Desire in the Desert

Theo woke up with a raging hard-on. What was in the water out here? He had been jumped by one... two... three? different women last night? His brain said that couldn't be right, but his dick could still feel her soft hand grasping it, pulling it towards her. His hands concurred, they could still feel her firm breasts, her hard nipples….

Damn it he wished he didn't sleep in a communal barracks, but he was a lowly private, fresh out of basic training. He was going to have to blue ball it for a while. He gave his dick a longing squeeze under the sheets then hit the showers.

When he first got assigned to St. Vitalis, he had looked up Neezgai on a map and felt his heart sink. The middle of the desert. In the middle of nowhere. As a kid raised in the Bronx, the idea of being that far away from a city had been depressing. No night life. No bars, just you and the vast emptiness of the desert.

But after last night he was starting to reconsider. The girls back home hadn't given him a second look. He had barely graduated high school. He'd bummed around a few jobs, none of which would come close to paying half the rent on his mom's place, let alone getting his own. No prospects whatsoever, what girl would have wanted him?

But now, the chicks were coming out of the woodwork. If the recruiters had told him about this, he would have joined up in a heartbeat. “Exotic desert beauties await!” was a better tag line than “Serve your country.” Though some part of him felt good that he had made the decision to join up to get his mom a green card, instead of out of some promise of horny women.

But horny women there had been. As he washed his short black hair, he thought back and tried to piece together what exactly had happened last night. First there had been the skinny chick, her face was like a supermodel and her thigh gap had been insane. He had always imagined being with a girl so skinny that you could see her abdomen bulge when you penetrated her.

Not that Theo had ever actually been with a girl, but he had watched porn and that was one of his top fantasies.

She hadn't been the only one, though, he thought as he rinsed the shampoo out of his hair. The skinny girl (what was her name, June? Jasmine? Todd would know) had disappeared and Private Green had jumped him. She had been making eyes at him all through base orientation, and he had to admit, his eyes had been glued to those huge heavy breasts of hers.

Damn cops, he wished he had gotten to see that smooth midnight black skin under her clingy green dress last night. He had been dreaming of tasting that deep ebony chocolate all week.

But she hadn't been the last one, he tried to remember as he washed his face. There was that absolute goddess, with the long hair and tiny black dress. Had she really grabbed his dick? Her very scent had been completely intoxicating. If she had told him to strip naked and bark like a dog he would have. The feeling of her nipples in his fingers… mmhm…. he had been sure they were about to fuck right there on the dance floor.

Theo rinsed his face off and looked down. He was fully erect in an open shower room. Suddenly all thoughts of beautiful women left his head and he glanced around hoping no one had seen him. Fortunately all the guys seemed to be focused on their own showers. He turned the shower as cold as it would go and thought hard about cactii.

He rushed through breakfast at the mess and then reported for duty with Sergeant Gonzales. It was a new assignment and he didn’t know what to expect.

"You're late, Private!" The tall musclebound sergeant with a thick Teddy Roosevelt mustache yelled as Theo walked into his office.

"I was told to report for duty at 0900 sir. It is 0855 sir!" Theo responded looking at his watch.

"Are you giving me lip, private?" The man stood up from his desk and loomed over Theo.

"No sir. Sorry sir. My watch must be running behind sir!"

"It isn't your watch Private Corneo, it’s your brain. You need to be at your post at 0900. But your post is all the way at the bottom of the slowest elevator in the base. So you are already fifteen minutes late!"

"Sir yes sir! Won't happen again sir!" Theo responded. He didn't know how he could have known where his new duty station was, everything had been kept very secretive about it, but it wasn't worth arguing.

"Make sure it doesn't happen again! Now fall in!"

Theo followed the sergeant to a part of the base he hadn't been to before. They came to an elevator where another private checked their IDs, then unlocked an elevator and let them on. The sergeant inserted his ID card and entered a pin, the old elevator whirred to life.

Theo didn't know if his post was a long way below the earth, or if the elevator was particularly slow but, as promised, the trip took a long time.

When the doors opened, he saw a long, poorly lit, concrete hallway lined with windowless metal doors. They walked all the way to the end, where there was a door that looked more reinforced than the others. The sergeant again placed his ID into a reader and entered a pin. They waited for a moment, as the sergeant stared into what Theo suspected was a camera, until they heard a buzz and the sergeant strained to pull open the heavy door that looked like it belonged in a bank vault.

Behind the door was a small concrete room . There was a door on the far side, which looked even more reinforced than the one that they had just walked through. To the left of the door stood a plain metal desk with what looked like lab equipment and a computer monitor on it. A bored looking corporal was sitting behind it.

"Corporal O'Malley?" The sergeant called.

"Sir yes sir!" The corporal stood up and saluted.

"At ease O'Malley, This is Collins's replacement. See he gets properly trained before you go off shift. Private Corneo! Everything you see, hear and do here is TOP SECRET. Don't breathe a word of it to anyone. Do you understand?"

"Sir yes sir!" Theo said.

The sergeant left and Private O'Malley turned to Theo.

"You like reading?" He asked.

"Uh… Yeah. I mean… Sure?"

"Well good, because this is the most boring job you'll get on the base. There's no internet down here, no service, and that computer only does the cameras. Doesn’t even have Minesweeper. So bring a book next time or you might lose it."

The corporal explained that it was the most monotonous guard job ever. You sat at the desk. If anyone came to the outside door with the correct credentials, and there was no one already inside, you let them in. Then you had them spit into a tube that you put in the machine. Once you did that you opened the interior door for them.

When they were done inside, they would buzz you and ask to be let out. Then you opened the interior door. had them spit in a tube, put it in the machine, and only if the machine showed green did you enter your passcode and let them back out. This was very important, said O'Malley, if they didn't show green, you hit the lockdown button and prayed.

"There's a camera in there," the Corporal explained. “But whatever you do, don't turn it on unless someone is ready to come out. No matter what you hear, no matter what you think, only turn on the camera when someone is in there ready to come out."

Theo thought of asking why, but knew better. Ours is not to question why... and all that.

"Bring your lunch with you tomorrow. You are to stay at your post until Private Singh relieves you tonight at 5pm. No smoke breaks or lunch hour. There's a bathroom behind the desk. Don't go unless no one is inside and you are sure both doors are locked solid. Don't leave for anything unless you are ordered away. I don't care if the base is on fire, you stay at your post. Understand?"

"Yes sir."

"Great. See you tomorrow at 9am."

For the first couple of hours, Theo marveled at his good luck. This was a plum posting. Nothing to do. No one to bother him. Theo was an introvert. Getting paid to spend hours alone reading was the best deal he could think of.

After a few hours, the novelty was wearing off. Theo stood up and paced around the room. Looking at every crack and cranny. The room was really unremarkable. It was solid poured concrete. The desk was solid steel and bolted down to the floor. The bathroom behind the desk was clean but gave him claustrophobia. The old analogue desk clock ticked by with a slowness that made glaciers look like sprinters. It would be better tomorrow when he could bring a book.

The only interesting things were the doors. They were reinforced with bars of a silver metal Theo had never seen before. It seemed to shimmer blue when he turned a certain way. Did they glow a little on their own? Or was Theo’s mind playing tricks with him?

He was taking a shit when the door buzzed for the first time. BUZZ! He nearly fell over trying to stand up with his pants around his ankles.

When he got to the screen he turned on the exterior camera and could see an image of the hallway outside. Next to it he saw the credentials of one Doctor Ramirez, who was fully cleared to enter the lab. A balding man in a lab coat matching the ID in the system was waiting impatiently outside the door.

Theo buzzed him in. Doctor Ramirez was carrying a tray of empty test tubes in one hand. He held out the other hand expectantly.

Theo had almost forgotten his job. He fumbled around and grabbed an empty test tube. The doctor spat into the tube.

"You new?"

"Yeah... uh... yeah, I was just transferred in."

"They told you all the protocols? Don't let anyone that doesn't pass the spit test out. No matter what you see. And don't turn on that camera until you get buzzed."

"Of course sir."

"Good. I'll just be a moment. Need to collect some samples."

Theo pushed the button that opened the interior door. It swung towards Theo so that he couldn't see what was inside the room from his desk. Ramirez went in and closed the door behind him.

It was a few moments after the door closed that Thoe started hearing a woman's voice.

"Mmhm! Mmmh! Yes, Yes!"

Theo looked around but it was clear the noise was coming from inside the room. He even checked the exterior camera, but the hallway was empty.

"Please Doctor, we both know what you want. Take it from me. I want you to take me. Hard. Fast. Don't tease me. Do it!"

Theo's brain could not believe what it was hearing, but his cock didn't need to be told twice. It began to swell in his fatigues as the woman's sultry tones filled the room, pressing hard against his clothes, aching as it grew stiff.

"Don’t stop doctor! Yes! Yes! YES!!! ahh. That was good. Don't stop there. Bring me with you. I can give you so much more."

Theo couldn't help himself, the woman's voice was as smooth as milk. His hand reached down into his pants to free his quivering member. It wasn't like anyone could see him in here, and no one could open the doors from the outside.

He could almost see the woman from last night in his mind's eye, screaming the words of the woman in the room. As he stroked his thick cock, he imagined pulling down her panties as she gyrated on his hard dick. Pressing the head of his cock against the soaking wet lips of her pussy, slowly entering her as she screamed. He felt the pleasure building in him as he imagined thrusting into and out of her, bending her over on the dance floor, until-

BUZZ!

The universe really wanted him to have blue balls today. Theo turned on the camera, but all he could see was Ramirez's face fisheyed against the lens.

Theo pulled his pants back on and painfully stuffed his penis back inside. Then he buzzed the doctor out. Despite the noises he had heard, the doctor did not look like he had been engaged in rough sex with some female prisoner. On the contrary, the only thing that seemed different about him was the fact that all his test tubes were now full of a bright red liquid.

Theo was too embarrassed to say anything but handed the doctor the empty tube. The spit tested green and Ramirez thanked him and left.

No one else came to visit for the rest of the day, but Theo was far from bored. He couldn't stop imagining what could be going on behind that door.

Part I: Neezgai

Chapter 2: The Door