Quaranteam: SE - Team Davies Ch. 03

Quaranteam: Southeast – Team Davies

By 2charlie

This is a spinoff from the Quaranteam Universe created by CorruptingPower. Reading his work, as well as stories from many other excellent authors such as BreakTheBar, Agathon, Ronan, OtterlyMinBlowing, The_Licentious_Laureate, SilverRyden, BronanTheLibrarian, and others inspired me to start my own story. Thank you CorruptingPower for letting me join in the fun, and to all of rest for their help and support as I wrote this story. Please check out their work! This work is written with the consent of CorruptingPower. Enjoy!

Chapter 3

All Characters depicted in sexual situations in this story are over the age of 18.

*** Gainesville, FL – 0800, Tuesday, July 28, 2020***

Penny stepped away from the door and embraced Jan in a hug, then stooped down to hug Trent, too. Miles took their bags and moved them over to the dining room for the moment, and then moved to the living room, where Penny had led the two newcomers. He walked over to greet Jan, hugging her. He’d known Jan for a few years, both from her involvement with the pack committee and through Trent’s involvement in Cub Scouts but had never really interacted much with her outside of Scouting.

Glancing for a moment at Trent, Miles hesitated, then asked everyone to have a seat. “So, before we get into any deep conversations, I need to run something past you. You both know about DuoHalo, yes?”  Trent nodded, as did Jan, albeit with a curious look on her face. “Okay – just so we’re clear. Our kids were exposed to it while at summer camp. They tested positive for it a few days ago and could potentially still be carriers. However, we were told that kids under 11 have a natural resistance to the effects of DuoHalo. They don’t develop the symptoms and instead develop a life-long resistance. You follow me so far?” Again, both nodded.

“Great, I just want to make sure we’re on the same page – once Trent comes into contact with Sean and Ellie, he will likely be exposed as well. If not now, by them, no doubt at some point in the future. I stress to you that, as far as we understand, Trent is in the safe zone. Getting exposed will not make him sick, and at this point, it is probably unavoidable. Now is the time, if you have any concerns with this.”

“DuoHalo is what killed your Marcus, correct?” Jan asked with a worried expression.

Miles nodded grimly.

Jan turned to Penny, asking, “And Mary Beth, and Raul?”

Penny nodded, a forlorn look on her face, her eyes slightly moist.

“But your younger kids never got sick, right?” she probed, choosing her words carefully. “You two both got sick, but they did not, correct?”

Miles and Penny nodded in response to her questions.

“As I understand it, I’m here to partner with you both – technically, with you, Miles, but we all know it’s a group package. And my son joins your family, to be a part of it just as Sean and Ellie will be, right?”

“Of course, yes,” Miles reassured her, “we’ll welcome you both with open arms if you’re sure that’s what you want.”

“Then we’re here as a family, from now moving forward. And we’re glad to be joining you guys, aren’t we Trent,” Jan said with a touch of finality, putting on a brave face as she hugged her son.

The three adults all stood up, coming together in a group hug, with Jan waving Trent over to join them. After a minute, wiping at her eyes, Penny pulled away and strode over to the kitchen doorway to call up the stairs, “Kids! Come take Trent up to the game room, please. We’ll call you down in a little bit.”

The cousins swept down into the room and motioned for Trent to follow them. Jan nodded to Trent that he could go, and moments after they disappeared back through the kitchen doorway, the thunder of footsteps could be heard tromping up the stairs, accompanied by excited chatter about some video game. After the kids had left, all three went back to the group hug, this time allowing emotions to flow more freely, if quietly. After several minutes of quiet tears and sniffling, Jan reached into her purse to hand out tissues, which got a small chuckle out of Penny.

Wiping her face, Penny went into the kitchen to fetch some beverages while the other two adults got comfortable, again in the living room, Miles in his recliner, and Jan sitting on one end of the sofa.

Miles was trying to get a read on things but was also looking to lighten the mood, so he shifted gears to some light conversation. “So, did… did the good ladies from the Chair Force feed you guys, or are you hungry?”

Jan shook her head, “No, we grabbed a bite over at their dining facility just after they gave me the, err, the vaccine serum.” She blushed slightly as she mentioned the injection, rubbing her arm distractedly, looking down, and then back up at Miles a bit shyly.

“Okay, we can get up to speed on other matters later.” He shifted in his chair, forcing himself to relax. “Can you tell me how you came to be in the Quaranteam program? Were either you or Trent sick with DuoHalo, or otherwise exposed to it?” Miles asked.

“Not exactly. We didn’t test as sick or exposed, thank goodness! No, I received an email and a text from the Air Force notifying me that I was being contacted due to my close association with a local group that had been exposed to the virus. They sent out a medic dressed in a spacesuit to test me, and I was asked to complete an NDA, and then directed to a website where I was asked to complete the most curious and invasive survey I’ve ever come across!” Now Jan blushed even deeper.

Miles found her blush to be endearing, in the midst of everything else, only adding to her attractive features. Jan was thirty years old, and in spite of her hectic schedule as a schoolteacher and a single mother, she had obviously managed to stay fit. He briefly eyed her while she looked away again, enjoying the curves he was able to see in the modest outfit she was wearing. He casually took in her short, curly chestnut hair, pulled back with a white headband, her naughty hazel eyes, and those generous, full lips. The simple pullover blouse with a flower pattern did little to hide her impressive bosom, and her capri pants hugged her mom-hips nicely while allowing a full view of her lower calves and slender ankles. No-show socks and cross-trainers finished off her mildly sporty look, clearly advertising her as a soccer-MILF. He’d occasionally flirted with the idea of asking her to dinner over the past year or so but had never felt the time to be right. Evidently, the attraction was mutual. Go figure, he thought wryly.

Penny came back into the room carrying a pitcher of iced tea and some glasses, as well as a bowl of pretzels. Setting the snacks down, she went over to the sofa to sit next to Jen and wrapped the younger woman up in another side hug, a big smile beaming on her face.

“I’m so glad you guys are joining us! I hadn’t spoken to Miles yet, just in case you weren’t a match for us, but now that you’re here, welcome, welcome!” Penny smiled while she hugged her friend.

Miles raised an eyebrow in curiosity, rubbing his chin as he asked, “So, I take it this was something the two of you cooked up?”

Jan glanced at Penny, who nodded, then back to Miles. “I’d heard through the grapevine that Penny and her family had been to the hospital over the weekend, but no details, so I finally reached out to her yesterday. That’s when she told me about losing Raul and Mary Beth.” She turned to Penny, “Again, sweetie, I am so sorry for your loss! Raul was a good man, and Mary Beth was just an angel!”, and the two women hugged tightly again, fighting tears.

After a few moments, they let go of each other, and after regaining her composure, Jan continued her story. “One thing led to another, and she told me she was into something that I should be involved in, but she was adamant about not giving me details, that I needed to sign some NDA first and she wouldn’t tell me anything more until I had done so. When I let her know I’d already signed the dang thing, she gave me Debra’s number, so I reached out to her with a lot of questions. Debra confirmed that my NDA was on file, then gave me the skinny on the Quaranteam program.”

“I’m sorry – who’s Debra?” asked Miles, trying not to interrupt, but curious, nonetheless.

“Oh! She’s that… what did you call her… Chair Force woman. Err, Lt. Jansen” replied Jan.

“I see! I had not even asked her for her first name. Clearly, my head was foggy during my earlier interactions with her. In fact, I’ve never seen her outside of a bubble suit before today, ha-ha!”

The women laughed with Miles. “Anyway, that’s when I called Penny back to get the rest of the story,” Jan continued, “As I said, I had been so shocked earlier to hear about Raul and Mary Beth. I’d been just as shocked a few days earlier when I’d heard about your Marcus, but then to learn about all of the wider deaths across the country that have been happening that I’d not been aware of – it was just overwhelming.” Jan closed her eyes for a moment, taking a breath to regain her composure. After calming herself, she went on, “When she told me about the Quaranteam program, I was so relieved to hear that she had been teamed up with you. I’ve been worried about you these past few years since Beth died, Miles, and I know you’ve been lonely. I told her she was lucky to get a good man, given all that was happening, and I admitted to Penny that I’d considered jumping you once or twice after a Pack Committee meeting.” Miles looked surprised at this, and Jan merely gave him a mysterious smile, going on with her story, “Well, she suggested that I should see if Lt. Jansen could add me to your team. I called Debra to ask, and she checked our Oracle scores and told me we were a pretty high match, and that she could make it work if I wanted, so here I am!” Jan giggled nervously.

Miles had been watching Jan closely as she’d told her tale, looking for telltales. She was fidgeting slightly at first, and he’d chalked that up to nerves and the situation, but as she finished her story, he noticed a deeper flush developing in her cheeks and just above her cleavage.

Penny leaned forward to add to the story. “I was also pretty excited that Jan was joining us, as I am certain she’ll be a good match with us, on many levels,” she said, emphasizing the last part with a sad little twinkle in her eye. “Raul and I weren’t the prudes you might have imagined us to be, Miles. We had hosted a few, ahem, parties over the years, and Jan had joined us on more than one occasion. I know that she and I get along famously, and based on the past few days, I think she’ll make a great addition to our team.”

Now it was Miles’ turn to blush. He’d had no idea that Raul and Penny had ever been in that sort of a lifestyle. He turned an appraising look at Penny, but she just grinned mysteriously in return. “So, you’ve already been dosed, as you indicated earlier,” Miles reiterated, turning back to Jan. “Are you feeling any pressure, or would you prefer to wait until after we get the kids to bed?’

Jan looked thoughtful for a moment. “I won’t lie. I could jump you right here in front of God and everybody. But that’s more because you always get me like that. Not because of the serum.” Miles’ eyebrows attempted to crawl into his hairline at this news. Jan noticed his reaction and continued with a slight grin, “I think I can keep it under control until later this evening. That would probably save us from having to explain to Trent why mommy had to take a nap, and how she can’t be disturbed.”

Miles and Penny agreed that this was a good plan. He stood and hugged both women in a big group hug, kissing each on the forehead. Penny, however, was not to be denied and stood up on her tiptoes to give Miles a full-on kiss, ending it with a loud ‘mwah!’ and turning her head to grin at Jan. Mirroring her grin, Jan did likewise, stretching up and pulling Miles down slightly so she could also give him a kiss. It occurred to Miles that Jan was slightly shorter than Penny when he had to lean down a bit to allow his new partner to give him a warm, wet kiss of her own. His thoughts were knocked askew when Jan grabbed his ass, turned to Penny, and gave her the same sort of kiss.

****

The welcome aboard behind them, Miles offered to give them both a walk-through of the house, doing as Penny had suggested yesterday. The house had changed in subtle ways during the years since Beth’s passing – much of the woman’s touch had been erased, as the menfolk had left their marks. The house had been custom-built a decade earlier, allowing Miles to ensure certain requirements and specifications were met by the builders. It was basically an L-shaped two-story home, the kitchen being the mid-point downstairs, with rooms extending in either direction, with most of the rooms on the ground floor. The downstairs rooms included a very large master suite, which included an en-suite, extra-large walk-in closet – Miles saw Penny jotting something down in a tiny notebook, and grinned to himself, recalling how Beth had described her as a ferocious note-taker and list-maker - French doors that led out to the pool enclosure, and a large, attached den which served as Miles’ home office.

Leaving the master suite via the den, they passed the entrance foyer, the front doors on the left, and the living room on the right. The living room held a large L-shaped couch, Miles’ chair, and a big flat-panel TV mounted on the wall opposite the master suite. It also had French doors that opened out to the lanai and pool enclosure.

Past the living room was the formal dining room to the left with a big cherry-wood China Cabinet and a large dining table capable of seating twelve. To the right was a large pantry concealed behind a sliding barn door. Both women had to poke their heads into the pantry, Penny again jotting down something in her notebook, before continuing with the tour, taking them to the right, into the kitchen. The kitchen was quite large – quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, a center island as well as a table that could seat ten with the leaf put in - and flowed into the other half of the home. Jan spent a moment checking out the commercial-grade side-by-side refrigerator, then hummed a bit in approval.

Passing through the kitchen toward the back of the house was a large family room with a fireplace and a large flat panel TV over the mantel, an overstuffed sofa, loveseat, and chair – all with reclining seats – arranged for viewing the TV. To the left was a small hallway that led to a pair of bedrooms separated by a Jack-n-Jill bathroom. The right-hand wall held a third set of French doors leading out to the covered lanai and pool enclosure.

Penny noticed that the outdoor eating area and kitchen had been replaced sometime in the past year or so with an outdoor exercise area, seeing multiple exercise stations as they walked past.

Finally, to complete the downstairs, an in-law suite just beyond a pocket door on the far end of the family room, having an attached bathroom which also had a door that led out to the pool enclosure. The in-law suite downstairs had originally been used as Beth’s craft room, but since her death, it had been remodeled to become a guest room-slash-library. The room contained a king-size wall bed concealed behind large sliding bookshelves.

Exiting the kitchen in the other direction – toward the front of the house - was the entrance to the mud room which contained the washer and dryer, a large upright freezer, a mud sink, and the door out to the garage. The garage - oversized, extra-deep, extra tall with 4 extra-wide bays - only housed Miles’ SUV, a blue-jean-colored late model Ford Expedition he called the Beast. Beth’s car had been totaled in the accident, and Miles had not planned to get a second vehicle until next year when Marcus would have been old enough to drive.

The bottom of a staircase was between the kitchen and the mud room, rising up to the right, which led to the second floor, containing another pair of bedrooms separated by a bathroom that mirrored the pair below, plus a bonus room that served as a game room, hosting a large wall-mounted TV, game system and an old oversized sectional couch occupying the half facing to the rear of the house – currently occupied by the three children as they maintained unwavering focus on a racing game.

At the far end of the windows was what had originally been an upstairs master suite - including a large walk-in closet and attached bathroom – which Miles had converted into a home theater. Penny paused to look around, making more notes as she went, clicking her tongue as she mulled over private thoughts. Jan just walked around the large space, taking it all in, a look of wonder on her face.

Back downstairs, Miles led the girls out through the in-law suite bathroom, then left to exit via the rear door of the pool enclosure, out to the back yard, where another large two-story building that appeared to be a large garage or mancave was located. Inside the ground floor of the outbuilding was a large workshop with one long bank of windows that looked back toward the pool. The room itself had a poured concrete floor, as well as several work benches containing wood-working equipment and power tools, a full bathroom to the right, and a doorway that led to an equally large hobby room that included a full-sized computer-guided machining rig and a large rack of 3D printers, as well as another workbench with a laptop, extra-large monitors, and drafting table next to it.

Upstairs were two finished bedrooms, each containing a small walk-in closet, separated by another full bathroom, as well as a large common room that had not been furnished, complete with a kitchenette and living area. The rooms all had ceiling fans and window blinds but were otherwise unfurnished.

The building was air-conditioned by a dual-unit HVAC system, similar to the house, but with one key difference. Miles pointed out that this building was not connected to city power, but instead had a battery closet in the back, along with an inverter and control board, all supporting the solar panel array he’d placed on the roof. In addition, this building was not connected to city water or sewage but instead connected to a well and septic tank. Miles had designed and built the whole building to function entirely off-grid as an experiment.

Back outside, he showed them around the property perimeter – including the third structure, his small 15’ x 15’ shed where he kept the riding mower, his and the boys’ bicycles, lawn tools, various parts from projects not yet started, spare PVC and lumber.

The edges of his yard were marked on three sides by a heavy tree line starting about 50 yards from the house, with the front open, facing the south, and a long black-top private drive leading out to NE 53rd Avenue. His actual property line was somewhere back in the trees, but he’d deliberately chosen to leave the remaining growth in place.

Miles had purchased the acreage after researching future zoning and building plans, deliberately choosing a site where he would have no neighbors for the foreseeable future. Both women were impressed that his property was so large, and yet he had no neighbors. Clearly, the man liked his privacy.

“Jesus, Miles, how were you able to afford all of this?” Jan finally asked

Miles looked a little embarrassed, hesitating for a moment before he responded. “Before I got married to Beth, I was pretty frugal. When I got my commissioning bonus, I invested the whole shebang into the little-known startup called Google, based on the advice of one of my mentors. This was a venture cap move – pre-IPO. Did the same thing a few years later when I got my Nuclear bonus. Turned out to be a pretty fucking successful gambit. I’ve made a few additional investments since then – they’ve all added up. Oh, and technically, I don’t own any of this. All of this,” he held his arms out wide and turned to encompass all of the property, “is owned by an LLC, which in turn is managed by a holding company, which is managed by a revocable living trust… it’s all a bit complicated, but suffice to say I do all right, between my state income and reserves income, but my trust is fucking loaded.”

The two women looked at him for a moment, then at each other, a bit shocked at this, with Penny adding another note to her pad.

Heading back inside, the two gals swept off toward the kitchen, already conspiring about dinner and other things. Miles breathed in deeply and allowed himself a slight sigh, then went back to his office to get back to work.

About an hour into his afternoon, he received an invitation to join a Teams call with his boss, Jim Jeffries. Joining the call, Miles noticed that there was another person on the call with them. According to her team's bio, she was Murphy Niles from HR.

Jim kicked off the call. “Good to see you still on this side of the dirt, Miles. Are you okay? I heard about your brother-in-law and niece. That’s rough, especially on the heels of losing your son.”

Miles grimaced, not really wanting to talk about personal things with his boss, especially in front of Ms. Niles. “I’m taking things day by day, Jim. I have to focus on those still with me.”

Jim nodded his head in understanding, then changed the subject. “I asked Ms. Niles to join us because we have a complicated situation. While you’ve been dealing with personal matters, it seems others in our group have been impacted by this pandemic. Ernie Anders never came home from the hospital. He passed away from COVID about ten days ago. I was going to ask you to take over his class for the last two sessions of the semester, as well as some of the projects he was working on, but I was just made aware that you will be returning to active duty for some special military service. That’s why Ms. Niles is joining us. Her office received the status change via courier earlier today, and it came from the new Secretary of the Navy herself. I don’t know what they’ve got in store for you, but fate seems determined to take you away from me this week.”

Miles was finding it hard to pay attention to the call at this point. He thought back to what Lt. Jansen had told him. Why was he being returned to active duty, and what the hell made it so urgent? His employer had already been notified, and he’d not yet received the orders – very unusual. He knew he’d get answers soon enough, but it was a bit disturbing to be making yet another significant change in his life in the middle of everything else he was dealing with.

Ms. Niles was droning on about how this was considered a hiatus, not a termination, that his position as senior Sustainability Strategist for the State of Florida Department of Civil Engineering would be open to him when he completed his active-duty assignment, and how his accrued time-off for this year would be paid out on his next paycheck, after which his pay would be suspended pending his eventual return to work. “Any questions for me, Mr. Davies? Or should I call you Commander Davies?”

Miles grinned and shook his head. “Mr. Davies is fine, or just Miles. I am not back in uniform yet. And no, I have no questions for you at this time, Ms. Niles.”

“That pretty much concludes my business with you gentlemen. I’ll be dropping off now”, and just as promised, Ms. Niles dropped from the bridge.

Jim closed his eyes for a bit, looking old and tired, then opened them and looked at Miles. “Are things getting bad, Miles? Is there anything you can tell me?”

The Navy veteran shook his head. “Jim, I wish I knew what this was about. I haven’t even received my orders yet, so I’m in the dark. I’ll hear something soon, I’ve no doubt. In the meantime, it looks like it’s a good thing you had no major projects queued up for the end of the fiscal year. Oh, let me get back to you about that online class. There are only one or two sessions left after today. I should still be able to teach the course in the evenings, depending on what Uncle Sugar has in mind for me. I should be able to let you know within a week. I’ll go ahead and deliver today’s class, and we’ll play it by ear from there forward.”

Jim agreed and then terminated the call. Miles leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes for a moment, considering his next actions. He opened his eyes and got back to work.

****

While Miles was working, Penny and Jan decided to get a few tasks done, since neither of them needed to work that day, or indeed, the next few days. Penny was on bereavement leave, and Jan had been allowed some time off; some new kind of family leave, she’d been told. Penny decided that the downstairs spare bedroom would be converted into Ellie’s bedroom, and she made note of the bed and bedclothes situation throughout. Confirming that Jan planned for her and Trent to move into Miles’ home, she decided to speak to Miles and Sean during his next break to discuss bedroom options for the boys.

The women began a second list of items they would need to bring over from their old houses. Before heading to Penny’s old house, they set about emptying out Ellie’s new room. The old bed (a queen size mattress, frame, and headboard) was placed in the garage for now. It could possibly be repurposed for one of the rooms in the outer house, but that could be decided later. The downstairs spare bedroom had been painted in a basic shade of taupe, so it would be good enough for the present: more personal touches could be added at a later date.

Letting Miles know their plans, the women masked up and headed off, lists in hand. They had almost taken Ellie with them, but Miles had shared with them the caution he’d received from the Air Force women, and they decided to wait a few days, and then see about testing the kids before taking them out for anything non-essential. Miles gave them the keys to the Beast, as neither had their own vehicles with them. He also gave them a pair of garage door openers, for when they brought their cars. Giving them both a quick hug and kiss goodbye, he went back to his office.

****

Miles started by clearing his calendar, then sending out emails informing various coworkers and department heads of his change in status, and finally set up an out-of-office message, redirecting any serious matters to his boss for the foreseeable future. He also took a moment to compose a quick email to Lt. Governor Nunez, informing her that he was being recalled to active duty, and would likely have limited availability for future advisory board meetings, but promising to provide more details when he was able. He carbon copied his personal email account so that he would better be able to follow through at a later date, as he had no doubt his work credentials would be suspended shortly, as per security protocols. Having completed everything that seemed appropriate, he logged off and shut down his work laptop.

Leaning back in his chair, Miles found himself swept up in a myriad of emotions. His oldest son was dead. That was still a fresh wound on his soul. His head swam with memories for a moment, before he mentally hugged his son and put the memories away. Raul and Mary Beth were also dead. Their deaths were real, and he knew he should be hurting, but it all felt distant somehow. Disconnected from him. He could still see their faces in his mind’s eye, but they evoked no emotions. He’d have to think more about that later.

Penny, his sister-in-law and near spitting image of his dead wife, was now bound to him, by medical reality if not by marital vows. Thinking about that caused his heart to thump heavy in his chest with ever-increasing affection, while his remorse for how it happened seemed to be fading. He had a sudden urge to hold her, but dismissed it, returning to his original line of thinking, going through all the recent events turning his life upside down.

He had another new partner, and another child added to his small team. He’d known Janet Seward since her son Trent had joined Cub Scouts as a Tiger Cub, two years behind Sean. He had personally recruited Jan to help with the committee. In less than a year, she had taken on the role of the Pack Committee Chair. Trent was in a different Den than Sean, so Miles only really saw them at Pack events or Committee meetings. Focusing on them now, he realized that Jan had been a single mother when he met her, so he had no idea what the situation was with Trent’s father. Based on their limited interactions, her son seemed bright, and got along well enough with Sean and Ellie, so he foresaw no issues there.

He had to consider the fact that he now had another child under his roof. As a Cubmaster, and before that, a Den Leader, Miles was used to shepherding pre-teens, but this was a bit different. One was his son – familiar territory; one was his niece – also familiar; the newest was not of his blood at all. In a very short span of time, Miles had become responsible for all three, blood-related or not. He had to feel his way forward here and take cues from the ladies with respect to how much ‘parenting’ they were looking for him to provide. Of course, he’d be happy to step up to be the father figure for all of them, but he reminded himself to ease into this new situation cautiously. He really didn’t want to treat any of them differently from the others, but he needed to check to see how their mothers felt about that. He made a mental note to sit down with Penny and Jan after Jan’s imprinting nap to discuss their expectations of him so that they could rough out some initial boundaries. Heck, he didn’t even know if Trent’s father was still in the picture somehow, or even still alive. So many questions!

****

Miles wrapped up the online Sustainability class he’d promised to deliver, letting the few attending students know that the next class would meet on the following Tuesday, and to check the class website for possible change in time or bridge link. Checking the time, it was nearing 5:00 pm. He checked his phone – Penny had texted him during his class to let him know that they would be headed home within the hour, bringing her Chevy Tahoe, as well as stuff they’d picked up from their houses.

He decided to go check up on the kids, and maybe spend a little time with them. He got up from his desk, stretched a bit, then left his office to go check upstairs. As he neared the bottom of the stairs, he could hear them talking amongst themselves. He grinned to himself, and then in a loud voice proclaimed “Fee, Fie, Foe, Fumm!” as he stomped up the stairs. The three kids giggled upon hearing him and had big smiles for him when he walked into the playroom. “All right, what are we up to up in here?” Miles demanded with a fake stern look on his face.

Ellie giggled again and ran up to hug him. “Nothing, Uncle Miles! We’re just playing Left4Dead 2 on the X-Box!”

“Oh, so now you’re all a bunch of bad-a…errrr… bad zombie slayers, eh?”

Ellie laughed again. “Absa-frakkin-lutely!” she laughed enthusiastically, “Why don’t you join us? You can play as Coach!”

Miles smiled at her usage of the pseudo-swear word from Battlestar Galactica, then reached for a controller and squeezed in on the couch. “My friends call me Coach!” he said, in his best imitation of the character’s voice. He then leaned in and started helping the kids mow down the streaming zombie horde as they made their way through a shopping mall toward the safe room.

Sometime later, Miles heard the banging of pots and pans down in the kitchen, the universal signal all males recognize as a clarion call to come check in with the womenfolk, so he put down his controller and rose to leave. “It’ll be dinner time soon, kids, so when you hear us call, please wash your hands and come downstairs.”

At the chorus of “Yes sir”, he smiled to himself, then turned and went downstairs to the kitchen. When he got to the kitchen he was met with the sight of not one, but two gorgeous women swarming around in the space, tending to pots on the stove, putting butter and garlic on slices of bread on a baking sheet, all while dancing, wiggling and humming along to the music playing from the Amazon Echo device on the counter. He paused to take it all in, then looked around and asked, “What can I do to help?”

Penny spared him a glance, saying, “If you would set the table, dear, that would be nice,” and then turned back to check the boiling pot of pasta, giving her backside an extra wiggle. Miles smiled at her term of endearment as much as her tease and then got busy setting out plates, napkins, utensils, and trivets.

****

The dinner conversation was interesting, to say the least. Trent and Ellie were both telling the adults at the table how many of their friends, from school and scouting, had disappeared recently from Discord. Before summer camp, all three had been used to keeping in touch with their community of friends and fellow gamers through the online chat tool, but over the last few months, a slow decline had begun, with a much more noticeable absence now. Miles shared a knowing look with both women; they knew the likely reason.

Wanting to change the subject, Miles turned to Trent and asked, “So, Trent, have you decided where you plan to bunk down?”

Trent finished chewing his food, swallowed, and then replied, “Yes sir, Mr. Davies! I think I’d like to take one of the spare rooms upstairs if that’s okay with you.”

Miles closed his eyes for a moment. Marcus was gone, he reminded himself. There was no reason Trent could not take either upstairs room as his own. He opened his eyes and smiled at the boy. “First, please call me Miles going forward. Second, I can’t think of why taking an upstairs bedroom should be a problem. However,” he paused, turning to nod towards the other boy, “if you find you don’t like being upstairs by yourself, perhaps you can convince Sean to move up to the other room up there. Sean, what do you think?”

Sean considered the question for a moment. Then he squared his shoulders, sat a bit taller in his chair, and looked at Miles. “I think I’d like to move into Marcus’ old room, Dad. That would mean a lot to me if it’s okay with you. Trent can have the other room, and we can share the bathroom up there.”

Trent smiled at that. “That would be great! I really wasn’t sure I wanted to be upstairs all by myself.”

“Then it's settled. Tomorrow, I will help Sean move upstairs into the room on the right, and starting tonight, Trent can have the room upstairs on the left. He can use a blow-up mattress from our camping gear until we get his bed moved in,” Miles proclaimed.

Both boys grinned and leaned their heads together to quietly discuss the matter further.

Ellie was also pleased, as this would give her a bathroom all to herself. For now, at least.

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As Miles began to clear away dishes, he turned to Penny and Jan. “Ladies, what do you need for your work-from-home arrangements?”

“I can use Sean’s old room for my home office,” Penny figured. “That would allow Jan to use the back bedroom to deliver her lessons remotely. I mean, I could also grab space in the other building, but I prefer to be where the kids will be.”

Jan agreed with Penny, settling the matter. Miles would help move furniture around tomorrow, and they could get the home offices for all three arranged in short order thereafter.

“We could also set up student desks along the back wall of the game room for the kiddos to use for their schoolwork,” Penny suggested. “That way, they aren’t locked up in their bedrooms all day.”

“If we add more kids as we grow, we could always move the home offices out to the other building – plenty of options, whatever may come – at least for now.” Jan eyed Miles shrewdly, adding, “Unless your harem outgrows your home, that is!” she added mischievously.

“Spare me your vile curses, woman!” he fake-groaned.

Plans for how to organize the house were finalized, the dishes were loaded into the dishwasher, and the three adults retired to the living room to binge-watch some Netflix. At 8:30 pm sharp, Penny went to remind the kids to get showered and ready for bed. By 9:00 pm, all three adults had kissed and hugged each of the kids and sent them to bed.

The three of them gathered in the living room to talk about the day, as well as their next steps. Before they’d really started, Miles looked more closely at Jan, noticing her shifting slightly in her place on the sofa. Penny noticed where he was looking and gave a meaningful look at Miles, raising her eyebrows.

Miles cleared his throat, stood up, and walked over to the sofa in front of Jan. “If you like, we can retire to my, ahh, our bedroom to continue this conversation”, he offered innocently.

Jan smiled up to him, took his hand, and stood up to follow him back into the master suite. Penny had been in there earlier when the others had been busy cleaning the kitchen, and there were candles lit in the corners of the room, and Jan caught the scent of potpourri from somewhere.

As Miles started to close the door, Jan turned to him and motioned for him to wait. “This is also Penny’s room. I would be glad if she would join us, at least for the first time. As often as you like in the future as well, if you enjoy it.”

Miles raised an eyebrow and turned back to see Penny standing a few steps behind him, a wicked grin on her face. He reached out to her, and she walked closer, took his hand, and allowed him to lead her into the room, closing the door behind her.

As he turned back to Jan, he saw her pulling her top over her head and tossing it onto the floor on the far side of the bed. Her cross-trainers, no-show socks, and capri pants followed quickly, leaving her standing before them both in a lacy thong and half-cup bra doing a spectacular job of showcasing her D-cup breasts. Miles could see a large dark spot on her thong where it was sopping wet. He heard Penny removing her clothes behind him as he started pulling off his shirt.

As he unbuttoned his shorts and began to remove them, Jan started making sounds like strip-tease music, “Da da Da Dada da Dada, Da da Da Dada da Dada, Bum! Bum! Bum! Bummmm!” while Penny wolf-whistled from behind him.

Grinning sheepishly, Miles finished undressing, and Penny shoved him forward to the bed while Jan climbed onto the bed on all fours, turning around to face him.

Jan looked him in the eye. “I’d like to take you in my mouth for a tasting,” she proclaimed, “but after that, I’d like you to rail me from behind while I eat Penny. After you cum and send me off to imprint-land, you can use me more or give it to Penny good and hard, or all of the above. I only ask you to put me under the covers with you before you call it a night, so I don’t wake up tomorrow with sore muscles or a crick in my neck.”

 “I think we can manage that,” Penny replied, grinning with lust, her nostrils flaring.

Miles just moved to Jan and lined his cock up with her face. Licking her lips, she leaned forward and licked the clear drop of pre-cum oozing from the slit. “Oh!” she squealed, tensing up and shuddering, her body arching and hunching as the priming orgasm hit her. “F-u-u-c-k! That was amazing!”

“Right? The next one will be even better” Penny told her, rubbing her breasts and playing with her piercings as her excitement began to grow.

Jan moved her head forward and engulfed the top few inches of Miles’ manhood. Her cheeks drew in as she sucked on his cock, then bellowed out slightly as she sank down a few more inches on it, only to draw in again as she applied suction and withdrew, running her tongue around the shaft along the way.

“Sh-i-i-i-it! That’s nice!” was all Miles could manage, a shiver running up his spine.

Penny stepped up behind him to nibble on his ear as she reached her arms around him to pinch his nipples. This new stimulus was dangerously good, Miles thought to himself. He needed to focus so he didn’t pop too quickly. He began to slowly hump into Jan’s face.

Penny stopped nibbling on his ear and began to whisper into it instead. “Do you like what Jan’s doing to you with her mouth, Miles? Do you like how slutty she looks, sucking your cock like a wanton whore? Do you want to shove your cock all the way into her throat and pump her full of your jism right now?”

Miles groaned and shut his eyes, beginning to tense up, nodding to Penny.

“Do you like the thought of choking her with your cock, and firing your cum right down her throat? Or would you rather push her face down into my wet snatch while you pound her from behind?”

Miles opened his eyes at this, paused for just a moment, then pulled his cock back a bit. He looked down at Jan, and asked “How ‘bout it, Jan? Are you down to feast on Penny’s pussy while I pound you from behind?”

Jan nodded her head with clear excitement, a mix of saliva and his pre-cum dripping from one side of her mouth as she backed away from his cock.

Penny climbed onto the bed and opened her legs, reaching down with both hands to spread her pussy lips wide open, exposing her clit. Jan turned and knelt down, licking up both sides of Penny’s cunt before plunging her tongue into her sopping wet hole, and then finally moving up to lap at her clit.

Miles stepped up behind Jan and spread her ass cheeks wide apart, positioning the head of his cock at the entrance of Jan’s dripping pussy. He maneuvered in and around her opening to get a bit more wet, then slowly drove the length of his shaft balls-deep into her in one smooth stroke.

Jan groaned in ecstasy, pausing for just a moment, then increasing her efforts on Penny’s clit.

Miles took a strong grip on Jan’s ass and began to fuck her, drawing out slowly, then slamming his cock all the way back into her gash. Slowly at first, then picking up speed, he hammered over and over into her hot, wet core, making lewd slapping noises as his hips smacked against her ass. Jan’s juices were flowing thickly now, making her hole very slick, and running down her thighs as Miles pounded away at her.

Penny moaned loudly with pleasure, releasing her own pussy lips to grab two handfuls of Jan’s hair, curling her fingers into her chestnut locks, and lightly tugging at them.

Jan moaned loudly, then groaned in frustration, wanting to cum but unable to because of the serum. She began to bang her ass back onto Miles, trying to urge him on faster.

He took the hint and picked up his pace, really putting his back into it. He grunted with each forward thrust, loving the look of Jan’s ass cheeks as they rippled with each impact. Then he looked up to watch Penny’s expression as Jan ate her pussy with gusto.

Making eye contact with him, Penny started talking lewdly to Miles. “Look down at Jan’s ass, Miles. See her rosebud puckering open and closed for you? Next time you take her like this, I’ll have her take you in her asshole. Then she’ll have taken you in each of her holes. Would you like that lover? Do you want to do that to both of us? Claim us as your own, and make all of our holes yours? Make us into your cum-sluts? Hmmm?”

The nasty talk was enough to push Miles over the edge. With a loud grunt and final slamming of his cock as deep as he could go, he erupted inside Jan, painting the walls of her canal with his seed.

This in turn made Jan howl in delight, arching her back and rearing her head upward as she spasmed in the most powerful orgasm she’d ever experienced. After a few seconds, Jan relaxed and slumped face down on the bed, just missing face-planting back into Penny’s swampy snatch, murmuring over and over “imprinting… imprinting… imprinting…” with a satisfied smile on her lips.

Penny, not one to let cum go to waste, leaned over and scooped up a handful of cum leaking from Jan, slowly feeding it into her own mouth as she maintained eye contact with Miles. Shuddering through her bonus orgasm, she smiled wickedly at him, then got up to go fetch a washcloth from the attached bathroom, while Miles moved Jan up and over onto one side of the King Size mattress, shaking his head and grinning at Penny’s antics. When she returned, she cleaned up Jan, then tossed the cloth back into the open bathroom door as she bent down to lick Miles’ cock clean. Her eyes squeezed shut for a moment as she enjoyed yet another brief serum-induced orgasm from tasting Miles’ semen, then she went back to work licking his and Jan’s juices off of his cock.

Penny’s oral ministrations quickly brought Miles’ cock back to full attention - he hadn’t softened much - after which she pivoted and presented him with her backside. “Please, Miles! Fuck me hard just like you gave it to Jan! Please! Fuck me, baby! Fuck me, now!”

Miles stepped up to her and did just as she asked. He slid the head of his cock into her dripping wet pussy, then drove it balls deep, hard and fast. He pulled all the way back out and did it again and again, making her moan loudly and grip the sheets with her fists. Picking up speed, Miles grabbed at Penny’s ass, squeezing it in his strong hands, then reared back with his right hand and gave her a good swat across her right ass cheek.

“Oh! Oh, yes! Do that again!” Penny gasped. She began to slam her ass back onto him harder as Miles spanked her again, then he began alternating cheeks. He did this a few more times, each one just a little bit harder, stinging just a little bit more, until Penny cried out loud with her orgasm. Miles just held her hips tightly, keeping his cock buried to the hilt in her, flexing it a few times inside her just to hear her groan each time as his girth ballooned slightly until her spasms receded. He then pulled out of her and rolled her onto her back. Grabbing her ankles and lifting her legs high and spreading them, he knee-walked onto the bed and got right up against Penny’s ass before stuffing his cock back into her sopping box.

Penny again moaned loudly, her pussy making obscene squishing noises as Miles’ cock drove deeply into her over and over. As he plundered her, he leaned onto her legs and slowly folded her in half. Picking up speed, Miles reached down and began pinching her nipples, playing with the rings and pinching the flesh around them.

This was enough to push Penny over the edge into another orgasm. As her hot, slick pussy walls clenched down on his cock, Miles also reached his peak, blowing his load deep into Penny’s gripping cock sleeve. His cum pushed Penny to an even stronger orgasm, causing her to squirt all over Miles’ cock and balls before she sagged beneath him, delirious from pleasure.

Miles looked down in amazement. He’d never made Beth squirt before and had always thought squirting was a myth, some product of porn fantasy. He slowly pulled away from her, her gripping cunt walls trying to hold him inside her. His cock exited her with a wet splooshing sound, and he went back into the bathroom to grab a fresh washcloth and got it wet with warm water.

After cleaning himself off, Miles rinsed his spunk from the washcloth and brought it out to clean up Penny. She gave him a grateful smile as he tended to her gently, opening her legs so he could get to every nook and cranny. Miles stepped away for a moment, then returned with a towel to dry her off, then used the towel to sop up as much of her girlcum from the sheets as he could. He finally opted to cover the wet spot with a fresh, dry towel, then went around to extinguish the candles before climbing into bed himself.

Penny shifted around so that Miles was in between both women, and she lay her head upon his shoulder, her eyes drifting shut. Miles adjusted the light blanket so that all three were covered, breathed in deeply, enjoying the new scents the women added to the room, then closed his own eyes and allowed his mind to relax, falling quickly into a deep slumber.

***Gainesville, FL - 0930, Wednesday, July 29, 2020***

Miles slowly awoke to a strange and wonderful sensation. Something warm and wet was wrapped around his cock, and he could see the bed sheets slowly bobbing up and down. He looked to his left, and Penny was lying next to him, watching him. He lifted the sheets slightly to see Jan looking up at him, grinning around his cock. ‘Fuck’, he wondered, ‘how late did I sleep?’

He lowered the sheets, laid his head back, and closed his eyes, determined to enjoy this surprise gift. Jan returned to her task with vigor, and before long Miles came like a stallion down her throat, rewarding Jan with an electrifying orgasm of her own.

To Miles’ surprise, Jan crawled up to Penny and kissed her sloppily on the mouth. He thought this odd until he saw Penny spasm with an orgasm of her own. Understanding that Jan was paying the gift forward to his other partner, Miles chuckled at her lewdness, then got out of bed to start the shower.

Brushing his teeth while waiting for the water from the dual showerheads to warm up, Miles wondered why Jan hadn’t slept longer – perhaps because she had not been infected in the first place. His musing was interrupted when Jan came in and sat down on the toilet to piss. Well, this was beginning to feel like married life, he thought to himself, amused at the idea.

Miles rinsed his mouth, then stepped into the shower, standing for a moment under the water, just letting it soak him. A moment later, a naked female joined him.

Peeking open one eye, Miles saw it was Penny. Before he could say anything, she dropped to her knees and started sucking his cock. As he stood there enjoying his second blowjob of the morning, Jan entered the oversized walk-in shower enclosure and went to stand behind Miles, hugging him around his waist and kissing his shoulders.

Penny slowly built-up speed, wringing her fingers around his cock with one hand while she furiously rubbed at her pussy with the other, taking him in and out, deeper and deeper until she was once again swallowing his cock into her throat. When Jan started whispering filthy things into his ear while pinching his nipples, Miles’ excitement built until he couldn’t hold back and popped, blowing his second load of the morning, making Penny moan lewdly below him, enjoying her second orgasm of the day.

After she carefully caught every drop of his seed, Penny stood up and moved past Miles to kiss Jan, returning the favor from earlier, sharing his load. Jan took the offering gladly, convulsing in another orgasm of her own while groaning into Penny’s mouth, before stepping back and beginning to wash herself, a satisfied smile on her face.

Deciding this would not stand, Miles took the shampoo from the shelf and began to wash Jan’s hair, repeating what he had done for Penny previously. Miles shampooed her hair thoroughly, rinsed it, applied conditioner, and then soaped her head to toe. As he was doing so, Penny began to do the same to Miles. Eventually, when he finished with Jan, she stepped around him to begin washing Penny. The whole process actually went fairly fast, and they managed to get washed and rinsed long before running out of hot water.

Toweling one another off was a bit more complicated, so they each settled for drying themselves off. Miles went to get dressed while the girls finished drying off and brushed their teeth. While they were getting dressed, he stripped the sheets from the bed and laid out fresh bedding. He left the gals to remake the bed while he took the dirty sheets to the laundry room. He could hear the kids upstairs playing a game. He didn’t see any breakfast dishes in the sink. He surmised that Penny must have gotten up to feed them and come back to bed afterward. Once the wash was started, he refilled the water reservoir on the Keurig, then poured some sweet tea for himself from the pitcher in the refrigerator.

As the women trickled out to make their morning coffee, the doorbell rang. Miles went to the door to answer it and was relieved when there was only one person standing at his door. He greeted the mask-wearing Lt. Jansen with a cheerful “What’s up, Skywalker?”

Jansen just grinned at this new moniker beneath her N-95 mask, muttering something under her breath about ‘fucking smart-ass nukes’.

Seeing her for the first time in her working uniform and not a bulky bubble suit, Miles gave her a careful look-see. She was younger than him, maybe in her mid-to-late-twenties, but looked very fit, not like a desk jockey. He guessed her height at about 5’9”, putting her at maybe 135 pounds, but her Operational Camouflage Pattern uniform made it hard to see her curves. Still, now he had more to work with than a mental picture of her in her hazmat suit.

Watching Miles give her the once-over, Jansen paused for a moment to wait for his eyes to come back up to hers. When she once again held his gaze, she handed him a manilla envelope. “Commander, inside you will find your orders. You are to report tomorrow to FOB Waldo by 0900 to be briefed on Operation Endure.”

“Weren’t you supposed to get these to me by COB yesterday?” he asked her with one raised eyebrow, mischief brewing in the back of his gaze.

“You know how things can get, Commander,” she shrugged, refusing to take the bait. “Not to mention – things are just a bit hectic of late.”

Miles thought for a minute, staring at the envelope, then asked, “FOB Waldo? I’m afraid I am not familiar with that location.”

Jansen smirked at him. “That’s not surprising. It didn’t exist a week ago. The Air Force recently set up a Forward Operating Base just north of the regional airport just a little way up Waldo Road from where we are now. You should have no problem finding your way, as it’s less than a mile away – just take NE 53rd AVE over to Waldo Road, hang a left - and the gate will be on your immediate right as you drive past the airport, headed toward the town of Waldo.”

Miles nodded his head, then asked, “What’s Operation Endure?”

“All details around Operation Endure will be covered during your briefing tomorrow morning, sir. But don’t worry, I can tell you that the operation focuses on the mid-Florida region, so pretty much local work. The scope and details will be explained at tomorrow’s briefing.” She replied with her mask hiding the snarky grin on her face. “Oh, and one more thing – you might want to lose the beard,” she said with a smile in her eyes.

Miles looked at the envelope, then back at Jansen. “Why’re you delivering these to me? Doesn’t the Chair Force have anyone else to run errands than a junior officer?”

Jansen grinned wider behind her mask, raising one slender eyebrow as she turned to leave. “Looks like I’m going to be working with you closely on this assignment, sir.” He would swear she sashayed her ass just a bit as she walked away from him, back toward her olive-drab Humvee.

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