OREGON
Warning: This story contains mature content. Reader discretion is advised.
I repeat: Reader Discretion Is Advised.
This is a Caskett story but it has nothing to do with Canon. It is a totally stand alone tale. Some names you may recognize, however, they are NOT the people you are thinking of.
There are no major or minor character deaths. Even death or violence are not mentioned.
One Chapter Only
It had been four long years. The Beckett family's journey took them five long months to get here. That first winter there had been cold. Bitterly cold. It was like the Oregon Country wanted to kill them all.
Out of all of them, they were considered the richest. They had a wagon of considerable size that was pulled by four oxen, and it pulled two draft horses, two milk cows, and one baby bull. Kate rode their lone horse while their two dogs, one male and one female, either rode in the wagon, or ran next to her.
Four years later, they had a dogtrot house, not that Kate understood what a dog had to do with it. Her dad helped the others cut down tree, after tree, after tree. Then they had to remove all the bark, cut it to length, and make sure each round log was SQUARE!
After that, they had to lift them till they had a nine-foot ceiling and install rafters and a roof. Thankfully, Kate didn't have to do any of that. She was just twelve years old at the start. No, her job was to tend to all the animals, and when she wasn't doing that, she was gathering rocks to build the fireplaces.
Kate never wanted to see another rock for as long as she lived! When she was older and could do more, Kate was asked to gather bigger and bigger stones. Until finally, she was rolling boulders.
"MAMA! I'M DONE WITH ROCKS!" Kate couldn't take it any longer. She had rolled her last boulder.
"Good." Johanna was happy with that. "Sit here, take these plants, strip them into pieces, and braid them into rope. We need yards and yards of hemp rope. Or you can go help make the fence for the animals."
Kate fell to the ground since she was dead tired. STUPID BOULDER! She had gone back to rolling boulders naturally.
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Fortunately, four years later, everyone had a house. Not all of them were dog trots, thankfully. However, everyone needed a fence for animals.
Kate was up, washed, and outside to check on the animals. Their only real problem was wolves, but they and a couple of others had dogs to chase them away. If that didn't work, everyone had guns. All of them were rifles that fired just one shot that took a long time to reload.
She had chores. She picked up the eggs so her mama could cook. Then she milked the cows so her mama could make butter and cheese. She loved cheese. And she made sure the horses had hay, and all of them had fresh water.
While she did her chores, she checked on the new colt. He was so cute and followed his mother everywhere. Then Kate checked on the calf and checked on the chicks. More chicks meant more chickens, which meant more eggs, and eventually, perhaps a chicken dinner.
It was only after lunch that she had any time to herself. To do what she wanted to do. And what she wanted to do was explore. This place was her home now and she wanted to see some of it. She had to shoo one of the dogs back home, or she might scare away all the wildlife.
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Rick chose this door and looked first before bending down enough to go through. It was pitch black till he pulled out his light. It was high enough for him to stand up in, except the floor here was full of large rocks. It was also rather cool in here. Not freezing cold, but it was plenty cool.
The cave flowed nicely until suddenly he saw sunlight. Finally, this door was looking up! He was looking up when all at once there was a rumbling that didn't seem to stop. And then dust came flowing his way. Covering his mouth with his arm, he waited till the dust finally settled.
Heading back the way he had just come, the tunnel was closed by a cave-in. "Just great! If I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all."
He didn't want to be trapped here. At least he did have a way out, so he walked back to it, looked up, and didn't see much. Then he spread his wings wide, jumped and pumped his wings, and landed at the edge of the hole in the ground.
All around him were trees with mountains in the distance. Looking back, he judged that the hole in the ground was maybe roughly thirty feet by thirty feet. Gazing upward, he saw blue skies and nothing else. That was good.
Rick traveled uphill until he found a flat spot that looked big enough. He reached behind him into his backpack that was small enough to fit between his wings and pulled out a patch. The best thing about this backpack? Everything that was in it that he wanted was always on top. It didn't hurt that it was far more sizable inside than the outside.
He put the cloth down, backed up, and spoke the command word. Up popped his ten-foot by ten-foot by eight-foot-tall tent. Once it settled in, it vanished, blending in with the background.
Rick stepped inside and instantly felt the temperature difference. He knew his tent would always be seventy-two degrees on the inside, no matter what the temperature was outside.
He dropped his backpack, pulled out his sleeping bag, and rolled it out. The best part about this sleeping bag was that it allowed space for his wings and tail and that it kept a sustained comfortable temperature.
Keeping his light, he went back outside and jumped down into the hole. He walked to the collapse, picked up the first boulder, walked over to his opening, and threw it out. Then he repeated that over, and over, and over again. It was boring, but he needed to clear a kind of path back to the door, or he was trapped here. Wherever here was.
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Rick was to the point where he couldn't take more chances. He had already had two ceiling collapses that had created small holes in the ceiling. If he allowed that to keep happening, he was never going to reach the door.
So he was back to cutting down yet another tree. Then he trimmed off the branches. That was followed by scraping off the bark, cut the tree into three pieces and dropping it down the hole, only to repeat it twice more.
Rick pounded them into place to create some support for the ceiling. What he wasn't sure about was just how often he would have to do that. By now, he wasn't sure just how far away the door was.
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Kate was sure that she had just heard a tree falling. Papa and others had cut down many trees, so they had logs to build their home. They were even still cutting down trees. The settlers all needed firewood to cook with and keep the house warm in winter. Now was the time to cut logs into the right size, split them, and stack the firewood somewhere to keep it dry. That was absolutely necessary since wet wood didn't burn worth a damn.
It was just she didn't think they had come this way since they were picking and choosing what trees to cut today.
Still, Kate headed that way and was soon dumbfounded by what she saw. It was someone all right, and he was presently cutting off branches. What had her attention was that he had wings and a tail. WINGS AND A TAIL!
She kept a hand over her mouth so no sound escaped while she watched him finish. Now he was cutting the bark off the tree. How the man was doing it was different than her papa and others did it. He was also a lot faster at it.
Kate also noticed that he had lots of muscles. All he was wearing were shorts. She got to see his stomach, and that area had horizontal ribs. His arms were heavily-muscled, as was his back and even his legs. As she watched his muscles flex, they always relaxed.
He wasn't overly muscled while still being slim. It took some concentration on Kate's part to finally look at his face. It was hard to tell, but he looked handsome. There was something off about his forehead.
Now she watched him cutting the tree into three separate pieces and he was pretty fast at it. He did the impossible. He put his tool down and lifted the tree! Then he put it on his shoulder and walked away with it.
Kate put both hands over her mouth to keep from making any sound at all. She carefully and slowly followed him where he threw it into a hole and turned around. Kate dove for the ground while keeping one hand over her mouth. She raised her head and watched him go back and pick up another one with ease and then dropped it into the hole.
Eventually, he had all three in the hole. Then he spread his wings wide and jumped in. What Kate wanted to do was get up and look, but she didn't.
She was still lying on her stomach on the ground behind a tree. Kate waited to see him again. She was stunned when she saw a boulder come flying out and roll down the hill till it finally stopped.
"NO WAY!" Kate breathed. She had nearly killed herself just trying to roll rocks not even half that size, and he had thrown that boulder out the hole. A moment later, out flew another one.
Kate didn't know who this fellow was, but he was strong. Just why the heck did he have wings and a tail?
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Kate had watched boulder after boulder come flying out of the hole, followed by him flying out of the hole. He proceeded to cut down another tree, remove the bark, cut it into three pieces, and throw them down into the hole. Then eventually out came more boulders.
Finally, he flew out and went up the hill a little. And then he just up and vanished. It was the best way she could describe it. One second he was there, and the next, he was gone. Now she was lying there with both hands over her mouth again.
She didn't know who he was or what he was doing, but there was one thing she did know. Alright, maybe two or three things. One, he was astonishingly strong. Seriously strong. He had wings, and he could fly. She thought maybe he was handsome, but it was hard to be sure from this distance.
Since he had vanished, she decided to sneak back home. It wasn't until she was much farther away from him that she began running for home. Home was where she felt safe. Granted, she didn't see him as a threat, even with all that strength.
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It was about now that Rick wished for someone to work on his muscles. His shoulders were killing him. He was lifting with his legs, but you try to throw boulders using your legs. And you try to carry trees on your shoulders and see if your shoulders didn't hurt.
His tent allowed him to cool down, and while he didn't need food to live, he did have some water in a canteen, so he drank some.
His shoulders weren't much better, but he stepped outside; it was night, so he found a spot to sit where he look at the sky. It was full of stars. He tended to doubt that the stairs behind the door he was trying to uncover would take him to any of those. In fact, what he knew about the stairs suggested the opposite. But since the staircase was infinite, who knew where it could take him. He could spend his entire life walking the stairs and might never reach the end.
It was now that he spotted a fire in the distance. It was hard to judge distance accurately, but it looked far enough away not to be a danger. Still, it did tell him someone was around here. Then he spotted another one followed by yet another one even farther out. "So, more than one," Rick muttered.
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Kate had finished dinner and went outside to look up the hill she had climbed toward that fellow. She didn't see anything. No trees were falling, and there were no fires. She still wondered how he had disappeared like that.
Given that their home was a dog trot, it had four rooms. On one side was the main room and her parents' bedroom. The other side had the kitchen and the dining room in the big room and Kate slept in the small room.
Now her space wasn't so bad. She slept on a straw-stuffed mattress just as her parents did. However, she slept on a buffalo hide with another one over her if she needed it. Do you want to be comfortable? You try sleeping on a thick buffalo hide. They had eaten well on the trip out here. They just had to kill a buffalo which wasn't all that easy. Their rifles couldn't kill a buffalo in one shot. But they had buffalo hides all over the place.
Right now, Kate had her fingers between her legs and was stroking herself. While she was doing that, her mind kept telling her the fellow with wings, a tail, and muscles. There were boys in the area. It was just she wasn't interested in any of them. That didn't mean one or more wasn't interested in her. Even her mother wanted to know what was wrong with them.
She lifted her ass off her bed as she climaxed and did her best to keep from crying out. It was then she knew what interested her. Well, who interested her. She wanted her hands on those muscles.
As usual, she had to get out of bed to clean up a little before going to sleep.
Life for her and her parents meant work. She had chores just like her parents. Her papa switched between cutting down trees, splitting them into firewood, and working their fields, so that they had food for the winter. They needed food. Their animals required food, and they needed a way to keep firewood from getting wet. The only real pain was going outside in winter to get to the outhouse so she could pee and do her business.
It was days like those that she relished having a nice warm bed. Their house was a lot better than sleeping in that tent. Still, Kate used the tent to sleep in on occasion. It gave her more privacy.
Hearing both dogs start growing and barking had her barely dressed papa come rushing out of the bedroom with his rifle and running outside. The sound of a shot had her out of bed and at the door along with her mother.
Worried, Kate asked, "Wolves?"
"Possibly. We have seen a bear in the area." They didn't know of any other wildlife that could be a danger to them or the animals. It forced them to wait till Jim came home to find out.
They both saw him walking back, and he had something over his shoulders. "Will you start a fire for me, Katie? I need to gut this wolf before the meat goes bad."
"Wolf meat." Kate knew her mother was an incredible cook. She knew what to do with wolf meat. Out here, meat was meat. Kate put on some clothes and went outside to the fire pit to start a fire. It meant her papa wasn't going to get much sleep tonight. However, it also meant their two dogs, one of which was pregnant, would have meat to eat.
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Kate was back after lunch and hiding behind her tree. She needed to know where he was first. It wasn't until she saw a boulder come flying out of the hole that she knew where he was, so she waited.
Eventually, he flew out of his hole, walked over to a tree, and cut it down. By and by, all three pieces were thrown into the opening, and he jumped in and disappeared.
That had her up and headed for the space where he had disappeared. She didn't dare look down into the hole. First, she might be spotted, and second, she didn't want to get hit by a flying boulder.
She wasn't seeing anything till unexpectedly she felt something. It felt like cloth, but she didn't see anything. So, she followed it until it parted for her. Then she stuck her head through and spotted things inside.
Stepping inside, she instantly noticed a change in temperature. It was cooler in here. That was impossible, but it was. So she stepped back outside and did it again; she felt the difference.
Looking around told her she was in a tent. Unlike hers, it had a floor. And it was a different size than hers, it was larger. He had decided on one side of the tent. There was a thin backpack and a long section of cloth on the ground.
That had her checking what she took to be a bed and ran her hand across it. It was smooth. She didn't know what the fabric was, but it was soft and smooth. So was the interior.
The backpack was different. It was thin and long. Kate was thinking of looking inside it but thought better of it. She had seen enough and turned to leave.
"Hello." He was standing right there, and boy, was he big! And all he was wearing were those shorts of his.
"I, ah… I mean, I was… I'll go." Kate started to move, but he blocked the only exit she knew about, so she was trapped. Kate managed to raise her eyes to his face. They had been on his bulge in his shorts. It was now that she saw he had things on his forehead. Not big, but they looked like bone, maybe. He was also sort of a red color all over, something she must have missed earlier.
"I see you found my tent. That's not easy to do. What's your name?" Rick was curious and impressed. She was perhaps a little young, but she was pretty. Not much chest size, though she was tall. Long brown hair.
"Uh… um, Kate," she stammered, unsure about this. She had gotten too curious, and now she was trapped. And based on his muscles, she wasn't escaping him any time soon.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Kate. I'm Rick. I assume you're from one of the fires I see below at night." All he got back was a hum. "Relax, I'm not going to kill you."
"No?" Kate wasn't so sure.
"No," Rick stated with conviction. "So, you're curious. Brave of you." He liked her.
"Well, I… I mean, I was…" Kate was stammering again, and she knew it.
"I would show you, but there's not much to see. Just a tunnel, lots of rocks, and timbers I installed to keep the ceiling from caving in again. There's something in there that I want. Once I find it, I'll be gone.
"I need my sharpening tool." Rick pointed at his backpack.
Kate looked down at it and then at him. "OH!" Kate took a few steps back away from him. The tent was more than big enough to allow it. Then she watched him reach into his backpack and instantly took something out.
"Stay or leave, your choice." Rick left the tent and her and headed for his axe. He needed to sharpen it and cut down another tree. Then he needed to sharpen the tool he used to remove the bark.
That left Kate standing there for a time until she got brave enough to poke her head outside and stayed like that until she saw him. She watched him carry a log on his shoulder and drop it into the hole. Then he went back for the other two. After he jumped in, she left the tent.
But instead of running for home, she walked over to the edge and peered down in. She didn't see much. There was light in the distance on one side. Other than that, it was just dirt and rocks.
Then he was back, and he was carrying a boulder. "Move out of the way, please." Rick could see her standing there, and he threw his boulder once she was gone. Then he went back for another and had to get her to move again.
She was still there when he needed more wood, and she watched him jump and fly up to her. "You're a curious person." Rick liked her a little more for that.
"I don't understand what you're doing." Kate would question him about his wings, tail, and those things on his head next.
"Seeing is believing," Rick offered and Kate shrieked when suddenly he had an arm around her, and oh, did he have muscles! Then she shrieked again when he jumped. Except he didn't exactly jump. She saw his wings spread wide, and they landed amazingly softly. "Follow me." Rick let go of her and began walking.
Kate didn't follow for a moment, but she finally did. Soon she saw the trees he had cut down. There was one on each side, and one across the top. Then it was repeated. And even with all the boulders that were thrown out, there was still a lot on the floor.
She also noticed that the ceiling had holes, and light was streaming in. Then they came to an end and could go no farther. "There was a cave-in, and what I want is on the other side. All these rocks are in my way," Rick explained.
"I hate rocks." Kate saw the look he was giving her. "After we got here, one of my jobs was to collect rocks to build fireplaces. Eventually, I was rolling the bigger ones till I got tired. …I hate rocks."
"Me, too. I don't even know how many more rocks I need to move. You still moving rocks?" Rick questioned her.
"No, we have all the fireplaces we need, thankfully. Now I only have chores to do. I feed the animals. Once a month, I take the horses down to the lake to rinse them off, and I brush them every day. Check their feet, make sure they have fresh water, gather the eggs, help Mama clean. If I hurry, I'm finished by lunch," Kate told him.
"I see. Well, I have more rocks to move. Let's get you back up top." Rick walked for the hole with Kate next to him.
"What's with the wings, tail, and the things on your head?" Kate queried as they walked.
"I was born with them, and they're called horns. You don't seem to be scared of me." Rick was a little surprised.
Kate shrugged. "I was at first. Not so much now."
"So you've been spying on me. Guess that explains how you found my tent." If he didn't know where it was, he even might not find it. Kate chose to hide her face as she blushed.
Rick put an arm around her and held her tight. "Ready?" He didn't wait for her and jumped and flapped his wings. Instantly Kate found herself flying, but he didn't take her all that far. Then he let go of her. "I have work to do. Go or stay, just don't get hit by a rock." Rick turned and jumped back into the hole.
Kate chose to stay and watch and moved out of the way for each boulder he threw. She was still impressed with his strength. He was even pleasant, if not a little weird-looking what with the wings, horns, and tail, though still handsome.
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Rick finished for today and still couldn't see the door. He wasn't even trying to remove all of the rocks, just the ones at the top. He was willing to crawl over to get to the other side and open the door.
Jumping up, he didn't see her and assumed she had gone home. If he got lucky, she would come back before he needed cum from someone. He could make sure she never remembered it.
After stopping at a small stream to wash up a little, he hurried back to his tent. Even he got a little sweaty and stinky. He was working with big rocks, after all. Stepping inside, he saw Kate sitting on the floor. She was seemingly waiting for him. Yes, he was a little taken aback to see her.
Kate blushed a fiery red. "Um, hello, I have questions."
"Do you now." Rick dropped to his hands and knees and moved in closer.
Kate saw him getting closer and closer. Honestly, she had stayed to ask him questions. She had a lot of them for him. Right now, though, she was thinking he was about to kiss her. Yet she didn't move, and yes, he was kissing her, and she was kissing him back.
Kate felt his tongue press into her mouth, followed by copious amounts of sweet saliva flowing from his mouth into her own. Reflexively, she swallowed the sticky fluid. Suddenly she found herself relaxing while a calming warmth came from within her belly, and a tingling sensation began to spread throughout her body.
Kate took hold of his head with both hands and kissed him. She wanted to kiss him. The kisses were going straight to her loins, and she was getting a little wet.
Rick could smell her getting excited, so he released pheromones into the air to get her even more excited.
Kate drew back from the kiss, leaving their mouths connected by a thread of sticky saliva, and looked directly into his amber-colored eyes. They seemed to glow and sparkle back at her. She also smelled something and began to inhale deeply to get more of it.
Kate felt him working on taking her blouse off by unbuttoning it. She wanted him to remove her clothes. She hoped to kiss him again, so she did and got even more of that sweet sticky saliva; she swallowed all of it.
Kate found herself naked on his bed and let him spread her legs wide, exposing herself to him. She didn't understand what he was doing. He was on his stomach, and his face was getting closer and closer to her private area. Then his tongue touched her, and that had her crying out.
What he was doing to her was something she had never even dreamed. It took only moments for her to reach down, take two handfuls of his hair, and hold his head in place. His tongue was magical! The pleasure was something she had never thought was possible. Her mother had told her about sex and warned her it was how she might get pregnant. But this was something else and so much better than she thought possible.
Then he inserted a finger inside her and stroked it in and out while still licking her down there. Kate lifted her ass off the bed, climaxed, and let her orgasm take over her body.
She was expecting it to be over, but instead, he licked that spot that she stroked to give herself an orgasm. Only his tongue was way better than her own finger. More to the point, he was licking it as fast as he could.
It took only moments for her to scream out her second orgasm. Just as that area was getting seriously sensitive, Rick stopped and began kissing her thigh.
He was kissing his way up her body until he paused to play with one of her nipples and even bit it a little. Now he was kissing her, and she tasted something different.
When he stopped and looked at her, she saw his face was a mess. It was HER! She knew she got wet down there, and now it was all over his face. So this was how she tasted. That had her kissing him again to taste herself again.
And that was when she felt it, Rick's cock at her entrance. When he stopped kissing her, she looked down and was amazed. His cock was impossibly big. How was that thing supposed to fit inside her? Her finger told her just how big she was down there. His cock was never going to go inside her.
Still, she wanted him inside her. She was a virgin and had never kissed a boy. If he got that cock inside her, he was going to make a woman out of her. "Do it." She wanted to lose her virginity to him. She wanted him. She needed him, had to have him. That smell was all she could smell.
Kate gasped when a part of him was inside her. Her mother had warned her that the first time would hurt and hurt bad. However, after that it got better and better. Then he pushed and, damn, if it didn't hurt. It hurt a lot. It had her crying out from the pain.
Yet he didn't do anything and just stayed there. Then he started pushing. There was still a touch of pain, but she wanted it. She wanted all of him. Then he started pulling out of her.
"NO!" She wanted him inside her and not to stop. Thankfully, he didn't pull all the way out and pushed back inside her. "YES!" She wanted all of him. She could feel him. She might not understand how he fit inside her, but he was in her, and she needed more.
It took some time, but she felt him pulling out and pushing back in quite fast over, and over, and over again. God, but it felt amazing. She thought him licking her down here was great, but this was so much better.
She felt another orgasm building, and then it took over her body. She raked her fingers down Rick's back ripping it open. That was what Rick needed to climax, and he filled her pussy with all of his cum. Spurt, after spurt, after spurt.
Instead of resting on her, he spun them. It hurt his wings a little, but he could handle her weight better than she could handle his. He was also still inside her.
Kate raised her head and looked at him. He was even more handsome now, and she knew he was still inside her. "Hello." Kate smiled at him and then kissed him. "You made me a woman. Thank you." She was going to remember this day forever. Yes, it had hurt like her mother had warned her, but all of it was amazing.
"You were a virgin?" That meant he had a problem. Rick wasn't sure his ability to have her forget this would work on her. She might end up remembering all of it.
Instead of answering him, she kissed him. His cock was still inside her. "I have questions." She was ready to ask him questions and keep him inside her.
"Do you now?" Rick smiled and lifted up to kiss her.
"Why do you have wings, a tail, and those things on your head? Do they hurt?" Kate reached out and touched one with a finger, followed by stroking the length of it. It was hard like a bone and a bit pointy.
"No, they don't hurt," Rick assured her. "And I'm an Incubus."
She looked at him curiously. "I never heard of that. So, why is your cock so big, and why does it fit inside me?" It had hurt at first, but it didn't now. In fact, it still felt great.
"An Incubus makes sure a woman enjoys sex. Each time should only get better. My calling is to please you, and it fits because it's supposed to. You did enjoy it?" Rick was pretty sure she had. He was certain she'd had three orgasms so far. He was still hard and inside her, so number four was next.
"Yes." Kate started to blush and let him push her into a sitting position with him buried deep inside her. Since he was still inside her, Kate couldn't help herself. She ground herself on his cock to feel something.
His hands were on her breasts; she put her hands on his and forced his hands to squeeze her breasts. Her breasts weren't large, but at least they were more substantial than they used to be.
This time it took work, but she finally climaxed yet again. This time she heard Rick groan and swore she could feel him climaxing inside her this time.
Once her orgasm was over, she fell on top of him. FOUR! He had given her four orgasms. All she had ever given herself was just one. One was what she thought was all she could have.
"Who are you again?" Kate asked because what he had done was practically impossible. ALL OF IT! Except all he did was smile at her. "Incubus, huh?" She wasn't sure she had the nerve to ask her mama if she knew what an Incubus was.
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Kate was grinning wide. Rick had wrapped his arms around her from behind, and he was flying where she told him to. He was taking her home, and she was flying! It was another first. She had lost her virginity, so now she was a woman, and she was flying!
After they landed, he let go of her. "Good night, Kate." Rick turned to leave, but she stopped him and kissed him.
"Good night." Kate smiled at him and watched him run a little, jump into the air, and fly away into the dark.
Kate tried to slip into the house. But… "Where have you been?" Her mama was sitting on the porch, waiting for her.
"Um, checking on the animals," Kate fibbed. "It's my job."
Johanna wasn't so sure, but it made sense. Except her daughter looked different. Why was she smiling? She had never liked to do her chores, so why was she doing them at night? Still, she let it go because it was late and she was tired. Tomorrow was another day.
"Night, Katie." Johanna left her and went to her bedroom.
"Night, Mama. Love you," Kate said, and heard her mama say she loved her too.
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Come morning, Kate recalled what she had done last night. Moving a leg told her what she had done last night. Muscles Kate didn't even know were there suddenly hurt. It hurt when she sat up. Getting out of bed ached something fierce. And when she walked to the outhouse to pee, it was painful.
Sex was incredible, but there was a price to pay in the morning. Her mother hadn't told her anything about that. Doing her chores this morning hurt too, but she had managed to finish her chores on time. She ate her lunch, then rushed outside and headed for Rick. Thankfully, her sore muscles didn't hurt to much any longer.
This time she didn't try to hide. Kate walked straight for his tent and looked inside after finding it. But she didn't see him, so she headed for the hole in the ground and was just in time to watch a boulder come flying out and go rolling down the hill to join the others.
"RICK! CAN I HELP?" The rocks he was picking up she was betting she couldn't even move, let alone pick up and throw out of the hole. But maybe she could help in some way.
Kate saw him walk into view and look up at her. "Maybe." Rick jumped, flew up to her and wrapped his arms around her. Then he jumped back down and glided down.
"You can take me flying anytime." It was new and such marvelous fun.
"Like that, do you? Follow me." Rick walked into the tunnel with Kate right behind him.
"Here, take this." Rick handed over his little light that never went out. To get it to go out, he had to cover the light. "Climb up and see if you can see to the other side. The hole is kinda small, so you might get stuck." Rick grinned at her.
Kate tossed her light up into the air, caught it, and scrambled up the rocks. What he wanted was on the other side, and she wanted to know what that was.
She soon found out he wasn't kidding. His hole was a little small. Finally, she was glad she didn't have big breasts, big hips, or a big butt. Still, she struggled, wiggled, and tried to push rocks out of the way.
Now she crawled down the far side and raised her light to look around, but she only saw more tunnel, so she walked till she had to stop. There was a wooden door. It was a similar to their front door, yet different. This one had these black metal bands on it. So she looked it over.
Kate went back to where she would have to climb back up to the hole. "THERE IS A DOOR! IT'S WOOD WITH THESE BIG, BLACK METAL BANDS ON IT!" Kate yelled.
"Yes!" He was close. Now he just needed to make the hole big enough for him to get through to the other side. "STAY THERE! DON'T MOVE!" Rick yelled to her. He went back to the hole and flew up.
He gathered all of his tools and put them in his backpack along with his water and sleeping bag. Back outside, he said the magic word, picked up his little piece of cloth and put it away.
Then back down into the hole and back to his little hole he went. "DO ME A FAVOR. GO TO THE DOOR AND OPEN IT AND LOOK INSIDE. THEN CLOSE IT AND COME TELL ME WHAT YOU SAW!" Rick yelled.
"ALL RIGHT!" She kind of wanted to do that anyway.
*)=(*
Kate opened the door and stepped through. She didn't believe what she saw. It was a staircase, a big one. The landing was somewhat small. She walked over to the railing and looked down. All she saw was the staircase spiraling down until it disappeared into the distance. Looking up, she saw the same thing.
"WOW! …This is what he wants to find?" She was thinking something else. A different metal, maybe, or a gem, perhaps. Certainly not this.
Kate closed the door and went back to the hole. "IT'S A STAIRCASE THAT GOES ON FOREVER! WHAT IS IT?"
"It's still there." That was good. It meant he had a way out. He just had to reach where she was. "IT'S THE INFINITE STAIRCASE! IT GOES ON FOREVER! IT NEVER, EVER ENDS!" Rick yelled back to her. He kept his backpack on his back, began grabbing rocks, and throwing them behind him. These, he was thinking, didn't need to go out the hole.
*)=(*
Rick crawled up and could see Kate standing there in the light. She was gorgeous. Yes, she was a human, and he was an Incubus, but she was beautiful.
Rick thought he finally had the hole big enough for him to go through. So he climbed up, took off his backpack, and pushed it through. Now he was struggling to get his body through.
Kate picked up his backpack, moved it, and waited for him to join her.
Rick was pushing and kicking and finally worked his way through. He tumbled down the rocks until he was at her feet and looked up at her. He smiled a huge smile at her. "Hello."
"Hello." Kate liked him down there at her feet. However, he got up. But just as he did there was a thundering sound, and dust came rushing at them through the hole.
"NO! GODS, NO!" Rick looked at the hole. He was thinking it was another cave-in and that wasn't what he needed right now.
"What was that?" Kate was afraid of what it was, but she asked him anyway.
Rick felt awful. It was likely his fault. "Cave-in. Sounded like a big one," he told her.
The color drained out of her face. "I'M TRAPPED!?" Kate kept his light and climbed up the rocks to reach his hole. Once she was there, she stuck her hand through and peered through the opening. "NO! No, no, no." All she saw were rocks, lots and lots of rocks.
*)=(*
Kate was back down next to Rick; he held her in his arms, trying to comfort her. "Can you dig us out?" she asked, her cheek against his chest.
"Possibly, but I don't have nearly enough food and water for you or myself. It took me days to get this far. And I have nowhere to get the trees to hold up the ceiling." They were both screwed.
She kept talking to him, her face still his chest. "My parents are on the other side."
"I know, sweetling." Rick kept holding her in his arms. He could only think of one thing for her. "You have to come with me now. I promise to take care of you. I won't let anything happen to you."
"There's no where to go. It's just stairs. My parents are going to be so worried," Kate told him as a single tear slipped down her cheek.
"I know." Rick bent down and kissed her head. "The staircase goes on forever with door after door all the way. We have to find the right one. Then find food and water for you, get you some clothes and everything else."
"Back to home?" Kate didn't see how. She didn't even understand the staircase. How could it do what it was doing? No mountain and certainly nothing close could be that high or that deep.
Rick kept holding her close. "I don't know, Kate. There's only one way to find out."
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The first door looked like it was rock, and yet, it opened like any door. They hadn't seen anyone on the stairs at this point, and it turned out the door on the opposite side looked like it was rock, too. Kate watched Rick chisel a mark into the one on this side, which would enable them to find it again.
It turned out that this tunnel was more cave and opened up onto a large plateau high up on a mountain. Amazingly, it wasn't all that cold, but Kate could feel the chill, so she was inside the tent waiting for Rick to come back. He had wings, he could fly, and she didn't.
Eventually, he was back and had her come outside. He had been gone for what felt like a long time, and she worried about him. What if something happened to him? He was all she had now.
"You're with me. We're going flying." Rick wrapped his arms around her from behind. He at least still had his backpack on his back. Kate found herself soon flying. She liked flying, but it wasn't nearly as much fun as last time. Her parents were back there. Behind a caved-in tunnel, far, far away.
After they landed, Kate saw he had found and killed something. It was already gutted, skinned, and on a spit over an open fire, roasting. "What is it?" Kate was hungry, but she still had limits to what she would eat.
"It's goat. I caught it on the side of the mountain we're on," Rick told her.
"Is this safe? What if someone finds the tent?" She knew it vanished, but all anyone had to do was run into it just as she had.
"I haven't seen anyone, and the tent is on a plateau right on the edge. It should be fine while you eat. I've already filled my container with water, and I'll refill it before we go back." Rick pulled it out of his backpack, handed it over. He watched her drink before she handed it back to him.
Kate looked around. "Any idea where we are? I don't recognize these trees." They were trees but very different looking. At least they burned.
Rick shook his head. "None, sorry. We can go looking for berries and fruit after you have some goat."
She frowned. "You keep saying that. You keep saying me. What are you eating?" Kate inquired.
"I'm an Incubus. I live off of something else." Rick wasn't sure how she was going to take this. "Remember when we had sex, and you had orgasms?"
"Vividly." Her first time was the greatest thing in her life. "Are you trying to tell me you need sex?" That was…odd.
"In a way, yes. When I climax, I produce a fluid. When you climax, you produce a fluid. I live off of the fluid that a woman produces," Rick told her. Then he waited for her to explode and hate him. He had been getting what he needed and made sure they never remembered. But Kate was different. She remembered, and he was betting it was because she had been a virgin.
Kate opened her mouth, then closed it, and looked at him. He needed to have sex with her to live. She needed him to live and find her parents. "You need me."
"I need what a woman can provide. So, yes, I need you," Rick assented and waited for it.
"I need you to find my parents, and you need me to live." Kate thought about that. "I'll make you a deal. You take me back to my parents, and I'll have sex with you. Do you agree?"
Rick was shocked. That wasn't what he was expecting. "You are astonishing, Kate. Do you know that? You accept that I need your cum to live, and instead of demanding something from me, you offer me a deal.
"Truthfully, I don't know that I can find your parents. I don't know where any of the doors lead. I only know about the one I found leaving my home and the one where I found you. Those two are up the stairs, and we went down to this door.
"Do you have any idea just how many doors there can be? We still need to find you some clothes, and anything else you need. I don't even know where we are now. Do you have any idea just how big the place where you lived is? And I don't mean your home. What I mean is where that home was?"
She looked at him impatiently. "So? Do we have a deal?" Kate thought it was a win-win. He found her parents, and she might decide not to stay with them and stay with him. There could be sex, followed by sex, followed by more sex. She might fall in love with him.
"I'm not sure if you're nuts or the perfect woman." Rick kept studying her. "I promise to do all I can to find your parents. We only need to find the right door. There's just one problem for you to keep in mind."
He took a quick breath and then asked her, "Where were you when I found you?"
"Oregon," Kate replied.
"And where did you come from to get to Oregon?" Rick asked.
"Missouri. It took us five months to reach it," Kate told him.
"So, what if the door we find is five months even farther away, and how do we know that?" Rick waited for her to understand and respond.
Kate thought about that. "Oh!" That was a problem. "But you promise?"
"Yes, Kate, I promise." I might even fall in love with you along the way and beg you to stay with me even after we find your parents.
"Then you can take me back to the tent and make love to me. You're feeding me so I can feed you." And have another four orgasms again. A grin lit up Kate's face as she thought about that. "And you'll take me flying again." I liked that a lot.
Neither knew just what was going to happen. But somehow the pair ended up with each other. Each knew the other would keep their promise.