ismenin | The Untamed

Hello! It is Saturn's Day and the rain is STILL raining. I think there was one day when it didn't - but don't quote me.

We have been spoiled with so many pics this week of TDO - The Delectable One - that peeps who make icons and manips will have plenty to work on for a while, won't they?

I am on Part 8 of this story, which will be the last part. Sniff. I have enjoyed it - it's been a different journey for me, and for you, too, I hope. :D

Anyway, here's the next part for your perusal, my dear friends.

Thanks to

ladysunrope for beta.

The Untamed - 4 - Enlightenment

Dom had been right. They had cleared the patch, planted, chopped down dead trees for fuel, hunted for food, fished, and swum in the lake. It had been freezing in the water, but Lij had enjoyed it. The first time they had done it, he had left the water shivering with cold, and Dom had, not thinking, sent him into the shower to get warm.

When Dom had finished showering he saw Lij was not in the living room, and when he had not come after ten more minutes, Dom went to see where he was. When he saw Lij, he knew what he had done. He had not told him to put the water on warm, and the man was sitting on the shower floor, weak, giddy and frightened, the hot water bouncing off his head.

Dom got him out and, laying towels on the bed, put Lij there and covered him with others. He threw off his own soaked clothes and pulled on the towelling bath robe that hung behind Lij's door.

"Lij, are you okay? Fuck!" Dom was furious with himself - Lij could have died from the shock.

Lij opened bleary eyes. "Dom," was all he said. Dom went quickly into the kitchen and made a cup of hot raspberry tea, with two spoonfuls of honey in it and brought it back.

"I'm sorry. I should've told you to keep the water on warm - on the half-way mark as I showed you. I'm a twat of the first order."

Lij smiled as he sat up a bit, and sipped the tea. "What twat is?"

"A pregnant fish," Dom managed a laugh.

Lij stared at him. "Dom...you not cold fish. Beautiful Dom." He handed the cup back to Dom and rubbed his chest with his covering towel.

It still shocked Dom when Lij said that - as much as it had shocked him that day, months ago, in the park. One morning they had eaten "beautiful toast" for breakfast, so he accepted it as part of Lij's expanding vocabulary. He realised Lij used the term for anything he liked. Lij liked him which was good to hear. He could only hope that he was more beautiful than the toast. When he repeated that to Lij it resulted in a great deal of amusement.

*

They had been there three months when it happened.

Dom, so used to the swift way Lij picked up any information or fact handed to him, would have shown it to him, but it had completely slipped his mind.

It was a beautiful late summer afternoon; the sun had been hot on the lake, and after they had spent an hour swimming Dom suggested they go for a walk along the lakeside to the small landing stage that gave the place its name - Barker's Ferry. He had gone into the outbuilding for his outdoor boots, and had forgotten to lock the door after himself.

Lij had put his on, under protest, and wandered outside to wait. Dom realised, just as he was leaving the cabin, that he hadn't taken the meat for their dinner from the freezer, and struggled for a few moments with plastic wrappings and cold fingers before he managed to put the steaks on the defrosting tray. When he got outside, there was no sign of Lij, so he went back inside to call. No answer.

Outside he called again, and a shout from the outbuilding told him where Lij was. Dom hurried over, and stopped, appalled, at the doorway, as he saw Lij staring down the barrel of a rifle and his finger was on the trigger.

Dom screamed, trying hard to remember if the rifle was loaded or not and ran towards Lij, dragging the gun out of his hands, pressing him hard against the wall, his breath ragged, his face white with shock.

"Never!" he managed around a throat constricted by fear, "Never touch that thing again, d'you hear?" and because he had been so frightened for Lij, and because he was so relieved he had to do something or collapse, reaction set in, and he slapped Lij across the side of his head.

He regretted it immediately. He had not meant to hurt Lij, or even touch him, The response had been thoughtless - like a frightened mother slapping her child for running across a busy road unsupervised whilst secretly blaming herself - but he had not expected such a response as Lij gave. He screamed with terror; an ear-splitting scream that filled the building, and pushing past Dom, he ran out into the woods.

Dom followed him immediately, but here Lij was in his element, and had disappeared completely. There was no sign of him anywhere. Dom called and searched, and called again. "I'm sorry, Lij, I'm sorry - I didn't mean it - I was scared you'd get hurt!"
Nothing answered him but the rustle of small creatures in the undergrowth.

He continued searching until dusk came, then he had to stop as he knew he would never find his way back in the dark. On his way out, the dark fell completely just short of the edge of the wood, and Dom saw there, to his horror, a pile of discarded clothing, and two hiking boots thrown as if in anger, a short distance away.

Dom picked up the clothes and walked slowly back to the cabin. He sat for a while, hoping Lij would come back, but he didn't. There was no sound outside except the mournful hooting of some owls, which fitted Dom's mood to perfection.

"Fuck it!" he said, angry at something - himself, Lij - he wasn't sure which, or whether it was both. He went to bed, but didn't sleep. In the morning he'd start searching again.

Towards morning he fell into an uneasy doze and dreamt, in that altered state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, that Lij was being savaged by wild beasts in the woods and was calling to him for help. Dom woke, his throat dry, his mind fogged with weariness, and decided an early shower was better than lying there moping like a schoolgirl.

He remembered as he put the boots on again, that he had eaten no dinner the previous evening, so he made two pieces of toast, and ate one, and swallowed two cups of hot, black coffee before walking out into the early morning sun.

******

He returned that evening, exhausted in mind and body. There had been no sign of Lij - not a broken twig or a crumpled leaf. Dom, an anthropologist of some experience, flattered himself that he could track Lij in the wood, but that proved an impossible task. There was nothing to follow.

He made himself a sandwich and opened a can of peaches, and forced himself to eat them, although they tasted like ashes in his mouth. He stared in distaste at the steak still lying on the defrosting tray, and tipped it into the refuse bin before he was sick. The red meat had bled into the grooves of the tray, and Dom immediately thought of Lij, lying injured in the woods, calling him for help. He grabbed his jacket, and his water bottle, and was just preparing to leave the cabin when he saw a boat tied to the jetty.

My god - hunters! Lij!

Dom's part of the wood, he knew, was out of bounds to hunters, but about a mile further in, where the stream divided the ground, hunting was permitted. He went to the outbuilding, grabbed his gun and, filling his pockets with cartridges, ran into the wood.

He could follow the tracks quite easily - three people, men he supposed, but one could never tell, one significantly heavier than the other two. Soon he could hear voices laughing ahead and called out to them.

As he walked towards them he thought, belatedly of what he would say to them.Watch out, there's a naked wild man in the woods sounded ridiculous.

"Good morning! You're Dave Morgan? Jim Carr - and these are my boys, Jim Junior and Rob," the eldest of the men said, getting out his hunting permit. The two others grinned at Dom and nodded pleasantly. City men Dom thought. Their clothes and guns were in pristine condition, and their leather boots shone.

"Hiya! Yes, I'm Dave Morgan," Dom smiled back - there was no point in being surly with them, it wasn't their fault he had been a stupid prick, after all. And just in case there were folks out there looking for him, he gave the name he'd given to anyone who might be interested in him or his property...

"I just wanted to warn you that a friend of mine is here in the woods somewhere, and I'd be glad if you'd keep an eye out for him. He's a little...slow," said Dom, despising himself for the lie, but what else could he say? "He isn't armed, or dangerous, and is very used to hiding in the woods, the bugger."

The man nodded in easy sympathy. "Me and my boys'll look out for him, don't worry. D'you want us to bring him back to the cabin if we come across him?"

Dom laughed inwardly at the prospect of these three men trying to capture Lij - he had seen the results of the previous encounters between Lij and mankind.

"No, don't touch him - he's easily scared, and can get...excited. Just leave a note in my cabin on your way back as to where you last saw him, the door's unlocked and there's pen and paper on the desk. Tie something - a handkerchief, plastic bag, anything - to a tree, if you would, to show me where you saw him."

The men asked no more questions and promised to do as Dom asked, and with a cheery wave disappeared into the sun-dappled trees. Dom headed of in the opposite direction - there was more chance of finding Lij if two groups were looking for him, he reasoned. There wasn't any point in all looking in the same place.

He tramped over moss and through thick brambles and undergrowth for what seemed like hours. He came to the stream, but didn't cross it, it was wider and deeper than he'd expected - more like a river than a stream - and he hoped Lij hadn't tried to ford it.

He sat down on a fallen tree trunk and ate a bar of chocolate he'd found in his jacket pocket, and finished the last of the water in his bottle as there was a clean supply nearby. It was cooler here, under the trees, and he was tired after having had no sleep. He slid to the ground and rested his back against the warm wood. Just five minutes he thought, wearily.

He woke, with a start, at an owl's hoot. The wood was cast into eerie shadow, and he realised with a sinking feeling in his stomach, that it was night. The full moon shone white, through the trees, and there was enough light for him to see his watch. Fuck! he thought - it was just gone midnight.

He knew there was no chance of finding his way back until morning, so he thought he might as well find somewhere a little less exposed to sleep. He had no idea what animals there might be in the woods, but he was sure there would be large predatory beasts here. He intended to find a safe hiding place - although he was comforted by the thought of his gun. He reached down for it, to find it had gone.

He felt about frantically in the grass, but it wasn't there. Then a thought struck him. Lij had taken it. The blood thrummed through his chest making his heart thud like a piston. He had to be nearby - he had to be!

He filled his water flask, and headed into the undergrowth. He didn't know what suddenly possessed him to turn a sharp left, but he did, and encountered in a very few minutes a shelter constructed of the twigs and branches of nearby young, green trees, that bent easily into shape.

He crept forward, and looked in, and there, lit by the moon, naked on a bed of moss and leaves, Lij slept, in his arms a small dog-like creature, which awoke with a start at Dom's approach, and dashed out into the darkness. On Lij's other side, lay the rifle. Dom tried to identify the animal in the moonlight. It looked like a young wolf, but that was impossible.

The animal had woken Lij as it raced off, and he raised himself on his elbow, and looked at Dom with sad eyes. "Dom hurt Lij," he said, so quietly that Dom hardly heard him, and to his horror Dom saw the tears well up in the man's eyes and track down his cheeks.

Why he did it, he didn't know - it was merely instinct - but he stripped quickly and went in and lay quietly at Lij's side, not touching him, not speaking, except with his eyes as he tried to convey with them his deep sorrow at the violence he had shown.

For a moment, Lij didn't move and then a tentative finger touched Dom's face. "Beautiful Dom hurt his Lij," he whispered, and then moved forward and nestled into Dom, Lij's head against his chest, Lij’s arms clasped tightly around him.

Dom couldn't breathe for the emotions choking him. His Lij...the Lij he had nurtured and re-made in his own image, and had driven away with a careless, unthinking blow of his hand.

"Beautiful Lij, " he whispered back. "I 'm sorry, Lij, I was frightened you'd hurt yourself. That thing - gun - is dangerous. It kills."

"Kills?" Lij asked, his face still buried in Dom's chest hair.

"Dead, Lij, like that dog I showed you on the road, remember, that had been hit by the car?"

Lij nodded. "I know dead," he said. "I no wish to dead. No Dom dead. I sorry."

They lay there, warming each other in the cooling night, then Dom felt Lij's cock rising against his thigh.

As if he heard Dom's thoughts, which at that moment, were complex, Lij murmured, "Lij want Dom. Long time want. I am not...child...I man. Dom's man. Beautiful Dom. Like horse we see, Lij...I... want Dom...be inside Dom."

Dom breathed in, his chest tightening once more against the thoughts filling his mind, for he, too wanted Lij. He accepted, now, that he had avoided these thoughts since the time Lij had first touched him.

He remembered the horses at a farm they'd visited; the stallion, its enormous cock breaching the mare as she screamed her triumphant acceptance of her mate. It was a primaeval force, urgent and as hot as hell. Dom had watched Lij staring at the creatures, his eyes wide with an unexpressed emotion, and now, Dom suddenly realised what that emotion had been. Lust, not so pure, and very far from simple.

Dom wasn't sure he should. In some things Lij was still a child...

As if divining his thoughts once again, Lij spoke. "Dom feel same, I know it. Lij no child - no words can speak - I man. Lij want Dom as man want, no child."

And then Dom realised that what Lij said was true. He was a man grown, and if, through no fault of his own, he didn't have the words to explain his feelings, he had those feelings, nonetheless. Did not being able to articulate them negate their force - their power? Or diminish Lij's freedom to choose?

Dom touched Lij's face with trembling fingers and moving slowly forward, kissed the man on the lips. Lij moaned. "Beautiful Dom," he breathed.

"Dom," he said when Dom raised himself on one elbow and stared at him in confusion. "Dom help his Lij," and the look on the man's face was so filled with desperation and longing that Dom didn't stop to debate with himself further, but kissed him, again.

"Beautiful Dom," Lij whispered as Dom ran his hands over taut skin, kissing it, and biting gently at the soft, tender flesh underneath Lij's arm.

"Beautiful Dom," Lij moaned, and turned Dom onto his belly, his hand moving downwards to find Dom's entrance, to...

Dom turned back, and stopped him with a kiss. "I'll show you, Lij," he breathed. "Let me show you there's more to it than rutting. Please..."

Lij was trembling with the need to unite his body with his chosen mate, but he nodded in the dark.

"Lij know how ...but not more. Dom show Lij."

Dom kissed Lij again, running his tongue around the inside of Lij's hot mouth, sucking on Lij’s tongue.

Lij groaned again. "More!" he whispered. "Show me more," and Dom moved his head down Lij's smooth chest and suckled on a nipple.

Lij made an appreciative sound in the back of his throat, and reached for Dom's nipple and tweaked it. He did not know it was what Dom needed, that it sent streams of fire down Dom's body straight into his cock. He gasped, and let go of Lij's nipple, now swollen and wet.

"God, Lij! Do it again!" Lij grinned and pinched, then ran his tongue over the nipple, and bit. Dom cried out with pleasure, and there was a rustling sound outside as the small creatures nestling in the branches of the shelter were disturbed by the sound.

Dom gently pushed Lij back onto the soft mossy bedding and ran his hands and lips over the quivering form beside him. "Do you like it when I do these things, Lij?" and Lij whispered "Yes, like much very. Show more!"

Dom reached up and kissed Lij once again, then taking Lij's cock in a hand far from steady, brought his lips to it and tenderly took it in his mouth.

Lij arched his back and cried out. "Oh!” And Dom smiled around his prize as Lij's legs began to shake on either side of him.

He did not remain there long. Dom knew this was Lij's first experience of physical union, and, remembering his own first fumbling attempts, knew that Lij would come if stimulated too much.

He turned onto his back and pulled his knees up. It was plain Lij had not expected Dom to adopt this position, but he was by no means a fool, and soon he was lying on top of Dom, pressing and rubbing his body into Dom's and kissing him.

When Lij reached down and brought his cock to Dom's entrance Dom was so far gone that he didn't notice any discomfort - if there was any. Lij belonged inside him - that was all he knew.

Both men let out a shuddering sigh as they finally settled, flesh against flesh, united in love.

Lij began to move gently, and Dom, smiling to himself through a haze of love and desire, knew Lij would know nothing of the mechanics of loving another man. That could wait for another time. Lij was big, and the pressure inside Dom was enough to stimulate him to climax. He groaned and lay back awaiting the inevitable.

Lij came with a surge and a hard push, making incredible noises of triumph in Dom's ear. Then Lij, not falling to rest, exhausted, on his chest as Dom had expected, grasped Dom's cock and pulled it, hard, till Dom came, jerking and shuddering to climax.

"Fuck, Lij!" he croaked. "Fuck!"

Lij kissed him, and gently withdrew from his body, and then they lay in each others arms and fell asleep.

They slept the night through, and when dawn came, Lij led them unerringly to the cabin, his hand in Dom's, his body displaying the slight ravages of a night of passionate love.

At the cabin, Dom saw that the boat had gone. Inside was a note from the hunters.

Got a fine buck between us - venison for dinner. Sorry, there was no sign of your friend. I hope you find him soon. Regards, Jim Carr and boys.

Lij was standing at the living room door, grinning widely. "Dom shower - shower Lij?"

Dom grinned back. "Might as well - saves the water," he said, and holding hands, walked into the bathroom.

This time, being in the shower together was different. This time when Lij's hands held his penis, he leaned into the grasp, and allowed himself to swell into his lover's fingers.

"That's it Lij, squeeze hard - yeah, like that!"

"Dom like hard?"

Dom grinned. "Dom like very hard, yes."

Then Lij knelt under the pummelling water and took Dom into his mouth as Dom had done in the little shelter. Dom groaned and leaned back against the tiles as Lij ran his tongue around the ridge of Dom's cock.

"Taste good," Lij mumbled, as he continued to taste and explore. Dom was beyond speech, so he just rested his hands lightly on Lij's head and let what would happen, happen.

His orgasm surprised even him, as he cried, exultant, into the water. Lij stood, and rested, trembling against Dom's chest. "Now Lij. Like it - do."

Dom knelt and wrapping both arms tightly around Lij, took him in. Lij was not leaning against the tiles and as he came his legs gave way under him, and Dom held him, as the tremors ran through him.

They lay on the bed wrapped in towels, arms about each other. "Did you like it, Lij? How did it feel? Your cock in me?"

"Cock called - this?" Lij rested a small hand on Dom.

"Yes, cock, dick...penis...whatever."

"Lij like cock. Call cock."

There was silence for a moment. "Lij want Dom many times. Long want. Dom want Lij, too?"

Dom kissed him. "A long time, yes. You are beautiful, Lij. I..."

Lij stopped Dom's speech with his own mouth. "Dom teach Lij...cock things. I learn."

Dom smiled. "Of course. You'll like learning."

"Dom, why hurt Lij...I? I scare. Why? Why speak not?"

Dom thought carefully. "I told you I was scared, too, Lij. Your finger was on the trigger - thing that makes it work. One more second and you might have pressed it...there wasn't time to explain..." The thought was too much for Dom, and he drew Lij into his arms and held him tight, trembling with fright. "I couldn't bear it if you had been killed - dead."

"No, I no like. Dead is...squashed. I see in wood dead. Dead is be...nothing..."

"Lij, I want to be with you always. To care for you and talk and..."

"Lij want. This...good. Be like this, good."

Dom ran a finger over Lij's lips, tracing the perfect outline, wondering why beauty should be such an elusive thing. He had seen handsome men in his life, but never one as...beautiful as Lij. Dom laughed to himself. What had made the difference? He knew it was love, but wouldn't be able, just yet, to explain the concept to Lij. Let him learn slowly.

"Dom and Lij stay...together. Always together?"

"Always together. Go to sleep, now. It's been a long night. We'll talk more later."

Lij lay with his arms around Dom as he had with the animal in the forest. Dom realised, with a start that that was why Lij had been so cold at night when he had first taken him home. He was used to sleeping with forest creatures, both for warmth and companionship. How he must have suffered, terrified and alone in that stark white cell - treated like a wild animal. Dom held him closer. It would never happen again. That was for certain.

*******

Dear Cate, as promised here is my monthly report.

Dom sucked at his pen, thinking about what he wanted to write.

Lij has learned several new words - cock, ass, balls, foreskin, lube, blowjob, suck, rim, fuck, and is daily improving in confidence. However, I still think he is better apart from people, as when some blokes came by to show me their fishing permits, Lij almost bit one of them, and growled at him so hard the man almost pissed himself... they no fuck Dom! Lij only fuck Dom!

He carried on writing, dismissing the urge to put those thoughts on paper and tried to be serious.

So, on the whole, we are very happy here as we are, and want for nothing. I might have to re-think what we'll do in the winter, but the man who sold the place to me says it's very warm in the cabin, even in snowy weather, and the freezers hold enough for six months, and the storeroom is huge, so we won't lack for food.

I'll go out to the road, soon, and ask a passing driver to post this to you. You might be able to guess, from the postmark, where we are, but I doubt it. I'll drive out of range before I stop anyone, and tell him I'm in hiding from a greedy ex-wife: if I'm lucky, he'll post it from Peru.

Fond regards, DM

Dom sealed the letter and went into the kitchen where Lij was scrubbing potatoes. "I'm going to post Cate's letter, Lij, d'you want to come for the ride?" Lij put his potato down with a smile.

"I go Dom anywhere. My beautiful Dom."

Dom blushed. "Shut your mouth," he said, as Lij kissed him, and holding hands, they headed for the door.

NB A twat is not a pregnant fish - this is a common assumption, but there's no basis for it in fact. So there. ;D

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Eeeeeeeeh finally they're together - really together! Wheee! :D Hot scenes my dear! *fans self* I hope they're enjoying their bliss - I'm sure there will be someone or something intruding soon...

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