Gunslinger

Chapter 13

Epilogue

It is now one month later.

Kate wasn't getting much sleep, if any. Rick helped her change diapers, but that was all he could do. He couldn't feed Lilly; that was all on the woman he loved.
She was presently out jogging up and down the platform barefoot. Rick swept it daily for her. And yes, each time she was out jogging, the train rolled up, opened its doors, and said something. But Kate couldn't hear it, and she ignored it.
Kate wanted to lose the baby fat. Thankfully, it wasn't much. Most of it was on her breasts and her ass and maybe her thighs. She praised herself for not eating that much and wanted to keep it that way.

She strode through the door and found Rick sitting in one of the chairs. "What are you…up to." She needed to take a breath. She was a hot, stinky, sweaty mess.
"I'm trying to see if understanding the power button can help me here."
Kate stood behind him. "So, how's it coming?"
He straightened up and looked at her. "It's not. I think these buttons are abbreviated, too. But what I don't understand is the layout. If one of these controls the power, and I'm assuming that is the power," Rick pointed at the thing behind the glass, "what are all these other seats for?"
She shrugged. "No idea. I'm going to shower and then feed Lilly." Kate kissed the top of his head and headed for the shower.

They hadn't had sex since before she gave birth. Kate just wasn't interested in it, among other things. She hoped it was just a thing. She liked having sex with Rick. It was just that six weeks without having sex seemed like a long time.

She unwrapped her breasts and took off the rest of her clothes. Her old bra no longer fit her, and she didn't have a larger one. So she had to bind them since she didn't want them bouncing all over the place while she ran.

Kate was done showering and was drying herself off when Lilly started crying. "I'm coming, Lilly, I'm coming." Still naked, she went to her daughter, checked her diaper first, then sat down, let her latch on, and Lilly began sucking.

When she finished, Kate put a cloth over her shoulder, lifted Lilly so her head rested on it, and patted her back to get her to burp. She spit up some of it but not much. Kate folded the cloth, set it aside, laid Lilly on her lap, and started playing with her.
Rick came in, sat by her, and reached out to play with his daughter. "You're a great mother, Kate."
She glanced over at him. "You think so? I didn't do any babysitting when I was a teenager. I did other things. I used that money to buy myself a Harley Softail. That's a motorcycle, by the way."
He stared at Kate in surprise. "Really? Is that part of your Rebel Becks?"
"I never thought of it like that. My parents weren't happy with me, so maybe. They thought my driving a car was dangerous enough. There I was, totally exposed on a motorcycle. I bought leathers for it. You should have seen me in my leathers." Kate grinned, remembering. "They were skin-tight."
Rick hummed as he closed his eyes and tried to imagine her in tight leathers. "Black?"
"Red, a deep red." Kate looked at him, and once again, he closed his eyes and tried to picture it. She smiled.
"She's asleep," Kate whispered. She got up, put Lilly in her crib, and instantly found Rick putting his arms around her from behind. Then his hands were on her breasts.

"I want you, Kate." Rick pushed on her back to bend her over, and he lowered his pants and boxers and forced his erection into her pussy.

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She was unprepared for him. She wasn't yet wet. But the longer he fucked her, the wetter she got.
Kate was moaning loudly now as she liked being fucked. Her fears of never wanting Rick again were over.
Then Rick grabbed a handful of her hair and pulled, causing Kate to yelp. "Bitch. You're a Bitch."
"Yes, I'm a Bitch. Fuck me like a Bitch." Her fantasy of being taken was playing out again. She liked being called a Bitch.
"You like being fucked like a Bitch, don't you?" Rick asked her as he pulled on her hair.
"Yes, I love being fucked like a Bitch. I'm your Bitch. Fuck my pussy." Kate climaxed from being fucked, but Rick didn't. He pulled out and put his cock at the entrance to her ass, then slid into her.

It had been a while since she was fucked in the ass like that. But soon, she was moaning while being fucked. Then she felt Rick stop and heard him groan as he climaxed and filled her ass with his CUM. He pulled out, allowed Kate to stand up, and kissed her. "I've wanted to do that for so long," Rick told her.
"I'm glad you did. It was just what I needed." Kate wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. She hoped it would break the dam, allowing her to want him again.

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Kate was breastfeeding Lilly again. "When do we leave here, Rick? Not that I'm not happy here because I am, but I feel like I'm missing something."
"I don't know. Probably not until Lilly's potty trained, but that won't be for a while. Until then, she'll be in diapers, and we can only carry so many," he told her. "Then what happens when I need your help if we get in a firefight?"
"That won't happen until she's, I don't know, two years old, maybe. And you don't need my help in a firefight. I've seen you fight, remember?" Kate asked him.
"I mean, need your help defending Lilly," he clarified.

"Oh…" She didn't say anything, then looked over at him. "Still, two years is a long time. Do we even have that much food? We're going to need baby food eventually."

"We have more than enough food to last two years, so that's not a problem. The problem is diapers. And yes, I know we'll need baby food eventually. But I don't trust the baby food in the containers. It's been in there too long. And how do we carry Lilly?"
"Yeah, that's a problem," she allowed. "Perhaps I could make something to carry Lilly on my chest, a wrap, maybe. I'll look into that. But we're going to need to leave here eventually. We have 400 and some odd number of levels left to check."

"I'll leave it to you when we leave here. You decide if you want to stop every few hours to feed Lilly. Not have her sleep through the night. How to carry her. How many diapers do we carry, not knowing when or if we can wash any of them? Plus, how we carry the food we're going to need."
"Thanks, I think," Kate said, turning it over in her mind. She had so much to think about.
"When you think you've taken off enough baby fat," he added.

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It was now one month later.

Kate was still not getting much regular sleep since Lilly usually slept four to six hours at night – sometimes less, sometimes more. She was still jogging to take the baby fat off, and the train showed up each time. She just ignored it. Rick still swept it clean every day for her.
The dam had broken, and they were making love every night. Much like she told him, she was giving him a blow job to try and keep down the number of semen when he fucked her. She had even squirted on occasion, which required her to change the sheets, but she didn't mind.
Kate came in from her jog and went straight to the shower, followed by a diaper change, feeding Lilly, and then playing with her. After all that, she put her in her crib to nap, left her room, and looked for Rick. She found him in the Entertainment Room playing a game.
"Whatcha doing?" she asked him as she walked beside him.
"Nothing, really. I'm starting to get bored. I'm a Gunslinger. I should be out there. Instead, I'm in here, trapped." He shook his head. "Maybe trapped isn't a good word."
"No, it's how you feel." Kate took hold of his arm. "Lilly's two months old and not sleeping the night through yet. I'm thinking the second she does, we can leave.
"I found two bags we can put diapers, oil, and powder in, one for each shoulder. We can put our spare clothes and some food in your backpack. I still need to figure out how to carry Lilly, but I'll think of something.
"We will leave eventually. I promise, Rick."
"I can wait," Rick said and kissed her.

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It was now one month later.

Lilly still wasn't sleeping the night through. They were still making love nightly, and Kate slept whenever she could. Rick was helping by changing diapers, but that was all he could do. Though, he played with her and tried to get her to talk. "Can you say dada?"
"Way too soon, babe," Kate told him when she walked in.
"A guy can try, you know," he said, then tried again. "Say dada, Lilly."
She sat beside him and reached for Lilly to play with her hand. "I think I've figured out how to carry her. I've created this wrap but need to test it first, so I need Lilly."
"That's right, take her from me. Just when I was getting her to say dada." Rick handed her over and watched Kate take her.
Kate came back with Lilly all wrapped up. All you could see of her was her head. "What do you think?"
Rick got up to take a look and tried to take her out of it. "Can't take her out very easily," he commented.
"No, maybe it's too tight. Back to the drawing board." She headed for their bedroom to take Lilly out and try again.

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It was now one month later.

Lilly was now three months old and growing like a weed. Kate was still breastfeeding her, which she'd do for months yet. They were still making love nightly. Kate was still experimenting with the carry wrap. She had already loaded two bags with diapers, oil, and powder, sitting side by side in the bedroom.
She had even loaded Rick's backpack with spare clothes and food and set it next to the diaper bags.
Lilly was starting to sleep longer and longer. She wasn't sleeping the night through yet, but she was getting there.
After feeding her, Kate was playing with her. "Can you say, mama?"
Rick came into the room. "What are you doing? Trying to get her to say mama instead of dada?"
"Yes. Yes, I am," Kate said. "So there." Kate stuck her tongue out at him.
He sat down next to her. "Lilly, can you say dada?"
"Don't. You'll confuse her," Kate complained.
Rick ignored her and tried again. "Can you say dada?" Then, he shook his head. "Probably too soon." He kissed Kate to shut her up.
"So, how's the wrap coming?"
"It's…coming," she replied, which was code for it wasn't coming. She hadn't yet worked it out.
"Hmm, you've got about another month, I would say. Lilly might be sleeping the night through by then," he said, reaching out to play with her hand.

"I'm going to go and sweep the platform for you." Rick kissed her and got up. "You know the train shows up every time I'm out there. I don't know how it knows, but it knows. I just ignore it."
"It shows up every time I'm jogging there, too," Kate commented. "I wonder why that is?"
"Well, don't get on board it, Kate. It might decide to leave with you and never stop. Then what would I do?"
"I don't intend to, babe. Honest. I promised I wouldn't, and I'm not going to. Though, I may try to find out what it's saying," she admitted. "I'm curious. We've gotten pretty good at the language now, I think."
"Good. Now, I'm off to sweep." And he headed for the platform.

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While Rick was sweeping, clearing the platform, the train showed up, opened its doors, and said something. He stopped sweeping and, still carrying the broom, walked toward the doors; he stuck his head in. It looked the same as always. The seats were old and tattered.
"Welcome aboard," the train said.
"Interesting," Rick commented.
"Please come aboard," the train said. "I haven't had passengers in ages."

Rick took two steps back. "Did it just talk to me?"

"Please come aboard," the train repeated.

"Not a chance in hell," he told it and returned to sweeping. Once he finished, the train was still there with its doors open, even now saying something.
He ignored the train and went home through the door.

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It was now one month later.

Kate was tired of jogging. It helped some, but she thought she had to rid herself of some baby fat.
Lilly had slept the night through just once. One time wasn't enough for them to leave, but it was a good sign.
They still made love every night. Right now, Kate was changing the sheets. Rick had gotten her to squirt again. He had given her seven orgasms. It wasn't a record, but it was a start.
She loved him with all her heart, just as much as she adored Lilly. And speaking of Lilly, Kate had finally worked out a wrap to put her in. It wasn't too loose, nor was it too tight. Rick could take her out of it and put her back in. Easily.
Once done, she took the old sheets and put them in the washer, then headed for the kitchen. It was time for breakfast. Rick had taken Lilly with him. She didn't know how that worked out. Unfortunately, they hadn't found a high chair for Lilly.
She found him holding Lilly with one arm while cooking with the other. She took Lilly from him, freeing up his other hand. She kissed them both and saw Lilly was wide awake and quiet.

She babbled something and reached for her daddy. "Hmm, it looks like she wants to stay with you." Kate gave Lilly back to him.
"Of course she does. I'm Daddy," Rick told her. "I think she just wants to watch me cook, to be honest," he whispered.
"Well, she slept the night through for a change, so we're getting close to leaving," Kate said.
He nodded. "I noticed. I also noticed you've already packed us."
"Yep. I wanted to be ready when the time came. So shoot me." Kate tilted her head, eyeing him.
He blinked and stared at her. "You want out of here that badly?"
"I'm ready to leave, yes. We have over 400 levels to search. Who knows what we'll find? For all we know, we're no longer on Earth."
"That is possible. I'll grant you that, Kate. The only way to know that is to find all the levels with doors and look at each one. It'll be tedious, to be sure. And we've only found just so many doors so far."
"There could be hundreds of doors if this is the Nexus to all Universes, babe."
"Correct. And every Universe will have its door leading to a planet. If we step through that door, it may close behind us and open somewhere else on the planet, forcing us to search for it if we want back in," Rick told her.
She just shook her head and sighed. "Great. Lilly may be a teenager by then."
"And you, my love, may be pregnant again. Who knows what will happen?" He opened both hands wide and shrugged. "And we'll have to learn another language if we're going to survive."

"Great, just great. Pregnant with a child, and we're trapped on a world we know nothing about. Not a pleasant prospect, Rick."
"The alternative is staying in the Tower, Kate, searching every level, which will take months, if not years. Who knows what we'll find? Maybe another city, only this one is alive."
"Or we run across another Man in Black," Kate said worriedly.
"That is possible, yes," he agreed. "Equally possible is we run across an alien Gunslinger."

"You think so? Now, wouldn't that be nice? But how would we know he's a Gunslinger? How would he know you're a Gunslinger?" Kate was concerned they might shoot each other.
"I think we would know another Gunslinger if we met one." Rick was confident he would know. "Don't forget you're a Gunslinger too."
"I'm not a…" She stared at him and then swallowed hard."Do you really think so? But I'm not nearly as fast as you."
"You're a Gunslinger in training. You'll get there, Kate." Rick kissed her. "Breakfast is ready. Do you want some breakfast, too, Lilly?" He handed her to Kate so she could feed her while he served what he made.

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They were finally leaving their place. Lilly was sleeping the night through and doing it every night.
Kate had a diaper bag over each shoulder and had Lilly wrapped up on her chest while Rick had on his backpack.
"Ready?" Rick asked her. She nodded, and Rick pressed the button that opened the cargo door. They walked through it and headed for the elevator.
Lilly was awake and alert when they entered the elevator and went down.
"That was easily three levels. You feel that?" Kate asked him, and he nodded.
Rick went first around the corner and came up short by what he saw. Kate joined him and stopped dead in her tracks. "Now, that's something you don't see often," she remarked.
What they saw looked like an elaborate throne, complete with an elevator throne. Everything was silver. It looked like real silver, too. Globes were on either side of the throne, glowing and sending an eerie light out.
Then Rick moved lightning fast; he drew his gun and pointed it at someone standing to one side. Kate spotted her and took out her weapon, too. But both saw her standing there, her firearm drawn and pointing at them.

"Who is she?" Kate asked, not expecting an answer.

"Who is she," the stranger repeated.
Kate looked at Rick. "Why isn't she shooting?"
"Why isn't she shooting," the stranger echoed.

"Is she repeating everything I say?" Kate whispered just loud enough for only Rick to hear her.
"I don't recognize her weapon," Rick whispered.
"Who are you?" Kate called out to her.

The stranger mirrored her again. "Who are you?"
Kate shook her head. "Nope. I asked you first."
"She looks human, but I don't recognize the weapon. It looks alien." Rick lowered his weapon but didn't put it away.
Kate saw him do that, and she did the same but didn't put it away.
The stranger lowered her weapon and put it away.

"That's something, at least," Kate muttered under her breath. She put her weapon away just as Lilly began fussing. "Shh, it's fine, baby girl, shh." Kate tried to soothe her.
They started walking toward each other and met in the wide-open middle. Rick put his weapon away.
She was pretty, and she looked human. She had large breasts, long legs, long brown hair, and wore a top hat, much like Abraham Lincoln's. She wore a suit, including a vest, pants, and boots. It looked like it was for a man rather than a woman.
"Who are you?" Kate questioned her. "Why don't you understand me?"

Then suddenly, the woman changed form. She looked alien but still wore what she was wearing. "You're an alien." Kate was shocked. Then she watched her change back to looking human. "Well, at least she's not a Man in Black."
"No," the woman told them. "Baby." She reached out to touch Lilly but wasn't close enough and took her hand back.
Lilly reached out to her since she could see her. Then, the woman took a step, reached out to Lilly, and stroked her cheek.

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Little by little, they learned that the alien female was a Gunslinger. She had a backpack filled with food and a change of clothing off to one side.
She was learning English quickly. "My name Gunslinger."
"I'm a Gunslinger," Rick told her.

"I'm a Gunslinger as well," Kate told her. "Well, a Gunslinger in training. How do you look human?"
"Man in Black looked this way. I kill him."
"So that's two of a Man in Black we've encountered in the Tower. I wonder just how many there are in here?"

"What baby name?"
"Her name is Lilly," Kate replied. "She's almost five months old." She watched the alien gently stroke the baby's cheek and saw Lilly put her little hand out to her.

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In the end, the alien joined them. There were now three Gunslingers working together to search the Tower. She learned English while they learned her language. Over time, they would know three languages.