The Old Valley Road Hotel.
By Wombat. ------------------------- Any constructive comments are appreciated. I'm at 'bungala_wombat@yahoo.com.au'. ------------------------------------
Chapter 5 part 16.
------------------------------------ Part 51: The Top Floor. ------------------------------------
Derek nuzzled the back of Albert's neck.
Albert lay face up on top of him enjoying the feeling.
After a while he said dreamily, "You know, I'd love to be face to face with you. Do you think I can turn around with this bloody great thing up my arse?"
"You can give it a try," replied Derek.
Albert tried to lean forward but he found it impossible with Derek's huge hard penis thrust up his rectum all the way up to his breastbone. Derek pushed him up until he was sitting upright on Derek's groin. Albert sat panting with Derek's cock head up hard against his diaphragm.
"My God!" exclaimed Albert. "I feel so full. That enormous bloody great big dick of yours feels really crammed into me. Everything feels so tight around it."
"It is."
Albert started pivoting around on Derek's penis. It was difficult. Derek grabbed Albert's muscular thighs and assisted him around. Albert gasped and groaned as his torso thrummed with exquisitely strange but pleasurable sensations. As he rotated, his bowels twisted a little with Derek's penis then slipped back into position.
Derek rumbled in pleasure as exquisite sensations flooded into his penis. Albert's bowels slid over the skin of his cock stimulating it intensely. It felt very nice indeed, almost as nice as thrusting it in. He rotated Albert once more around on his cock because he enjoyed the sensation so much.
Finally Albert sat facing Derek. Derek's rock hard penis was still lodged its full length up his anus.
Albert groaned. He sat bolt upright on Derek's groin appreciating the massive bulk of Derek's long fat penis thrust up inside his torso. It reached right up under his rib cage and pushed against his diaphragm. It was an incredible feeling and very intense. It almost hurt but not quite. It was like having a man's arm up his anus. His chest heaved. His pectoral muscles bulged. His nipples stood out.
Derek ran his hands over Albert's tense well-muscled torso. He appreciated every hard bulge of muscle. Albert was very, very nice.
Albert lay down on top of Derek and kissed him hard on the lips. Derek snorted with passion as he kissed Albert enthusiastically. He wrapped his huge powerful arms around Albert's chest and held him tightly. They ravished each other's mouths with their tongues. Albert's penis quickly became rock hard again. Derek's hands moved down Albert's body. They ran over Albert's back and massaged his round muscular buttocks.
Albert moaned as Derek kissed him passionately. His penis slipped into the central groove between the thick muscle ridges of Derek's belly. He started humping Derek's abdomen.
Derek partially withdrew his penis and started thrusting into Albert rhythmically. He held Albert firmly around the waist and started sliding Albert bodily up and down his penis. The sensations were magnificent.
Albert cried out. The feeling of Derek's penis ploughing into his body was almost too much to bear. His internal organs were pushed aside with each thrust that started from his anus, progressed up his bowels right up to inside the rib cage and bumped up against his diaphragm. This was incredible.
Derek loved fucking Albert. He loved feeling his mighty penis ram up through Albert's powerfully muscled torso until it was fully inside. He loved feeling Albert's anus and bowels tight around his penis for its entire length. He loved feeling Albert's pulsating body full of life around his penis. He loved feeling Albert's anal sphincters like two thick tight rubber bands sliding up and down around his penis. He loved feeling Albert getting extreme pleasure from his penis. He loved feeling Albert getting off on him. He held Albert in his mighty arms and kept on sliding Albert bodily up and down on his penis.
Albert reared up and arched his back. He put his hands on Derek's mighty shoulders for support. The sensation of Derek's huge fat penis ploughing up through his innards became even stronger. He could feel Derek's penis sliding up his belly behind the thick strong wall of abdominal muscle. The penis was actually pushing against his abdominal muscles from the inside. The feeling was unbelievable.
He looked down and saw Derek's huge bulging veined biceps. They were the biggest biceps he had ever seen. Derek's massively powerful arms held him around the waist and slid him bodily up and Derek's mighty penis. He revelled in Derek's enormous penis thrusting up into him. He revelled in Derek's huge muscles bulging with power. Derek was by far the most muscular man he had ever seen.
His groin contracted brutally. He exploded into orgasm. He arched his back further. He cried out. His eyes rolled up into his head so that only the whites were showing. He saw stars, such was the intensity of his orgasm.
White gouts of semen spurted out of his ramrod stiff penis and splashed over the thick bulging pectoral muscles of Derek's chest.
Derek continued sliding him up and down his penis. He saw that Albert's eyes had become totally white. Albert's eyes looked like peeled hard-boiled eggs. He looked very strange, almost like something out of a horror movie.
"I'm fucking a monster and he's loving it," thought Derek. He giggled at the thought. Then he too erupted into orgasm. He gave a deep guttural groan. He thrust his penis as far as it could go deep into Albert's torso. His cock head rammed up into the centre of Albert's chest. He roared. White-hot semen boiled up out of his balls through his groin and up the length of his penis. Derek planted his seed in the seething core of Albert's being right next to Albert's pounding heart.
Their orgasms entwined together. Albert's titanic train of orgasmic tsunami spurred Derek onto greater heights of orgasmic joy. Albert was being racked by gigantic eruptions of orgasm. Never before had he experienced anything like this. Joy, ecstasy and bliss ran together in a continuous white-hot river of fire. The conjoined orgasms continued on and on. Derek pumped energy into Albert prolonging his orgasm hugely.
Albert collapsed on top of Derek's body. Still he was in the throes of orgasmic frenzy. He shuddered and writhed. He was almost unconscious. His mind was quite blurred out by the gigantic orgasm erupting inside him. His whole being was concentrated on one thing. That was Derek's huge penis thrust up inside him the whole length of his torso. He could feel Derek's cock head next to his heart. He was impaled. He loved it. The orgasm would not stop. Derek shuddered and groaned beneath him as he kept pumping his spunk into his body.
Finally the orgasms came to an end. Albert lay limply on top of Derek. He was in a semiconscious daze. He was blissed out. He drooled on Derek's chest.
Derek wrapped his arms around him and held him tenderly. He allowed his cock to soften inside Albert. He stroked Albert's short dark brown hair. Albert snuggled up against him like a child. Derek kissed the top of his head. He nuzzled in amongst the short hair and kissed his scalp. Albert made happy little purring noises.
It was dark in the bedroom. The sun had set. A gentle zephyr blew through the windows and made the shim curtains billow. Derek could hear night birds calling. Otherwise it was quiet outside. There was no traffic noise. Derek was surprised how little noise there was from a city the size of Durban. Then he remembered he was back in 1922. Few people had motor vehicles then. He lay with Albert snoozing on top of him. He heard a horse clip-clopping past in the street outside.
After a while Albert stirred. He sat up. Derek's soft cock slid out of his arsehole. Albert groaned as he felt the cock leaving him. Little else came out. Albert was surprised.
He sat happily on Derek's stomach feeling the big bulging muscles of Derek's torso. Derek submitted cheerfully to his ministrations.
"I must admit to feeling rather peckish," said Albert.
Derek invited Albert to stay and have dinner with him in his room. Albert readily accepted.
Derek reached up and switched on the bedside reading lamp. He picked up the room service menu.
"What would you like to eat?" he asked handing the menu to Albert.
"I feel like a chicken with champagne," announced Albert without even looking.
"You look like one," joked Derek.
"You dope," laughed Albert and poked Derek in the stomach. It was rock hard. Albert was impressed.
Derek suggested they have a bath before dinner. They both stank of semen and sweat.
Derek went into the bathroom and started running water into the big white-enamelled cast-iron bath. It had clawed feet. Derek poured the special sweet-smelling herbal bath gel from Mount Remarkable into the warm water from a dark green glass bottle. The water foamed up from the water running from the taps.
"A bubble bath!" exclaimed Albert. "Goodie! I've never had one of those."
He was like an excited schoolboy.
When the bath was full, Derek turned off the taps and got into the bath. He lay down in the warm water surrounded by foam. His mighty chest and belly were exposed. His thick arms lay on the sides of the bath.
Hesitant, Albert stood naked on the bathroom floor. He admired the splendidly muscular man lying in the bath.
Derek grinned up at him. "Don't just stand there. Come on in."
Albert climbed in. He felt Derek's muscular body underneath him. He loved feeling the bulges and ripples of muscle. Derek's skin felt smooth and slippery. Derek was utterly magnificent.
Albert rubbed himself against Derek's body. He loved the feel of Derek's big muscles rubbing against him. His cock stiffened rapidly. He reached down and felt Derek's cock. It was semi-stiff. Albert rubbed it. He had the satisfaction of feeling it stiffen quickly in his hands. Its skin felt marvellously smooth, soft and silky over the steely hard rod. Albert delighted in rubbing his hands up and down the shaft. It was so thick and long. He kept on rubbing it. He lifted it up out of the water and kept on rubbing it.
Derek groaned. Albert looked at him. Derek's eyes were like slits. He was breathing heavily.
Albert put his mouth over the end of Derek's penis. It was too big for him to get it inside his mouth. Albert covered as much as he could of Derek's cock head with his mouth and sucked on the piss slit. He savoured the sweet precum flowing out. He poked his tongue down the piss slit relishing the sweet taste of the precum. He kept on masturbating Derek. He loved rubbing his hands up and down Derek's shaft and milking his penis.
Derek gave a deep guttural groan. His penis twitched. His thick white semen gushed into Albert's eager mouth.
Albert was surprised. Derek's semen tasted deliciously sweet and creamy. It was like nectar. It was the milk of a god. It was ambrosia. Albert gulped it down enthusiastically. He felt privileged to swallow Derek's beautiful sweet creamy spunk. The semen kept coming into his mouth. He swallowed it down willingly. He felt that he was in heaven.
Albert was starting to feel full when Derek gave a long deep groan. Derek's penis stopped pulsing. The delicious spunk stopped coming. Albert eagerly milked the last drops from Derek's penis and scooped them out from the piss slit with his tongue.
Derek lay back against the end of the bath with a happy smile.
"You certainly know how to pleasure a man," he said languidly. "That was really nice."
Albert belched. Derek shook with laughter.
"Glad you liked it," he said with a grin.
Dizzy with desire and happiness, Albert crawled up on top of Derek's body. He loved feeling the mighty bulging muscles of Derek's chest and abdomen underneath him. Derek's skin felt wonderfully smooth and slippery. That was due in part to the special bath gel from Mount Remarkable. Albert was filled with bliss as he writhed joyfully on top of Derek's massive torso. His legs were either side of Derek's waist. He loved feeling Derek's waist bulging with muscle rubbing against the inside of his thighs.
Derek hoisted him up a little more. Their lips met. They kissed passionately. Their tongues intertwined as they ravished each other's mouths.
Their penises rapidly became fully erect. Desperately Albert humped Derek's torso. His penis slid up and down the central groove between the ridges of muscle on Derek's abdomen. He delighted in feeling Derek's massive rock hard penis rubbing up against his own penis and belly. He could feel his orgasm building.
Derek broke the kiss.
"Want a fuck?" he asked in his rumbling baritone.
"What? Another one?" queried Albert emerging from the mists of passion. "You're insatiable."
"Oh I am indeed. I'm a great big insatiable bull."
Albert shuddered with anticipation.
He said, "You certainly are. And yes please, I'd love another fuck."
Derek slid Albert bodily up his chest and positioned his cock head up against Albert's anus. Albert lay astride Derek's torso. He eased himself down gently onto Derek's cock. It was with pleasure that he felt his arsehole dilate and admit Derek's huge fat slippery cock smoothly inside.
Derek gave little gentle thrusts of his penis until it was fully sheathed in Albert's intestines. Albert moaned with pleasure as Derek's penis thrust deeper into his body. Derek could feel Albert's heart beating hard against his cock head.
They lay together in the bath with Derek's arms wrapped gently around Albert's waist. They kissed. The kiss continued with rising passion. Their tongues slid into each other's mouths and ravished each other. Derek grasped Albert's lovely hard muscular bubble butt firmly with both hands. It felt good.
Derek started thrusting into Albert once more. He lengthened his strokes until he was thrusting nearly the full length of his penis into Albert with each stroke. Albert's rock hard penis slid up and down the groove between the hard ridges of muscle on Derek's abdomen with each thrust of Derek's penis. The water with the bath gel in it made their skins marvellously slippery.
Albert reared up. His eyes were wild. Having Derek's penis thrust into him was the best thing that ever happened to him. He felt wonderful. Derek's penis was huge inside him. He loved feeling it thrust up into him through his internal organs. He loved feeling it pound and push past his prostate. He loved feeling it thrust up against his abdominal muscles from the inside, push up along the inside of his muscular abdominal wall until it came up next to his heart. He loved feeling Derek's big strong hands firmly grasping his hard muscular buttocks.
Derek loved thrusting his penis into the short and powerfully built man's muscular torso. He loved Albert being fiercely inflamed sexually by him. He revelled in Albert's utter enjoyment of him. He loved thrusting his penis in through Albert's tight anus in through Albert's muscle-packed pelvis up through his tight muscular slim waist right up into his deep wide chest right next to his pounding heart.
Albert felt an earthquake inside him. It was centred on Derek's penis thrusting into him. The earthquake became a volcano. It erupted. His groin burst forth with hot lava-like semen. It gushed up the length of his penis and sprayed all over Derek's chest and into the foamy bath water.
Albert reared up and cried out. Another huge intense orgasm took hold in his body. Muscular tremors coursed through him. His penis continued pumping out gouts of semen as Derek pumped energy into him.
His eyes rolled up into his eye. Only the whites were showing. He looked like a zombie in a horror movie. He saw stars. He was experiencing another huge and intense orgasm. His body was rigid. Every one of his big muscles was tense and bulging.
Derek kept on thrusting into him. He enjoyed Albert's orgasmic throes and cries of ecstasy. He enjoyed pumping energy into Albert considerably prolonging his orgasm. He enjoyed fucking the rigid zombie that Albert resembled.
He too let go. He thrust his penis as far as it could go into Albert's torso. His cock head was planted right next to Albert's pounding heart. He gave a deep animal growl. His orgasm exploded like a fireball within his groin. His hot thick semen gushed up from deep inside him and spouted from his penis into the core of Albert's body.
Their orgasms continued. Derek relished Albert's orgasm intertwining with his own. He loved sensing Albert being rocketed into the highest orgasmic firmament. He loved giving Albert the biggest and best fucks of his life. He loved feeling his hot semen coursing the length of his mighty cock and spouting into the centre of Albert's splendidly muscular chest. He loved fucking this powerful pocket Hercules that was Albert. He loved feeling Albert really getting off on him.
Derek's semen continued to course into the centre of Albert's chest. His cock head was being pounded by Albert's wildly beating heart.
Albert's eyes were still showing all white. His mouth was wide open. His ecstatic cries continued.
Finally they descended from the mountain peaks of orgasmic raptures. Albert relaxed. His eyes closed. He lay limply on top of Derek. He drooled on Derek's chest.
Derek put his arms tenderly around Albert's chest. He affectionately nuzzled the top of Albert's head. He gently stroked the back of Albert's neck.
They lay in the bath appreciating the closeness of each other's powerfully muscled bodies. Derek's cock was still erect up Albert's arse. The bath water was still quite warm. Derek kept it warm. It was another superhuman trick of his.
After a while Albert's eyes opened.
"My God! That was wonderful," he murmured. "Thank you."
"My pleasure," rumbled Derek.
He stroked Albert's head.
He said, "Buck, would you like to stay a while with me? I'm staying here in this hotel for another couple of weeks until my ship sails for Fremantle. I'd love to have your company."
Albert looked at him. He gazed into Derek's soulful brown eyes. Thoughts whirled through his head. He decided.
"I've only got four days shore leave until my ship the 'Lochinvar' sails for Bombay," he replied. "Until then I'd be delighted to keep you company."
"Good."
They hugged. They kissed lightly and then separated. They sluiced Albert's semen off their bodies and climbed out of the bath. Derek pulled the bath plug out by its chain and the foamy water gurgled noisily down the drain.
They dried themselves with the oversize bath towels provided.
"Well, hot stuff, we'd better order some dinner and get dressed," said Derek jovially.
"What do you mean by 'hot stuff'," asked Albert dubiously.
Derek laughed. "I mean you're a very sexy, spunky, strong, attractive man. You get me quite hot and bothered."
"I haven't heard that expression before," said Albert mollified. He laughed. "I rather like it."
The bedroom was quite dark except for the one bedside lamp. Derek switched on the electric wall sconces. The room was lit by a warm glow.
Albert luxuriated naked on the bed. Derek thrust a menu at him.
"Well, hot stuff, you'd better decide on what we're going to eat."
Albert laughed and took the menu.
"What about you?" he asked.
"I'll have what you're having," replied Derek. "Within reason, of course. I do draw the line at things like tripe and liver and other offal."
Albert grinned. "I rather like tripe," he said.
"Well, my friend, you'll be having it on your own. I'll choose something different."
"Only joking. I'll have the chicken and champagne as I said before."
"Fine."
Albert made the choices. Derek picked up the bedside telephone and ordered their dinner. Albert leant against Derek as Derek spoke. Derek put his arm around him.
"It'll be about half an hour," said Derek.
Albert looked at Derek's watch on the bedside table.
"Goodness me!" he exclaimed. "It's nearly nine o'clock. It is late. Mind you, I don't feel quite so ravenous after drinking all your spunk. I was feeling quite full after that."
Derek laughed.
They got dressed.
Dinner arrived and was served in the dining room. They looked out over the lights of Durban.
The entree consisted of small chicken vol-au-vents served with asparagus and beans.
Derek had ordered three bottles of a fine French champagne. The two men toasted each other gleefully. Albert proposed a toast to the health of His Majesty King George V. Derek responded with a grin.
The main course was poulet saute a l'archiduc, or sauteed chicken with Madeira-flavoured cream sauce served with roast potatoes and steamed vegetables. It was delicious. The champagne went down very well.
Dessert was strawberries soaked in cognac served with cream and ice cream.
It was an excellent meal. Finished, the two men sat back in their chairs replete.
The waiter cleared the dishes away quickly and Derek tipped him a shilling. The man was grateful for the generous tip and departed.
Derek and Albert retired to the bedroom. They stripped naked and climbed into bed together. They lay alongside one another and cuddled.
The bedroom was filled with a warm glow from the electric wall sconces.
Albert delighted in running his hand over Derek's mighty muscles. Derek's torso bulged with huge hard muscles. Albert felt as though he were in heaven. He ran his fingers up and down Derek's belly. He appreciated the muscular rock wall of Derek's abdomen. A finger found Derek's belly button. Albert poked it. He was surprised when his finger slid right into Derek's navel right up to the knuckle. There was a lubricated tube that led from the navel deep into Derek's body.
"I've never come across a navel like yours," remarked Albert. "It is such a deep hole."
"I suppose it is unusual," said Derek with his arm around Albert. "Do you want to stick your dick into it?"
Albert's eyes widened. "All right."
His penis stiffened rapidly. Derek aided him by masturbating him. Derek's penis also stiffened rapidly.
Albert climbed on top of Derek. They kissed passionately. Their penises caught in between their bodies rubbed together.
They broke the kiss. Albert sat up and inserted his penis into Derek's belly button. It slid into Derek's body easily. At six inches (15 cm.) long it was not long enough to penetrate the thick mass of muscle that formed Derek's abdominal wall. It was totally surrounded by Derek's hard strong abdominal muscles. Albert became really excited.
Derek put his hands on Albert's pelvis and pulled him out a little. He inserted his huge steely hard penis into Albert's willing arsehole. Gently he thrust his penis all the way up into Albert's rectum. Then he allowed Albert to thrust his penis fully into his belly button tube once more.
Derek had already adjusted the position of his navel so that Albert's penis could be inserted its full length into his abdomen at the same time as he could thrust his penis its full length up into Albert's rectum.
Both their penises were rock hard. They were locked together by their erect penises. For about a minute the two men stayed motionless with their penises thrust into each other's torsos appreciating the situation. They loved the feeling.
Albert kissed Derek hard on the lips. He started humping Derek enthusiastically. He loved sliding his cock in and out of the navel tube surrounded by the thick hard muscles of Derek's abdominal wall.
Derek commenced thrusting his penis in and out of Albert's arsehole. At first he used short strokes but he quickly lengthened the strokes. Soon his penis was ramming in and out of Albert's intestines by nearly its full length.
Albert went crazy feeling Derek's thick rock hard abdominal muscles working hard around his penis as Derek rammed his cock into Albert's bowels with rhythmic vigour. Fucking the belly button of the huge muscleman was the most wonderful thing in the world. Feeling Derek's mighty powerful abdominal muscles alternately contracting and relaxing around his cock while Derek thrust his penis in and out of his bowels stimulated him powerfully.
Derek held Albert firmly around his slim and muscular waist. He swept his cock almost its full length in and out of Albert's arsehole.
Albert could not contain himself any longer. He cried out and erupted into orgasm. His body went rigid as he joyfully ejaculated his semen deep into the thick muscles of Derek's abdominal wall.
Derek pumped energy into him prolonging his orgasm. He kept on fucking Albert, who was being shaken to the core by the huge continuous orgasm thundering through him.
He let go. He gave a loud cry as he rammed his cock into the depths of Albert's torso. He exploded. His semen gushed up the length of his penis and was implanted deep inside Albert. He clasped Albert tightly to himself as he filled Albert's bowels with his semen.
Their orgasms went on and on. Albert was delirious with orgasmic joy. He made high keening cries. Thundering great waves of seminal eruptions coursed through them both. Energy poured into Derek and then into Albert through Derek's penis.
Albert felt as though Derek's huge penis was shooting great sparks of electricity into the innermost depths of his body. At the same time it seemed that Derek's penis was gushing a big hot pool of burning wetness into the inmost core of his torso. It was wonderful. It was joy beyond compare. Derek was the most wonderful fucker in the world. He revelled in his orgasmic delirium.
It was glorious to feel his penis thrust its full length deep into Derek's muscular body and gripped tightly all around by the big thick hard powerful muscles of Derek's abdomen.
Derek loved having his penis implanted deep inside the strongly muscled torso of Albert who was delirious with orgasmic joy. He loved having Albert in raptures around his penis. Albert's body was a beautiful tight fuck hole wrapped tightly around his cock. Derek loved it.
It was yet another wonderful orgasm.
Derek and Albert spent most of the rest of the few days they had locked together in copulatory joy. Albert delighted in having Derek's mighty penis thrust up his arsehole into the depths of his torso as much as possible. Derek loved fucking him. They spent most of their time in bed together with Derek's cock up Albert's arse.
They spent the whole time together in Derek's suite. They ate their meals together. Then they fucked like wild animals.
Elsie looked after them well, as did the waiter. Elsie had found a gold sovereign in the street on the second day. She regarded Derek as her lucky prince. She considered it a privilege to serve him.
The day came when they had to part. Albert's shore leave was coming to an end. He had to rejoin his ship.
Derek and Albert had lunch together in the dining room of the grand suite. After the waiter had cleared up the dishes and left, Derek and Albert had one last celebratory fuck on the bed.
They had a shower then got dressed. Albert wore the clothes he had arrived in. Derek wore a close-fitting short-sleeved white shirt and cream trousers. The sleeves of his shirt were high enough to show off his huge bulging biceps. It was very daring for 1922.
Downstairs the concierge called them a taxi. He stared at Derek, drinking in the sight of Derek's huge muscles.
The taxi arrived. It was a Daimler. The driver specialised in clients from the luxury hotels. A bellboy carried Albert's suitcase out to the waiting taxi.
The taxi took them to the street at the back of Sheila's Bar. Derek and Albert got out. The driver heaved Albert's suitcase out of the taxi's boot and handed it to Albert.
Derek gave the taxi-driver a half-crown and told him to keep the change. It was a generous tip.
Derek started to follow Albert down the lane towards Sheila's Bar but Albert stopped him.
"Look, Derek, I would really rather you didn't come with me into Sheila's Bar," said Albert. "I'm meeting my shipmates there and it could be a little awkward if you came too."
The taxi drove off.
"But..." started Derek.
"Don't misunderstand me," said Albert quietly. "You and I have had the most wonderful time together. Now that time is over. I have to be back on board ship this afternoon and we sail for Bombay tomorrow evening. I'll be busy all tomorrow. I'm sorry, Derek, but we must part now. I shall never forget you, Derek. You've given me an absolutely splendid time. I shall never forget it. And I most certainly will never forget you. But I'm afraid this really is goodbye."
Albert held out his hand to Derek.
Derek shook it. His massive shoulders drooped.
Albert clapped him on the shoulder. He was very business-like now. Derek sensed that Albert felt it was too dangerous to show affection publicly.
"Cheer up, old chap," said Albert. "It's not that bad."
Derek managed a nod. He felt heavy inside.
"Goodbye, Derek," said Albert with finality.
"Goodbye," Derek managed to say.
With that Albert turned and walked away down the lane. Derek stood and watched him as his short stocky form receded. Albert carried his old leather suitcase jauntily. He turned the corner and disappeared from view.
Derek knew that Albert and his ship were doomed. Tomorrow the 'Lochinvar' would sail for India and keep her date with the cyclone that sank her. Albert seemed so cheerful and jaunty. He disliked leaving Derek but was afraid to show it. Derek missed him terribly. Albert was such a brave little soldier and he was going off to die.
Derek's eyes filled with tears. He leant against the building on the corner. Tears ran down his cheeks.
A passing black man stared at him curiously. He had never seen a white man cry before. And he was a big, very powerful and muscular white man too. It was very strange. What did it mean? The black man was sure it was an omen. He would have to ask the wise man when he returned to his village. He walked on.
The taxi had long since gone. Derek wiped the tears from his eyes with the back of his hand and trudged up the street away from the port area towards the city centre. There was some traffic about but no sign of a taxi.
Derek was unsure what to do next. He was in turmoil inside. He was thinking that he should find a taxi back to the Ozone Plaza Hotel. However, he was not sure.
He passed an old redbrick building. On it above the windows and closed door was a painted sign with an angel flying over water. The sign announced that the building was the Missions to Seamen. Derek raised a thin joyless smile. Missions to Seamen. Missions to Semen. Emissions of Semen.
Derek reached inside with his telepathic sense. He sensed a middle- aged woman reading a religious tract. She was alone.
Derek sighed ironically. What could a pious good lady do to help a battle-hardened post-traumatic-stress-syndrome survivor like Albert? And the many other former soldiers like him? Very little, thought Derek. And Albert was gay. And he had been through a lot of hardship. Derek doubted that the good lady could have coped.
Derek realised that he was a twenty-first century superman. How could he judge the people, things and events of the early twentieth century? It was not fair to even try.
He trudged on through the humid heat up the street towards the city centre. He thought he might explore a little around the Durban of 1922 before jumping back to his own time. He did not feel ready just yet to join the four Englishmen and Scott at the hulk of the 'Lochinvar' at the bottom of the ocean.
With a heavy heart he knew that he had fallen in love with Albert. He and Albert had had a wonderful time locked together in bliss. They had spent the four days of Albert's shore leave making sweet love together. Derek had come to know Albert very well. He had become very fond of Albert. All the details of Albert's life were laid bare to Derek's telepathy. Derek felt rather ashamed that he had to tell lies to Albert to keep up his cover story. He could not possibly have told Albert that he had come from nearly eighty years into the future. He now felt that he knew Albert like an old friend. He had spent longer with Albert than he had spent with Scott. Now his time with Albert was finished. Derek knew that Albert had been having affairs with other men in ports all around the Indian Ocean. Albert did not fall in love with them. But Derek had fallen in love with Albert. Albert had dismissed him at the street corner. It was the end of the affair. He had a wonderful fling with Derek, nothing more. Now he had gone to his shipmates waiting for him at Sheila's Bar.
Derek wondered how he was going to break the story to the Englishmen. They too were telepaths so Derek would not have been able to keep it hidden from them. They would joke about it. Derek feared that he would come in for a lot of teasing. He hoped that Scott would be OK about it.
Derek had no idea of the geographic layout of the city of Durban. There was no telepathic net that he could tap into and find out. With his telepathy he could sense the concentrations of people ahead in the city. He kept on walking.
He had a vague plan to catch a taxi back to the Ozone Plaza Hotel. He would spend a bit of time in his luxurious grand suit and consider what to do next. He did not feel like walking the distance to the hotel. His heart felt heavy. He felt angry and disappointed.
He found himself in a busy shopping street. He was surrounded by throngs of people who stared at him. The black people stared at him openly, marvelling at his huge muscular physique. The white people stared at him more covertly.
His mighty arms were on open display because of his close-fitting short-sleeved shirt. His biceps bulged hugely. The bulges of muscle on his massive torso were clearly visible through the thin material of his shirt.
The black people were amazed by his incredible musculature and his obvious tremendous strength. This was clearly no ordinary white man.
White people were more mixed in their reactions. Some admired him. Others thought he was coarse and common. It was not considered nice to show off one's muscles.
Everybody just stared and stared at the huge muscleman. Derek became irritated by their undivided attention. His telepathy gave him a peculiar sensitivity. White people were whispering uncomplimentary things about him to each other. Some smirked and giggled at him. The black people just stared at him. He felt out of place. He felt like an alien.
With a flick of his mind Derek made his clothes vanish from his body. He stood naked in the midst of the crowd displaying his magnificent muscularity.
The murmuring grew louder. A white woman screamed hysterically. A white man dressed in a grey suit and hat pulled a revolver from his coat. He started shooting at Derek. The bullets bounced off Derek's invulnerable naked body.
The bullets did not hurt but Derek became enraged. Using his electrokinetic ability, he pulled a massive charge of electrons from his surroundings and threw a thick heavy lightning bolt at the man shooting at him. Many gigawatts of electric power flowed through Derek for a second or two. A brilliant flash outshone the sun. A thunderous bang shook the air and echoed down the street. It was like the crack of doom. Nearby shop windows cracked and shattered. Immediately the man was engulfed in a mass of flame. He became a charred mess on the footpath. His skeleton fell and lay amid the blackened smoking remains of his flesh and clothes. The stench of burnt meat filled the air. The revolver became a small puddle of white-hot molten metal on the pavement.
People screamed and backed away in terror. Some crossed themselves. Many were dazzled by the intensely bright flash.
An elderly Arab clad in a flowing white robe and wearing a red fez knelt down on the footpath. He started praying loudly in Arabic calling upon Allah to deliver him from this evil genie in their midst.
Irritated by the Arab's fervent prayers, Derek gave the Arab a psychokinetic shove and sent him sprawling on his face in the gutter. The Arab's red fez went rolling onto the roadway under a passing cart drawn by a quiet docile horse. The black driver stopped the cart straight away and jumped down. He retrieved the fez from underneath the wheels of the cart and went over to the Arab who was struggling with difficulty to get up. The black man helped the Arab to his feet and handed him his fez. They and everyone else in the crowd looked at Derek, their faces drawn with abject fear.
Derek felt the fear surging from the people around him. They were terrified of him. He felt uncomfortable.
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