Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:30:42 +0000 From: Al Peres Subject: THE ISLAND THAT NEVER WAS - PART FOUR NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR. This is a sweet story of love, product of my imagination where egoisms and selfishness are banned. It depicts sex contacts between minors and with an adult, therefore all warnings apply. English is not my mother language, therefore, please be acquiescent with the syntax. Comments will be welcomed to: "island.never.was@hotmail.com" THE ISLAND THAT NEVER WAS - PART FOUR Chapter 13 - The return. The following day they did what had programmed: filled the tanks with fresh water with the help of a large boat from the frigate; brought fresh fruits and were lucky, because they fished a tuna and, of course, Jeremy and Helen brought enough oysters for the meeting with the Captain. They enjoyed the meal with him, he said goodbye to them and ordered to write down in the ship-log the declaration made by Helen with her recognition of Jackie as her half brother, just in case one of them had an accident or die during the trip back to England. They were terribly excited that night to think on sex; before they went to bed Bernard said: "Tomorrow will be a great day for us. Helen will be in charge of the helm; Jeremy and Jackie will take care of the rigs and I will be in charge of the main sail." They went to bed after kissing Bernard and a few minutes later all were asleep as rocks. Jackie felt the hardness of Jeremy dick on his thighs but he was too tired to go ahead with a sex session. At dawn they were having breakfast and with the first lights the frigate shot a gun announcing the departure. One after the other the ships left the bay into the open sea; a few miles away the frigate took Southeast course to Australia and the corvette and the yacht to Southwest's. Bernard and the children looked at their paradise where their lives had met; silent tears came down their young faces, especially on Jeremy and Helen. Jeremy took her hand in his and shouted a goodbye. Eventually would they come back? An hour later the island was out of sight and as children that they were soon they forgot the moment and started playing round the ship. For Bernard it was different; his stay in that paradise had changed his entirely life, he was a different man in all concepts. That first day the wind blew well and good and the rigs were more than enough to follow the corvette; they tried different manoeuvres along the day and the ship responded wonderfully to any order. Helen's dad had put all his knowledge on the design of the vessel, some innovations would have not be generally introduced until two centuries later, as the heavy sharp keel that had displaced the gravity centre of the ship, or the inclined bow. They were living in the second half of the eighteen century. At the sunset, they were in tow with the corvette, and after dinner Bernard was transhipped to the war-ship for his guard. Since the children had no task to perform, except to clean the upper deck, once they finished went to bed; they were extremely tired and when Bernard returned they were hard asleep. The second day and the following ones were different; they had comfortably rested and the sun was shinning with special brightness, the wind was good and they were enjoying the sailing. Bernard ordered all sails on and the ship responded doubling the corvette's speed; after half an hour they only could see the far image of the corvette's sails and her top flag, Jeremy asked: "Dad, can we stay in the nude? I don't think the corvette can see us, even with the spyglass." "Yes, you can if you want it, I'll remain with my shorts on." The three immediately got naked and started joking without leaving their tasks; the boys immediately went with their dick hard for different reasons; Jeremy because he saw his beautiful girl in all her splendour, and Jackie because he loved Jeremy's tanned body and Bernard's strong muscled chest; he sighed and started rubbing his dick slowly. Jeremy went to the helm and approached Helen from behind; she smiled his boy: "I love him with all my heart. I couldn't live without him." She thought, she would always be in that boy's net. He extended his arms round her and started kissing her neck and biting her ear lobes; she squirmed in delight; the boy's hands were rubbing her hard nipples and massaging her turgid breasts while his hard dick was searching the way to penetrate her from behind; they had not fucked in that way, let alone on board of the ship with the movement produced by the waves. She turned her face, their mouths met and their tongues joined in a special kiss. She felt his hard cock between her thighs, she fixed the helm to the course they were on and guided his dick into her pussy, placing one of her hands cupping his ball sack and massaging it. Jeremy pushed up and partially went into her; she trembled and moaned in pleasure, but she wanted him totally into her, so she turned around, put one hand round Jeremy's hips and with the other guided his cock into her again. United in that way they started making love each other with the moves produced by the yacht. Bernard looked at them and did as if he did not see anything, but his hard cock was tenting his shorts and his dick's head aching and spitting precum; he was standing near the cockpit preparing some ropes. Jackie saw his tenting and could not stop himself, he went from behind and yanked his shorts to his ankles; he turned quickly around and met the lovely dark brown round face waiting for his cock; before he could realise Jackie had kneeled and put the big dick head into his mouth starting sucking it eagerly; Bernard got dizzy with pleasure, he did not know what to do, but the pleasure was so great and he was so in need. He stopped thinking, he placed his hands round the lovely boy head and helped him to suck his large meat, but Jackie was used to perform good blowjobs and he wanted to do the best of his life. He took Bernard's balls in his left hand while with the other was masturbating himself. Bernard moaned in pleasure, and after a few minutes he closed his eyes as that wonderful sensation came from his loins to his dick; as a young boy, his knees buckled and he had to put his hand on the wall of the cockpit to prevent falling when he reached the peak of his orgasm. In that moment he heard Helen and Jeremy groans that wind muffled. Jackie also had had his orgasm, perhaps not as strong as Bernard's, but he was happy to see that his adored man had enjoyed his ministration. He rose up and Bernard kissed him on the head. Bernard then said: "I'll pay you back tonight when I return from my guard. From now on, trade your cabin with Helen, she needs Jeremy and we need each other." Jackie nodded; he put himself on tiptoe and kissed Bernard on the lips. "I'll be ready waiting for you when you return. I love you Bernard." Bernard kissed back his new lover and he looked at Helen and Jeremy that were looking at him; they grinned and nodded. Helen and Jeremy were enchanted with the change; it was true: his dad needed Jackie and Jackie needed him. He thought he loved fucking Jackie but he preferred his Helen. Bernard went for his early guard, he looked at the horizon and very far he could see black clouds threatening, at least heavy rain, they were in the South late Spring and were leaving behind the tropical zone; soon they would have to change into a different clothes. Before he took the little boat he said to the children. "I don't much like those clouds, please be careful with them and don't go to bed until I return, at least one of you must remain wide-awake." Immediately Jackie said: "I'll wait for you, so Helen and Jeremy can sleep; if the storm arrives I'll wake them up. In any case we will follow the procedure that we have established. "Alright son; I'll see you later." The boys and girl started working tiding everything and securing every possible part on deck and under deck. The design of the ship permitted a great speed, however, the deck was very exposed to be swept by the waves if they were rough since low scull. Jeremy said: "It is a pity that this stupid storm comes during the night, I would like to give a lesson to those they called themselves "wolves of the sea". We must secure everything, especially on deck." "Don't worry, perhaps we will have high waves all day tomorrow, and who knows, perhaps the day after tomorrow." Helen said looking at her lover. Then slowing the voice she added: "we must take the chance before the storm comes." Jeremy smiled at her hypnotized by those brilliant blue eyes. "Why do I love you so much, red queen?" She made a feminine grimace and kissed him on the lips, but said nothing. The time went by and Helen and Jeremy went to bed; Jackie closed the cockpit hermetically and remained on deck looking at the corvette's lights; the night was dark but warm; a soft breeze was blowing right from stern and the corvette advanced at good speed. He descended for a moment under deck and could hear the moans from the main cabin as Helen and Jeremy were enjoying their love; he got hard but he wanted to wait until Bernard returned from his duties. He took something from the kitchen and went on deck. He prayed to his old ancestor's gods thanking for what was happening to him. He waited for a few hours; even he was near asleep when Bernard arrived. He kissed the boy and they went under deck, securing the entry. With the lamp on his hand he looked into the main cabin and Jeremy and Helen were snoring, she was cuddled into his strong arms. They proceeded to his cabin and got naked; they were hard and wanting what they had prepared. "I think we will have time enough before the storm hit us." Bernard said. Jackie smiled and said: "It will be nice to do it at the pace of great waves." They laughed. Bernard looked into those large deep black eyes. "Jackie, you are very pretty and have a strange beauty, something special. Has someone told you that?" He grinned and kissed him at the same time he rubbed his thick cock. "No, no one, but you are enough for me because I love you." "Jackie." he blushed as a little boy. "Jackie, I have never done it to a boy, so I have not any experience; I only fucked girls and women." Jackie smirked and kissed him for a long time on the lips. "I like being the first. I thought you and Jeremy. you were alone." "No Jackie. He is my son and a father won't do that to his son. Well, we did some things like sucking each other and enjoy in the cave; but that's all, nothing serious." Jackie was now stroking slowly Bernard's hard cock and he felt his hand on his thin and large pecker doing the same; both gasped and moaned in delight. "When I was with the homos I knew many boys; near all of them were being fucked either by their fathers or by their elder brothers; some by both and at the same time they were fucking their younger little brothers." They grinned. "Now I want you to fuck me right now Bernard; I have been missing that during a few months and probably my butt will suffer a little, but soon it will be used to your cock." Saying that, he smeared some melted butter on Bernard's cock; straddled him and with his left hand he guided the thick head into his butt. He pushed down and the head went easily in. He gasped as he felt a little sharp pain; his butt had forgotten thick cocks. He bent over and started kissing Bernard, their tongues met and he started moving up and down, rubbing his own dick against Bernard's belly. With every move Bernard's dick went further into his bowels, and a few minutes later the man was helping his little boy to move up and down. After some minutes enjoying kissing, a frenzy sequence started and Jackie could see how Bernard closed his eyes, arched his hips and moaned loudly as he reached his climax. That drove him mad and a few thrusts took him also into a long and waited dry orgasm. He missed the warmness of Bernard's semen deep into him as he had experienced with Jeremy and other men and boys; but he felt very happy. He fell on top of Bernard breathing heavily with his head on the strong chest; he, as Jeremy, liked a lot to put their smooth hands thru his chest's hair. They remained during a few minutes in that position until he moved to go to his cabin, but Bernard stopped him. "Don't go out Jackie, I like to feel you near me." The colour boys grinned, kissed him on the lips and both turned on their side, so that Bernard's dick continued inside his butt; he loved that sensation. They did not need to wash because they had no any semen, only abundant precum and that was what Jackie liked more. A minute later they were asleep. Near dawn the storm suddenly started with lighting, heavy rain and wind. Bernard noticed a sharp tug on the yacht that lifted the ship's bow; he immediately stood ordering Jackie to wake Jeremy and Helen up. Naked as he was he jumped on to deck and could see the high waves and the tug rope tensing endangering the ship. Without any hesitation he untied it and soon he saw the corvette's lights disappear in the dark night. Jeremy and Jackie were near him. Helen was on the helm. He shouted: "Helen, go under deck and get ready the emergency bar for the rudder. Jeremy, please take the helm at the cockpit as soon as Helen action the bar; bow to the direction of the waves; Jackie try to raise the bow's rig but tie yourself to the emergency rope. Be careful everybody." As robots and well-trained sailors the boys and the girl obeyed and the yacht started jumping on the waves as a dolphin; Jeremy enjoyed those moves. The waves were very high but they did not represent any danger for a good ship like the yacht; she run over them as a playing child on a roundabout. The dawn came with black clouds and the heavy rain continued; there was no trace of the corvette; Bernard thought that perhaps she has gained speed and was well ahead of them. The air changed and now was a little bit colder, so Jeremy shouted: "Dad, I am going under deck to take some clothes, it is getting chilly and we may catch a cold." "Alright, take Jackie with you and come back with the raincoat on. Tell Helen to cancel the bar, I think we can manage the ship without any emergency measures; as soon as you come I'll go down and change myself." The boys disappeared thru the cockpit, closing it behind. "Jackie, you better prepare some coffee, I think we will need it today." Helen and Jeremy went up wrapped in the raincoat; she took the helm in her hands and Bernard ordered to tie themselves with a long rope in order to prevent a possible fall into the sea. When he came back he raised the second bow rig and the ship jumped on the waves happily; since the wind was blowing steady on the same direction, they fixed the helm to the prescribed course and went to have breakfast. The entire day was the same; they enjoyed the waves that were not a problem for them. Before the sunset the wind magically stopped thought the high waves and the rain continued. The ship was balancing in the mid of the ocean and under the rain, so they took the opportunity to get a good shower; all got naked on deck and soap and started washing up one another. During the day was fair warm, however after the sunset they had to wear some clothes. The night came and seemed that the sea was not so brave. Dawn came with a soft wind and they raised all the sails. The ship got speed; she looked as a shark in the tropical coast, but Bernard was not happy; he extracted the sextant and calculated their situation; they had advanced a lot to the South in the correct course. Jeremy then said: "Dad, you don't look very happy, what's going on?" "It is near two days that we lost contact with the corvette and I liked to be under the protection of her guns; I think we have over passed her and we are increasing our gap distance. We can sail comfortably if we are very careful about any possible ship approaching." Helen then intervened: "Dad, we can stop here, slow down our speed." Jackie then added interrupting her: "Or we could go back and try to find her, after all one or two days more." "I think Jackie is correct, we will go back and try to find the corvette." "Dad, we are sailing with wind at the stern, going back means that we have to sail making large zigzags." "Yes, you are right, thus we'll explore a large portion of the ocean. We agreed this course therefore she must not be very far from us if she had not been diverted from her original course." In view the boys made no additional comment he ordered to Helen that was at the helm: "Helen, course five degrees North-West. Boys, all rigs on!" The ship made a large circle and started sailing back route. The sunset arrived; Helen climbed to the top of the mast and placed the night light that could indicate to any ship their position, not only to the corvette. He had developed a safety belt with a hook to prevent falling from the mast, also used to walk on deck with rough sea. They had put on extra clothes that seemed strange after so much time being naked and free. Bernard then said: "The light can be seen and attract any ship, including pirates; therefore we must establish a permanent guard. Helen will do the first two hours; the second Jeremy; I'll do the third that is the worst; Jackie will do the fourth. That will cover the entire night. Needn't to say that we must be fully awaken and from time to time explore the sea with the spyglass; fortunately we have moonlight, not full, but most of the time, that will make easier our task; our safety is in our hands; any suggestion?" He asked. Jeremy said: "Dad, I won't be comfortably under deck knowing that Helen is here alone; I know she doesn't need anyone to do her job." He quickly added. ".but we can put our guards together until you relief us." Bernard looked at Helen and saw a wide grin on her lovely young face. "Alright, accepted." Jackie then said: "Bernard, we can do the same, so when you come I'll be with you, if you don't mind." He looked intensely to the dark boy and thought "What a great woman you would have been, mi little rat." "No, I don't mind; so we make two guards of four hours each. Get extra clothes, the night is chilly and I don't want anyone getting cold." Jackie had prepared some coffee that kept hot on the charcoal stove. Fours hours elapsed and Bernard and Jackie relieved them; no sex was expressed in view of their situation; they were responsible persons in spite of their short age, however many kisses and hugs of love were exchanged, especially between Helen and Jeremy. Dawn came without any news, Bernard ordered to put all sail on and to put off the light from the mast; Jackie climbed to the topmast like a little monkey and did the job. Bernard and Jackie went to have a nap after breakfast, they cuddled into each other arms and soon they drifted to sleep. When they woke up the ship was sailing at a good speed, but nothing had been seen. After midday Jackie took the spyglass and climbed to the top of the mast; suddenly he screamed in his pitched voice: "Sails on the horizon! Right North-East." "Come down, Jackie! It could not be the corvette!" Bernard took the spyglass but could not see anything yet. After half an hour sailing it was clear the image of the ship. She looked as the corvette, but it could be a fake. Bernard ordered the procedure. "She is clearly a warship or at least armed and with St. Jorge's flag on, but that could be a trick. We'll maintain outside the range of her guns, in case of doubt we can fly away without being touched." They knew the procedure to follow. When the vessels were clearly identifiable Bernard raised the flag asking for the secret war flag; the corvette immediately raised a blue-yellow triangular flag on the topmast. That was a clear signal, not only the flag, but also the place where it had been placed. Jeremy immediately raised the same flag, but this time not in the main mast, but on the rigs, meaning submission. The corvette shot one of her guns as a salute and some minutes later Bernard boarded the corvette. Mr. Collins hugged his new friend and colleague. "You are fucking fast." He said when they were alone. How are the children?" "Oh very well. We decided to turn back yesterday morning; they had been making guards the whole night. They are the best sailors I could have and enjoyed the storm like if they were in a roundabout." "That's fantastic, because some of my men got sick and I had to slow down the speed. But now we are again reunited. Will you stay on tow tonight?" "Yes, please; we are not hurry and the children are very tired, unless you order something different, of course. "No, that's fine. Please return to the yacht; soon the sunset will come and the first guard will be yours." "Thank you. I'll be here Captain." They smiled each other; Bernard knew that a bond and friendship had been established between them that would last for many years. He returned to the smaller ship and they resumed their sailing, but this time in parallel to the corvette since the time to her tow was approaching. The children had been very busy during the last three days without time to enjoy their young lives, so, as soon as Bernard left for the corvette they went to bed. Jackie took the lamp and went into the study room; he picked up one of the books from the shelves and started to read; it dealt about an English writer more than two hundred years ago. It was very interesting and soon he was engrossed in the reading. Jeremy and Helen went to the main cabin and before falling on the bed they were naked and kissing. "I needed you a lot; I want to feel your body near mine very tight." Helen said. Without any word Jeremy guided his dick into her pussy and started to fuck her; however he wanted it to last, so he stopped moving and his tongue now was licking and sucking those beautiful hard nipples. Helen moaned loudly. "Jeremy! Please Jeremy!" She shouted between gasps. "Please don't stop fucking me, please, don't stop!" She repeated near sobbing; but Jeremy stopped and reluctantly extracted his cock from her. She then exclaimed: "Jeremy darling, please don't be mad at me!" Jeremy smiled and put his tongue deep into her vagina, but Helen pulled him to her on a 69 position and engulfed his cock into her mouth, sucking it eagerly. Now was Jeremy who was pleading not to stop. "Darling please, don't stop; I need this first release." She was very close to her orgasm, but stopped sucking her boy. Jeremy again pleaded her to resume her sucking. "I'll be a good boy, darling. I promise." They smiled and she resumed her sucking because she wanted his spunk into her mouth more than anything in this world. Jeremy introduced his tongue deep into her vagina and she moaned arching her hips. He pulled down into her mouth near gagging her. Their bodies tensed and a loud groan came from their throats as they reached their climaxes. Jeremy spurted his little load into Helen's mouth and she took all of it but did not totally swallow his semen. When they relaxed a little, Jeremy recovered his original position lying on his back; Helen straddled him and glued his lips with her loved boy, mixing his semen with their saliva. That was so, so terrible good! "I love your semen, Jeremy. The problem will be when you grow and spurt a lot as I saw to some sailors in the pirate ship; it will be impossible to drink all that milk." He smiled to his girl and hugged her very tight and gentle. "You will not need to do it. We'll use your pussy to deposit it, and when we cannot I'll find the way to spurt it outside, like the rabbit." They laughed and she kissed him tenderly. "We are doing it without caring much about, probably now we don't need to worry because you spurt a little load." But I like it, especially because it comes from you. "I love you my little red queen; do you know that?" She grinned and them said: "I love you, too; my beautiful boy. Now let's do it in the traditional way; I am very conservative. We collected a lot of that herb just in case." He smirked and they resumed their love making until their bodies went empty and exhausted, then drifted to sleep. Jackie was so engrossed in the reading that he did not notice Bernard entering the cabin as he saw some light. "What are you reading?" "I don't know the name of the writer. It is about a brave young man that was trying to revenge the death of his father." "That's hard to read; his name is Hamlet and the man who wrote that story was named Shakespeare. Do you know? It is said that he was homosexual, he loved men, not women; however nobody can say it for certain." He put the book on the shelf and kissed Bernard on the lips. "The same as me; probably his lovers were not as handsome as you are." Bernard grinned, looked into those lovely black eyes and felt something different about that boy; however his animal part still was forcing his dick that was tenting his trousers. He hugged Jackie and both went into the cabin; as usual they got naked under the covers because the weather outside was rather chilly. Jackie cuddled into Bernard's arms and felt the wetness of his hard dick pressing against his butt, but he did not move or force to enter him. Jackie knew that with the abundant precum the butter was unnecessary; he had started rubbing his own little cock. "Won't you fuck me tonight? I am hard and ready." "Turn around Jackie, please." The boy did as ordered and their eyes met. "Is it anything wrong?" "No, it isn't. Jackie I am feeling ashamed, the same as when Jeremy asked me." "Why? I like doing it with you. Jeremy is your son and I am not." Bernard caressed his beautiful face and kissed him on the lips. "That's the problem. Jackie, I am starting to love you more as a son than as a normal boy and my heart reject what we do. I love you Jackie, I think I love you as a son, probably you are different, but." "Your animal part." "Yes, my animal part is insisting on fucking you, but when I really feel happy is when I have you cuddled into my arms without any sex interfering." The boy was puzzled, everybody he knew only took his body to enjoy it, no one had cared about him, even when they fucked him, except this man, and now that he had become his lover he loved him as a father and what was even better, he felt the same about him. He could not stop his tears coming thru his smooth cheeks. "Do, do, do you really love me as if I were your son, Bernard?" "I am afraid that the answer is yes." Jackie extended his brown and silky arms and hugged Bernard, kissing him round his face, sobbing with abundant tears. "I love you, too; and because of that I wanted you to fuck me, because in that moment I got you within me as one with your kisses only for me." "Oh my poor little boy!" Bernard dragged the boy to his chest very tight and kissed and kissed him. Minutes went by and they calmed down. "Jackie, if you want, you can be Jeremy's brother; I would love to adopt you as I have done to him." Jackie grinned and kissed Bernard on the lips, a long and tender kiss. "No. Because I also have my animal part and want to be Helen's brother. When I was a little boy they initiated me on sex; I have been fucked many times by men and boys and I have fucked many boys till we met in this ship. On contrary of Jeremy, I like it, I need it, I want it; however, like now, I want to do it when I am in the mood and not when they wanted; and especially, when I love the person which makes me to enjoy it, like you." He then kissed Bernard on the lips again, but this time he introduced his tongue in Bernard's mouth. The man responded to the boy's kiss and they glued their mouths for a long and passionate wet kiss. "Well I have my animal part, too. As I have told you, you are the first boy to whom I have made love, and probably will be the last." Jackie stopped him with a kiss. "Never say the last." "I said probably; but I am sure that when I find a girl or woman." "In that case let's enjoy it. You until you find a suitable woman, and I until I find a suitable boy, because Jeremy is chained with Helen forever." They smiled. He noticed the wet cock rubbing his crotch; suddenly he turned over and put in four legs, but with the head down on the pillow. "Please dad, fuck me until we are exhausted." That what they did; Bernard placed himself on his knees and put his left hand on the boy's hips, with the right he guided his greased thick dick to his anus, he pushed and went totally into Jackie's body. He yelped at the entry but soon he was mad, especially when Bernard's dickhead touched that magical spot inside him. They fucked in all possible positions until both were exhausted and drifted to sleep. The following days and nights were the same; during the day they were father and son and during the night lovers. Chapter 14 - In Cape Town. The activity in the port was increasing every year; now the dockyard was divided in commercial and the military part. The fort was further uphill and the Governor's palace within it. From there, there was a general view of the whole port and most of the new town. The Governor Sir James Elliot, his wife and their daughter were sat in the large terrace savouring a cup of tea; the twenty-years-old girl was in advance state a pregnancy visibly annoyed by her conditions and disturbances. Her name was Carla Grovetown, wife of Colonel Jack Grovetown, head of the forces in CP. He was a thirty-five y/o man, clever and handsome; he came from an old and rich family in England. They had a powerful heavy spyglass mounted near them, the entry into the dockyard of a warship towing a small fifteen metres yacht called their attention. As the larger ship docked he focused the tube to her and read the name: "Seagull"- He rang a little silver bell and immediately a young black woman approached. "Please tell my secretary to bring the fleet list." The girl nodded and went away. The pregnant girl asked: "What's up, dad?" "It is that corvette docking, as far as I can remember we don't have such a ship. I mean with that name." Then the Colonel said: "She is with St. Jorge's flag on; undoubtedly she is one of our ships." "It must be a capture; but what puzzles me is not the corvette, but the small ship she is tugging, the yacht. She's either Capitan Marten's ship or an exact copy of her. Marten did not want to release his secret to the Admiralty, he designed and built that vessel here somewhere in Africa. I can say to you that today there is not any other ship that can reach the speed of that little demon." Mr. Elliot said. "I'll send someone to investigate and request his papers." He went inside and immediately and lieutenant and a group of four soldiers rushed to the port riding their horses. The girl was uncomfortable and her husband tenderly asked: "Carla, how do you feel?" She looked at him, then to her mother. "To be sincere, I feel very bad. Mom, you told me that a pregnancy was not so uncomfortable. Why them I feel so bad?" The woman looked her daughter visible concerned. "The problem is we have not a doctor; two are in a mission with the Dutch people, and our doctor died four months ago. The Admiralty should have sent one, weeks ago." She protested. Her husband, the Governor caressed his daughter long hair with love and said. "Don't worry my daughter; Mother Nature knows what she is doing." "Please dad, I have seen many women dying in the hospitals trusting in Mother Nature; I need a real doctor to look after my baby and me. I don't care about vessels or soldiers." She was visible upset and started sobbing, so she stood with some difficulty and helped by her mother left to her room. The Colonel accompanied her and a few minutes later he returned. "Father, I am really worried, she is depressed besides being uncomfortable and I can't do anything to help her. I hate not being a doctor now. You well know how important this baby is, not only because he or she will fill our lives, but my father's insistence that he needs a heir before granting us the family's fortune. "I know son, but your fortune and ours is more than big enough; you don't need to care about that." "It is not a problem of money, but dad would leave all his money to the church and I hate that flock of bastards that takes any chance to enrich themselves; I would not care if he was to give his money to an orphan institution or charity, but to the church..." The old man nodded. "You shouldn't say that in public." The old man grinned. A few moments later the lieutenant arrived with a sealed envelope containing the summary of the memo that he should deliver personally to the Governor. Mr. Collins, as Captain of corvette, was a superior in rang to him, so did not give him any explanation, only he kindly asked the officer to ask for an audience to the Governor, in order he would inform in detail all about the two ships. He gave the envelope to the Colonel and he entered into the terrace where his father in law still was sipping his cup of tea. "Sir, here you are the summary of the Captain's orders. He kindly has asked your audience to deliver the memorandum about the trip." The old man broke the seals and opened the paper reading carefully. His face changed to a fair happiness. He gave the document to his son in law and rang a little silver bell, ordering the girl to call his wife and daughter. "We can't be happier, son. Bernard Northfield was considered a promise in medicine; his father, Charles Northfield, is one of the best physicians in our country, it is said that, with the time, his son would be even better than his father is; unfortunately apparently he died in the wreckage of his ship about two years ago; now he is here, he had saved one of our frigates, killed the terrible and cruel Captain Black and rescued three children. Fantastic!" "And the Crown owns him twenty thousand guineas for the reward." The Colonel added. "Yes, but that is nothing compared with what he had done, only the corvette and the lives he had saved deserve ten times that amount." In that moment the ladies joined them and the Governor explained to them the news; the girl hugged his father. "Please dad, invite him and his family to this palace as especial guests; very few times we have a distinguished person like Mr. Northfield here, besides he can explore me. Please, dad, please." The girl insisted. "But he had just arrived and probably he is anxious to continued his trip, his family still ignore he is alive, so we should not retain him here." The Colonel then intervened. "Father, I can go and ask him to come, he then will decide what to do. If he is a good doctor and as honourable as his father is, I am sure he will accept our invitation." "As far as I know, this boy used to be a complete gentleman, and probably he will not reject your invitation, but I don't want to force him." "Dad, I'll go personally to convince him if necessary; after all he is MD." The girl added. "Leave it to me, please." The Colonel said. "What shall I tell the Captain regarding his application for your audience? "I'll receive him tomorrow morning; I want to know in details the operations; besides he probably will handle me a copy for the Admiralty, and tomorrow is departing the mail ship for London, so we can include that in the mail bag. Carla, meantime you order to prepare rooms for our guest and the three children, I'm sure your husband will bring Mr. Northfield here, dead or alive." They grinned as the Colonel departed, ordering the lieutenant to follow him with a squadron of soldiers. "I'll do my best." Bernard was talking with Mr. Collins about the procedure to follow to obtain money or a credit letter, they need to supply the ship and make some innovations about the safety of the children because he wanted to continued his trip to home as soon as possible; in that moment they heard the troops and the children joined them in surprised. The tall colonel asked permission to go onboard; that is a protocol that all military officers follow regarding the Captain of a war ship. "Mr. Collins, I am the head of the forces in CP." He extended his hand and they shook them. Mr Collins then said: "This is my second officer and captain of the yacht Mr. Bernard Northfield; these are his children; Helen, Jeremy and Jackie." He shook hand as he was introduced. He looked into Bernard's eyes and he knew that a Colonel never came to receive an officer inferior to him; he saw the doubt in the man and he tried to help him. "Colonel, I suppose you want further information from us, in fact I have some questions regarding the procedure to follow here. I have never been within a fort." He smiled. "I want to be frank with you, Mr. Northfield. Can we talk in private for a moment, please?" They went apart and the man explained: "Mr. Northfield, normally we have three doctors here, but for some circumstances that I will explain you later, currently we have none; my wife, the Governor's daughter, is shortly expecting a baby and I have the feelings that something is going, let's say, not too well. My family, including my father in law, will be much grateful if you and your family could accept our invitation to live in the palace as our especial guests during your stay in CP and have an examination of my wife and the baby's situation." He looked at the man and saw his anxiety really concerns. "When is she expecting the baby?" "Within a couple of weeks, if she is not wrong. Our doctor's last examination took place four months ago; she was well, but he died from a heart attack; we asked for a quick replacement, but the new doctor has not come yet. "You don't need to justify anything, I am sure that as a future father you have done everything you can to attend your wife and your baby." The man blushed; he was prepared for any answer but not to be so understandable. Bernard continued: "When do you want me to examine your wife?" "Well, we'll leave it to you. We know you must be anxious to return home but. if you don't mind to come. You and your family with us." Bernard understood. "Well, I have been acting as second officer of this corvette; therefore firstly I must ask my captain to relief me from that task; secondly we are dirty after eleven days in the sea and we need to purchase some clothes for the children and for myself. We don't want to present before the Governor with these clothes." The Colonel smiled. "Don't worry Mr. Northfield; I have a coach and nobody will see you. We have all kind of clothes and sizes in the palace's store, so you don't need to care about that. By the way, please call me Jack once you are not an officer." They smiled each other and after complying with the procedure, he called the children. "Children, let's get ready. The Governor is inviting us to his residence as guests; come on! Hurry up and get ready." Helen argued: "But dad, do you think it is correct that a young lady go before the governor in shorts? "In this instance, yes, my daughter." The Colonel now addressing to Mr. Collins said: "Mr. Collins, the Governor will receive you tomorrow morning; I expect we can agree tomorrow the time in order you and your officers can assist to a dinner in the palace with my family. "Thank you, with pleasure, sir." "I'll set up a military guard round the yacht while the doctor Northfield is with us." To a signal to the lieutenant a coach with four horses approached. Bernard and the children boarded it and went to the Governor's palace. A few minutes later, they enter thru the iron fence main gate. The Colonel led them thru luxury passages and rooms to the terrace; the Governor stood to welcome his guests. "Welcome to CP Bernard Northfield; I suppose your father will receive a great news when he knows about you and your family; we are having the privilege to hug you first." The man forgot any protocol and hugged Bernard warmly. He continued introducing his wife and his daughter that remained sat down, but offered their hands to him. "Thank you Sir for your kind invitation. This is my family: Helen and her half younger brother Jackie Marten; and this is my son Jeremy Northfield." Helen made a reverence to the Governor and kissed the ladies on the cheeks; Jeremy and Jackie bent their head in respect, shook hands with the Governor and kissed the hands of the ladies. The Governor looked at his family nodding about the education of the boys; what he did not know was that Jackie had been instructed to follow Jeremy's steps; so he remained in silence, but in a moment the Governor looked at him and said: "Jackie, you are not African, aren't you?" The boy blushed and his deep large black eyes moved asking for help to Helen, but she did not move. "I don't know sir; I only was told that my birth took place in Africa." The man smiled. "Well your silky and not curled hair shows that you are probably from Indian ancestors. I have seen many boys and girls here from emigrants from that large country. Don't you agree, Bernard? "Probably sir, but I am a physician not an anthropologist." All smiled. Then Bernard argued: "Sir, we are very sorry because we had not time even to wash up ourselves; the last time we did properly was three days ago that we went thru heavy rain, we must be stinking after so a long time without cleaning properly." All again smiled. "Don't worry son, soon you will be a different person." He motioned his wife that rang a bell and two young servants, a girl and a young man, came. "Please take the boys and his father to the bathhouse; I expect their clothes are ready." "Yes Madame, everything is prepared for them." The teenager said. "Please follow me." The girl moved to say the same, but Carla raised her hand. "I'll take care of Helen myself; we are young and I am sure she would prefer it; besides I need a bath too." Helen looked at her and thought she liked that pregnant young woman; she looked more like a girl as those she had seen many times when she was on board with the pirates. She stood with some difficulty and offered her hand to Helen; she took it and both started walking. "Thank you for your help, I don't want any servant round me when I am bathing." They smiled each other and Helen continued: "I envy you; you are so pretty with your tummy." The young woman stopped for a moment and grinned: "Envy me? Pretty? Are you mad or are you joking, Helen?" "No, I am not; you look very pretty, your face is very smooth and a strange light come from you." The young lady looked puzzled. "Helen, it is more or less what Jack, my husband, is telling me every moment; but I am going thru bad moments with my baby, so you should not envy me." "I envy you because I would like to have a baby from a man that I loved, and your husband looked at you as he is very much in love with you. "Yes, that's true. We are looking forward to have this baby, but I have a strange sensation Helen, and I don't know what's going to happen. I can't tell it to anyone and I don't have a close friend to whom to talk about this." Helen pressed Carla's hand encouraging her. "Don't worry Carla, my dad is an excellent physician and Jeremy knows more about plant's properties than many doctors, especially tropical ones. He made a sketch of every new one we found in the island and gave them to the Vice-admiral in the frigate. He is." "Helen, you talk about them as your own family, but Dr. Northfield and his son are not your direct family." The young red-haired girl grinned and with emotion said: "He is not my father but he is my dad. I love him as ever have loved anyone, he is the best dad I could have, including my father. Jeremy is not also his own son, he was adopted near two years ago before the wreckage took place; Jeremy saved his life and. well, you will know everything in detail tomorrow when your father receives the memo. They were entering into the bathhouse for women; the lady stopped, looked into the girl's eyes and boldly said: "You are in love with Jeremy, aren't you Helen? The young girl deeply blushed because her emotions had betrayed her. "Well I think so Carla; he is so handsome, so brave, so intelligent, so strong." "Don't follow Helen or I will be in love, too." They laughed. "I like you, Carla; I needed someone to tell it." "Does he know you love him?" "Will you promise not to tell anyone Carla?" The young woman smiled because those reflections brought her some old memories of a boy when she was Helen's age. "You can trust on me Helen, in fact something similar happened to me when I was your age, so you don't need to be ashamed of that; it is Mother Nature's business, as my dad use to say." "Well, we have been in a paradise for more than one year; we played, dived, climbed to the trees, studied geography and botanic matters together; twenty-four hours a day around together. Yes, we have kissed many times and walked hand in hand many times along the beaches watching the beauty of a sunrise or a sunset. We cried when we left the island and he hugged me very tight." "How old is Jeremy? He looks like fifteen." "You are wrong, he is a year older than me; he had just turned thirteen last November." "You are a little liar; he has a lovely young body of a teenager." Helen smiled proudly. "He isn't. He still has that pitched voice of a boy." She laughed. "Why do you laugh?" "Because he hates that child voice and he's always asking dad when it will change. He used to sing in the church's choir and made the solo because his beautiful voice, but he wants to be a man rather than a child." They got naked and entered into the large bathtub. They looked at each other body, Carla with her big tummy and Helen with that flat and beautiful tanned body of a preteen girl. "Did you hear him singing?" "Only once. It was after a hard day and we were watching the beautiful sunset. He told me everything about his previous life; I told him he had the loveliest voice I had ever heard and that he should love it rather than hate it. Then he explained me how he sang in the choir and I asked him to sing a song for me. He rejected the idea, but looking into my eyes he said: "I'll sing you the Ave Maria of Mozart if you kiss me": I said yes because I wanted to do it, even without the song." Helen blushed as she continued. "He sang it and it was like an angel, I couldn't do anything when he finished but to kiss him on the lips. He said that I shouldn't say it to anybody, but it was not a promise." Carla was enchanted and she would have been there talking with Helen for whole night. She sighed. "It must have been beautiful moments, Helen. By the way, it seems that you have been exposed to the sun naked, because you have a lovely tanned body." Again she had been trapped, Helen thought. "Well, all of us have it; we had only a few clothes, we have grown a lot, so Jeremy wore dad's shorts and I wore his shorts. Dad did an old pair from the dead Captain of his wreckage ship. We had to keep them for the planned escape; so we had to be naked all the time. The island was a solitary place with us only as habitants." "Didn't you feel embarrassed?" "Well, I started step by step; they did not force me and only if I wanted; but I saw how easy they dove and swam without clothes and I envied them; I decided to imitate them and I jumped into the water; we laughed and played a lot that day. Since them I felt so natural that even we did not notice we were in the nude." "Now I am the one who envy you, Helen; if I was in there, right from the beginning I would have been naked too. I like it and normally I do when I am in my private rooms where nobody will disturb me, however we cannot tell this to the rest, even my husband. We'll continue talking about this Helen." Carla and Helen hugged as new friends. That's the most beautiful story I ever heard." "It is not a story, Carla. It is real. I must tell you that the rescue from that island in such a way has been a disaster for us, however our dad knows about our love and he told us that we'll have time enough to enjoy our lives together in England or wherever we live; that island was a paradise but not a secure place; the proof was my arrival on board of a pirate ship; and as we found out, it was not the first ship recalling in the island. Perhaps some cannibal persons or other pirates could come. As usual he was right; we love him because we know he love us even more than we love him. "What about your half brother? "Jackie? "Yes. But why you call him Jackie instead of Jack or John?" "It is not me, dad or Jeremy. He likes to be called like that." Helen was to explain her, but in that moment a servant knocked on the door advising them the doctor was ready. Helen then said: "I'll explain you in another moment, it is funny. He is the greatest person I have ever known. Since he came home eight or nine years ago, we have been very close to each other; my mom did not like him much, but in such a way she loved him because she treated him with respect and love. She cared of him when he was sick with measles; Jackie loved me from the first moment; he did not doubt to fight any boy or girl who tried to offend me; then I went to the school in Switzerland, but when I came for holydays he was the only one to play with me. Now I know the reasons why any rich child did not come home to play with us." That conversation was leading to sad memories, so Carla said: "We better go, Helen; we'll continue our conversation. You will never know how happy I feel near you, my." "Red queen!" Helen added. "That's the name that Jackie and Jeremy call me." Chapter 15 - The medical exam. Bernard and Jack were sat in the terrace sipping a cup of tea: "I suppose you have here a Clinic or something like that, Jack. "We have a hospital in the town, now being attended by qualified assistants, but not MD. Within the fort is the former Doctor's house; I have never been in there, but I know he had a space to receive and exam his patients. I'll take you there, it is not far." The two men walked outside the palace followed by two armed men. He extracted a key and opened a nice and apparently abandoned house, since the little garden had known better days. He inspected the little clinic and all the instruments; he picked some of them and left. During the return Bernard advised: "Please Jack, send someone who knows about medical instruments, better a hospital nurse, to deeply clean those two rooms and especially the instruments; it is a pity that they get rusty before someone could use them." Jack nodded. When they arrived he went to clean the surgical and exploration instruments; when he returned he saw the pregnant young lady appearing hand in hand with Helen. They rose up and Bernard said: "Carla, are you ready for a medical check?" She looked to her husband and he nodded. "Yes, I am." "In that case, let's go into your bedroom. Jack, please, call Carla's mother, I want she be present just in case I need her." Carla looked at her husband. "Bernard, do you mind that instead of mom Helen is there?" Asked the pregnant young woman. He indifferently answered. "No, of course not. My daughter has a large experience on seeing people in the nude, so she won't be embarrassed at all." "Did she?" Jack asked, Carla then quickly added. "Jack, she lived as hostage in a pirate ship for three years where men and women did many things that I don't need to explain to you." Jack now felt embarrassed for being so stupid. They entered in the large room; she lay on the bed and took her dress up over her breasts, leaving her big tummy exposed. Bernard expertly touched her tummy in a dead silence; then took an instrument like a trumpet, put it on her tummy and the narrow part into his ear; for near five minutes he heard the baby and mom heartbeats; then again explored with his hands the big tummy during a few minutes more. "Please Carla, sit in that stool." She did and he explored her back. "We have finished." He slowly wrapped the instruments and then he said: "I have good and bad news for you both. Do you want them now or do you prefer when you mother is present, Carla? She bravely said: "I want them right now. Here is the father of my baby and he is the most important person in my life." She took her husband's hand and the Colonel sighed. "I like to tell my patients the truth, however not always it is welcomed. The worst. The baby is coming with the head up instead of down; he/she is too big, I would say, let's say he, is round four kilos; a couple of months ago I would have been able to turn him to the right position, but now I could hurt him and his mother too much, therefore he must come into life in that position. If he were about two or two and half kilos I think we would not have much problems, but with his current size, and still he has to grow more, that is impossible. "So?" Jack asked anxiously. "We have two alternatives: a) To allow Mother Nature to acts; but let me say that in this case I don't trust much in her; probably. Carla and the baby could die." Carla sobs came out and Helen took one of her hands while his husband hugged her. And b) we can operate her; that means to carry out a caesarean and extract the baby. This with near ninety per cent of possibilities I can guarantee the life of the baby; about the mother, Carla if you strictly follow my instructions I think you have a large chance to survive and bring some more babies to this world; however, we cannot discard an eventual infection, that's the danger that it is implied on a caesarean. "What about the pain? The Colonel asked. "My son is an expert in medicine plants; we have carried enough in the ship to get asleep the whole Cape Town, so he will help me. If we succeed and no infection is recorded, in a week or so you will be able to rock your son, Carla." She sighed and dried her tears. "I am ready Bernard. I am sure you will do your best to safely bring my baby into this world, as you say and cure me." "I'll do my best, you can bet for it. Still we have a couple of weeks; meantime you will eat fruits, fruit juices white fish, if possible raw or lightly roasted and small portions of brown bread. No meat of any kind; we must alleviate the constipation that you have." She looked at her husband enquiring. "I am not a MD; he did not say it to me." They laughed. She stood, arranged her dress and all went to the living room where her parents were waiting nervously. They explained and felt very worried for the coming event. When they were alone, Helen took Carla's hand in hers: "Don't worry Carla, my dad is a good doctor and he knows what he is doing." "Thank you Helen for your support. I'll tell you what we are going to do; tomorrow we'll go to the market and to purchase something for the baby." "It will be fantastic! I'll tell to the boys. By the way, where are they?" "They went to the bath house with your dad; I suppose they bathed and are hanging around the fort." She was right, but previous to that, when they arrived to the baths, found a set of boy clothes with some luxury ones and others very comfortable; baggy shirts and trousers down to the upper calves; shoes and sandals. They discarded shoes and took the sandals. A black teenager servant of about fourteen came and smiled to them showing his white teeth. Jackie immediately spoke to Jeremy ear: "He's a queer; let's have some fun with him" "How do you know.? "You well know I am a queer, too." When the boy finished he said: "Do you want anything else, masters?" Jackie grinned when he observed how the boy looked at them. "How much does your butt cost?" The boy was taken aback, he did not expect such a bold proposition from other boys, but he soon recovered and grinned. "I can't offer my butt right now, it is reserved for the night when we are not hurry, but in view that you are so handsome boys and I am hot only to see you, my mouth could be a good succedaneum." Before Jeremy could argue Jackie said: "Lock the door, boy! "We don't need it, no one will come here, besides we are not allowed to lock any door and this has not any device to lock it." They smiled and soon the three were naked; he had a large cock that was curved and sticks to his abdomen surrounded by a thick bush of curly black hair. They sat on the board of the large bathtub and the teenager started masturbating Jeremy with a hand while his mouth was on the thin and large Jackie's cock. He proved he had experience because after a few minutes Jeremy was moaning. But Jackie wanted Jeremy's spunk into his mouth and he was close to orgasm, too. He retrieved the boy hand from Jeremy cock and Jackie bent over taking it into his eager mouth. The boy went sucking Jackie and at the same time jerking himself off. In a minute he started spurting a large amount of semen that reached to his neck. Jeremy came at the same time with his small load that Jackie swallowed with pleasure. The three were recovering from the exercise; the boy stood, washed his dick and got dressed. He looked to the pair and Jackie said: "Do you still want a tip?" The boy smiled showing his white teeth. "I am well paid; furthermore, I'll be in my cabin anytime you want, free of charge. We must help each other." Then Jeremy asked: "What's your name?" "My name's Judy." Jeremy grinned. "Judy, do you have any girl available?" The boy thought for a moment. "Perhaps, but that might cost money, besides she is older; let's say twenty or twenty two. She's a whore and I am sure my butt will please you better than her cunt. "Forget that. We'll be in contact. Keep this secret." "Don't worry; I don't want to be whipped besides of losing the pleasure of two handsome boys." He left closing the door behind. "He's a professional, near as good as I am. He did a good job, didn't he?" Jeremy smiled; his young cock was hard again. "Yes, he's good, but my little brother still needs some more action." "Let's soap each other and get clean, then we'll take care of our close family. They laughed and started bathing. >From time to time Jackie took in his hand Jeremy's cock and the boy squirmed every time he was touched and his dick squished. When finished Jackie said: "Jeremy, we have been sucked, let's do something different." "What do you suggest? I am very hot." "You can fuck my butt; I'll put my head against the door just in case someone comes. Jeremy grinned" "Alright, let's start." Jackie took some soap and spread it on his butt, then, as Jeremy was spilling precum, he spread it over his dickhead. He went on four legs near the door and Jeremy attacked him from behind; in a single thrust he went all the way into Jackie's butt; he groaned quietly when Jeremy's dick touched that sensible part into his bowels. Jeremy placed his hands round his friend's hips and started shoving him; firstly in slow thrusts, then in a frenzy run; soon both boys were breathing heavily and after a few minutes both were sweating; Jeremy body got rigid and he gave a final thrust into Jackie spurting his small load into him. Jackie felt that warm inside him and he pushed back against Jeremy crotch; his orgasm reached its peak and he near fell down when Jeremy exhausted lay his body on Jackie back. They remained for a minute like that and as Jeremy was to retreat Jackie said: "Please, don't retrieve yet." Together they went again into the warm water where they remained for a few minutes united until their dicks got flaccid due to the water temperature. Jackie moved away and kissed Jeremy on the lips; a kiss of brother's love. "Thank you Jeremy, my brother." They smiled, Jeremy tenderly kissed him back, got out of the bathtub, and after dressing they left. They knew the outcome of Bernard's exploration on Carla's tummy. After dinner the Governor called Bernard to his office: "Please Bernard, sit down." The old man looked into Bernard's eyes and he knew all about his worries. "Bernard I am speaking to you as a father; we are very worried; we have only this daughter and no other sons; three months ago I asked Carla to take the mail-ship and together with my wife have the child in England; now I think I should have forced her, however, she argued that her family was here and she wanted to have the baby in CT, but." Bernard interrupted him. "Sorry sir, but you should not feel guilty of this situation for several reasons: first, to have the babies at home is basic for a woman; to feel surrounded by her most loved persons is very important for her, especially if she is a young one and is having her first pregnancy; and second, in England there are not better sanitary means than here. Furthermore, here we can put all of our skill to her disposal. Unless in these near three years elapsed since I left our country, had been introduced new techniques, we have here a better weather and cleaner skies; that would help to rise her spirit." The man put his hand on Bernard shoulder and hugged him with a blur in his eyes. "Bernard, you have said babies, is it a mistake?" Bernard looked at the man. "Sir, you are a strong man and I did not want to alarm Jack and Carla; yes, they are two, not only one as I believed, besides big babies; that explains the uncomfortable situation that Carla feels; I expected you would ask me, however I was ready to talk to you. Do you want me to tell Carla? I don't want her to get more depressed, nevertheless clothes and cots must be prepared for two. "No. I'll assume all responsibility; I'll tell my wife but in a way that she does not suspect the true. Sorry Bernard, I know you will do the best and I have all my confidence on you, but a father always is trying to get the best for his family; you have now children that you love as yours and I think you understand me. "Of course sir, I do. Please be sure that she chose the right decision." "Now Bernard I want to ask your advice as a Governor. As per what you have told us, that Mr. Collins is looking forward to be appointed as Captain of that corvette, probably that recommendation is in the memo that he will bring tomorrow, but I am the Crown's representative and obliged to do my best to choose the right person for that job. There are some other captains older than him, waiting for such a commission, which is your opinion?" "Sir, I don't know the other candidates, but I have served him as an officer during the trip and I fully back him up; he is young but disciplined and without any concession except for the safety of his men and ship; the crew loves him in spite of being under so a hard discipline because he thinks on justice and humanity before anything else, except, as I said, when the ship or an order is at the stake; he reminds me our captain in the whale-ship. My uncle talked me about many actions carried out by this man and his crew and he was more than satisfied about him, so it wouldn't be strange that he had recommended him to command the corvette. "That's enough for me. I don't like cruel people on board of a warship; some colleagues confused cruelty with discipline and later found out their error." Bernard checked Carla daily, he instructed Jeremy to help him in the operation, but he did not say anything. Helen spent those days with Carla; even she slept in her bedroom. She missed Jeremy's caresses but she thought she would have time to recover them. Bernard established a discipline as in the island; the children had classes during the morning, and after lunch he and Jeremy went to the ship to inspect the works he had ordered; Jackie had all his free time in the large library reading and writing. After a few days Carla suggested going to the market as she had promised to buy garments for the baby; an old sergeant accompanied her and he was discretely advised by the Governor always to order double clothes without her noticing. Helen was very happy. "Carla, what about if we have some fun going to the market?" "What do you mean?" And she told her all about Jackie dressed as a girl. She laughed as a child and said: "I think I have the dress he could wear; it is a beautiful light blue with a red ribbon. But shall we say it to Jeremy?" "Yes. We'll make a good troop. I suppose you need to instruct the sergeant not to tell anybody." "I'll do. He is as my second father; he had been with my dad since he was a midshipman and I peed many times on his lap." The girls laughed. They sent a servant to call Jackie that, as usual, was in the library. When he was with them alone, Helen told him all about. He wide opened her lovely mouth in disbelief. "Would you do that for me? He asked. Carla felt as she was ten and smirked. "Yes Jackie, if you like." "Of course I like it. I suppose Jeremy will also come with us." "Well, we expect so." Helen said. "Let's go to my rooms, I'll show you something." They opened the large wardrobe and she put on a chair three different girl dresses for him to choose. Jackie had not doubt; he chose the blue one. Then he said: "A girl of my age in Africa, at least, has a little bosom." Carla grinned enjoying their pranks as a little girl. She extracted from the wardrobe a little bra, filled it with cotton and put it on Jackie naked chest; she tied it on his back and led him to the mirror; he looked to the image on the large mirror and sighed while the three looked to the reflection. "Well, the problem will be if a boy touches me." The three laughed. "Now the dress." Carla dressed him and tied up the ribbon, then combed his short straight black hair and placed a band on it. "Not bad." He added smiling. They got ready and before going out thru a back door, in order to prevent the Governor and Bernard to see them, they called Jeremy that was getting dressed. He looked at Jackie in surprise and approached him. In a low voice he said: "You look beautiful, I'm getting hard only watching you; certainly you should have been a girl and not a boy; however, we will deal with that tonight." Jackie made a feminine grimace to him and loudly said in a girlish voice: "Are you ready, girls? I think that my boyfriend is waiting for me outside to escort me thru the streets." They all laughed and so happy they went out to the market. Carla in that moment had forgotten that she had two little beings in her tummy near ready to get out. They spent a few hours and Carla had never enjoyed as that day, especially with Jackie occurrences and jokes; he from time to time winked to elder boys they met, most of the times they blushed or said something nice to him. They entered in a large Jews bazaar and an old man recognized Carla; she ordered a large quantity of items for the babies. While she was talking, Jeremy entertained himself inspecting the thousands of articles exposed on the shelves. A medium size wooden box called his attention, it was similar to a chest, he opened it and wide opened his eyes; it contained a large collection of medical instruments, as used by the MD during a war campaign to cure wounded soldiers; but that was not the important thing, he had seen a lot of instruments like those, especially during the last days during his father's training to him; what has called his attention was the fact that material they were made of. In spite of being in a bazaar, probably since long time ago, they were clean without any trace of rust; that was unusual because the material they were going to use on Carla his dad was cleaning every day or kept oiled to prevent rusty. He carefully approached Carla and the Sergeant and told her that he wanted that box for his father, but he had not money in that moment. Carla was good dealing with people in the market, she knew how to treat them; so when she finished her large purchase asked the man about that chest, but without being apparently interested. The man said: "It is an expensive material that I bought for a doctor who died, so I have to keep here." She knew he was lying but she followed the play. "Well I am not interested, just curious÷ but we have done a good purchase in this shop, I think that you should give it to us as present; here my friend Jeremy wants the chest to play with it." The man argued and argued until the Sergeant said: "Princess, this man does not want to make business with us, so leave all the items that we have purchased and let's go to other bazaar." The man argued again but he thought he could not disappoint the Governor's daughter, besides he would never sell that stupid box to anybody since it was old, soiled and spent. So they agreed in a low price but still the sergeant did not like it; finally he put it on the counter with the rest of items. "Well, please consider it as my present for your coming baby that God will bless." "Thank you Samuel, I will not forget your splendid present, I'll tell my dad." Jeremy then said: "May I take it right now, Carla?" The man looked at the young lady. "Yes my friend, you are too capricious." They smiled and Jeremy took the box hanged from his shoulders. When they were far from the shop returning home, he added: "It is a wonderful box Carla, especially what it contains." "I don't see the importance of it; the old doctor had many similar instruments like those ones." "It is not the instruments, but the material from what they are made of." Jeremy said, and he was right. They returned home enjoying the walk, especially Jackie. When they entered into the palace Jeremy immediately took the box to Bernard while Jackie, Carla and Helen went into her rooms. Jackie looked at Carla and hugged her tenderly. "Thank you Carla, I'll never forget these unrepeatable moments; I can't help feeling a girl, I suppose you understand me." "I do Jackie and if I have a son feeling like you I'll help him to be proud and not to fall into a depression. I know it is difficult in this society to accept what is real and not fake." Jackie hugged her again. "I am sure you will be a good mother and your children will have the best mom in the world." Jeremy found his dad talking to Sir Elliot about the little repairs being carried out in the yacht and the innovations that he had introduced for the safety of the children. Sr. Elliot was saying: "I will recommend those modifications, such as the lifebelts to the Admiralty, however, they are very reluctant to spend money in those items, and they believe that any sailor must know how to swim. "But what about the ships for passengers?" "You are right, but that is out of our competence and." He saw Jeremy standing on the door awaiting permission to come in; he did not want to interrupt the adults' business. "Come in Jeremy." The Governor said. Bernard looked at his son questioning him. "Dad, I would like to show you something that we have bought in the bazaar." Bernard looked at the Governor and the old man nodded "Would you excuse me, sir? "Please go, I suppose it is very important for the boy, besides we had just finished what we were talking about." He joined his son, put his arm round the boy's shoulders and asked: "What is it, Jeremy?" Jeremy entered in the room and showed him the box. "It is a campaign surgery chest, but very old, apart of this I can't see any particular in it." The box could be opened and split flat showing the full contain; Jeremy did it adding: "Dad, look at the material; they are very old but still are not rusty." Jeremy took one scalpel in his hand and touched its sharp edge; he then realised the importance of the finding. He was astonished. "Jeremy, this is blue iron! I had heard about it but never saw an item. My father saw one old scalpel owned by a surgeon family in London; they appreciated it as the best jewel they had; it is very rare and nobody knows where they are coming from. I suppose this material was found somewhere in Persia during the Middle Age. This collection must have been the present of a king to his physician; I would say it is, at least, three hundred years old." The boy felt very proud and he said: "Dad, most of the items are well known, like scalpels and forceps; but what about the rest?" "Honestly son, I don't know. They are old surgery instruments; probably my father will know them." Then Jeremy added: "Dad, what about if we carry the box as a present for your father? He must be happy to have them." Bernard looked at his son and hugged him very tight, and the boy hugged him back. Jeremy liked a lot those affection moments. "Jeremy, besides my father, he is your grandfather, too; but what you fill my heart with pride is that you are always ready to give yourself to others and keeping nothing for you; sometimes I believe you should be a little more selfish." Jeremy hugged again his father. "Dad, you are the best present for me, while you are with me I will not need anything else." They broke the mutual hug and Bernard started inspecting carefully the instrumental box. "Only this chest would cost a fortune; it is made from cedar wood, however it looks spoiled and need to be repaired, especially being polished and the wrapped interior rebuilt. In London there are good specialists in antiques than can do the job, meanwhile we will take good care of it." In that moment the Governor entered because he wanted to ask Bernard about the gun to be installed on the bow of the yacht; he saw the box and its content and Bernard explained all about and the repair to the box. "You don't need to go to London. A few months ago, a deported man arrived charged of killing his partner in London; he always argued self-defence; he did some repair to an old jewel case of Mrs. Elliot; she commented that this man was one of the best specialists in England; unfortunately he had a bad temper and is now on prison awaiting judgment. It is our prerogative to release him. We can ask to do the job, if he does and we are pleased, I can ask the judge to pardon the offences he made." Without waiting any answer from Bernard, he called his assistant and instructed him to write down an order to release the man and bring him to the palace, so he sent the order to the jail. Chapter 16 - The birth. The children went to bed still dressed in the walking clothes; in a moment that Carla was distracted or made as being distracted, Jeremy took in his arms Helen and they kissed passionately; he noted his dick growing and pressing against his tight trousers. "Helen please, I need you, I'm missing you a lot." They kissed again. "Me too, Jeremy, but I can't leave Carla, especially in these circumstances. Please be patient." He reluctantly left her but kissed Helen again. He was excited and with his hard on went to his room accompanied by Jackie still dressed like a girl. The brown skinned boy grinned when they were closing the door. "You look a little bit hot Jeremy." Jeremy looked at him, pushed him onto the bed and started kissing him. "I need to fuck anything tonight and nothing better than your beautiful butt." Jackie smiled and in seconds they were naked; Jeremy was so hot that he couldn't wait Jackie to oil his cock; fortunately his dick was pouring precum since he had been kissing Helen. He placed himself behind Jackie, raised his left leg and pushed his hard cock into him to the hilt. Jackie moaned as he felt a sharp quick pain when Jeremy's dick passed his pucker's ring. Jeremy relaxed for a moment, took Jackie's cock in his left hand and started stroking him at the same time he was fucking his butt. Soon both boys caught the pace and started breathing heavily; Jackie groaned in pleasure as he reached the point of not return. He pulled his butt back in order to get the maximum length of Jeremy's dick into him; this brought Jeremy to the peak of his orgasm as well and started spurting his small load into Jackie bowels. They quietened during a few minutes, but they were very young and soon Jeremy refilled his balls; this time he went on his back and Jackie straddled him impaling himself on that thin and long lovely cock. They continued their sex plays until they were exhausted and drifted to sleep. Bernard was aware that the birth of the twins was approaching; he had taken all the measures and had instructed about the cleaning of the instruments and all what Carla could touch. The room had been deeply cleaned; all curtains changed, so the room looked now more like a hospital's labour ward than a bedroom; he was obsessed with cleaning. He had trained Jeremy and as usually he responded with efficiency. He went to bed not too late in spite of Jack and himself being outside fucking some especial women whose husbands were on board of ships miles away. They had been visiting them regularly since they arrived; accompanied by Mr. Collins, so their friendship had increased. At dawn he heard some knocks on his door: "Bernard, I'm Jack, please get up, Carla has started feeling pains." It was the 20th December, 1788.Before he ended the phrase Bernard opened the door. "Are they frequent?" "No; I am nervous but I think about every ten minutes or so." "Don't worry; it will take a few hours before she is ready. Please send some one to fetch the nurse from the hospital; I'll wake up Jeremy, but please, don't rush; it is not necessary." The future father rubbed his hands nervously. "I have already sent a coach to pick the lady up." "Good, in that case wait for me in your room. I'll be with you in a minute." Bernard dressed appropriately for his task and went to call Jeremy; he found him with his arms wrapped round the dark brown body. He grinned. "Come on Jeremy, Carla is approaching. Don't rush but hurry up." He entered in the room and found all the family there, including Helen that was holding Carla's hand. "Please, you all better leave except Jack." The parents and Helen left the room to an adjacent living room and sat. That would be a long morning. He recognized her and found everything was right. "Carla, you don't need to be scared; everything is going smoothly but right." He smiled to her and she returned the smile. "Please try to relax, your body will do the rest." ú"Thanks Bernard. I'm more confident since you are here." The lady and Jeremy entered in the room and he ordered to go the three to wash and clean themselves thoroughly after assuring that all had been bathed the night before. The sun entered thru the large windows so Bernard thought that would be the best time; the three dressed with long white cotton robes; he said to Jeremy and the lady, but to Carla to hear: "We are ready; therefore we'll start the operation. Jack, please, you better leave us." He nodded and left the room; his legs couldn't support him. "Ready?" "Yes doctor, ready." The woman answered. "Jeremy, please give Carla the milk." He did and the young woman drank it. He then raised her nightdress up to her breasts; she was not wearing any bra or pants. "Now apply a layer of cream here." He signalled the place. A few minutes later Carla was asleep and quietly breathing. Bernard took some cotton with a forceps and impregnated it in iodine. "Jeremy, please turn down the sandglass." He did and Bernard asked: "Scalpel" He felt the sharp bright instrument in his right hand and with decision made a long cut in Carla low abdomen; blood started to flow as little veins were cut; the nurse dried it with clean white cotton; a second cut and the pink bags appeared. "Forceps" he asked; Jeremy put in his hand the instrument. He caught the bag with the forceps and applied the scalpel to it, a clean cut and suddenly the beautiful face of a baby appeared in front of him. He took her from the legs and lifted to her mother chest. With a fix forceps took the umbilical cord and cut it with the scissors: "Please tie up the cordon and proceed while I continue with the other baby. How is she breathing, Jeremy" "She's alright and steady." The boy answered. The woman took the little girl to a nearby table and cleaned her in a basin with warm water, squished a half lemon and put a drop into each eye, then wrapped the baby with some bright clean clothes. The little girl started screaming while Bernard repeated the same action with the other baby, a bigger boy. The same screams until the lady put them on top of her mom, then hearing her mom's heartbeats they calmed down. Bernard extracted the placentas and dropped them into a bucket near the bed. He stared to the sandglass and grinned. He cleaned the blood and juices of Carla tummy. "Forceps Jeremy." The boy was waiting for this command and was ready; he provided the instruments to fix abdomen muscle wall. "Needles". Jeremy put in his hand the curved needle with a silk strong thread; Bernard started carefully placing stitches along the open wound until he finished closing it. He dried the remaining blood and asked: "Forceps and iodine". He spread the iodine over the wound, and placed some gauze and cotton on it. "How are they? He asked to the nurse. She smiled. "Very well doctor, waiting to suck something, especially the boy." "Jeremy, place the babies on the cot; Ann, please, help me to wrap a band round her body." Between both wrapped a large band in order to prevent the gauze and cotton to move. When they finished he dropped again the nightdress down- He looked to the sandglass. "We did a good job. Thanks Ann, thanks Jeremy. Now please show the infants to their family Jeremy. Ann, please, you help me to remove all bloody items and take away the placentas." Jeremy pushed the cot to the door and opened it while his dad and Ann placed Carla on the other bed. Jack, Helen and the grandfathers quickly approached: They took in the arms the lovely little creatures and kissed them nervously. After kissing his babies Jack asked: "Can I see Carla?" "Yes, of course, but she is still asleep." Jack couldn't believe it; she was on the bed sleeping quietly with a lovely pink colour on her cheeks. The big and strong man, near in tears asked Bernard. "Is she alright, Bernard?" "Yes, but we must wait for the next forty eight hours; that is the critical time. As I told you, the babies have suffered nothing, of course they will miss their mom, so I recommend you to provide them with wet-nurse to help Carla on feeding them, especially the boy that looks hungry. Now you must leave the babies to Ann in order she wash them and dress properly. The grandparents reluctantly left the babies, and then Helen said: "Can I help you, Ann? The woman looked to the young girl and grinned. "Yes, you can, eventually you will have yours." Helen looked at Jeremy that was busy putting in order the room and blushed. She went with the lady to the next room where the warm water, soap and clean babies' garments were waiting for them. Jack sat near Carla and some minutes later she opened her large eyes; she murmured: "Jack, where is." She did not dare to say her or he. "Who, she or he?" She still was under the drug effects but looked puzzled to her husband. "Yes Carla we have two beautiful and gorgeous babies, a boy and a girl." She looked as if she was somewhere else, but her mom that was holding her hand confirmed it, with tears in her old eyes. "Yes darling; we have two beautiful children." She looked around trying to see Bernard; she met his eyes and he knew what a mother wanted to know. "Don't worry Carla. They are complete and seem healthy children; now what we need to care about is your recovery; tomorrow you will start feeding them; a wet-nurse will help, but I suggest you do it every day as much as you can; that will help your body to refit and return quicker to its original shape before you got pregnant, of course." She smiled. "Can I see them, please?" Her father intervened. "Sorry my daughter we kept you ignoring it, but I believed it was the best. It is my entire responsibility. I did not want that you and Jack were preoccupied." His daughter extended his hand and pressed his dad's. "I love you, dad. I know it." In that moment Ann and Helen came with the babies and put them on top of her; Carla with tears of joy kissed and hugged them repeatedly. Bernard then intervened: "Sorry Carla, but you need to rest; you will have time enough to caress them; now I want you to recover from the large cut I made to bring them to this world. Someone must be with her 24 hours around, at least during the next 72 hours. Ann will do the first guard." "I'll do the second. Please." Helen asked. "Well I don't want to interfere; it is up to Jack to decide who will take care of her. Mrs. Eliot surely will take care of the babies and Ann will probably find someone to help. She is a good professional. She was entering and heard Bernard. "Thanks Doctor; I must say I never saw a man more obsessed with cleanness than you, including nurses and doctors in the hospital. I'll take care to provide a good nurse to guard the young lady. They all left the room, closed the windows and went to have a cup of tea. A few hours later Carla woke up; that was Helen guard, so she was very happy to find her there. "Where are my children?" "The same as you, they are sleeping after have sucked the wet-nurse breasts; if they continued like that, very soon they will need a spoon rather than a breast, especially the boy." Carla smile satisfied. "I still envy you Carla; I would like to see them to grow, I'm sure they will be a beautiful pair." "Why don't you stay here with us? You would be as my younger sister and." She stopped her. "Oh no! I want to grow too, and have my own children." Carla chuckled. In that moment Bernard entered. "Please Helen, close the door, I'll check on this young mother." He explored her in silence, and then he said: "Everything seems alright, once twenty fours hours elapse I want you to leave the bed and get a good bath here." That was not normal in those times, so she looked at him perplexed. "Yes, I have said 24 hours, and after 72 hours you will leave the room and start doing short walks with Helen or whoever you want, besides you must feed your babies just from tonight on." She looked at him again. "Bernard, I like it, but aren't you too severe?" "If you like it I don't see why I am severe. You would remain in bed if you are sick, but you are not. My father and I are against old medical practices, including that nasty custom of extracting the patient's blood with those horrible animals." They smiled, but that was true and she felt very happy in that moment. That day was a happy day in CT, the operation; the babies and Carla have successfully passed the moment. But thousands miles away, in England, something similar was happening. In the Admiralty, one of the Admiralty's assistant entered into Sir William Wolf's office carrying the memo and the introduction letter sent in the mail-ship, regarding the death of Captain Black. "Sir William, today we have, not only good weather but also excellent news from Cape Town: Captain Black will never be a nightmare for us." The old man sat behind the large desk looked puzzled to his assistant. He extended his hand and caught the roll of papers, still sealed. Firstly he read the introduction letter and nervously he broke the seals and started to read. He stopped for a moment and ordered: "Please, close the door, I should not be disturbed until I finish reading this document." "Yes sir." The man left and Sir William started carefully and with satisfaction reading the document. From time to time he shouted: "Great!" or "Great boys! Amazing! Captain Marten!" He sipped from his cup of tea and finally said "Oh poor children!" He then murmured, "This little boy and his father deserve all our respect. They have saved our frigate, all lives of the crew and besides have got a new ship for our fleet, not to mention the amount of money and jewels plus recovering Captain Marten's yacht; they deserve ten times the reward." He then ran a little silver bell and his assistant, a Captain of Corvette entered; he ordered. "Arnold: Sit down, I'll dictate you a short letter for Sir Charles Northfield. I want a quick messenger to deliver it immediately." The officer did not reply; he put down what he was told, Sir Williams signed it and introduced into a yellow envelope that the assistant sealed. He knew that on Friday Bernard's father was not in the hospital, but in his large house in the countryside; a few hours from London. He used to dedicate Friday to cure and attend peasants from the neighbourhood that paid him with affection, hens, rabbits or turkeys that he was forced to accept, thus he was worshipped in that area. After a few weeks of starting school, John had definitely decided not to go again into a vessel; he liked to assist Sir Charles when he was attending people. After some months he was so efficient that the Doctor brought with him whenever they had to visit sick people; even Sir Charles had told him that if he continued going so well in the school he would be one of his assistant in the hospital and with the time a physician. John could not be happier. That day they were attending a broken leg of a boy that had fallen from a horse; Sir Charles had fixed it and he was wrapping it when a noise of horses came from the adjacent yard. A sergeant and two soldiers stopped and jumped from their tired horses, the sergeant then said to a servant girl that came out from the house: "We bring a personal and urgent message for Sir Charles." The young lady extended her hand to take the envelope but the sergeant shouted to her: "Are you silly or what? I said personal!" The girl scared entered in the house. Bernard's father instructed John: "Please John; this girl does not know how to proceed with military. Tell the sergeant to wait for me in the library. Those horses must be near dead. Instruct the soldiers where the stables are in order the animals can rest and be properly fed." "Yes sir." He did as told and the sergeant felt satisfied as he was treated. He knew Sir Charles and he had been very pleased coming to bring the message; his Captain had said only a few words regarding the content in order to encourage him. "Sergeant, glad to see you again. Did you arm recover well?" The soldier put himself straight with his blue hat under his arm. "Yes, sir; thank you sir." The military extended the envelope to him; he broke the seal and extracted the yellow paper and started reading. He could not retain two tears coming down his cheeks. The sergeant was worried and he dared to say: "Bad news sir? I'm sorry." The old man hugged the sergeant that did not know what to do or say. Sir Charles said: "You have brought the best news I have had during my life." He then shouted: "Mary! Mary! And went out. Five minutes later the house was a revolution of happy shouts and some sobs, especially from the old servants. John that was in the stables helping the soldiers came back and heard the shouts. He thought perhaps someone had had an accident so he entered to help the doctor; but he found he was hugging his wife; very unusual situation and he felt embarrassed, so he retreated to the kitchen, but Sir Charles saw him: "John, please boy come here! It also concerns you. My son is alive!" Suddenly the now fifteen-years-old boy felt he could not stop tears of joy; he dared to ask: "What about Jeremy?" "It is only a short note from the Admiralty; they said that my son and his children are now in Cape Town. The Governor had retained them there because there is no any doctor available and his daughter was expecting a baby. Tomorrow we'll go to London where the full report is." The old lady, Bernard's mother, extended his arm to him and the obediently approached to her. She said: "John, you brought us the first hope and now it has been confirmed. The new year has brought us the best present." "I am very happy about it; I look forward to see them soon." "John, you were the only survivor so far, so you are entitled to come with me to the Admiralty, perhaps they have further questions for you to make" "I'll be very glad to accompany you, sir. "Please call the sergeant. I need to talk to him." The sergeant immediately appeared: "Sergeant, you have brought us good news; the horses and your men are tired, so, if you agree, you and your men will sleepover here and tomorrow at dawn we'll proceed to London." "I agree sir and my men will be very happy to do so; it will be an honour to escort you to the Admiralty." The following morning a coach left the large house early; Mrs, Northfield stayed at home because she wanted to order an especial service in the village's church to thank God for the return of her child. John dressed as a young gentleman, accompanied sir Charles. They entered into the large building and immediately all the high rank officers that met him expressed their congratulations for the news. He entered into the large room where Sir William was; John remained outside with his assistant admiring the large canvas showing ships in battles. He read the memorandum in detail, and then expressed his thanks to his friend. Sir William then said: "It seems that boy must be a brave one. What do you think about Captain Marten's children? Bernard's father remained in silence for some moments and then he said: "That boy is not African, his mom was an Aztecan princess descendant; Marten fall in love with her during one of his business trips to America with slaves; he brought her to Africa because he did not want his wife to know about that fact." The Admiral was astonished. "How do you know that, Charles?" "I know it Williams, it is a professional secret and I can't reveal it to you, but if he comes here with my son, we will treat him with respect, he and his half sister are not to be blamed for what his father did, in spite of our society's opinion because the colour of his skin. "I do agree with you, Charles. We'll do our best to welcome them; I presume that the children's aunt will not be very happy when she knows about it. Do you think will it be advisable telling her? "Why not? I suppose she had to explain why she did not pay the rescue to get her nephew back." "Yes, I think so. On the other hand, we must see that ship, the yacht that Marten constructed; he kept as a secret the innovations he made to reach so a high speed. We look forward to see Bernard and he explains that to us; Marten never permitted that; we recognize now he was one of the best engineers on shipbuilding. "Too late, he is death and now his daughter must decide about it. Alright Williams, thanks again for your help." "Charles, when do you think your son will be here?" "Still he has a long trip; but assuming the girl has finished today, he will wait round fifteen days, another twelve days trip, if he find favourable winds, I believe that between twenty and thirty days from now, so I expect them to arrive during the second half of January." Sir Williams put an arm round his friend's shoulders, hugged him and both said goodbye. Chapter 17 - The return. The days passed by and Carla walked and fed his children; after ten days she felt very well and strong enough to walk everyday pushing the big pram. Bernard removed the stitches and put some iodine on the scar. He covered her. They celebrated the New Year's Eve of 1789 with a private great feast that all enjoyed. "Well Carla; you are ready for a new pregnancy within a month." She grinned. "Thanks Bernard, I am happy with my family just as it is now." "Alright, that's up to you and your husband, but don't feel the prejudice that the next would be so dangerous." "Never mind Bernard; that was what I wanted, a couple, If they go well it is enough for us." "Alright Carla. I need to go the dockyard and check the final arrangements, we will leave next Friday." "We'll miss you all, especially to Helen; she is very brave and the best girl I ever met." "I know Carla, but I have the feeling that we'll see each other within a few years." "You are right. Dad wants to retire as soon as the Crown let him; he wants to return home as soon as possible, but that depends on many factors and not on our wish." In that moment the Governor and his wife entered and Bernard told them how she was. "Bernard, we'll never thank you enough for what you have done; I hope to have the chance to, at least, partially pay you back. Oh, by the way! The chest has been beautifully repaired, it is in your room; and also your ship is ready to depart. Please provide the yard with the food list and anything you might have forgotten. "Thank you sir. I'll do just now; our plans are to depart in five days time, so next Friday at dawn." Then they repeated their offers and feelings. Jackie as usual was in the library, but this time he had in front of him a recent published book about anthropology; he amazingly was watching the picture of two Mexican adolescents; he fixed on them and he rubbed his face. Under the picture it read: "Two Aztecan adolescents. It is said to be the more ancient people of America; one of their particular characteristics is the devoid of any hair on their bodies, except the heads and privates" It continued explaining how they lived before the Spaniards conquered their land on the 16th Century. He was so involved in the lecture that he did not notice that Helen entered in the room. "What are you reading today, Jackie? Are you still engaged with Shakespeare?" He grinned to her. "No, this book is about anthropology, it deals with races and people. Look at this boy and this girl; what do they suggest you?" Helen looked at the picture, and then looked at his new brother. "Jackie, it is you but a little older! You are not Indian, but Mexican. If you leave your hair to grow like this boy." "It is too soon because we have just turned twelve but." "I don't think you need to wait until you are thirteen. Your features are very clear; they are very much the same." Jeremy was looking for them to go to the dockyard with his father. Helen called him and the three read the paragraph and had a look to the picture. "It is a pity that this sketch is not in colour; it will show how handsome you are, Jackie." The brown boy grinned to his occasional lover. "When we return to England I'll make a good portrait of you and Helen together." "Thanks Jeremy, but I would prefer you said I am pretty." "Well, you are pretty; but my Helen is the prettiest girl in the world." And saying that without caring someone could see them; he hugged and kissed his girl on the lips. They heard steps coming and he loudly said: "Let's go, dad is waiting for us, the departure has been fixed for the next Friday at dawn. All four went to the yacht and started getting used to the new items added to her. The vessel has been repainted and fitted with a small gun installed right at the bow. They made and discussed the list of all they needed; the goal was to make the trip in two runs: Cape Town-Azores Islands-Southampton. That night, after dinner, Bernard discussed the trip with Sir Elliot: "They seems too long runs, at least for a small ship, however with that plan you can sail well out of Africa's coast, the only problem would be the winds, if you don't find much dead calms you can comfortably reach the Azores Islands in one or two weeks, it would much depends on how far you sail from the coast." They put on the table a map and roughly they agree the course. He then added: "From the Azores you must surely face the trade winds that will force you to sail in zigzag, however that's better than dead calm. But we are in January and I don't think you will have problems. "Thank you sir." Then Carla stood and said: "Bernard, we don't have here many feasts, however, in your honour and in order to present our children to our acquaintances, mom has organized a banquet for tomorrow evening, followed by a ball." Bernard went to argue, but Carla added: "Don't worry about your dresses; they will be here tomorrow morning." They looked at each other stunned for the revelation; none of them knew about it. "We have sent invitations to the best families, most of them Dutch people that, as you already know, have come to live in South Africa." They continued talking about the ball and Jackie was the only one that did not know how to dance; but that night Jeremy and Helen lead by Carla spent a few hours dancing. But when the dinner was over and the babies put on bed Carla looked at Jeremy. "Jeremy, we know that you hate your voice, but let me say you are in a great error; you still have a beautiful tenor voice, not a pitched child voice, and I would like to ask you a great favour." Jeremy knew immediately what the young lady wanted him to do; he was determined to say no, but he was an educated boy and could not deny to a lady what she wishes in that matter; besides he could observe Helen's eyes on him. "Well, I, I don't know." He stammered. "Jeremy, I play the piano not very bad and just for us, we want you to sing that Aver Maria from Mozart or any other choral songs that you may sing." She rose from her seat, and made her way to the piano in the great salon. Jeremy blushed and looked at Helen for support; she went to him and took his hand in hers as the piano started introducing the sweet music. Jeremy voice came fluid and clear from his throat. He closed his eyes and his memories went to his old times in the church. He did not hate the priest because thank to him he had found a father and a family. He heartily dedicated it to his mom, long years ago dead. Two tears came along his cheeks and when finished a choir of applauses came to his ears. Carla stood and hugged and kissed him. "Thank you Jeremy; you should love that wonderful voice and not hate it, not many people are gifted like you." Helen cleaned his face and in front of all, she kissed him on the cheeks. "I'm sorry, it, it is a long time I had not sung and." Helen took his hand and dragged him to the next room; nobody followed them because they knew how he needed to be comforted and only the little girl knew how to do it. When they were alone she kissed him on the lips and absorbed the salty flavour of his tears. "I love you, Jeremy and I think you should sing more often." "Are you sure? It brings me sad memories." "And good ones, too. Have your forgotten our kiss that evening at the sunset?" He grinned. "No, I haven't, the same I will never forget this one." He took his girl between his strong arms and kissed her a long wet kiss. She noticed his dick pressing her crotch; she smiled at him but separated their bodies. "Sorry my handsome lover, but it is not the time and." He understood, took her from her hand and returned to the salon where the rest were waiting for them. Now comforted he sang again different songs he could remember and Carla could play on the piano. That was a memorable night, because all servants were behind the curtains and in the near rooms hearing him. The following day took place the children presentation to the high society and Bernard was warmly introduced to people that had been invited, including Mr. Collins and his new appointed officers. When Jeremy went to pick up Helen, he got astonished with the beauty of his red queen: "You.you are gorgeous, my young lady!" "Thank you gentleman." She gave her hand to Jeremy and to Jackie and the three entered in the room. Immediately a herd of boys and girls of all ages surrounded them asking question about their adventures; they politely answered to all of them until the dance started. That was a great night that they promised to repeat in the future at home. The days went by and the date of departure arrived; before the farewells Carla took Helen apart, hugged her tenderly and gave her a medallion that she immediately hanged from her neck. Then Helen gave Carla a small package, like a little bag. "Take this Carla, you will need it. It is an herb to prevent pregnancy." Carla was taken aback as Helen smiled and continued: "You must reduce it like tea and take a cup with half teaspoon everyday during three weeks after you finish menstruation." Carla continued astonished. "How. do you know this, Helen?" Helen slyly smiled, as she hugged her friend. "I have been using it since I started menstruating with my boy. It is very easy to find in the forest near CP, but don't forget, it must be daily if you really want to make love to your man without caring about pregnancy." Carla hugged again her young friend and grinned. "Thanks Helen, I promise you that I will be in your wedding in England and my children will be your pages." She grinned and they hugged again. Tears came and goodbyes and they boarded the coach that took them to the harbour. The Captain and the officers of the corvette came and hugged them, and the last to say goodbye was Jack; he hugged the children and them to Bernard saying in a low voice: "I expect you will get young ladies in England for us to fuck as I did here for you." They smiled and Bernard pushed him on his side. "You are too naughty Jack; I'll try to please you, but now you have a beautiful girl in your bed." They hugged again and Bernard jumped into the ship. Land people untied mooring lines and the boys raised the rigs; the ship immediately started to move with Helen moving the rudder. Soon the ship was at the exit of the port, then they heard two gun shots from the palace; Bernard shot the small gun responding the salute and as submission. Half an hour later they were sailing at full speed with all new sails on. It was a beautiful warm summer morning and a light wind from the South. After a couple of hours they lost sight of any land or vessel; Jeremy came to his dad: "Dad, can we be in the nude? I miss it a lot; I am fed up of clothes, especially with this weather." He smiled. "You can do whatever you like best; I'll remain in my short by now." Jeremy was the first to get naked followed by Jackie that could observe that his friend's dick had increased in size lately and a lovely light patch of pubes had started to show on his crotch. Helen was tempted to get naked but she wanted to get hot the boys; she could see how Jackie was hard looking at Jeremy. The ship was smoothly sailing at good speed, probably at the rate of 18 knots, but Bernard knew that the "Red Queen", as she has been renamed, could get faster speed; after lunch Bernard said: "I have the plan to sail day and night at maximum speed, therefore we must establish guards. I'm tired right now, so I am going to have a good snap; be good boys and watch with the new spy glass; should you have any problem, please, don't hesitate to wake me up." "Alright dad, we'll take good care." Bernard disappeared thru the cockpit. Five minutes later Helen came naked and Jeremy could not put his eyes away from her beautiful body. She also was developing some pubes on her crotch and a few blond pubes near her pussy lips. She grinned when she saw her lover with his hard dick. "Helen, please!" he pleaded. She smiled at him and touching his cock kissed her boy on the lips. He hugged her and immediately their lips glued in a passionate kiss starting to moan. She tenderly separated from him. "Wait a minute." She left him excited with his dick spitting precum and anxious to complete his excitement. Soon she came with a soft blanket and extended it on the deck. She embraced Jeremy and soon they were kissing and rubbing their bodies. They had been near a month without making true love and she had started taking those herbs every day to prevent any pregnancy. Before a minute elapsed they were breathing hard and Jeremy started spurting his semen over her belly. Jackie had fixed the helm and was watching their lovemaking; he put his fist round his brown hard cock and started helping himself. He was not so quick because he masturbated himself frequently, so he paused because he knew that was only the aperitif. He was certain, because they stopped and after a while the young boy and girl continued their mutual caresses; Helen went on top of her lover and with her left hand guided his hard cock into her vagina. They screamed in pleasure and delight; Jeremy placed his strong hands round his girl and attracted her to him; their tongues met again as they moved; they did not mind when the ship spread some drizzly from the sea on their hot bodies. The moves produced by the waves even helped more to them, until a few minutes later they reached the maximum point of pleasure as they had been waiting for so long time. They groaned loudly no mattering whether they were heard or not; thought they well knew no one could hear them, except Jackie that a the same time got his climax and he near dropped himself on the deck when felt that lovely sensation in his cock. After that, Jeremy and Helen caressed each other tenderly with love and Jackie unfixed the helm and turned a grade to the East to compensate the wind. One of the new items installed in the ship by Bernard was a weathercock to watch the wind directions. Once they were a little bit relaxed the three united in a single hug Helen said: "I love you both my boys; Jeremy as my husband and you Jackie as my dearest brother." She kissed both on the cheeks and they took the fixed powerful spyglass to watch the sea, but nothing was on sight. The sunset came and Jeremy took care of the ship; the wind was dying down a little but still they had a good speed with all sails on. After dinner Bernard came and took the command. That night and the following two days and nights were an uneventful time; they made love when Bernard was having his snaps and the ship navigated with good speed; in fact they were a little bored, but while Helen and Jeremy petted each other, Jackie spent his time on the books stored in the studio room. After lunch on the fourth day the wind increased its peed; blowing from the South it pushed the ship that in those moments was probably sailing at 20 or more knots. Bernard said: "Children, please wear the lifejackets and hook to the iron cable." That was another innovation introduced by Bernard for the sake of children. He had installed an iron cable along the ship deck to which they hooked themselves to prevent a possible accident produced by the waves, since the low-decked ship could be wiped by the waves. Safety measures were not to be discussed or argued; it was uncomfortable but they had to obey the orders. Without any hesitant the three went under deck, put on a shirt and the life vest, hooking their cord to the iron cable. "Jeremy, you and Helen better have a rest while Jackie is on the helm or watching the sea, I think we are going to have a moving night tonight. We'll govern the ship from the helm installed into the cockpit." Jeremy and Helen went for a snap for a couple of hours; when they came back found Jackie carefully watching the inflate sails and the ship near flying over the waves. "I think we should haul down the main sail, the wind is very strong. Helen, please, go and wake up dad, meanwhile Jackie and I haul the sail down." Jeremy said. Jackie shouted: "I have corrected two grades the course because the wind is blowing from the East." He motioned him to help him, he fixed the helm and both started hauling down the main sail; this task was very easy, the only problem was that they were tied up to the safety cord. Bernard appeared on deck and looked to the rigs; the speed had decreased a little but the ship was now recovering it in spite of being only pushed by the rigs. "Jackie, prepare something hot to drink, better some coffee, we will need it." He watched to the horizon where black clouds were approaching with lighting. Jeremy said: "Dad, I think we should haul down one of the rigs, the storm is near above us and it could break the mast." "Not this mast. I have inspected carefully this ship; Captain Marten did a good job. The mast is more than strong enough to resist the rigs with very strong winds. We'll try to be as much as possible on the North of the gale, I think its course is South-East; therefore we will receive the strongest winds from South-West. If we are not awoken it could take us to America." Jeremy grinned, his face covered with the drizzling. "Only one of you must be with me though, we have not much to do, except to keep the course. Is everything duly tied up, and cleared from deck, Jeremy?" "Yes dad." The wind increased its speed and the foam produced by the ship spread over the deck. Bernard then said: "You better go inside the cockpit to fix the clutch of the rudder. We'll govern the ship from inside." Soon was dark and only they could see the high waves foaming and the ship jumping on them whenever a light came from the sky. "The only danger is that sails don't resist the wind pressure, but they are new ones and made from excellent canvas." "We never know, dad. In any case we have replacements on store." Jackie came with some coffee and a light dinner for all. Bernard spent the night tie up to the helm inside the cockpit and watching the bow and the main sail mast now naked from any sail. The children slept in turns a few hours each. The ship skied over the waves more than navigated. That situation went on during three more days; in the morning of the fourth (seven of navigation) they were near exhausted with lack of sleeping; the day appeared clear from clouds but still the wind was strong clearly from the East. Bernard then said: "I think we are now on the hair of the gale, from now on the wind will decrease; therefore, you ought to have some breakfast, we will haul up the main sail." "Won't it be dangerous, dad?" Helen asked. "I don't think so; nevertheless we will be ready to haul it down in case we see any problem." After breakfast Jackie and Jeremy pulled up the machine and raised the heavy sail. The vessel jumped as if she had been wounded and the main mast protested for its extra work; the extra energy pushed by the wind was transmitted to the scull thru the mast; the ship was a feather that did not make any resistance to strength of the wind, therefore she flew over the waves; but that was only for a few hours. As Bernard had overseen, the wind decreased its strength and the ship sailed at fast speed, still jumping on the high waves; those were the best moments for the children; they forgot their tiredness and started to enjoy them, playing and shouting every time that ship bowed into the sea. Bernard was now on the main helm and could fix it and enjoy seeing his children playing but took the opportunity and went under deck to sleep advising Helen to call him before the sunset. The danger had gone. When they were tired of playing, Helen brought the blanket and the three laid on it. Jeremy knew that all could get asleep; he was tired but he made a tremendous effort and sat on the bow where he saw the open sea and the foam raised by the ship frequently bathed his face. He looked at his adored girl and he saw her deeply asleep as Jackie was too. He yawned several times but he started moving along the deck in order to prevent to get asleep. It was near the sunset and he could not resist anymore; he went down deck and woke his father. "Where are Helen and Jackie? He asked. "They are asleep on the upper deck." "Alright, you go to bed and I'll tell Jackie and Helen to join you. I'm going to calculate our position." He took the sextant up to the bow; he woke up the younger children and sent them to bed. Both disappeared thru the cockpit. He made the calculations and went down to the study to place the data on the navigation charts. "Oh my God, it is can't be true!" Bernard exclaimed. He took again the machine to deck and again focused the sun; but he was correct, he murmured: "We are now near the Tropic of Cancer; she has sailed at an average speed of 25 knots, running more than 6000 miles." Patting the wood he said: "Thanks Captain Marten! I'm sure you never reached that speed." Bernard was so happy that he did not want to wake the boys up but wanted to give the news. He knew they were now in a calm zone with not very strong winds, so he fixed up the helm and went under deck to have a snap. He thought he could meet another ship but she was too far from the coast where danger could come, especially from a Spanish warship or Muslim pirates', but it was unlikely that could happen. He woke up near midnight and very hungry. He had a look into the boys' cabins and could observe they continued hard asleep recovering from the last nights. As usual Helen was in Jeremy's arms, but without any trace of sexual activity. He grinned, went to the kitchen and lighted the charcoal stove fixing a pot for tea. He went up on the deck and checked the course; slow wind blew from Southeast and the ship sailing softly. The weather was now a little chilly so he thought the children wouldn't be able to remain naked, at least during the night. He sat on the deck contemplating the beautiful night full of stars, easily locating the North Pole's. He prepared a jug of tea and some dry biscuits, along with oranges and an apple. While he was munching he started to think on the past three years that had changed his life, and now within a few days they would be at home. "What his family would think about his adventures and especially his future? He was not especially concerned about the past, let alone what his family could think about it; he had taken a decision and to stay fixed to it. About the future? Probably his father will insist on him to get married but that was discarded. He would continue enjoying women as much as possible and he looked forward the day that Jeremy and Helen would form a family. Besides he did not want to transmit the news that Sir Elliot gave him regarding the war between England and France on respect of the French Revolution and the imprisonment of the French Royal Family. They would have to take especial care when approaching and entering into the Canal. Chapter 18 - The arrival. Jeremy woke up and saw the pale light that entered thru the little portholes and the beautiful figure still asleep near him. His bladder was requesting to be emptied, so he went to the fixed bucket and peed as he had never done before; he calculated and thought they had been sleeping for more than twelve hours; he felt fresh but terrible hungry. He thought his father would be on deck, so he went up the steep. A chilly draught hit his nude body, so he retreated and got a shirt and shorts on. Helen stirred but continued sleeping. He run up on deck, but he saw nobody there; he checked the compass and could see that the ship was smoothly sailing to the North, probably about 12 knots; everything looked right. He called his dad just in case he was behind the main helm, but no answer came. His young heart jumped into his chest. He could also see that waves were small and that the sky was cloudy, not for a gale, but probably for raining storm that was approaching. He descended quickly the steep, looked around in the store and everywhere calling his dad. Finally he entered in the studio-room and found Bernard asleep with a lot of papers and calculations under his arms; he grinned. In that moment his beautiful future wife approached to him. "What's up, Jeremy?" He did not answer but kissed her a peck and near in a murmur he said. "Please darling, bring a pillow and a blanket." She obeyed. The room had a soft coach in form of an "L" stacked to the wall and round the screwed table where Bernard was sat. He with care put the pillow under his head and raised the legs on the coach; so as he was in his cabin; covered him with the blanket and closed the door. "He must be very tired. We have been sleeping for near fourteen hours." "We were very tired, too, due to the storm. I am starving." The girl said. "You better get something on; it is chilly outside and menacing heavy rain." "Is it a new gale?" "No, I don't think so; only rain. I presume we have sailed very fast during the storm; it seems we are not in the tropical zone anymore." Saying that they heard the rain pouring on deck. Jackie appeared also naked and with the intentions to go up on deck. "Jackie it is cold outside, you better start cooking something because we are very hungry. Meanwhile Helen and I can have a good shower up there. Do you dare my beautiful red queen?" Helen smiled and went to fetch soap and two towels. Jeremy added: "Jackie you start cooking, and as soon we finish we'll relief you in the kitchen." "Lovely, because I need a very thoroughly shower." Helen and Jeremy went on deck, and as he presumed the ship continued smoothly sailing to the North, he corrected the course to compensate the wind force clearly blowing southeast with heavy rain. They helped each other kissing from time to time until they felt clean. Now once they had been exposed to the wet weather they felt very comfortable and could continue being naked, however he knew they could catch a cold; so they dried and got dressed. Jackie gladly received them and went on deck to scrub himself. "Do you want any help? Jeremy asked. "Yes, please. I can't do my back properly." Helen looked at them suspiciously but smiled and continued finishing what Jackie had started. They returned into the small kitchen and sat around the collapsible table. "It is pouring rain." Jackie said. "Now everything is clean up there, so I would suggest opening the valves and refilling the water tanks." "Good idea." Said Helen. She stood and returned a minute later. "It is working now; if continues raining as it is now in half an hour the tanks will be full, enough for ten days." Captain Marten, among others innovations, had introduced a system of pipes and drains to collect the rain water and store it into tanks. They chatted and joked for a couple of hours. "I want to enjoy the rain." She stood. "But it is chilly on deck." "I don't need to be on deck, right from the cockpit we can see it, or I'll put the raincoat on." "I'll be with you." The boys said at unison. They enjoyed the move produced by the ship as she sailed and the foam spread by the bow. Now the wind was blowing a little bit stronger, but not to need to wear safe-belts. They cheered every moment the bow deepen cutting the water. Jeremy turned around and he saw his dad standing near the cockpit; the three joined him. "Did you rest well, dad?" "Yes I did, and I have had a good breakfast. Now I want to give you good news and need to discuss our future steps. Let's go into the studio." The children looked at each other and all sat round the large table where all calculations and charts were spread. "We have had an average of 25 knots since we left CT. I don't know where we are now since we have not stars or the sun to calculate it, but I am pretty sure we are approaching the Portuguese islands of Azores." Jeremy and Helen looked astonished, Jackie did not know much about geography. "Dad I had noticed the temperature that is too cold for a tropical zone, even with rain." "We are at the end of January, now is the Winter-Spring rain station, otherwise we should have found the trade north-east winds; this situation normally last a few weeks, sometimes alternating with dead calm times." "What do you suggest dad?" Asked Helen. "Sir Elliot warned us about these winds, but presently we have favourable ones from the South." "Yes, you are right, Helen. The problem is that we don't know for how long. I had planned to go into an Azores port, to refill our tanks and get some food for the final part to Southampton. We cannot call in any Spanish or French port; probably the authorities would retain us. Jackie you are our food manager." "Well there is fresh water for at least twenty more days and food for about ten; so I would suggest not stopping and taking the chance of these good winds." "I agree with Jackie." Jeremy said. "Helen?" Bernard asked. "Yes, I agree with them, even if necessary we can rationalize the food." "Not by now." Jackie asserted. "It will much depend on how we proceed during the next few days." "Alright children. Put the bow to Northwest, I don't want to give any explanation to a Portuguese ship." They all comply with their tasks and when the night appeared with the spyglass they could see lights very far away: the Azores Islands. Bernard ordered to Helen: "Course Northeast. Please children, put all your heart in this part of the voyage; you will have time to enjoy once we are at home. We can find strong winds from the West when approaching Britain, so we must be very careful about that. Guard as usual." As Bernard had foreseen a rainstorm over the British Islands reached them with strong northwest winds. On the morning of the 15th day they saw in the horizon the first real land on the North; the wind continued blowing strong, now clearly from the West. All sails were on and any Captain would have suggested reducing them to prevent a mast breakage, however no one knew the quality of that ship, impossible to follow or to capture. The children shouted and Bernard gladly announced: "Scilly Islands." "Is that Cornwall? Jackie asked." "Yes, it is." It was near the sunset when the ship majestically entered into Southampton bay. They hauled down the main sail and left the rigs to approach the military port rather than the commercial one, as Sir Elliot had advised. Right at the entry, they hauled the rigs and waited; ten minutes later, a boat with six people on the oars and an officer approached, the officer climbed into the vessel and after the military salute he said: "This is a military bay; you must dock on the commercial dock." Bernard then said: "I am Dr Bernard Northfield and these are my children. I have especial orders for the Captain of the Port." He extracted an envelope to deliver to the officer; but immediately he change into an open smile. He had especial orders for this ship." "Sorry sir, you are right; I'll give orders to tow you into the dockyard. We are waiting for you since a few days ago." They looked at each other in surprise. A rope was launched from the large boat and tied up. They started rowing and the light ship moved to the dock. "I must express our congratulations to you and your children Captain Northfield. Your names were in the papers a month ago when the news about Captain Black arrived to us." Bernard extended his hand and shook the officer's. "Thank you very much. We did what you or anyone in our situation would have done." The officer smiled. Bernard continued: "Please we don't want any publicity, only what is absolutely necessary. The children need to see our family as soon as possible." "Don't worry sir. Our captain is an efficient man and has clear orders from the Admiralty about you and your ship." As soon as the ship was docked, the officer left and a little later they were escorted to a large building. At the building entry, a middle-aged man greeted them. "Glad to see you Mr. Northfield. We have prepared accommodation for your and your children." Bernard knew that this could be a compliment and besides he did not want to disturb the normal life of the Fort's yard. "Thank you for your kindness, sir; but my children are accustomed to the ship, however I would ask if you are so kind to let us use the bath house; we have not had a proper bath since we left CT. Also if you can recommend us a coach to hire to take us home early tomorrow." "Alright Mr. Northfield." The captain said relieved. He called a sergeant: "Sergeant, please show captain Northfield where the bath house is." Now addressing to Bernard he said: "Mr. Northfield may I invite you and your children to have breakfast tomorrow before your departure?" Bernard thought for a moment, he did not want to behave impolite in spite he had planned to leave early. "Thank you sir, it will be a pleasure." And he added just in case the captain wanted to delay his departure. "As usual at dawn we will be ready." "Alright then. The coach will also be ready." "Thank you for kindness, sir. Please sergeant, can we." When the captain disappeared into the building he observed how the sergeant sighed relieved. Bernard looked at him and grinned and the military smiled him back. He then said: "He is an excellent person and a good officer, but terrible sluggish." Jeremy looked at man, he reminded him Carla's sergeant. Bernard then added: "Sergeant, besides a bath we want to have a good dinner. If you are out of service I would like to invite you so you can show us a good place." The sergeant grinned. "The orders we have are to help you on anything you ask, of course, except. you know. So let's say in an hour I'll be waiting at your ship; besides I have been instructed to set up a twenty four hours guard round the ship until the Admiralty orders otherwise." They took their clean clothes, soap and towels and entered into the warm house. It was a large room with closets than could be locked from inside with built bathtubs, for one or two persons. The sergeant had ordered the hot water for two single baths, for Helen and Bernard and one double for Jack and Jeremy. They enjoyed it for more than half an hour; Jackie observed Jeremy crotch; he was near hard and his dick seemed a long cigar, but thicker, of about five inches long. His was thin and shorter. "I envy you Jeremy; you have pubes and your cock has grown a lot lately." "Well, you must realise that I am a year older than you and that at our age it is a long time. That's what dad says." Jackie extended his hand and wrapped it tightly. Jeremy moaned but caressed his friend smooth skin round his chest and said: "You have the smoothest skin I ever touched, but this is not the moment Jackie. The sergeant is waiting for us and we must be punctual." He nodded. They finished; and now clean but hungry went to an inn within the harbour, a place mostly frequented by the officers. They served large pork chops with green peas and applesauce, beer for the men and large jug of milk recently milked from the inn's cows. Helen tasted the milk. "Oh my god, what a lovely sensation! It is ages since I drank milk like this." Bernard smiled. "Wait until you are at home, there is not better dairy than Essex's." They finished dinner and all went to sleep into the ship. They loved their place and besides Jeremy and Helen cuddled together. Bernard motioned to Jackie to enter in their cabin; the brown skinned boy then said "I don't think we will have many chances from now on." He turned around and placed his lips on Bernard's. Thank you dad, however I have the sensation that soon I'll find my other half." Bernard grinned and raised the boy's leg pushing his hard cock into him. Quietly they made a slow love; Bernard pushed his thick cock into that soft and beautiful cave placi