“Fuck those things!” Teresa laughed, reaching over to stroke my shoulder. “You need to listen when I tell you to do something, this place is pretty messed up! I need you to focus and react. You don’t need to know why I ask you to do things, just do them. Do you understand?” She said, keeping a positive tone in her voice.
“Yes mistress, I am sorry.” I replied. Then I blurted out, knowing that she would be upset that I was kind of talking back to her. “It isn’t my fault! You are always denying me, I am fucking horney all the time, I cant focus on fucking anything but getting off!”
“I know, I have been cultivating that desire in you for years. Just do what I say. Period.” She stated, flatly. “Nothing is going to change if you don’t behave. You are mine, and that means doing what I say, no matter how you feel about it! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR SLAVE?” The last part was said in a hard, even voice that made it quite clear that I would get what she wanted to give me.
“Yes mistress” Sullen, broken and dismayed. I replied in the meekest voice I could muster. Tears starting to form in my eyes. “Where are we going to go?” I asked, trying to choke back my dismay.
“Just go forward, and don’t hit anything, or any of those things unless you have to.” She said. “We are heading away from the town, so we need to try and wrap around to the other side of that hill we were on. But for now, just follow this fence line, we will see where it takes us.”
“Ok.” I said. “I can handle this, just stay focused.” I thought to myself.”
We drove around the edge of the field, lights blazing. There was something ahead of us. It looked like some sore of steel framed sprinkler, on wheels.
“We should be able to drive under that, its an irrigation thing, sprays shit all over the fields to fertilise the crops.” Teresa said in passing.
I saw there was a fence behind it, so I tried to follow that, hoping we didn’t get stuck in the mud. “We need to find a truck.” I mumbled, thinking out loud really.
“You just focus on driving, try not to get stuck.” She said. Patting my shoulder again.
Coming up on our left hand side, I saw the farmhouse, and the gate through the fence. It was open, so we could get off of the field. But there were dozens of those things. The light drawing their attention immediately, the noise rom this custom exhaust screaming out. “COME EAT US!” and we got closer and closer to them. “Fuck these things.” I said, pushing my foot down on the accelerator. I was almost at the gate when I jerked the wheel hard to the left. The tail end of the car swung out, clipping a few of those fuckers. Teresa wasn’t ready for the sudden change in direction. When I cranked the wheel back to the right to straighten out the tail, her head smacked into the window.
“Shit! What the fuck are you doing?” she barked at me, holding the side of her head. “I have people monsters trying to eat me. Do you think I need my slave trying to bash my skull in?”
I said nothing, I have to focus on driving. I pinned the accelerator again, tires spinning in the mud, but catching, pulling us forward. “Thank god for front wheel drive.” I think to myself. We fly through the gate. I ignore the things in front of us, smashing into them. One of them face plants into the windshield on Teresa’s side, sending cracks like spider webs shooting through the glass, enough that I wouldn’t want to many more of those things hitting it. The blood from its skull spattering all over the window. I twisted the dial to the max, the wipers spring to life. Well I guess I should say wiper. One of those things must have ripped the passenger side wiper off when I launched the first couple off. It didn’t matter now, at least I could see well enough to keep going. I was just clearing the house, I pumped the brakes a bit and cranked the wheel to the right. The wheels fighting to purchase on the loose gravel. “Shit!” I squeaked. Around the corner of the house was an old pickup truck. I spun the steering wheel back to the left, just missing the rear bumper of the truck. There was nothing in front of us. I hammered the accelerator, the stupid exhaust screaming, we flew down the driveway, it must have been a few hundred meters long. At the end of the driveway there was a T intersection, with a fence across the road, it was plainly visible in the headlights. I started slowing down, not sure which way to go.
“What is it?” Teresa asked
“Left or right?” I asked her.
“I can’t see anything with all these cracks and blood.” She said, kind of bitchy. “What do you see?”
“There is a fence across the road, and a field behind that. To the left looks like the road keeps going around a bend. I can’t see much to the left.” I said as we came to a stop. I shut the car off, and opened the door. “Stay in here.” I said. Getting out, not waiting for a response. I stood up and looked around. I shut the door, softly. I am not sure why, the fucking muffler must have let everyone in the world know we were here. I started looking around, there was nothing to see. To the left, trees and a farmers road, to the right, trees and a farmers road. “Fucking awesome.” I thought to myself. Looking back from where we came, I saw about a dozen fireflies coming towards us, they were far away, not even half of the distance we had come flying up the driveway. “I should just throw it in reverse, and smash all of them!” I thought. “Fuck it, I need to get her to safety, no need.” Pulling the door open, I got in and said. “Trees and road to the left, Trees and road to the right. Fireflies behind us, guess they are relentless.”
“Head left.” She said. “Lets get the fuck out of here.”
“Ok.” I steered to the left and speed off, slowing only enough to get around the curve safely. We flew down the road for a while. Uncomfortable silence filling the car, I reached down, pressing the power button on the streio. White noise, hit seek. Looking over at Teresa, I said “see if there are any stations working would you?”
“Sure. Do you remember where that town was?” She asked.
“Generally, yeah.” I said.
“Lets head that way, when we can I mean.” She said, switching through the bands, searching for something. “Fuck, it’s all just white noise!” She yelled, smashing the power button in frustration.
“Ok, that sucks.” I said. Looking over, I asked her. “What does that mean? It can’t be like this everywhere can it?”
“I don’t know” she replied, looking out the passenger window. “I need to think about what all this means, what we are going to do. Just drive, keep you eyes open for anything useful, somewhere that looks safe enough to spend the night.”
“OK, I love you” I said, trying not to worry too much.
“I know, I love you too.” she replied, rubbing her face with her hands.
I turned my focus back to the road ahead. What more was there to do? She told me to drive, to where? Who knows, maybe it was just away, or maybe it was away from this horror story? As we made our way down the road, I noticed there were trees everywhere on my left, I guess the farmers had no use for this ground. On the right side of the road was a shallow ditch, that rose into a short rock wall. Lots of sloppy graphetty. LM+DK, Pictures of crudely drawn cocks, a faded rainbow, and even a “BRADY WAS HERE”. The road started to climb, a gentle slope, until we were at equal elevation with the top of the rock wall, a few dozen meters and the road, as well as the forest, came to an abrupt end. Another T intersection greeted me, this time though, it was not a fence on the other side, but a stone wall. It was obviously cut into by a drill and blast team. “They must have cut into the hill to make room for the road. Hell this might even be a highway.” I thought. would be nice to get on the asphalt, a smooth ride would do me some good after what I had been through the last few hours. I looked over at Teresa. She was still holding her face. I figured she needed more time, so I just turned to the right and went. Let her think about whatever she needed to think about. Looking down, I noticed that we had a bunch of gas, almost full. I didn’t think this little compact car would be as thirsty as the ambulance I am used to driving. If she wanted to head towards that town, I am sure we can always turn around, she prolly wont even notice. At least thats what I was thinking, not even 15 second pass before we run into more fucking problems. “Fuck, you know, it figures.” I say under my breath. “I guess people can’t wait to get in car accidents when the world comes apart at the seams.”
“What?” Teresa says, looking up. “Shit. Can we get around you think?”
I had already started slowing down, trying to find a way past the RV that was tipped over on its side. “I hope so. It is pretty big.” I replied. “I am pulling into that parking lot, keep an eye out for fireflies.”
“Ok.” she said, turning to look out the passenger window.
I turned the wheel to the right, coasting in, didn’t want to make too much noise, kind of hard in this car. But I can at least try. The building we were in front of looked like a veterinarian’s office, there was a big white storage shed, with a giant red dog painted on it, it was kinda funny I guess. It reminded me of one of the books I read when I was in school. Looking over to the left, I saw that it wasn’t as bad as I thought, the RV must have swerved to avoid something, maybe one of those things, and tipped over. That caused a pile up behind it, people impatient to be on their way. The wreckage was limited to the oncoming traffic lane, once we got around the RV, I just hopped the curve and we were on our way again. Reaching over and tapping Teresa on the leg, I said. “Seems ok, not really as bad as it could be, and look at that” I pointed out the front window. “I can see a few buildings in front of us, looks like there are at least a few small communities around here.”
“Thats nice.” She said turning to look the way I was pointing. “I wish I could see out my side of the window.”
“Sorry about that.” I said. “I needed to get us out of there in a hurry”
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