the pieces of our bodies going down to the briny deep."
"Okay metal head, Edie if you want to go aft, go ahead,
but you have to stay there, strapped in with the old man of the sea until we
hit Freeport." Nick said with Edith saying, "Sure and you behave
yourself when I come aft matey."
"Aye me darlin', I be waiting for thy sweet body back
aft." Lee said causing them all to laugh as she left the cockpit.
Nick checked in with the Harbor Master and Harbor Control on
the radio giving them the latitude, longitudes and approximate times for each
of the navigational waypoints. He once again checked over the instruments and
the Global Position System. He then gave the Harbor Control and the Coast Guard
their transponder frequency and their International Call Sign, which was NAXX
or November, Alpha, X-ray, X-ray.
Once the Glamour Girl was parallel to the breakwater, Nick
hit a warning button on the console in front of him. A klaxon roared alerting
the crew that they were to begin their run. Gayle had called race control
notifying them they were about to commence their run. Nick hammered the
throttles back to the second from the last notch while Gayle told them they were
a go, on their way to Freeport.
The people and officials on the boats gathered at the
starting line watching as the hull of the neon purple beast rose from the
waters of the Atlantic Ocean until only her stern was in the water churning a
white foam as her propellers or screws dug deep at tremendous revolutions per
minute. This was not only a shakedown cruise for the Glamour Girl but they had
intended to break several time and speed records. The people that watched the
boat roared and cheered it on with some of the crowd saying a small prayer for
the safety of the boat and crew.
Once the Glamour Girl was over twenty nautical miles from
Ft. Lauderdale Nick spoke to Lee saying, "We're all clear on long range
and short range Radar. I set the Anti Collisions systems parameters in, give me
all you got and watch those stabilizers. Water is fairly calm about a sea state
three or two."
"Go ahead Captain, my girls are ready, they need the
exercise so make them sweat, bring them to orgasmic bliss."
Nick and Gayle watched the RPMs increase, as she adjusted
the autopilot and synched them into the GPS. In no time they attained the speed
of two hundred and fifty knots with the crew feeling the bone jarring effect
with each swell of the ocean's waves. Mark rechecked everything both Gayle and
Nick did at his console that he was trained to do in the past weeks, smiling
that there were no problems anywhere he could see on any displays. He ran a
computer check that proved everything was what the displays had indicated.
"That deep tri hull design seems to be the trick for
GG." Nick said with Gayle saying, "I still am confused about the
class we're in, experimental over seventy foot?"
"Glamour Girl is in a class by herself because of her
overall length and width, her hull design and the power plants that give her
life. What's our ETA to Freeport, sweetheart?" Nick asked with Gayle
checking the GPS saying, "Flying as low as we are, it looks like thirty
minutes if the set and drift remain the same along with the winds and sea
state. The True Wind is at 090 degrees true at 10 knots and relative wind is
345 degrees at 45 knots."
"Great! Then I think instead of staying the night there
at Freeport we'll head over to Nassau and lay over for the night. We'll leave
at Eight AM from there to Key West." Nick said with everyone agreeing over
the helmet intercoms.
Once they were ten nautical miles from the harbor entrance
Nick decreased speed down to twenty knots, for the crew after maintaining such
high speeds, they felt as if the boat was DIW or Dead in the Water.
Again there were many on hand to great the first arrivals of
the race and the race leader. Many of the race officials came aboard the
Glamour Girl with the Press staying on the pier after the boat was tied up with
the help of Lee and Edith. On opening the cockpit they came out into the bright
sunlight to the raucous applause that they all received as they passed the
official papers to the judges for their signatures along with the times to be
recorded. After checking the times several times with the judges gazing at the
figures in disbelief they announced that the Glamour Girl had indeed traversed
at an average speed of two hundred and eighty knots peaking at times to two
hundred and ninety-six knots.
The crew of the Glamour Girl cheered at the news making the
announcement that they were going to continue on to Nassau after they had
refueled and did a recheck of the weather to further their journey. There was
excitement in the air once the speeds that Glamour Girl had attained were
released to the Press. There was also excitement with a small group of four
people, two men and two women, dressed as tourists standing near the boat.
Chapter 2
They watched and spoke amongst themselves being very
cautious not to raise their voices speaking in a language that had not been
spoken on the planet earth or at least the island for eons.
The two males left the group, walking over to where the
harbormaster had his offices and waited for the crew of the Glamour Girl to
leave while the women stayed and watched the boat seeing that a man and a woman
were busying themselves about the ocean going craft.
It was both the women that walked over to the woman
crewmember with the oldest saying, "What a lovely boat my dear, could we
look around, please?"
Caught by surprise Edith looked at the two older, but
gorgeous women dressed in patterned long skirts depicting various sea creatures
with matching sleeveless blouses opened to show their vast amounts of cleavage
and a see through quality of the material if they stood the right way. Both
women were of statuesque proportions of close to six foot wore white
high-wedged sandals on their dainty feet, showing the toes painted a bright
deep red. Their sun streaked long blond hair was pulled into a ponytail with
their Deep tanned skin and makeup, which was flawless to the common observer.
It was then that Lee had come to her side marveling at the two women that stood
before them on the pier with Lee saying, "The Captain would have a fit and
we're getting preparing to get underway, ladies."
"All we ask is to walk on the main deck and admire her
lines. My name is Clarissa Chandler and this is my sister Estelle
Farnsworth." The older of the two women said as they offered their hands
to Lee and Edith.
Edith and Lee smiled and took their offered hands with Edith
saying, "I think Nick will understand but you can only stay and look
around for a minute and it has to be topside."
Clarissa smiled saying, "That would be a pleasure as
we'll be seeing you throughout the race. We talked our husbands into this as a
vacation for us, I do so love boats and the water."
"Lady if you weren't married I'd marry you on the spot.
The Cold, Blue Lady is my mistress and I do love her." Lee said as he
helped the ladies cross the brow of the boat from the pier.
Edith and Lee walked the visitors around the boat with the
ladies admiring everything but when they came to the secondary conn they
stopped briefly presumably to talk. Unnoticed by them the woman called Estelle
placed something in her hand from a pocket in her skirt. She deftly placed the
item inside a door that was open for them to see the additional controls of the
secondary conning station of the Glamour Girl. They made their way to the brow
they were all smiling as they all said their goodbyes and the fuel truck
arrived for the refueling.
Out of earshot of the two crewmembers Estelle said,
"The transmitter has been placed, that boat will bring a good price on the
market for her technology. Too bad the old guy has to die, I bet he'd be fun in
bed."
"That nasty old toad? My dear I thought you had better
tastes in men. Besides let them have their fun now, after Nassau, Carlos will
have fun with them until they die." Clarissa laughed evilly with Estelle
saying, "Speaking of toads that man needs more manners. I guess we'll just
have to endure him he does get the job done and has made us millions."
"Yes my dear he's the best pirate in the Caribbean Sea
or so he says. It's a pity he's so blood thirsty…"
"And smells like an over used whore that hasn't cleaned
herself up, damn that man stinks. Oh well you can't have everything."
Estelle said as they walked from the pier and toward the taxi stand we they
would take a taxi to the airport and board their plane with the two men, their
bodyguards that came with them to the marina and fly off toward Belize.
Chapter 3
The Glamour Girl was refueled and the weather was calm as
the crew returned to the boat and made preparations to cast off all lines. With
the engines growling to life the crowd roared with their approval. Edith and
Mark took their seat, and strapped in; once they hauled in the mooring lines
with Gayle sealing in everyone by closing all hatches with the press of a
button.
Slowly the Nick maneuvered the boat from the pier with the
crew watching the monitors; eventually the bullnose of the bow was pointed
toward the breakwater, which led out to the sea.
Nick calmly received clearance to depart from the radio
after their course was plotted and Gayle with Edith watching at her console set
the GPS. Once the Coast Guards was notified, the vessel moved slowly and with
purpose toward the breakwater with the vessel accelerating from five knots to
over two hundred in seconds as the throttles were moved by Nick. They all
smiled within the helmets they wore with Nick saying, "Okay boys and
girls, the next stop is Paradise Island, Nassau. I hope you all went to the
Head otherwise tie a string around it or put a cork in it."
"That my dear husband was not funny, just watch what
you're doing and be a good boy or no………"
"Damn boss, she's threatening you with the pleasure
palace between her legs." Lee said with Nick saying, "My wife saying
no! I could tell you stories………"
"You do that and you'll be sleeping with the old man of
the sea tonight and I'll find some hunk in the casinos." Gayle said
giggling; it was common knowledge of their love trysts when the two were in one
of their moods for adventure and their climax of passion.
The course that was set took the Glamour Girl directly to Nassau
to the Paradise Island Marina. At the halfway waypoint Nick contacted the
Harbor Master advising then that their Estimated Time of Arrival was twenty
minutes. There was a brief silence when the Nassau Harbor Master asked if GG
was an airplane as no vessel had achieved the speeds that they were doing, if
it was an airplane they were on the wrong radio frequency. Freeport Control had
not advised them that GG was a nautical vessel.
Nick reassured the Harbor Master that Glamour Girl was
indeed a vessel and requested that their Maintenance crew and Crew Chief be
notified if the plane was on the ground. The Freeport Harbor Master had
notified the airport tower and rerouted the plane to Nassau. He was told he
would find out why and to proceed on his course to Nassau and maintain his
speed. The harbor and Defense patrols would clear the way for their entrance
and docking.
"See Captain the new girl commands respect and awe. Now
crank her up so I can go have a grog or three at the bar. Oh by the way, you're
buying." Lee said making everyone laugh with Gayle saying, "Lee, for
being such a good boy and for treating Edie like the lady she is, you can
Splice the Mainbrace and have as many as you want as long as you're sober in
the morning at wakeup." (Splice the Mainbrace is a Naval term to breakout
the rum kegs and to give all hands on the old sailing ships their daily ration
to the crew.)
"Aye lil' missy, I be sober and ready to shimmy the
foremast to set the sails to catch the winds in the morn." Lee said with
Nick abruptly saying, "I intend to get laid by my wife so tell the bar to
bill our room."
"Oh you do, do you, my dear husband I am not chattel to
be used as you please and I am surely not a slave. These legs of mine might be
closed to you tonight or until I am very old and gray haired woman." Gayle
said with Mark saying, "When are you going to learn not to piss Gayle off?
Or do you like sleeping alone all the time?"
"Never is the answer to both questions, hey hon, how
about hitting the casino, have a romantic dinner, a swim and then testing the
ole mattress?" Nick said smiling with Gayle saying, "You asshole,
you're on and you have to pay for the crew unless of course I find that
hunk."
"Okay dear, now hold onto your pantyhose and make sure
your bra is in place. I'm going to open her up, Lee, make sure everything is
secured including yourself." Nick said as he opened the throttles.
Nassau Harbor Control called Glamour Girl after five minutes
again asking if the GG was an aircraft, Nick and the crew laughed when a
Bahamian Patrol craft confirmed visually and by radio that GG was definitely a
water vessel and moving very fast cutting through the deep, crystal blue
waters.
There was a whoop of joy that came over the intercom with
Mark saying, "You did it! We just hit two hundred and seventy five knots
almost three hundred and forty five miles per hour."
"That's what I want to hear, I want to open GG up on
the way to Key West and then on the return leg back to Fort Lauderdale."
Nick said with Lee saying, "Even if we lose an engine this young maiden
will perform for you Captain. She has a set of brass tits and a titanium
va…"
"Damn I wish I had those and what you were about to
say. I wish I was about fourteen again or maybe even younger and know what I
know now." Gayle said with Lee saying, "Damn I'm glad I wasn't your
mom or dad, hell I'd have more gray hair than I have now."
"Oh what a picture the old man of the sea in a skirt
with his knobby knees and varicose veins, now that's a ghastly sight."
Gayle said making everyone laugh just as the anti collision radar went off
announcing there was a ship that would cross their bow by one hundred nautical
yards.
Nick smiled as he goosed the throttles a bit more and had
the computer show the foreword and side views, locking onto the ship or boat
that was going to try cross their bow. On magnification the boat appeared to be
a charter fishing boat and with the increase in speed she would pass astern,
heaving and rolling a bit in the wake of the Glamour Girl.
With the increased speed and the cameras focused onto the
fishing boat, the looks of amazement were evident on the faces of the people on
the fishing boat. The Captain of the fishing boat called the Harbor Master
telling the radio operator that there was a boat inbound to them that escaped
from the depths of hell and flies on the tops of the sea swells. The GG crew
was laughing when the radio operator accused the Captain of the fishing boat of
drinking, ordering him back to port for a sobriety test.
Nick called the Harbor Master on the radio frequency and
told them it was the GG; saving the Captain of the fishing boat his license
with the captain telling the crew of the GG he owed them all a drink. Nick
smiled as he heard those words letting out a tremendous belly laugh.
Nick the looked at the long-range radar and saw there was a
tremendous amount of boating traffic near the harbor entrance. Calling the
Harbor Master and the Defense Force on the radio they found out that these were
all boats to welcome them with Lee saying, "Pass the rum and the broads, then
scuttle their tinker toys captain."
"Damn are you horney again you old fart? I thought you
got laid before we left." Gayle said with Lee saying, "I am horney, I
didn't get laid and I am not an old fart; besides I can still get the old toy
up without the Viagra."
Gradually the Glamour Girl slowed her speed with Nick
manipulating the throttles as he looked at the monitor display giving him
compass bearing and ranges from the radars and the Gyroscopes feeds show the targets
of the breakwater and the dock they were given to moor at. Several times Gayle
smiled and pressed the button for the electronic horn klaxon several times with
three loud blasts meaning danger when other boats greeting them got too close.
She smiled to her self when one such boat had a crewmember
standing on the handrail of the main deck got too close. She sounded the klaxon
that scared the hell out of the man making him lose his balance and falling
into the warm waters. On breaking the surface the man shook his fist at the
Glamour Girl while his crewmates retrieved him from the water quickly and an
encroaching shark coming to feed possibly on the man. Gayle hoped the man was
pulled into the boat quickly and they did just as the shark tried to take a bite
out of the man's leg. It broke from the water and the man flopped onto the deck
of the boat and safety bowling over his crewmates.
At one thousand nautical yards from the breakwater Nick
said, "Gayle, open the hatches, Mark and Edie go topside and take control
of the GG. Gayle and I will switch control over to you. Lee did you hear what I
said?"
"Yeah Captain Sweetheart, I'm just checking number four
engine, she's running too hot. I think we have a clogged water intake."
Lee said with Nick saying, "Have you been drinking the fuel or is it the
fumes getting to you? Sweetheart? That's it Gayle, the old man has to get laid
or none of us will be safe to bend over near the crusty old bastard."
"Aye Cap'n and I have a good supply of rubbers, I make
my own back here. I have five gallons of white grease also called
Vaseline." Lee said making the girls giggle and Mark saying, "Ah…Nick
that's not a good sign is it?" with Nick looking serious as he took off
his helmet and saying, "Oh crap, Lee go to Momma Leone's tonight please,
I'll even pay for you to get laid, stay the night."
"What the hell is wrong with Lee? You'd swear he screw
anything available." Edith said with both Nick and Gayle together saying,
"He would!" with them both laughing.
"Don't get close to the old man and please for your
safety do not bend over. That's how we lost Mitch and Ian, Lee screwed them so
badly they're both working a Cathouse in Tampa in dresses and want a sex
change." Gayle said with Edith laughing saying, "And you both expect
us to believe that? I hardly doubt it; it's not even plausible." Nick
stood up and handed Edith a picture showing two obvious males in dresses
standing by an old three-story house near a wooded area with Spanish moss
hanging from the trees. Edith and Mark looked at the offered picture losing the
smiles on their faces replacing the facial expressions with abject fear with
Mark saying, "It's not possible to change the sexual orientation of two
heterosexual males like that, is it honey?"
"I don't think so? I think…"
"Mark if you got screwed in the ass as many times as
they did in two days you'd change too. They went from fighting Lee to adoring
his probings with that missile in his pants. It took us a week to clean up the
buckets of the white jism that was all over the GG after we found her
adrift." Gayle said seeing the fright on Mark's face deepen.
"I suppose Lee has to be topside with us?" Edith
asked with Nick seriously saying, "We'll be with you honey but take off
your dirty panties and throw them at Lee if he come near the both of you."
"Yeah, I forgot about that the smell of our damp, dirty
panties will calm him." Gayle said as she began to remove her jumpsuit and
then her lacey, black, high cut panties motioning for her sister to do the
same. The two men were erect immediately getting an eyeful of the both the
women's beautiful bodies. Edith was completely dismayed as she watched her
sister disrobe and then followed her example saying, "If this is one of
your practical jokes my dear sister, momma will hear about it."
"Hey Sis, do you love your husband and want to protect
him from a sexual deviate? I can assure you that Lee will screw anything with a
hole." Nick said with Edith fearfully saying, "Oh crap Nick, all I
can say to both you and Gayle is you'd better keep that Hole Crazed Maniac in
the engine room away from us and if this is a joke payback will be a
bitch."
"Hey Lee, they fell for it." Nick said with Lee
laughing uproariously and Edith going to her brother in law naked and placing
her dark blue silk panties over his head, pulling the material tight around his
head with him saying, "Damn Gayle, she smells just like you do. Mark if
you ever tire of her, send her to me."
"My brother in law the pervert! Okay Uncle Pervey get
us to the dock, I'll just go topside like this and give all those people a
thrill as they stare at my body." Edith said mischievously making Mark and
Gayle laugh with Nick saying, "I just believe you would and I believe
you're calling my bluff Sis."
"Yep and I'll see you later, coming Mark?" Edith
said with Gayle and Mark laughing hysterically as Gayle dressed and made her sister
get dressed saying, "Sweetie, I never told you our parents were nudists
when we were little. We both love the sun on our bodies so I guess…"
"Nudists huh…that explains why you're always in the raw
when I come home from classes. Ah…the skeletons are coming out of the closet.
Are there any more skeletons like Leather, rubber and lace?" Mark said
smiling with Gayle saying, "Sis, we really do have to keep the boys away
from each other, Mask is as perverted as Nick is." Edith zipped up her
jumpsuit and looked at Gayle saying, "Well as long as we don't catch them
in the same bed without us they'll be okay. We'll just have to love them
more."
"Hot damn! I want some of that lovin'! Now which of you
girls are coming back aft for the old man?"
"In your dreams you old fart, put that weapon back in
your pants or I'll have Camilla waiting on the pier in Key West when we get
back." Gayle said laughing with Lee saying, "Damnit you are a vicious
girl threatening an old man like me, hell that's downright Elder Abuse."
"The only thing elderly about you is that truncated,
deviate brain in your thick skull, besides your muscle is always high and wide
after you see a pretty babe anywhere." Nick said making Lee moan loudly to
everyone's delight.
Mark and Edith left the cockpit laughing, making their way
to the secondary conn. They opened the enclosures with the press of a
waterproof switch and took control of the Glamour Girl after plugging in their
communication headsets.
The boats sounded their horns in greeting as the boat made
its way closer to the harbor with Gayle and Nick joining them on the main deck.
They all smiled and waved with and at the boat passengers, seeing the pride the
crew had for the Glamour Girl she indeed had class, style, a certain Je ne sais
quois that made people drawn to her, male or female, young or old along with
the rich or the poor.
They entered the harbor common, seeing the accumulated horde
with their maintenance crew chief at a finger pier. Nick steered the vessel
with Mark going aft to handle the mooring lines and Edith going forward to do
the same. Once the boat was close to the pier Edith threw the monkey's fist to
the line-handlers that began to pull the tied lines with mooring lines bringing
the boat closer to the pier while Mark did the same with his lines.
In ten minutes the brow was over to the pier with GG
securely tied to the stanchions on the pier. The people cheered the crew with
the Harbormaster and race officials being taken to the cockpit by Nick and
Gayle to collect the computer and time logs.
Lee came topside and was across the brow speaking to the
crew chief angrily with Edith saying to Mark when he got closer to her,
"It looks like Lee is finally screwing someone." Mark looked and
smiled at his wife saying, "At least it wasn't going to be us in his bed
getting our holes filled." Edith looked at her husband and hit his arm
saying, "I have a spare nightgown sweetie if you want to share his bed?
Maybe you might get some lessons on how to please me further."
"Ah… that was low dear wife………please you further? I
please you anytime you want it." Mark said yelling being very angry and
hurt with Edith smiling, as she held his arms down at his sides, kissing him to
delight of the people on the pier.
Breaking their kiss together Edith said, "Damn that
must have been a husband in a previous life I was thinking of. Damnit Mark look
at what you've done to me, how in the hell can I walk through this crowd with
my crotch all wet and leaking down my leg?" Mark looked down seeing the
wet spot and started to laugh and then say, "Okay hotpants, next time
you'll keep those pretty panties on and realize how much those two love practical
jokes."
"Dear I am not gullible, I would have done anything to
protect you. I promise I will never take off my pretties unless to change them
and you're around to make mad, passionate, love to me." Edith said kissing
her husband with him saying, "Deal now let's get our bags and get to the
hotel room, I have a sweet little hole I want you to fill. Maybe this time
we'll conceive."
"Making love I agree, but kids, I don't think so dear
unless you want my body and I don't think medical science has progressed that
far. Honey, please let us finish school first like we spoke about before it,
med school and kids are a no, no, because the one that wears the frillys,
skirts and gives you the oral and vaginal sex is the one that takes care of and
nurses the babies. She…"
"Okay, I get the point, it's just that mom and dad had
all of us…"
"Yeah and they're poorly educated and worked like
slaves to eke out a living for all of you. Your mom and dad both had two full
time jobs and your dad had a part time job…. Damnit Mark we even send money
when we have it when I con Gayle about an unpaid bill we have. I know Gayle and
Nick would help in a heartbeat but I just can't ask them. Okay maybe I can get
into Nursing School, you continue and later I can go to Med School…" Mark
was about to make a comment hearing Gayle and Nick's laughter coming closer to
them from down below.
"We'll speak later about this but med school is your
dream, please think this over." Mark said as he kissed his wife with Gayle
saying, "Two minutes here and you had her body, damn you're quick. Gayle
looked down at the stain between her sister's legs and smiled with Edith
saying, "All because of that joke you guys played and no panties on."
"Go into your locker, get another jumpsuit and please
put panties on and a liner in them, you're a big girl now Sis, no
dribbling." Gayle said laughing with Edith saying, "I will get even
you know? But I have an urgent matter to attend to." Edith quickly left
and went below to her locker with Gayle telling Nick what had happened
privately, making him laugh as hard as she did. While the group spoke together
Lee came back aboard with a man that seemed very fit, in his late fifties and
had all his own black hair and his teeth.
Lee looked angry and brought the man to Nick, Gayle and
introducing Mark to him as Martin Gabriel the Crew Chief of the maintenance
people or pit crew with Lee saying, "Marty says they have to pull number
five engine, the one that's running so hot, I say no, that it's in the intakes
and he say the manifold inductor." Nick looked at Marty and said, "I
agree with Lee, Marty, There's something in the water intakes making a home in
them probably a crab. Send a diver down and check them all, back flush them all
and put screens in them."
"Okay boss but that was done in the Boatyard, still at
the speeds you were at, anything is possible. We'll check it out, tomorrow I
come with you to Key West and help out this cranky old seagoing bastard."
Marty said with Lee saying, "If my engines don't perform you'll be keeled
hauled or possibly have that engine shoved up that tight ass of yours, damn
asshole should have been a broad with all the whining he does."
"Lee, I resent that, we women do not whine, we moan on
our backs and complain from our mouths." Gayle said making all the men
laugh breaking up the tense situation when Edith appeared shoving the bags
through the hatches that they had stored below on coming aboard with Edith
saying, " amongst other things we do with it to please you men and also to
please us like with a chocolate fix. Damn I could do with one now." The
men grabbed the nylon bags with Marty the Crew Chief laughing as the crew left
the boat in his capable hands.
They all ran down the vacated pier, into a waiting electric
car with a driver. That then driver took them all to the main hotel to register
and onward then to the individual cottage suites that were near the pool. Mark
and Edith were captivated that people lived in this kind of opulent luxury when
they traveled. It was a far cry from the student rat hole apartment they lived
in. Mark held his wife's hand when they stopped at one of the cottages and the
driver took out only their bags with Mark saying, "I guess we're here, I
get the floor near the couch where my wife's sleeping."
"Are you nuts? That cottage is for the both of you,
Nick and Gayle have the one next door and I'm next to them. Go have some fun,
since Edie already has her panties off." Lee said smiling with Gayle
saying, "Edie, we'll go shopping later, just sign for anything the both of
you want."
"We can't afford this…" Edie began to say with
Nick saying, "I'm the Captain and I take care of the crew, it's all on me,
now git!" The couple looked at the vehicle as it silently sped away and a
fiftyish, large, smiling, black woman came from the cottage and took their bags
saying, "Darlins me name is Matilda and I be your housekeeper for your
stay. Please come inside an enjoy the isle. Anythin' you want or need ask
Matilda."
"Oh boy, now I will get to kick my brother in laws
ass…"
"And I get my sister's ass. I can't believe they did
this to us. Oh well, I hope it has a very large tub and something cold to
drink." Edith said as she took her husband's arm and they followed Matilda
inside the cottage.
On entering they saw a very elegant and feminine motif done
in grayish blues, mauves and pinks that made Mark uncomfortable. Satins, Silk,
Lace and sheer fabrics were everywhere, along with pictures of men and women,
women and women and men and men making love in every type of position
envisioned by any well-rounded pervert. They saw in those paintings all manner
of people of color and Caucasian. Edie smiled looking at Mark's pants and said,
"I think this cottage was built for us darling, I see you love the
artwork." She took his male hardness into her small delicate hand and gave
it a soft squeeze making him moan.
He picked his wife up into his arms and carried her to the
most immense bathroom he had ever seen. He placed her down on the floor, closed
the door and kissed his wife with her returning the passion she felt. They
removed their clothes as quickly as they could taking a shower together, making
love in that shower, then climbing into the hot tub that they both saw with
Matilda coming into the bath with two, large ice tea glasses and a pitcher saying,
"I be here if you need me just pick up the phone. Don' be afeared we pride
ourselves a being discreet." She poured the iced beverage into the glasses
and handed them to the couple and left the room closing the door.
"This place gives me the willies, she knows more then
she lets on I think." Edith said with Mark wrapping his arm around her
saying, "So what, I kinda like the woman now and I love this place. This
is the honeymoon we never had." Edith leaned into her husband saying, "Yeah,
it does grow on you even the porn on the walls, maybe we should redecorate the
apartment this way?"
"Ah Dear…Those are lithographs and the paintings out
there are by Toulouse Latrec and a few others like Gauguin and Van Gogh. Our
wallet isn't deep enough to afford them. Ya know I wanted to be an artist when
I was younger?" Mark said with Edith saying, "I remember you always
drawing and they were really good, why did you stop, hon?" Mark drew her
closer to him saying, "Money for art materials and the shit I caught from the
other kids because of they hand me downs from my older sister that I
wore."
"That be true, young ones, he be speaking' the truth
but I see more in him, I see the heart and soul of a woman. I see the missus
wantin' never to grow up possibly to be younger again, I be seein' her pain. I
see the souls of all of you." Matilda said coming into the room with more
towels and robes with Edith saying, "How can you see those things? There
are times I do wish I was a little girl again so does Gayle, adult life tends
to scare me sometimes, maybe we all do the same thing. Mark has never done
anything otherwise to show me he is not what he seems, a loving man."
"Sweetie, I be a high priestess of the Juju, this I
tell you to warn you. I see many changes in the next day for you all or death.
I be called witch-woman by many but I be seeing thin's in the future. You
darlin' missy and sister will start life agin' an you mastah and the other
males will be a missy to fit the soul in the body, an be young. Ye all will
follow their hearts, all be in motion with the stars. If you leave in the morn
all changes take place, stay here an' no changes, maybe death. Momma Matilda
has spoken truth to ye." As silent as she entered she left the room with
the young couple not saying a word as they held each other scared and amazed by
the words that were spoken by the woman.
The young couple seemed mesmerized until there was a knock
on the door and another black woman entered saying, "I'm sorry I'm late,
I'm Claris your housekeeper." The couple looked at each other with Mark
saying, "What happened to Matilda? We thought she was the
housekeeper."
"Matilda? Sorry sir but we have no Matilda working
here, I was assigned to you and you just arrived." Claris said smiling
with the couple thanking the young woman.
When the woman left and the door closed Edith said,
"This is too creepy! Let's get out of here; I need to speak to Gayle. Will
you talk to the guys?" with Mark saying, "Yeah, I know what you mean,
I'm so confused. Maybe they can make sense of it, because I sure as hell
can't."
They both quickly exited the hot tub, dried off and dressed
from the bags they brought with them. She dressed in sheer, light blue matching
thong panties and bra set, a shorts set and white-wedged sandals and he in khaki
shorts, blue pullover and runners with no socks. They quickly brushed out their
hair; she applied the briefest of makeup and left the cottage like their pants
were on fire.
Chapter 4
They saw a guest phone near the pool and called the two
cottages with no answer. Edith suggested they go into the hotel complex with
him checking the bars and she the casino for the others. Mark instead suggested
to have them paged once they had a good stiff drink, which his wife readily
agreed to do.
The first lounge they saw on entering they went into, seeing
the other three members of the crew quietly getting shitfaced and talking.
Going to the table they sat down, ordered a drink, a double Zombie and waited
as the others looked at them with Nick saying, "Momma Matilda, huh?"
"Oh shit you know?" Edith said with Lee saying,
"She scared the hell out of me too. This Juju shit comes from Africa and
practiced all over the Caribbean. It's kinda like Voodoo but more mysterious
and a hell of a lot more magic with soothsayers and other crap. Momma Matilda
was a messenger I think from a Juju man, the high priest of the sect." The
potent rum drinks arrived at the table with the young couple drinking half the
Tom Collins glass down and ordering another round of drinks.
"Easy on those drinks Sis and Bro, it has eight
different rums with one being one hundred and fifty one proof. It will knock
you on your ass, oh hell, we did the same thing coming here." Gayle said
with Nick and Lee agreeing and Nick saying, "Lee here says we should go
and finish the race, should we?"
"Okay, I'm rattled by the woman Nick, but the money
will help us out at school, I want Edith to have the nice things she deserves.
So I say screw the superstitious shit." Mark said with Edith nodding their
heads in agreement and then kissing her husband.
"Oh well, I always wondered what it was like to wear a
skirt…"
"Breezy on a cold winter day, Lee. I should know after
wearing my sister's cast offs when I was younger, thank the Almighty I had
tights and her drawers." Mark said with the booze talking and Edith
saying, "That's a kick in the ass, I remember you wearing them, of course
I had Gayle's cast offs too but I'm a girl."
"Jeez, that must have been rough on you growing up
being the second oldest of all those siblings and the oldest boy. It was only
me growing up in the family but I missed have siblings to play with and have
that special bond they have. I always had money but I guess with all those kids
around money was tight." Nick said with a tear forming in his eye and
Gayle saying, "Damnit Mark, we, Nick and I knew things were tough for you
both after we stayed at your shithole apartment. We love you guys but you're
both so damned independent and too proud to ask for money. At your prom, Mark
you wore your dad's worn out suit and worked at any job you could find to
scrape up the money. You guys married and didn't even have a damn
honeymoon."
"Sis, cut the degradation already, we do okay, at least
we eat and have a roof over our heads." Edith said with Mark saying,
"Darling she's right and so are you, but our roof does leak. Nick, Gayle,
we are independent but you have your own problems just as we all do. Life is
the pits at times but nothing comes easily. I love all of you and love
Edie."
"Damnit Mark, Edie showed me some of your drawings when
we were outfitting the boat, you have talent and those were just the sketches
you did on a break from the work. Those drawings I saw had depth and a soul to
them, that's your calling not this medicine school crap." Lee said with
Nick saying, "They were good………"
"Okay they were, I guess. I left art because of the
shit I took from kids at school and a few of the teachers. I was called a
multitude of derogatory names for wearing girl's jeans and slacks, sweaters,
pullovers, sometimes the coats and boots. Maybe I put it all together in my
mind and I…anyway I draw to relax and don't even realize I do it."
"I showed those sketches to a gallery manager in New
York that I …….oh hell, I bought paintings from, and yes I like artwork too.
Anyway, the manager and owner said you have talent, a great deal of talent.
They asked if you studied anywhere and I told them no they were shocked to see
what you did. The sketch of the young girl and her mother walking the beach,
picking up seashells stirred their emotional levels so deeply they brought
other gallery owners in to look at the pencil, charcoal sketches and
watercolors. They want you to do more and to paint with oils if you can."
"I always knew Mark was good and for the life of me I had
a problem with him turning his back on what he loved to do. Honey, I love you
and want you to do what you know and love. What happened in the past happened
and I know for a fact you're all man, screw those assholes, let them be
impoverished and see if they don't do the same to their kids to save
money." Edith said holding her husbands hand and giving him a kiss with
Mark saying, "Thanks for the encouragement but that doesn't mean shit
until this Voodoo or whatever it is, is settled. I say go in the morning."
They all agreed to continue the race no matter what risks
they had to take. Mark said he would sketch a record of the race to be placed
with the logs as a legal record and Nick commissioned Mark to do a painting of
the Glamour Girl for publicity. They had another round of drinks with Mark and
Edith being cut off at the limit of three Zombies per customer.
They finished their drinks had a great meal of freshly
caught seafood at a restaurant in the hotel and then went to the pool after
changing into swimsuits. The girls stayed for several hours and tanned
themselves, then the shopping bug found them and they deserted the men.
The three men moved of to the bar and sat at a table talking
and drinking when the subject of Momma Matilda came up. Somehow their voices
carried over to where a bartender overheard them and came over during her break
saying, "I heard you saw Momma Matilda this day, can you describe her
please?" Mark, Nick and Lee described the woman with no variance and saw
the shock on the black women's face with her saying, "She was my aunt and
died five years ago, the woman you described was her but I saw her laid into
her grave. She had great power and had passed that power to her only daughter,
Raphella. She needs to hear what you told me, would you mind if I telephoned
her?" The men said she could with the woman hurrying off, placing the call
and returning saying, "Raphella asks that you wait here, she will be here
in thirty minutes and then to go someplace private to speak."
"Sure, but two of our party are shopping that saw her
also…"
"They will be back when Raphella comes then you'll all
speak to her. In the meantime I suggest the rum drinks with banana, papaya,
coconut and mango, we serve freshly made." She said with the men ordering
banana daiquiris with her going back to the bar.
"Jeez, this shit keeps getting stranger all the time.
Oh shit, no offence Mark, but just get me those bras, panties, a dress with
heels and I'll screw the fleet better than all my wives could, I'd stink like
hell but have a smile on my face." Lee said making them laugh with Mark
saying, "That wasn't a choice for me growing up, it was use the clothes or
walk around bare assed naked and the winters were very cold up north. The
ladies at mom and dad's jobs always sent their cast offs to Callie as their
daughters were about the same and sizes. I remember we ran out of formula for
the baby, mom asked me to go get some. I had on all the underwear, a black
skirt, a blue woolen ski sweater, blue tights and black boots with three-inch
spike heels with Sis wearing the same she took me into her bedroom and brushed
out my hair and added some makeup to me. I crapped in those panties almost
seeing her face on my body and mine body looking back in the mirror. I was
scared to leave the room and the house but the baby came first.
I put on a warm coat, scarf, gloves, purse and a hat that
covered the ears, took a deep breath and walked the three blocks to the store.
I bought the formula and met her boyfriend at the time, coming in and the creep
kissed me with me slugging him. I ran all the way home in those heels, gave the
formula to Sis and then told her what happened. I thought I was dead meat until
she hugged me and said to me that she would have done the same and he was an
asshole, that guy later raped me."
"Kid, I'm sorry about the rape but the clothes, that
was called survival, we would have done the same just as anyone would have.
Hell, girls have worn their brother's cast offs for years and no one says a
word except maybe calling them a Tomboy; but if a boy does it he's queer, a
faggot, a fruit or something else. They're clothes and that's all they are
unless you're wearing them to attract the males attention." Lee said with
Nick saying, "I agree with Lee, I'm so sorry that the past was dragged
out, I know it hurts. Still I want to help you two financially, I have more
money that the government does and I'd rather give it to you two than the
government."
"Hey Captain how about a raise for me?" Lee asked
smiling with Nick saying, "I said them, not for your ex-blood sucking
wives or that bimbo in your house."
"Damn, thanks guys for the release." Mark said
with Nick saying, "No sweat Bro, I liked you the first time we met but I
still want you to do those sketches and the painting, screw med school, that's
Edie's dream not yours. Lee and I know you're not gay or anything of that
persuasion so do your thing, as a matter of fact I could care less if you
sketched in pants, shorts, a dress, skirt or stark assed naked but don't bend over
if Lee's around." They all laughed, the drinks came and they sucked them
down slowly with the subject changing to the boat, engines and sea strainers.
While speaking the time flew when a beautiful, ebony, nicely
dressed in a white pant suit and sandals that was middle-aged. The woman went
to the bar with them both coming to the table with the bartender saying,
"This is Madam Raphella as I told you she would come. Go somewhere private
to speak, this place is too public."
The men stood, although somewhat unsteadily and took the
woman to the closest cottage which was Edith and Mark's cottage. On entering
Raphella said, "It is true she was here, I smell her scent, I had me
doubts. Come let us sit and speak of what Momma said to all of you."
Mark was the first telling Raphella what Momma Matilda had
said to Edith and him. She listened intently to what they all said when Edith
and Gayle entered the cottage ladened down with packages and bringing in four
more men carrying even more. The men just stared blankly receiving their
gratuities and then smiled not saying a syllable, leaving the cottage.
They introduced Raphella to the women and sat near their
husbands as Raphella looked at the group and said, "In Africa be the
origins of the Juju High Priest and Priestess we be called many names by the
Whites including witchdoctor and witch. Juju be a religion to call nature and
the deities to heal and help man. Many of the ancient civilization share the
precepts of Juju from the Greeks, Romans, Atlanteans, Sumerians, the Wiccan to
the Egyptians even some Christians and Jew. I be the High Priestess and healer
passed on by blood with the roots coming from our tribe in Africa.
Momma Matilda was strong in her magic and now proved it, to
take solid form in death, to come to this place and to all of you. This place,
this isle is strong in magic, that be why we stay. Now I need to meditate and
to see her warning to help you."
"Use our cottage or we could go there, it's next to
this one." Gayle said with Raphella saying, "You go, I stay. Momma
has strong energy here."
The group got up from their seats and left the cottage,
leaving the woman there, noticing she sat on the floor crossed legged with her
eyes closed. They went to Gayle and Nick's cottage and sat anywhere there was a
chair with Nick saying, "What a crock of crap………"
"Dear, Matilda was the scary one and what happened to
us. She was dead for five years and comes to us with a warning, why us?"
Gayle said with Mark saying, "The key is having an open mind and Edie we
can't afford all that crap you bought."
"Back off Bro, I told Gayle to melt the plastic
okay?" Nick said smiling leaving the group to use the telephone in the
bedroom.
Lee was becoming nervous going to the bar making a drink for
them all of Canadian Club and Ginger Ale. The drinks were made with very little
ice, in very large glasses and too much booze. He gave the glasses to the girls
first and then Mark saying to them he needed the drink as he sat and sipped it
with them following his lead.
Nick finally came back from the bedroom with a smile on his
face; he saw the drink made for him on the bar, went to it, sipping the drink
and said, "Darling and my family, I'm not a person that gets rattled
easily but this time I am. I called Jasper Jamison the Chairman of the Board
and Curtis Thomas our legal counsel having had them transfer our money into
numbered accounts with the stock portfolios held by Curtis. The same numbers
also will access the safe deposit boxes. The real estate and business will turn
over by the bearer of those numbers or the survivor."
"You better not die on me! This is nothing but
craziness, all this hocus pocus stuff." Gayle said close to tears with
Edith saying, "Nick you're frightening us with these preparations doing
the Last Wills was bad enough for this trip but…"
"I think Nick did the right thing maybe we should write
letters to mom and dad and Mark to his dad and the kids. Then there's Lee and
all his ex- wives."
"Not hardly missy, all I have is the house, my vehicle,
my pension and this job. No rug rats or curtain climbers with any of them
bitches. Let them all rot in hell for the alimony they wanted and never
received and what they all stole from me." Lee said as Raphella came
through the door looking like a very wet dishtowel needing drying.
Lee crossed the room and helped the woman to a chair and
made her a drink giving her the liquid libation that she greedily drank. Her
thirst quenched, she looked at the people in the room and said, "Momma was
right and she was here to see you. I saw the stars that see saw and the future.
You all made a wish of some type as you crossed the sea either by word or
thoughts, and the Gods heard you all. I believe some of those words were not
wisely chosen but they will come true.
You will have two paths one to safety and one toward death
that will come from the seas and from the skies. A water cloud will form and
you must hide in it, the God and Goddess of the Seas will dispatch those that
murder, rape and pillage, it be justice. Their guides to the deed have been
dispatched that you saw and took on the boat that flies at your last stop.
Think back to those words of Momma Matilda for the answers
of your questions that you now have. The magic be in you, it be in your heart,
it be your guide, it be Juju. Momma Matilda is your protector she will be with
you and hear all. I must go and rest." Raphella said with Nick digging
into his pocket and giving the woman several hundred dollars in American
Currency that she didn't ask for, or want. He forced the woman to take the
money with her smiling and saying, "It was not necessary for the money but
I will pray for your protection. I saw your old lives and your partly new life,
the old was not happy when you were young but the new, you are beyond satisfied.
You will embrace your lives and be fruitful and will come see me often with
your children and I will see you. Your family will embrace you all to their
bosom in your new lives and station. You will have help in these matters from
Momma, in many humans and you will remember all. I can say no more to prepare
you. I go and make protection for you for tomorrow." Raphella stood going
to each person giving them a kiss and hugged them all and left the cottage
leaving the confused group to their thoughts.
Mark and Edith were the first to leave and go back to their
cottage. On entering Mark went to the bar and mixed them both a very potent
Cuba Libre while Edith sat on the couch cross-legged, thinking. Mark went to
her and handed the drink to his wife and sat next to her crossing his legs high
just as she had her legs with Edith saying, "Mark honey, doesn’t that hurt
you or make you uncomfortable?"
Mark looked at how he was sitting not realizing he was
sitting as a woman does on his butt cheek and his legs crossed high up on the
thigh and moving that leg nervously up an down. He took a long sip of his drink
got up from the couch and found his bag taking a cigarette pack from it. He
opened the pack and took out a cigarette, lit it and held it with his
fingertips standing in a provocative stance with Edith giggling and saying,
"You look cute darling but I've never seen you so upset. I never saw you
smoke except when nerved up and with all the girlfriend mannerisms."
"Damnit to hell, I thought I lost and buried them all.
Honey, please forgive me, I love you so very much, I didn't mean to turn faggot
on you." Mark said as Edith went to Mark holding him and saying, "I
know it's a defense reaction from when you wore Callie's hand me downs and the
rape, but look how excited you are, you're not gay, you’re my husband that I
love and I want you more than ever." Edith kissed Mark and caressed his
erect manhood as he held her to him. They slowly undressed in the living area
each other, which culminated in them making love to each other slowly and with
as much passion they had ever had on the rug.
Their act was done in love as they held each other with
Edith softly saying, "I love you darling. When you were younger did you
ever dream about having a man for a lover or experiment?"
"Dear you were my first lover and the only one, never
did I want a man although I did maybe dream about it after my rape. Callie and
mom drilled into me relentlessly how to be feminine, you're right it was, the
mannerisms were defensive because I was in morbid fear of getting beaten up if
I was found out. You were the only one that seemed to understand what I was
going through, I've always loved you for many reason but also for that."
"Ah honey, do you remember Anna my girlfriend at
school, anyway she and I experimented sexually in grade school but you were
always my best friend along with Callie and Gale and I always dreamed about
having you as my lover. I'm so scared about this entire thing I need promises
from you and for you to keep those promises." Edith said with Mark kissing
her and nodding agreement with Edith continuing by saying, "First, I
remember the wish that Gayle and I made about being younger; all I ask is we
stay with you both no matter what happens. Second, I want you to re-marry and
have a good life. If you become a woman, marry a good man, love me and have
more children so I can have brothers and sisters. Third, never let me become a
doctor mommy; too much stress. Fourth, love your dad and the kids with all your
heart along with Gayle and Nick. Make sure you tell them all exactly what
happened and I love them all with all my heart. Five, help out Nick and Lee in
every way you can, make Nick and Lee your sisters. Gayle is telling Nick and
Lee the same things I just told you. Six, I want you to sketch and paint,
please use all that talent you have and paint a portrait of Gayle and me each
year as we grow, if it happens." Edith saw the look of fright on Mark's
face with him saying, "Oh crap now you have me scared. What's this mommy
shit? Oh my Lord, my soul and heart of a woman. I guess I have no problem with
any of those points but at least we were warned. Those consequences are beyond
my comprehension, I worked hard to forget my mannerisms now I have to get them
back, look pretty, screw guys and have children. Hey that's what you do or are
supposed to do."
"Okay we all goofed on this one but like you said we
can prepare for the inevitable, I rather have this happen than die and I have
no doubt we would. I believe what Matilda and her daughter said was true."
Edith said solemnly with Mark saying, "Mom always said that true magic
comes from the heart. My brain says it's true but the skeptic in me says it's
all nonsense."
"She was always wise and so are you, I loved her as
much as all of you in that crazy family." Edith said kissing Mark when the
telephone rang. He stood in all his male glory and answered the phone.
It was Nick; he asked that he get dressed, knowing what
Edith and him had done, they were to meet him and Lee at the boat because the
Crew Chief needed help. Edith sighed and smiled telling him to go, with her and
Gayle going out to shop more.
Mark was dressed in minutes, kissed Edith long and lovingly
and was out of the cottage door meeting Nick and Lee on the path to the marina.
Nick smiled at Mark saying, "Let's see now, you got laid and the girls are
going shopping?"
"Damnit Bro how did you know?"
"Easy, Gayle did the same while Lee went and got hairy
palms." Nick said with Lee saying, "Nope, I got all prettied up,
found a man and got laid too. The bastard even put a paper bag over my head and
then made me sore in my ass." The men laughed so hard the tears came from
their eyes with Mark saying, "Lee, don't ever lose that sense of humor
even when your in your ninth month."
"Damnit to hell, I forgot about that being young shit,
oh well there's always the pill." Lee said dejectedly with Nick saying,
"Yeah, with your luck you'll forget the damn thing and get a
surprise." Lee looked at the guys and said, "Ya know I'll do something
those bitches I married wouldn't do, have a baby. I always liked kids and even
helped out in the nursery at the hospital. Damn I'll have all the right
equipment and be able to feed the kids better and get a thrill for
myself."
"You perverted old asshole, I knew it'd be something
like that." Nick said not believing what Lee had said making Mark laugh
very hard with them all joining in on the laughter, arriving at the marina
saving possibly Lee's life.
They walked down the pier with Marty seeing them and waved.
The trio waved back seeing that the crews were all over the boat with Nick
being impressed.
They crossed the brow with Marty coming to them saying,
"I had a diver check the intakes, all the screens were fine but for the
one on that engine that was running hot. He brought up the screen and it was
melted which I thought it was from the engine at first. We pulled the pumps on
the engine and this was stuck in the pipe." He held up a finely crafted,
gold medallion shaped like a triangle that was attached to a heavy solid gold
chain. On one side of the medallion were a male and female lion and cubs and
the other side was a Zulu or Masai African tribal warrior and a beautiful
African woman with a baby in her arms, suckling at her breast and three bottlenose
dolphins at each corner. The craftsmanship was nothing that they had ever seen
before in the details of the pictographic detail; it was beyond museum quality
it was of pristine quality.
"Good work Marty; next time you won't doubt me."
Lee said with Marty saying, "Where in the hell did you pick it up from,
Freeport or here? It's old and certainly valuable, the crew thinks its a good
luck piece and want you to have it hang in the cockpit." Nick looked at
the men and they, the trio, looked back dumbfounded with Lee saying, "It
wouldn't hurt to have a little luck and we surely need it, this next leg will
be the big test of the Glamour Girl. Marty please find a place for it in
the cockpit. Don't forget you're coming too tomorrow, grab a locker in the
berthing area." Lee took the medallion from Nick and gave it back to Marty
with him saying, "You know Lee, I wish if I ever found a woman like you,
your disposition, I would have married decades ago." With Lee smiling and
saying, "I won't put on a dress sweetie so you can have you way with
me."
"Lee, I wouldn't bend over in the engine room with the
amorous Martin around…" Nick said chuckling with Mark smiling and adding,
"Or get undressed anywhere near him or drop the soap in the shower."
"After all those ships and being at sea, I'm not
stupid, I keep my butt in the corner and then bend over, thank you." Lee
said as Martin blushed saying, "Guys, I'm not that way. I'm sorry for
saying that statement Lee." They all laughed making Martin feel more
comfortable that everything said was a joke.
The trio left the boat and walked back to the cottages with
Nick saying, "Lee, I think the poor guy was serious but damn he's one of
the best Chiefs I've ever seen and lonely as hell." Lee stopped walking
and looked at Nick saying, "it's bad enough I had to listen to all this
magic crap which I still don't understand but now you want to play matchmaker
with two men, blow it out your ass. Maybe I'll jump ship, damn that sounds
good."
"Bullshit Mother Lee, your babies in that boat need
you, just don't pull out a tit and try breastfeeding them unless you have jet
fuel in those lactation glands. Lee we're all scared shitless, yet if we stay
here somehow I think the fates will follow us with death right behind those
sisters, those three goddess sisters of destiny can really play hell on us
mortals. That medallion is a puzzle; I think it's like an Indian medicine bag,
to protect against evil spirits, maybe it's to help us lowly mortals. The
questions are, how it got stuck in the intake and where did it come from and
what is its purpose?"
They were nearing the cottages deciding to go to the pool
bar to speak to the niece of Matilda, Ramalla and went directly there. She was
getting off shift in a few minutes and made them a drink and sat down with them
at a table saying, "I heard from my cousin, so it was Aunty Matilda. She
was a dynamic woman and Raphella has become like her, very strong in her power.
Believe all she has told you as it will occur."
"Sweetie, have you ever seen a heavy gold medallion and
chain in the shape of a triangle…" Nick said with the woman saying,
"With a pride of Lions and a warrior family with dolphins, by the gods
that was her medallion, Momma Matilda's magic her Juju piece, and she always
wore it. It disappeared after her death, we, the family assumed it was stolen.
It came from our tribe made centuries ago by the first High Priest to ward off
all evil but it always looked new to us. Momma would say it had big medicine to
combat and defeat big evil. The story goes it was formed from gold from the
legendary gold mines of King Solomon with his blessings. I must tell Raphella
that it has come back." She left the table, quickly went to the telephone,
used the device and returned saying, "She knew you had it, it was in the
water intake of an engine, Momma told her she said. Raphella said it is to
protect you all and it is a gift from Momma Matilda to you her children.
Raphella said you will come back to see her, she thanks you for the money; it
bought many things for the poor of the isle. She had said you will bring more
family to celebrate with her." The men were in a state of the unknown, in
puzzlement and abject fear as the woman finished speaking with Nick saying,
"Lady we're all scared to death, our wives act like it's nothing to
regress in age but I see fear in their eyes. We were born males, made love to
women and soon we'll be making love to men…"
"Would you prefer to die? That is what surely would
happen to you all, you will adjust and be happy in all your lives, loves and be
very fertile. Your wives will become daughters and love their mothers. Raphella
is to be your guide to help you all as Momma Matilda commanded her to do."
"I sure as hell don't want to die yet, but having a kid
scares me just as badly." Lee said with the woman saying, "You will
procreate prolifically, you will raise your babies into proud, intelligent men
and woman and they will make you all grandmothers and great grandmothers. Do
not fear Momma Matilda will be near you all." She stood up and kissed the
men on the cheeks and left the table leaving the area to go home.
The trio sat in stunned silence, finishing their drinks and
then deciding to go to their cottages. Nick and Mark wanted to be with Gayle
and Edith, make love to them and to tell them how much they loved the girls.
They all left the bar walking back to their cottages.
Chapter 5
Carlos Edward Teach walked around his hidden base camp
seeing the people and children that inhabited it. They worked for this man that
had claimed to be a direct descendant of the legendary pirate that raised cane
along the North American coast and died in 1781. That ancestor was tried,
sentenced and put to death by hanging from the yardarm of a British Man O' War.
Carlos himself was the product of love by a Puerto Rican mother and a married
English gentleman from the Isle of Tortolla in the British Virgin Islands. His
family had wealth yet he grew up in a boat, his choice; it was his home and
school. He knew the people of the islands and saw the richness and the poverty
of the people of all the islands. His education and educator was the sea, he
saw how the lady he loved so much could turn her back on the sailor and kill
him to feed her denizens of the deep.
He was dressed as a man of the seas for the Caribbean,
shorts, t-shirt, sandals; he stood at five foot ten inches tall, firm of body,
short-cropped dark brown hair, shaved smooth face showing his tanned and
weathered skin. His moods changed as quickly as the weather could, this
suggested an unstable quality to his psychological makeup.
He walked quickly into a three-story building of Spanish
design going directly to a set of teak wood doors. He opened one of the doors
walking into a room that had a vast collection of weapons from naval cutlasses to
modern machine guns. He sat at a heavy wooden desk when there was a knock on
the door and it opened. A young women dressed as Carlos was entered the room,
closed the door and sat in a chair crossing her tanned, firm and well shaped
legs saying, " All is ready, the boats have left and the plane awaits you
my dear."
"Maria, I am indeed a fortunate man to have you not
only as my second in command, but as my woman. Your body is soft but you are as
hard as a man in the mind. This prize must be captured intact; it will bring in
much money for the people and us. We will wed after this mission."
"Darling, just come back with me. What of the
crew?"
"Feed them to the fish for all I care, I want the boat.
Ten of us will parachute from the plane with the high-speed Zodiac boat once we
hear the device that is aboard the boat. Eight of us in the parachutes will
land on the boat as she steams through the water, blow the hatches and capture
it. She will be towed here, repaired, sent on to Belize and we then get paid."
Carlos said smiling with Maria doing the same. She uncrossed her legs, stood
and walked to Carlos, kissed him firmly on the lips with a hand going to his
manhood.
The woman had sex with the man reliving each time she had
killed a man after the act. She was kin to the Black Widow Spider that killed
its mate after the act. She repressed those feelings to kill; it was not time
for Carlos to die but it would be soon for him to die. She was a wealthy woman
having married at least ten times to wealthy men wanting her on their arm's to
make men's blood boil with lust. Once she married the man she planned their
demise; ten very rich men died at her hand, by various nondetectable drugs that
poured into their biological systems quickly, to their demise. Maria was very
rich but had a lust for power, a man's power that was why she was with Carlos.
He had power, wealth and a reputation built on fear, which she wanted and was
determined to have it all. Carlos was but a tool for her to have her way.
They completed their act, with her satiated upon his desk as
he stood above the diminutive woman she was but five foot two and very slight
of build calling her his woman child in her ear. She despised this man as she
despised all men, stemming from the rapes she endured from the male members of
her family. Her mother was dead from her birth and she became the woman of the
house at an early age assuming all the mother's duties, which included having
sex with her father. The man was very much like Carlos, a pig and she killed him
too and fled; he was her first victim.
Quickly they dressed, went to eat and then going out to the
tiny airstrip on the island on foot. On the crushed seashell and asphalted
tarmac stood an old reconditioned, Boeing C-130 that was bought as surplus from
the United States for pennies. Carlos had his men trained as pilots and
mechanics to fly with them, up keeping the plane, supporting him in his mission
of greed, murder and terror. No boat or ship of small, medium or large size was
safe from him or the cargo and the people.
They both spoke to the crew and mechanics of the plane,
hearing nothing but the good words they sought. They smiled as they walked to
the hanger with the people in it being busy checking out the paragliders and
weapons, paying no attention to their bosses. The men and a few women were
mercenaries that knew their jobs of killing, didn't care what they did to earn
their money, they each were bloodthirsty and had the ethics of a sand flea,
none.
They spilt into teams, checking all their equipment and
walked to the awaiting plane. The crew of the plane had the engines warming as
the parachutists came up the ramp and the ramp closed behind them. The plane
taxied, took off toward the black sky with the stars that shone brightly as
destiny awaited these people.
The ready lights shone brightly red in the dimly lighted
cargo hold of the plane with the ramp lowering into position allowing the sun
to brighten up the darkness of the cargo area. The Zodiacs were released with
two people following it when the lights turned green. Two minutes later the
rest of those people stood in the cargo area, with them reaching out to embrace
the blue skies seeing their target far behind them but getting closer with each
passing second. They all checked their altimeters with the pilot with the
instruments showing fifteen thousand feet. The people also saw a dense fog
closing; colored like no fog they had ever seen before. It was pink, gray,
purple and blue along with many other colors that seemed to swirl, it seemed to
change at will; it appeared to be alive.
The all jumped into the nothingness, Carlos tried his radio
with no luck getting just static; he tried hand signals but was ignored. He
then saw the boat pass them seeing the fog and the sea coming at him fast, He
pulled the ripcord with nothing happening, it was then the cloud enveloped him,
that was all he saw as he hit the blue waters. He died drowning along with the
others that jumped as they all had malfunctions with their chutes.
Maria saw the hazy cloud looking at the altimeter as she
popped the glider- chute with it opening at three hundred feet. She was worried
that she couldn't see her target nor hear the damn thing and went into a spiral
descent hoping to hear the boat's engines, she didn't. She hit the water just
as the boat hit her body, killing her instantly, with the sharks smelling her
blood and hearing the thrashing of the others that jumped from the plane, her
team died also very violently.
Chapter 6
The telephone rang at 4am on the nightstand next to the bed
with Edith answering it and telling the concierge that they were awake. In
reality Mark and her were up all night making love, worrying about the day and
what would happen to them. They went over and over what they had wished with
each time remembering something different.
They slowly dressed in fresh nomex underwear, nomex socks,
sneakers and a new flame retardant, flame resistant jumpsuit after taking a
shower together and making love. Edith had always taken her birth control pills
and decided the hell with it that day. She was a firm believer of the
supernatural just as Gayle was, while the men made fun of their beliefs and
always had, now Mark wasn't so sure anymore.
Mark called the front desk after they dressed telling them
to send the porters for their gear then calling Lee, Gayle and Nick to tell
them they would be in the restaurant for breakfast. He hung up the telephone
receiver and looked at the fifteen additional large nylon gear bags and said,
"Honey, What's with the added bags and all the shopping yesterday? I know
you believe in this crap but………"
"It's mostly for you and some for me as a just in case,
Gayle did the same for her, Lee and Nick. Darling I know we talked all night
but I want you to promise me if I regress to a baby you'll raise me, Gayle made
Nick do the same thing last night, you both have to help Lee, promise me."
”Damnit Edie, nothing will happen, I don't care what we
wished for and who says it will happen, it's a bunch of Voodoo crap." Mark
said with Edith coming to him and kissing him softly saying, "Placate me
and promise, honey if it happens it happens, if it doesn't I swear you'll have
the biggest smile on your face you ever had and we'll have a baby or two."
"Damnit Edie…I promise, I don't like it, but I
promise." Edith gave him a kiss that would curl a man's toenails and took
his arm leading him from the cottage and to the restaurant.
On entering, they smelled the food and went to the buffet,
filling their plates with an artery-clogging assortment of breakfast foods, sat
down at a table and started to eat with Lee, Nick and Gayle seeing them seated.
Nick came over to them while Lee and Gayle filled up their plates. Nick looked
at them saying, "Did you have to do what Lee and I had to do, Mark?"
Mark looked at Nick sheepishly answering, "I guess so, along with other
things."
"Damnit, this shit pisses me off but I had to do the
same to keep the peace. The girls really believe all this shit!" Nick said
nodding his head in disbelief and going to where the food was, with Gayle and
Lee joining Edith and Mark with Lee saying, "Ya know if this crap is true,
I sure as hell would love to be younger, maybe even do a lot of things
differently." Mark looked at the man saying, "You sure will but it will
be on your back and in your mouth, with a husband as ornery as you." Both
Gayle and Edith giggled at the comeback with Gayle saying, "Lee just
remember to keep those two focused and you keep your legs closed."
"That was a sucky thing to say Gayle besides from what
I heard it never wears out." Lee said with Edith saying, "Yeah honey
you'll be doing a great deal of sucking and that thing between our legs never
wears out with proper maintenance."
"Damn, more maintenance, and sorry I don't do those
type things you mentioned." Lee said smiling with Nick sitting down
saying, "I heard the whole thing, Lee, I'll fix you up with Marty and you
can play vacuum cleaner with him." Lee almost choked on the food he was
chewing then saying, "Ah no thanks, I want a monster to put a smile on my
face."
"That you can do with a dildo, mine is in our bedroom
dresser, right bottom drawer, and enjoy it, honey." Gayle said giggling
just as the waitress went by hearing what she said and giggled with her and
Edith causing Lee to blush.
They finished eating, with the girls stopping at the front
desk, and then they all were driven to the marina to the boat, seeing Martin
speaking to two men on the pier. Getting closer we saw they were arguing with
Martin when Martin saw and pointed to us.
They all came toward us with Martin excitedly saying,
"Nick these guys want to go on the Glamour Girl something about a
Bug being onboard."
"Slow down Marty, now what's this all about?" Nick
asked with the one of the men saying, "Yes sir, I'm Ensign Pete Volmer and
this is Chief Warrant Officer Greg Nelson with Naval Intelligence at Roosevelt
Roads Naval Base in Puerto Rico. We have an excellent reason to believe there's
a homing device on your boat. We were sent here to retrieve it and proceed with
you."
"Okay you guys you know the drill show the ID's or get
the hell out of our faces." Lee said with the Warrant Officer saying,
"Sure thing Master Chief, sir, I suggest you show the Master Chief your
credentials." They both reached into their pockets and pulled out a
leather case and showed Lee.
"Oh Fu…Sorry ladies, It's the real thing. We aren't
running dope but we sure are exceeding the speed or screwing too fast."
Lee said with the Chief Warrant Officer saying, "We know, we've been
following the race, damn you all have guts to pilot this rocket."
"Dear there are ears around here, I suggest going into
the galley on GG." Gayle said smiling with both men staring at the butts
of Gayle and Edith as they crossed the brow and went below with Lee saying,
"Damn some things never change with you swabs especially when there's a
pretty woman around. Just to let you know those ladies are married to these
guys."
"Some guys have all the luck, Master Chief a favor is
being called in by Captain Henry Marshall." Lee nodded with the men taking
the naval officer down below to the small galley of the Glamour Girl.
"Okay guys spit it out, I haven't seen Henry in maybe
ten years. He saved my ass many times from the brig coming aboard the Bird Farm
late from the beach. I heard he's up for Rear Admiral?"
"Yes Master Chief but…."
"Ensign, I have to agree with Lee, something
smells." Nick said with the two intelligence people looking at each other
with the Pete saying, "There was a plane crash at NAS, Gitmo (Naval Air
Station, Guantanimo Bay, Cuba) after declaring an in-flight emergency. They
landed all right with the fuselage splitting in half as they landed, six people
died of what appeared to be asphyxiation. Two women were built like amazons,
two men that appeared to be descendants of the Central American Indians and the
flight crew. The Crash Crew found papers on removing the bodies to a guy named
Carlos Teach and naming your boat. On a check we found out this guy is wanted
by everyone for crimes from murder to high sea piracy. It seems or so we
believe your boat was his next prize for those people."
"Shit, you want to use us as bait! " Gayle said
surprised with Nick saying, "Hold on a minute do you remember the Trost
family from the Tampa boatyard, eight people left on the family boat none came
back. The Coast Guard found them all dead adrift in a raft with no food or
water, six kids and the parents. The report said the mother and her daughters
were all raped and along with the father and the boys, those that did that it
were animals, the Coast Guard said the adults were ripped apart internally
bleeding at the post mortem and the kids died from thirst and no food."
"Yes sir, those were just a few of the victims, sadly
to say. There was a report his woman threw a six-month-old baby over the side
of one of those captures with a shark hook in the baby. She was Trolling with
the baby making the mother and father watch as their child was used for shark
bait." Greg said seeing the sadness on all of their faces with Nick
saying, "We have a date with destiny, but I won't place anyone into that
kind of danger, we all have to agree." Nick looked at everyone of the crew
with them all nodding yes with the Pete and Greg saying, "We're going with
you, we have some equipment to install and find that device, we'll be ready in
an hour." Lee looked at them saying, "I'll help but tell Henry that
this is payback in full for him saving my ass."
"I can't say it's wise to come with us Pete we're all
jumpy with this Voodoo garbage and the Triangle." Nick said getting
strange looks from the to naval officers with Greg saying, "What crap,
I've been through the triangle more times then I want to think about it. Each
person, plane or ship has been investigated and researched with scientific,
plausible explanations given."
Martin and Lee left the galley to check out the engines,
Gayle made coffee and the others sat the men down and told them the entire
story. Pete and
Greg were stunned with the disclosure, yet they were dubious
until Edith went to the cockpit and brought the medallion into the Galley. Greg
and Pete swallowed their words seeing the gold triangle and investigating it
with Greg saying, "I'd like to take a few pictures and send them off to
some people we know."
"Fine, but that medallion doesn't leave the boat and we
have to prepare to get underway." Gayle said with Greg saying, "I
have some equipment to hook up, I have to patch into your cameras and do a
sweep."
They all went to work taking their coffee with them. All of
the system checks were done to the Glamour Girl from the electronics to the
hull stabilizers. The two members of the Navy had installed their equipment and
did a transmitter sweep finding nothing.
The young ensign went aft to the engine room while Greg did
another check saying, "Damnit, I know the damn thing is here, but where
the hell is it?"
"We have to cast off in ten minutes, I need to contact
the Harbor Master, Bahamian Coast Guard and our Coast Guard. I'm going to light
off the Transponder." Nick said as he flicked the switch at his console
when the frequency analyzer showed the presence of another carrier wave
transmitting a signal.
Greg gave a whoop and took a handheld object with an antenna
from a case and followed the signal going directly to the secondary conn. He
found the bug, opened it up, made an adjustment to it and replaced it where it
was coming back to the cockpit saying, "I found the damn thing, when you
activated the radio transponder for the radar there was another signal in it,
in the carrier, that signal was our bug going to our pirates. It draws your GPS
signal and gives out your course, speed and position. I made an adjustment that
gives the wrong data out, wrong course, speed and position. Now the cameras you
have aboard will send their signal to be recorded on the new hard drives I
added, they can be reviewed but not turned off both inside and topside. Ladies
if you shower please close the curtains and don't walk around in the raw
because that poor kid getting the satellite feeds of the cameras will be spanking
his monkey seeing every inch of your beautiful bodies."
"Nick, he sounds like Lee, are the both of you
related?" Edith asked giggling with Gayle saying, "Oh Lord, I hope
not! One pervert is enough to handle and Lee has to be the most perverted man I
know."
Nick handed Greg a helmet, a jumpsuit, socks and the
underwear from the storage area and went aft to give Pete the same. Martin
warned Pete not to bend over with Lee near him with Lee giving a sheepish smile
saying, "Marty, in a way I hope this does happen so I can screw you to
death, you old bastard." Nick left to go forward smiling knowing he
started an augment of mass proportions.
While Pete dressed he said, "I kinda wish that if it
happens I hope those guys are as gorgeous as those girls with Greg and I as
their boyfriends, damn they are beautiful." Marty looked at Lee saying,
"I wish your new tits are firm, your skin soft and that new baby maker
tight, just as your asshole is. Man I'd hump you forever."
"That's it, that's how we got into this mess! That lady
said it was because of all the wishes we made." Lee said with Pete saying,
"Damn I knew you Old Salts were superstitious even Pete is but Sorry but
I'm not."
"Son, when you've traveled the world as I have you'll
see things there's no plausible explanation for. Just do your active duty time,
get out, go back to your girlfriend and tell your sea stories to your kids and
the old farts at the American Legion Post as you drink the beer. Don't let the
ships and the seas be your mistress, I regret it every time I get divorced and
re-married."
"Lee did you ever think you married for just their
companionship and just a little for the sex?" Martin asked with Lee
saying, "Marty I never thought of it that way, but it could be. You spend
so much time with the guys; your life is in everyone's hands on those ships you
begin to look at your shipmates as family. Your own family sometimes takes a
back seat, you provide for them and want to come back to them but those men are
your true family."
Martin looked at the man he'd known and worked with for a
number of years and placed his arm onto his shoulder saying, "Lee, she's a
cold loving mistress but I know what you mean. I married but dreamed of boats,
any type of vessel, and the woman I married understood as we made our home and
my den into a shrine to boats. We spent time together on our small sailing
skiff and I kept designing, becoming a Naval Architect. I was the best there
was in the field…"
"That's why Nick hired you Marty, but you crawled into
the bottle, you lost that love for life."
"My wife died after twenty years of marriage, I wanted
to be with her and the bottle was the way to do it. We had no children since
she couldn't conceive but we had a good life together." Marty said with
Lee saying, "Damn Marty that's rough, next time you feel down come see me
and we'll talk, maybe share a few drinks to loosen the tongue." Marty and
Lee smiled as they went back to work as the Ensign got into the jumpsuit.
Nick had arrived back to the cockpit doing some weight
calculations with him saying, "You and your shopping trips Gayle, we added
four hundred pounds from what Marty wrote down weighing those bags; GG will
hold speed but we aren't as light as we were."
"We'll break the speed record even with the added weight,
Edie and I wanted us prepared. Now stop the grumbling and get the okay to get
underway." Gayle said kissing her husband seeing that he was very worried.
Nick got the permission to get underway with them putting on
their helmets with Greg then using his radio frequency to call their primary
tactical control located aboard the Naval Aircraft Attack Carrier, Chester A.
Nimitz.
Chapter 7
The time was o3oo hours or 3am, two men sat in comfortable
chairs in a well-appointed stateroom with the bulkheads painted haze gray where
there wasn't any rich dark paneling, there was a knock on the metal door. The
door opened with an armed Marine in dress blue uniform stepping into the room
saying, "Sirs, Commander MacDougal with Flash traffic for you from Radio
Central."
"Send her in, have the Air Boss and the Captain join
us; ensure we aren't disturbed." The young Marine left the room with a
pixy of a beautiful Scottish woman entering with the men pointing to a
conference table that they all went too foregoing all military courtesies.
"Admiral Mike Townsend, this woman is our Comms Officer
from the Beach Jumper Unit and the best Comm person next to Nelson I ever had,
sorry about not telling you she was there." Henry said with Mike saying,
"Henry with the gear, and the Staff you brought aboard the Chester A.
along with the sailing orders, I had a feeling this wasn't normal, a vacation
or a drinking visit."
"Sirs, Volmer and Nelson are at the site, the man they
met is the Crew Chief, Martin Gabriel. He allowed them access to the vessel but
he refused them total access until the owner comes aboard. They told them him
about the operation or at least a part of it.