Chapter 5: A new hope
We stopped by the communal kitchen on our way to meet Zeke and the other leaders the next morning. I was nibbling an oat bar that had been made fresh by the cooks this morning while Ren gave me a very quick tour through New Hope. Within the walls there were only five permanent structures, each with mismatched brickwork, suggesting they'd been patched up many times over the years.
The structures consisted of two apartment blocks, each 2 stories high with a total of eighty rooms between them, one of which belonged to Ren. They stood before the bombs and had likely been for the mine workers originally. There was a warehouse, which had been set up as temporary communal living for the rest of the residents, but many had lived in there for years as they had to prioritise growing food over housing, but different plans were in discussion to build more homes. The final building was the one I'd already been in. It was low and wide and according to Ren consisted of the communal showers, kitchen, infirmary, food store and gun store. There was also a meeting room, which the leaders occasionally made use of but was mostly used as a school; we were heading there now. There was also a huge greenhouse made from hundreds of windows scavenged from `nearby' towns. There they grew mostly seedlings before planting them in the fields outside the wall.
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Ren had spent the last 20 minutes catching Zeke, Kellen and Lily up on where they'd been. He just finished explaining where they'd met Elijah and Aria and how Salvation had attacked them, sliced his leg and taken them all prisoner, just as Akeem walked into the room.
"Sorry! I overslept." He said to the group giving me a wink.
"That's fine, Ren's catching us up. You've been through a lot." Said his brother.
It took another 20 minutes of the three of us filling in the gaps and answering their questions.
Kellen reached over the small table and shook my hand, "Sounds like we all owe you a debt Noah."
"You've taken me in. I owe you."
"I'm glad you feel that way," smiled Zeke, "Because we're in need of someone to take on the role of doctor. We have a few people able to do simple enough tasks but need someone else to lead and train them."
"Of course. I want to be useful."
Zeke smiled around the room, "Well it was scary there for a minute. But you're all safe and we have some new citizens." He got up and hugged his brother, "You can all have today and tonight to relax and get settled in, then your jobs will resume."
Lily then stood and asked to speak to me, Ren said he'd find me later and waved me off, leaving with the other men.
"Everything okay?" I asked her.
"Oh, yes. Well, I think so. It's just I'm pregnant. A few months, I think. Have you delivered babies before?"
"Honestly? Only a few alongside my mother."
"Oh, that is a relief. The nurses are all terrified of delivering, so anything is better then what we have now. We also have another woman, Chloe. She's extremely far along. It'd be great if you could take a look at her?"
"Of course, shall we go to her now?"
"If you're sure you don't mind. I know you must be exhausted?"
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I was introduced to Chloe and as Lily had mentioned, she was very far along. She was very keen to let me have a feel of her stomach and check her over, I'd have to scope out the infirmary and hoped they had some useful equipment.
"I'd guess that you're a few weeks from being full term Chloe, which means baby will be along within the next few weeks. I can feel that they're in the birthing position, which means it'll likely be sooner rather than later."
She asked several questions about birth and my experience; I felt the need to leave out the fact I'd only delivered babies alongside my mother to help ease her mind. By the time she'd waved goodbye she had seemed confident enough in my ability to help her.
Lily then took me to the infirmary, in which I found there was actually a fairly well stocked cupboard of supplies and medicines as well as several machines, some of which I didn't recognise and couldn't wait to find out how they worked. I was introduced to Erin and Aaron, who insisted they were nurses not doctors, and were excited to have someone with more experience to support them. As Lily walked with me, she explained that with my own, Aria's and Elijah's arrival we now brought Hew Hope's population up to 194. It was clear as we walked that she was on a first name basis with everyone which was reassuring and crazy to me, having come from Salvation's population of near 5000.
Akeem waved me over as we neared the front gate again on our second loop of the compound and Lily took her leave.
He threw an arm over my shoulders, "Getting to know people I see. Listen, I know you know... but, I just wanted to say again how much I appreciate what you've done for us. If you ever need anything, don't hesitate to ask. Okay?"
"I'll bare that in mind. Honestly though, I know I'm going to be happy here. I could scream, laugh and cry I'm so happy." He pulled me into a tight hug, which I reciprocated and as he looked at me, I felt a surge of attraction for the guy.
"I'm glad. Listen," he said keeping an arm draped over me as we walked, "A few of us are gonna get together for a game of football. I just told Ren, he's trying to hog you though and said you'll be too tired."
"I can definitely make an appearance, although I can count on my left hand the number of times, I've kicked a ball."
"I knew you would. Don't worry. Let's go tell Ren the good news handsome."
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Ren was sat on his bed with eyebrow raised looking at Akeem. "I didn't say we wouldn't go. I said, it was up to Noah. I bet you pressured him."
I laughed, "Honestly I want to go."
"See! See you in a few Sexy." He kissed me full on the lips then then glared at Ren nodding his head "Ren." Then left the room.
I laughed sitting next to Ren, "I like him."
Ren snaked a hand up my top, "Well that's good. Because he definitely, likes you."
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Ren escorted me round the back of the apartment building to a large flat area. The earth was compact and dry, but sparse grass had managed to take root in the soil, although it was slightly yellow in colour.
Akeem waved to us from across the other side of the clear expanse, he stood with a few other guys in the shade of a grove of trees. As we approached, I recognised Kellen and was then introduced to a short, tan guy called Alex and another man, broad, bald and with sunburned skin called Drew. Luckily for me `football' was obviously the optional activity. The main activity was the bottle of translucent liquid being passed around, generously be being referred to as vodka. "Try this big guy." Said Alex holding the bottle out to me, "I make it from potatoes, tastes like shit, but does the job." I couldn't help but wince as I took a swig from the bottle.
"Yeah. It's rough." Laughed Ren as he took the bottle from me and took a mouthful. "How's the watch been Alex?" he asked as he passed the bottle back.
"No issues. I oversaw a trade with the fairgrounders, and they were saying one of their people has gone missing. We were terrified that's why you hadn't returned."
"Really? Shit, I'll have to visit with them at some point and find out."
"Visit them?" I gasped a little higher and louder than I'd meant to, "They might eat you!"
Ren laughed as Alex squeezed my shoulder, "The fairgrounders aren't ravers, they don't do that. The fairground used to be an amusement park with games and rides the only difference is they occasionally trade with some Ravers; we don't get caught up in that."
A short while later Elijah and Aria joined our little party and Elijah explained how he and his sister had been set up with a couple of camp beds in the warehouse, and they were getting on well with the others. I couldn't help but wonder where I'd be staying long term.
Like me they'd been told to settle in today and would be starting their respective jobs tomorrow. Elijah had been assigned to help build some of the new housing structures, which would involve trips out to collect supplies and Aria was going to help with the crops and kitchens. She was also great with maps, so would be teaching the valuable skill.
An hour or so later most of the group was stumbling around with a football while Akeem and I looked on laughing, before he climbed to his feet and held out a hand for me to follow, "Wanna go for a walk?"
"Sure. Show me the greenhouse?" I asked.
We walked side by side through the trees as Akeem had explained it was a short cut to the back of the greenhouse. "I hope you don't mind," he started tentatively, "But Ren told me about Grant. I just wanted to know if you were okay. The things we do to survive can mess with us."
I exhaled slowly thinking about my response, "I mean, I'm doing okay. As psychotic as it sounds, I'm glad he's dead. He was the one that forced me to watch as they killed my mum. I just feel disgust with myself. I just shut down after that, let him use me because I was a coward and didn't fight ba-." My words lodge in my throat. He reached out taking my hand in his, "You're not the coward in this story Noah."
"That's nice of you, but I can't help but wish I'd done something sooner."
"You're not the type of person who defends yourself. I'd wager that a large factor of your reaction was because you wanted to get us out of Salvation."
"You might be right." I conceded as he opened the door to the greenhouse, "This is amazing," I said in awe, "So do you grow everything in here?"
"We did, at one point. And we still grow a lot inside, but we also have small fields of corn, potatoes and wheat."
"I'm so impressed. I just can't believe you made this from old windows."
"Thanks. It took a lot of work, and we grow more than double the food we need for us and the livestock. Which means we're able to trade with other blocks."
"What do you trade for?" I asked looking at bright red tomatoes growing alongside ripening peppers. The green house stretched at least 200 yards back and was around 50 yards wide.
Akeem twisted a tomato from a vine and passed it to me, "Try it. It's good," I sank my teeth into it, causing juice to run down my chin. He swiped his thumb across my chin catching the juice, answering "Depends. Technology equipment mostly, sometimes weapons or bullets. We're providing a block 2 days south-east of here with wheat every month for a year in exchange for a third jeep."
"Do you not get worried they'll work out where New Hope is and try to take it?"
"We're careful who we trade with, and only ever with the smaller blocks. But rest assured. We may be small, but we're well protected."
"I see that. When did you decide you could trust me enough to bring me here? And Aria, and Elijah."
"Usually when I go into blocks, I spend a lot of time just watching. I notice the ones who are kind to others, I sometimes spend a full day watching someone. Then I talk to them, find out how they feel about their block, what they wish they could change and every now and then I invite them here. Sometimes people stumble up to the front gate, those are treated case by case." I nodded as he continued, "You on the other hand, saved Ren's life and helped us escape, we'd have brought you here kicking and screaming if we had to." He winked at me, nudging me shoulder with his own. "How are you feeling about delivering Chloe's and then Lily's babies?"
I glanced at him, "Truthfully... pretty terrified. I mean I've helped my mum in the past, but I've never been the one doing the heavy lifting."
Akeem nodded thoughtfully, "You seeing babies born makes you the most qualified now. There are also tonnes of books in the infirmary. There must be one that's useful for babies in there."
"I'll have a good look tomorrow." His fingers laced between mine as we walked down the rows of vegetables and I found myself being drawn to him. His natural calm confidence, tall frame, smooth dark skin, large expressive eyes and large lips.
"You know," he smiled, "If you want to kiss me again, all you need to do is ask. Hell, you don't even need to ask." We had stopped walking and he was now standing in front of me. I felt myself blush as we closed the gap between our mouths. His 6"3 frame meant that for our lips to meet I had to stand on tip toes, and he had to stoop slightly. One of his large hands cupped the back of my head, while the other held the small of my back held in place, pressed against his body. He pulled back from the kiss, planting a gentle peck on my now slightly swollen lips, "We'd better head back. Or they'll send out a search party."
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As we joined the group, nobody was playing football any longer. They were sat in a large circle, some on logs beneath the trees, others on the grass, passing the bottle back and forth. "That's a great idea Elijah. People will love that." I heard Kellen say.
"What's this?" asked Akeem as he settled on the floor in front of Ren, who opened his legs to accommodate him. Ren then held out a hand beckoning me to sit beside him as he answered Akeem, "Elijah wants to build new homes around large courtyards."
Elijah went on to explain, "Each building could have 4 rooms, so could house 2 families each and they'd be built around in a circle shape around a common outside area."
Akeem nodded enthusiastically, "Fuck yeah. That would be perfect for the families with young children. Ren!" he craned his neck to look back up at Ren with a massive smile on his face, "We need to get that slide and swing set from that overgrown park!"
Ren nodded in agreement, saying to the group, "We've been looking for an excuse to get that stuff for years, it'd need some love though. That's for sure." He looked to Kellen and said, "We'll run it by Zeke and Lily tomorrow."
After that, the group slowly began to disperse for the afternoon, Alex and Drew decided to get some sleep before their guard duty started and Elijah was keen to draw some plans for Akeem to show the other's tomorrow, so Aria left with him. Kellen was the last to rise, "Right boys. I've got stuff to do. See you tomorrow." We watched him quietly disappear behind the apartment buildings.
"So..." said Ren, "Where'd the two of you sneak off to earlier?"
Akeem climbed from the floor, sat the other side of Ren, and teased "Just a little stroll, why did you miss us?"
"Obviously." He replied leaning in and kissing Akeem passionately. Watching the two of them kiss made my throat feel dry, I felt myself leaning forward, making sure I got the best possible angle to watch these two beautiful men kiss. Ren the broke the kiss, "Don't worry you've not been forgotten." And he grabbed me and kissed me just as passionately before encouraging me to kiss Akeem. "Let's head back to my room."
"Does that mean I'm not going to be forced to sleep alone tonight?" asked Akeem with a wink.
"Did the two of you usually sleep in the same bed then?" I asked.
Ren shrugged as he extinguished the fire, "Some of the time, unless he found someone else's bed he preferred for the night."
I felt guilty, "Oh no, I can stay in the warehouse. I don't mind."
Akeem rolled his eyes and smiled "Don't be silly. But I do want to know something."
"What?"
"When do I get to fuck you?"
"How fast can we get back to yours?" I winked.
Akeem grabbed me round the middle and threw me over his shoulder taking off at a run, Ren keeping level with him laughing at my screams to be put down.
I was finally but down at the entrance to the apartment block, "Get that perfect arse up those stairs," commanded Akeem.
"You haven't even seen it yet Keem. It's fucking hairless."
Once we got back to the room Akeem and Ren each sat on the bed staring at me, "Take off your clothes Noah." I felt me cheeks redden slightly from being told to strip while they sat completely clothed. But I did as I was told. "Good boy," cooed Akeem, "Now, turn around and show me this smooth hole." I turned my back to them, leaning forward slightly so that my cheeks parted. "Fuuuuuck." He breathed out slowly.
"I told you, it's fucking perfection." Whispered Ren, before adding, "Pull your cheeks open Noah." My dick began to leak precum as I did, I peered around my body to see each of they had fished out their dicks and playing with them. I dropped to my knees and crawled slowly to the two of them, keeping my back arched low and arse raised as high as a I could. As I crawled between them both raised to their feet, cocks outstretched between them. I wrapped a hand around each and squeezed them, making eye contact with each of them as they looked down at my expectantly, before taking the head of Akeem's dick into my mouth and slurping at it, while using my other hand to work the length of Ren's, swapping frequently so neither felt left out.
Akeem had the biggest dick of all of us, his was close to 8 Inches and incredibly thick, I wanted it inside me.
Akeem reached forward while I sucked Ren, sliding his hand over my neck, down my spine and then across my arse, he gently pressed his finger against my hole, then removed it. He gathered some spit from his mouth and replaced it drawing little circles while I groaned my approval all over Ren's dick.
Without warning he moved and lifted me onto the bed rolling me over onto my back. The two of them made short work of removing their clothing, each falling to their knees either side of my legs, and then licking at my dick, passing it back and forth for the other to swallow, occasionally kissing with the head of my dick between their mouths.
Watching their tongues, twisting together with my dick between them made me groan, "That's the sexiest thing I've ever seen."
Akeem raised his head from my crotch smirking, wiping the spit from his mouth he crawled up the bed to kiss me briefly and then straddled my head to angled his thick dick towards my lips, which I opened and accepted happily as Ren continued to suck mine. Akeem's dick was longer than any I'd seen before, I had to wrap my fist around the base while I worked my mouth up and down the top half. While I was doing this, I could feel Ren lifting my legs into the air, exposing my ass to him, which he promptly began to kiss and lick, my ass twitched as he blew cold air onto the wet skin and then ran a gentle finger over the puckered skin. I continued to suck Akeem's dick as Ren worked first one, then two and finally three fingers inside me, which had me writhing beneath the two of them. In what felt like no time at all, Ren began pushing the head of his dick inside me, which stretched my even wider than his fingers had before. I pulled my mouth off of Akeem's dick and gasped as Ren pushed his whole length inside me, pulled slowly out and then pushed all the way back inside again. Akeem then climbed off of me and repositioned himself so that he was able to suck my dick while Ren continued to fuck me faster and harder, after only a few minutes I was forced to push Akeem's head away, "Stop. Don't want to cum."
"Here, have mine." Said Ren as he pulled out of me and sank his dick immediately into Akeem's waiting mouth, "Oh, yeah. I knew you'd like that you kinky bastard. Taste his hole."
Akeem did as he was told and lifting my legs higher sank him mouth onto my hole and pushed his tongue inside, before moving his head out of the way so that Ren could push his dick back inside me a few times, before allowing Akeem to take it back into his mouth for a few seconds. This went on for a minute or two, before Akeem roughly pushed Ren out of the way, "My turn. I hope you're ready for my big, black cock Noah."
"Oh yeah, give it," I gasped as Akeem's thick cock impaled me before finishing, "to me baby."
"Oh, I will." He thrust hard and fast into me, I exhaled in short, panting breaths as he held my hips tightly pulling me down to meet each inward thrust before pushing deeper then ever and groaning as he unloaded deep inside me. He knelt, still inside me stooping over to catch his breath for only a few seconds before Ren pushed him out the way to fuck me again.
As Ren added his own load to Akeem's, I fisted my dick and shot rope after rope of cum across my chest.
It was several minutes before anyone moved, Akeem being the first to climb to his feet- grabbed a damp cloth from the sink proceeded to clean my stomach and chest. "Thanks Keem. Not sure I can move after that." I laughed.
"I'm not surprised, Ren's dick is like a teenagers compared to mine." He laughed.
Ren didn't actually reply, he just laughed and flipped him off.
We spent the rest of the afternoon, talking and laughing. Being around Akeem and Ren just made me feel lighter. I couldn't wait to begin integrating myself into New Hope, making friendships and helping build a place which kept all of safe.
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