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Fifteen for Forever
I'm glad you're still with me as my characters begin a life some fear and others have prepared for, for years. I hope you are of a legal age in a locale that allows you to read about men having sex with each other. I know there are some scenes that not everyone will appreciate, skip over a scene if it is upsetting you, there is little chance it is a major plot point and if it is it will be referenced again. Remember this story is set in the future after the STI's that affect our current population and HIV have been eradicated. Many other diseases have had vaccines so for the most part everyone in the village is healthy. Nifty survives on your donations, please help as you can.
"You have quite a village here, Roger. Do you think you can stand against the aliens the next time they attack?" Franco and Noel had been discussing the possibility that the wolves were the aliens and what to do it they were. I hadn't been paying too much attention to their conversation, I had been watching my twins attempting to play with Jude who was still a bit too young to even crawl.
"We have been working to make the village more secure than what the originators intended. I have been hesitant to seal ourselves in although we know that the outside world will soon be uninhabitable."
"Too many wolves?"
"The world depended too completely on nuclear power as it was converting to greener sources of power, there were still enough power plants operating to do what the aliens hadn't been able to do. With meltdowns and explosions around the world we will be sliding into a nuclear winter. Noel has been searching for predictions on how long that will last and if sealing ourselves in here could help us survive. Depending on the degree of contamination locally we may be able to farm in little more than a century but for most of that time we will be trapped in here. If the explosions throw up the dust and dirt expected Earth will cool rapidly and in a few years emit enough oxides to deplete the entire Ozone layer casting us into a nuclear summer that would make it impossible to leave the village for centuries with the ozone layer heals. That is all theoretical, based on what has happened after some of the major volcano explosions.
"If that isn't depressing enough we don't know the intent of the wolves. Will they attempt to breach the walls and enter the village? Up until now they have done little more than try to get close enough to check us out but when we have defended the village they have fled. We know now that they are venomous and their venom is able to kill our skin. That probably means the venom if left untreated could kill us so we can't try to live together even if living with wolves sounded acceptable.
"Throw into the mix what being stuck in the village even as large as it is will mean to the people's minds. Will they adjust to living underground like moles? Will we be able to produce enough food to survive for as long as necessary? How long will it be before the power plant supplying power to the village has its own meltdown or runs out of fuel?"
"You're depressing. Are you ready to just give up?"
"Franco, I never give up. I want to give us every chance of survival possible and that may mean we need to do more grocery raids to find things we can't produce. The expiration of our can goods is really not a matter of concern, those dates are just there for selling purposes, as long as the cans are lined they will last many years past that date. What we need are ways to store our own foods, canning supplies, jelling goods and whatever else we think can help us. It would be wonderful if we could find any of the animals that we called livestock but honestly it looks like we will have to turn into vegetarians in the not too distant future." Even with all the frozen meats we had been able to salvage from freezers there wasn't that good of a chance it would last more than a single year. The village contractors had created a freezer that must have been fifty feet deep, sixty feet wide and fifteen high but I still knew that within a short time all the meat would be used if not rationed.
"The ones that go out to find food can continue to look, but I didn't see a single animal other than the wolves the entire time we worked our way up from New Orleans."
I had listened to the story of how the trio had made their way out of New Orleans after finding themselves trapped in a bank vault they were attempting to rob, at least twice. Anna had gotten them into the vault while two of their fellow robbers held the employees and clients at gunpoint. They thought it was the bank's junior manager that had tried to lock them in the vault not knowing or remembering that the type of vault the bank had installed had an emergency release for the main door that would override any time settings the bank had determined to use. The bank had just received a shipment of twenty dollar bills from the Federal Reserve that the bank was then to ship out to branches from New Orleans to Jacksonville, Florida..
When they had gone to leave the vault and found the bank deserted they hauled the money to the door they had predetermined would get them to their getaway car in seconds. They saw hundreds of fires starting all around the city as they exited the bank, Franco thought that would be a great distraction until he went to start the car and got nothing. There was a garbage truck half way down the alley that was also dead. They wanted to take the money but without a vehicle loaded up some bags that they tried throwing over their shoulders like hobos, leaving millions on the ground in the alley.
By the end of the first day they knew that carrying money was the last thing that was going to help them survive. They had argued for hours the second night about what they were going to do, with Anna consistently asking them not to discard the money. For the next few days they rode bicycles they had found deserted along the streets stopping whenever hungry to eat. As they started to move away from the city they had to decide where to go and how they wanted to try doing that. By that time they had found some packs that allowed them to carry clothing and food with them. None of them knew the USA enough to have a good idea where to go so they followed the Interstates and moved when they were low on food or had picked a location clean of what they would eat.
Twice on their way out of Louisiana they were surrounded by wolves but after staying locked up in a house for a few days were left alone. It had been a long three years for them, starting out not trusting each other and not that compatible since Franco was more inclined to having sex with teenage boys he met on the street and Anna told them that her only need for sex was to have a child. Franco and Isabella had found they could satisfy each others needs if they didn't become too clingy. Franco preferred to take Isabella from behind but when she wouldn't allow it gave her the sex she needed if he needed it enough. Isabella and Anna had held sex hostage not more than three months before they met us to make Franco impregnate them both.
After hearing their story I was glad that Anna had stayed in Pittsburg. I worried that Franco would turn from his desire for teenagers to younger boys but he promised that prepubescent boys held no interest. He had moved into the house with Noel and his father, Pablo and AC/DC had moved back into our house. Pablo constantly commented on how much he missed Jesus but had not tried using any of the other people living in the house for his urinal. Tiffan had suggested to me that he might be willing to take Jesus' place as urinal of choice but I had been able to discourage him.
Lucia and Jesus were living in the lower level content to have their own life without Pablo but were hoping they could join the rest of us soon. I wonder if she knew that anytime I went to the med Center for any reason Jesus would ambush me and convince me to fuck him. He must have been having a rough time with his split life but other than the two times a week Rhoda had me in for tests he didn't try connecting with any of the guys he had lived with. His need for piss had subsided some, he told me that Lucia was still glad to give him a shower at least once a day but other than if I needed to piss while we were together he hadn't had any to drink since leaving Pablo behind.
If it hadn't been for Jesus wanting sex I would have tried to convince Joey that we should move to the lower level with the boys. I was not thrilled with the conversations that were held around the dinner table. Hieronymus and Chuck wanted us to start hunting the wolves, claiming it was our duty as humans to rid the Earth of any alien species that had committed a genocide on the scale they had. I had kept everyone on track to fully lock down the village on the timeline that Noel and I had created but the pair kept trying to talk me into a widespread hunt.
The summer adult birthday party had been more spirited than most of those in the past, Tiffan had found a case of Tequila on the last trip he had made to help block the roads. The snowplows had been helpful in creating barriers that stretched from tree line to tree line: Tiffan had gone along because he was able to use the fork lift better than the others and was going to lift what they found to make a second layer on the barricades before we had to lock down the village. He had carefully transported the case of Tequila to the village. We had found a couple cases of a Margarita mix among the groceries loaded on one of the trucks so he thought the Summer Party should have a theme. Jesus and Lucia had agreed to doing most of the cooking, Tiffan was tending bar.
We had kept most of the parties dry so we didn't embarrass ourselves too badly in front of the children but this time Isabella and Karen agreed to take care of the children while the adults partied. Just having a bar for once loosened up many of the attendees even if they weren't drinking. Joey warned me that his parents could be a double handful when drunk so Tiffan should beware of who was starting to have too much and have someone cut them off. Without even a guard who was supposed to do that? The morning of the party over breakfast we discussed the issue and two people volunteered since they didn't drink and would be there to celebrate with us. It is barely more than a loud dinner party considering how few of us there are.
Franco must have found a way to have a few more margaritas than he could handle. It was shortly after dark outside when Franco climbed on a table and began an awkward strip tease to a song he sang solo. As far as I knew Isabella was the only one that had seen him naked prior to that. Jesus had told me that Franco would let his pants drop when they fucked but kept his shirt on. Drinking lowers our inhibitions I know but for Franco it seemed to get rid of his altogether. He threw his shirt at Lucia, an undershirt at Jesus, pants at Noel, shoes and socks at Jeff and his much too small under pants at me. Totally undressed he strutted from one end of the long table to the other until he stopped in front of me. I suppose it was to be a lewd dance intended to seduce me but it was nothing that could have thrilled me then or years earlier, Franco was falling over himself.
"Roger, the time has come. I want you to fuck me. Get up here." He was loud enough that everyone at the party heard him and stopped whatever they were doing. Its definitely not that I'm shy but the idea of fucking him for the first time with an audience consisting of nearly every adult living in the village was not that appealing although I had been thinking about what it was going to take to get him to offer up his ass since we met. There hadn't been any hetero-homo antagonism up to that point and I couldn't see starting any by fucking him in front of the married couples or the women that didn't have a partner. I stood and waved him closer until I was able to grab hold of his legs.
I pulled Franco off the table and threw him over my shoulder. He's not that much shorter or lighter than me but the physical rehabilitation had left me as strong as I had been on the day of the attack so it wasn't difficult for me to walk to my house carrying the 175 pound man. We were almost to the door when riding stomach down on my shoulder caused him to retch and dispel what was in his stomach.
"Still ready for me to fuck you?" The few times I had been that drunk getting fucked was the last desire I had.
"Please. I beg you, Roger. I have wanted your cock since the day we met." He had managed not to hit me with the remnants of his dinner and now was forcing his hands into my shorts, one was cupping my balls.
"Is Isabella going to be okay with me fucking you." I had the door open and was intentionally spreading his legs so everyone knew what was going to happen once I closed the door. It wasn't that easy to spread his legs when one was against my neck, but I was able to hold the other one out from his body.
"She doesn't care anymore. She's going to give birth next week and as far as she is concerned I have fulfilled her needs. Now I'm going to really fill my purpose, I've always thought I was intended to be a fuck boy. Without Jesus running around you guys need another willing ass."
"You've seen my cock?" I knew he had seen how long I am but I wanted him to think about what he was begging to have in his ass.
"Jesus and I watched you one evening when you were fucking Joey. It is impressive and I want to know what it feels like with the full length sliding in me. You aren't going to only use part of your cock because I'm a virgin are you?" The way he had begged to be fucked in front of the whole village I found it hard to accept that his ass was virgin. I set him on the floor and closed the door. I reminded him that he had once heard me tell Joey and Jesus that if I started to fuck a willing asshole that I didn't stop until I was fully satiated even if that was hours later.
"Go wash out your mouth, the bathroom is down that hallway to your right. There is mouthwash and extra toothbrushes. As hard as your body is going to be bouncing you might want to try emptying your stomach while you're in there." I hadn't had much to drink so I knew I would have him all over the bed if I enjoyed his asshole. Why wouldn't I? I have always loved de-flowering virgin boys. Franco was not really a boy any longer but he wasn't as old as me and his butt had held onto that teenage shape.
I had been undressed and laying on the bed waiting for him for at least a half hour when I decided I should go to see if he was still alive. When I first saw his feet sticking out the door I wasn't sure he was. Once I got in the bathroom and had a hand on his chest I knew he was still breathing. Half of his face was covered in regurgitated Mexican food, his body was laying in a pool of stinking piss and one arm was dangling in the commode. There had been numerous times since the first day after the attack that I wished I had a camera but there weren't any that exceeded that. I would have shared that with everyone in the village, we love humiliating each other.
I propped him up in the back of the tub and with a towel on his chest I had used to dry the floor I let the shower flow. Mostly the showers in the village aren't quite strong enough to reach that far but without anyone else in the village using water at that precise moment I was able to twirl the shower head up enough that it rained down on his face. I was hoping he would come awake but I had him cleansed and he was still out of it.
"Franco, you're lucky I don't take advantage of people that aren't in shape to defend themselves." I wasn't really up to putting him in my bed but the sofa isn't that comfortable and I wasn't carrying him up to the second floor or putting him in the boys' room.
"Was it worth carrying him to the house?" I was sure that Joey was jealous.
"He passed out before anything happened. I did put him in our bed." Any time I spoke about things in the house I had to remember to call them ours or Joey would launch into a rant correcting me although I had everything that is there before he moved in.
"What are you going to do with him?"
"You heard him begging me to fuck him. I will probably do that before I get out of bed in the morning." I wasn't being cruel to Joey, he knew that I fucked Tiffan and Jesus as well as him, adding another asshole to the recipients of my cock wasn't that big of a deal to me. Besides I don't know how many times I had told him, I'm not a one man's man. I had been more faithful to him than anyone since Luis but that still didn't mean I was monogamous. How do I say that? I was in bed with him every night and hadn't given up my ass to anyone else since the first time he fucked me.
Joey started downing Margaritas so fast I couldn't keep track. I don't know how long after our conversation it was but I saw him pawing at his parents. When I left the party and headed to the house four hours later I heard him complaining and crying to his mother, "he's going to have sex with another man in our bed." I didn't even look back at them, if he was going to be that way he might not ever get invited back to my bed. I had been getting very close to Joey but I was not in love and didn't need him acting like he owned me.
I might have had one or two drinks too many myself. It was good that the boys were all staying the night with Karen and Ginger; the girl wasn't that much older than the twins but did act like she was their older sister when they started acting too much like little boys. Jude would stay there any time, he was the happiest when Ginger was around. I stumbled through the house and would have woken them if they had been home. I can't say that I was thinking about anything. I knew I had just left Jesus and that neither Joey or Tiffan were in the house so why I thought the first thing I was going to do before going to bed was get off a couple loads, who knows.
When I looked down at Franco sprawled across most of the bed I thought he had an ass that it was a shame I wouldn't get to use that night. Just looking at his tight butt and clenched asshole had made me hard. I walked to the end of the bed to try moving his legs, the sight of his hairless ass and asshole made my need even greater. I tried to tickle his feet to wake him, four hour should have been enough time for him to sleep off the worst of the alcohol and I wanted what I'd been offered.
"Come on, Franco. You were begging for my cock hours ago. Wake up and stick your ass out."
Whether he was awake or unconsciously wanted me to fuck him so bad that his mind processed my demand I don't know but his ass rose off the bed. His head hadn't moved, but his ass was up and he was resting on his knees. What does that mean?
FUCK ME, FUCK ME, FUCK ME! Either that or if you are Pablo, Piss in me.
That's certainly what I took it to mean. I stuffed a couple pillows under his middle so that once I was ready to pound his ass he didn't collapse. The lube at the side of the bed was so greasy I almost lost the tube between our legs before being able to squeeze enough on him and some on me. I worked the lube I had squeezed on his asshole, around and with just two fingers made sure his entire ass ring was coated a few inches deep. He seemed to be gladly taking my fingers as they probed his asshole, he squeezed at me and pushed back even more, he certainly wasn't acting like a virgin.
Tell me what does that tell you? He wanted to be fucked? Right?
I almost fell on top of him when I tried to move up enough for my cock to touch his hole. Remember, I had too much to drink just like him. As soon as I felt our connection begin with my cock head sliding into his asshole I forced myself all the way into him. He was yelling and screaming loud enough the whole village could have heard him when my legs hit his butt. I thought it would only take him a few minutes to adjust to having a cock in him for the first time so rather than fucking him I tried to rotate my cock a bit to loosen him up he wasn't that tight, maybe alcohol?
Two minutes later he was still yelling for me to stop.
I was of mixed feelings. First, I had never stopped fucking anyone once I started. Second, he had begged me to fuck him and that should mean something.
"You begged me to fuck you. You have the cock you wanted so bad, shut up and enjoy it." Where that came from I don't know. I had never fucked anyone that tried to get me to stop, I didn't believe in it.
Alcohol?
I don't know but I do know that alcohol slows your need to cum down. So I not only fucked him I fucked him for a long time. I was enjoying his asshole spasming around my cock, I was sure he had an orgasm from being fucked and I wasn't about to stop until I did, too. Should I have stopped when he tried to get me to? Was it rape for not respecting his request to stop even though he had begged for it in the beginning?
"You mother fucker, why didn't you stop when I told you to stop? I'm not going to be able to walk for a month."
"Franco, when a boy asks to be fucked in front of all my friends there is no way that I won't fuck the Hell out of him. Once my cock is in an asshole I don't stop." My cock was still in him and almost hard enough to fuck him again. I was glad he was awake enough to know what was happening but insulted that he wanted me to stop.
"Get it out of me! It hurts."
"Stop being a baby. Your body enjoyed being fucked, other wise you wouldn't have cum while I was in you." No question about it, he had shot a huge load on the pillows. It was almost enough to make me think he had pissed.
"No, Please. I don't want fucked again. I only want to fuck not be fucked." He was almost in tears.
"We're going to fuck until you start working my cock with your asshole like a good bottom boy." I had started to move in and out slowly causing Franco to groan amidst his tears. He wasn't yelling any longer but he wasn't getting involved in the fuck either. I reached under him and squeezed at his cock.
"Get your ass moving, Franco." If pulling at his cock hadn't worked I was ready to start slapping his butt until he did as told.
"That's what you should be doing." He had opened and closed his asshole a little squeezing down on my cock. It wasn't enough, but it was a start.
"Now start going up and down the shaft." I didn't hear him stop crying or groaning but I could tell the exact moment when he started to feel better on my cock and probably the moment he started to feel better with it in him.
"Harder. Franco, you can take the whole cock, work it." It took him more than a few of the short strokes before he was trying to push his way down the entire shaft. I pulled away until only the head was in him and waited for him to push back. When he did I heard what I thought must have been the total acceptance of his role in my bed. We fell back to sleep with my cock holding in two large loads of cum.
"What are you doing?"
"Roger, I need to go to the bathroom."
"You asshole feels so good I don't want you to pull off." I had woke with a full blown hard on buried in his asshole and wasn't about to let him go.
"You can go to the bathroom after another fuck. You do like that cock in your ass, don't you?"
"Yes, sir. But I need to piss."
"You can either hold it or we can walk to the bathroom like this." It wouldn't be the first time I had walked one of the guys from the bed to the bathroom. Stroking their assholes while they pissed was a totally different feeling, one that most of the time had me shooting my load before they were finished. I didn't like the walk, but fucking them over the commode was always a treat especially with Jesus who I knew would be on his knees, as soon as he finished, to clean off my cock and suck down my piss.
"We need to walk or I'm going to piss the bed." If only he had known how many times the sheets and mattress protector had been doused with piss.
I wasn't aware of it, but by the time we left the house it was time to eat lunch. I was used to boys I had just fucked hanging at my side. Franco went to Isabella then to Noel then some of the other people trying to express his anger at having been fucked but everyone told him to get lost. I half expected him to challenge me to a dual but he wouldn't have had a second. Even Jesus turned him down for sympathy.
"You have everyone here cock whipped." Franco had come to where I was sitting with Joey and Tiffan. After that greeting he tried explaining to Joey and Tiffan that he had begged me not to fuck him but that I had refused to stop. He was making a scene.
"Franco, if you didn't want fucked you shouldn't have begged him in front of everyone to fuck you. Was it rape because you tried to get him to stop once he had his cock in you? We haven't agreed on that definition. Did Roger make you do anything the rest of us didn't hear you beg him to do?"
"Tiffan, I didn't even try to make him suck my cock, drink piss or eat out my ass. So he only got half a night, some other time when he's begging for my cock I might let him go all the way and make me really feel good." The look on Franco's face told me that although he was bitching he was ready for another night.
"What's wrong with you Franco? Why didn't you suck his cock?" Jesus must have know what Franco wanted to do, they were closer than any of the rest of us and had been together the first time Franco saw my cock.
"It's a good thing he didn't, he would have thrown up all over me." That is the real negative in taking a drunk to bed, getting covered in vomit is disgusting and there aren't many boys I know that will lick it up.
"You can do it now, Franco." Jesus was urging him to suck my cock, Tiffan was pushing him close to me and Joey glared at the four of us.
"Suck it, suck it, suck it." I was shocked that everyone he had tried to beg for sympathy took up the chant that Jesus had started. Franco frantically looked around for any one that wasn't chanting.
Jesus, Tiffan and Joey pulled me to my feet and walked me to the end of a table where Jesus pulled down my shorts. Joey dropped to where he could lick my balls and taint, he may not have been trying to get Franco to suck my cock but he knew how to get me hard with just his tongue.
"I'll stand if you want to lick my ass." I would have gladly had any of them spread my cheeks and get their tongue in me.
"Later." Tiffan and Joey licked at my cock which was already getting erect. I took it as a promise from them both and ruffled their hair as they licked me.
"Suck it, Suck it, Suck it." Anyone that had stopped chanting started up again. I couldn't see everyone but it seemed to me that everyone I could see was chanting and pushing Franco away if he moved their direction. The look of defiance that had been there when Jesus first asked why he hadn't sucked my cock was gone, in its place was what I thought must be hunger and perhaps a bit of acceptance?
When he was close enough Tiffan and Joey grabbed his arms and pulled him down to the pavement in front of me. "You said your ass was virgin last night. Is that true for your mouth, too?"
I hadn't believed him about his ass before I had pushed the head of my cock into him, then I was fairly sure he was telling the truth. Now, he couldn't say that to anyone else. But had he really never used his mouth to suck a cock? I thought I saw him give Jesus and Tiffan a slight nod after my question but I wasn't sure it meant his mouth was virgin. How had he convince the teenage boys to let him fuck them?
"Okay, Roger, this ought to be fun. We have given you a double blow job before but I never even thought about trying to give you a four way. Joey hadn't moved far from my balls although I could tell he would rather his tongue was all the way down the taint into my asshole, I would have like that, too. Doing that in front of the village may have had me shooting a load without any of the others licking my cock.
"Joey pull back a little and let Franco have a taste of his balls." I don't know how long they worked on me teaching Franco how to suck cock. They tried to teach him how to take me into his throat but all he managed was to take the first half of my cock, nothing down his throat. They had him working his lips and tongue on the cock head and Joey was sucking on my balls while Tiffan and Jesus licked the shaft that wasn't being taken by Franco when I could no longer hold the cum back. I jammed Franco's mouth over my cock and gave him spurt after spurt of cum.
He tried pushing back on my hand, I suppose he didn't want to be forced to swallow my cum but, too bad. "Swallow it, Franco. You've earned that cum."
With the other three still working on my balls and shaft Franco had all the cum that remained in my body worked onto his tongue. Tiffan pulled him back so everyone that had watched was able to see that Franco had gotten a load and was swallowing my cum, I was impressed at the length of his tongue and the amount of cum he held on it. I went soft faster than I can ever remember. Hangovers are a bitch.
"Was that an initiation?" Isabella hadn't talked to me much since that first day at the lake, I had assumed most of it was because Anna talked so much but there had been time to get past that.
"Not in any official way. Franco has only been living out half of his sexual fantasies, Jesus and Joey had heard enough talk from him and wanted him to experience what he told them he dreamed about.
"That was why I took him to the house last night. If I hadn't they might have had him on his knees sucking every willing cock in the village. That wouldn't have been a good way for our friends to learn about his desires. Sucking my cock in front of everyone was one thing, sucking some of the other men might have left the village thinking he was nothing but a cock sucker and I didn't want that."
"But having everyone see his asshole last night and know that you were going to fuck him was?" She seemed truly interested.
"If he hadn't wanted me to fuck him, he wouldn't have stripped off his clothing in front of everyone and begged me to do it loudly enough for everyone in the whole village could hear him, I expect the kids to ask about it when they come back from Karen's this afternoon. I either had to accept his plea or turn him away and risk his reactions." I was sure he would have started rumors had I refused.
"You couldn't have him suck you like you did this morning?"
"I didn't make him suck my cock. It was all of you chanting for him to suck me that made him do what he did." Sure I had enjoyed it, but I hadn't said a single word to him that could be construed as an order.
"But you were hard for him."
"I was hard because Joey was licking my balls and taint. If Franco had refused the villages demand I would have returned to the house with Joey to relax under the soothing ministrations of his tongue."
"Do you think he will ever come back to me?"
"No. He saw you chanting with the rest of the village. Unless he has a desire to father more children I don't think he will ever come back to you." I wasn't sure he would even then, he had told me that he was done with her as much as she was him.
"Why are your friends taking him into the house?" I hadn't noticed that my guys had surrounded Franco and were leading him to the house until she mentioned it. I caught a quick glimpse of him pushing his hands down shorts, presumably playing with hard cocks or getting them hard.
"I think Franco is going to get all the dick he can handle. Now that his mouth is no longer virgin they will probably spend the rest of the day feeding him all the cum they have backed up." I thought about joining them, but I had the feeling I needed to wait a few hours before I would have enough cum built up.
"Ready to get the confirmatory?" Rhoda had been following me closely the last few weeks and was fairly sure I was pregnant again. I was hoping against it, if I was I was going to make her promise to remove the betraying ovary when the child was born. Noel and I had been doing the geometric projections for the village and thought my generation should be limited to one more child. It wasn't the OCP of the Chinese government, most of us already had at least one if not more, we didn't want to halt the growth where we were, we wanted to slow it down so the next generation was able to have three each and the following generation three children followed by a gradual slow down until women were only allowed two children. It wasn't an exact science or blue print for the future but we wanted there to be room and food in the village until the radiation outside degraded enough for us to reemerge from underground.