Ben And Meg In The Wild West
by Jenny
* Chapter 14 *
Soft, sweet kisses, quickly growing more passionate. Hands pulling at quickly disappearing clothes. Tanned
skin meeting pale, hands entwining. Murmurs of love and endearment. The peak of excitement, growing over both of them, spreading through their bodies. Fireworks lighting in the sky and their privet haven.
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Meg lifted her head from Benīs chest. She was lying on top of him. Bodies still joined. She smiled and
kissed him softly. A week had passed sense their first faithful night.
" I love you" he whispered and touched her cheek.
" I love you more" she teased and kissed him again.
" I highly doubt that." he said and tightened his hold around her slim body that was lying like a quilt over
him. She was completely naked and the cover where lying on the floor. He loved her like this: completely
striped from her protecting armor and ready to experience anything he wanted her to. She was so open
and responding to his touch and caress. He felt as he had found the key to haven and all itīs glory.
" What is it that you are working on?" she brook the silences.
" Working on?" he looked at her confused.
" Every time I have meet you this week you have been working on something. There are papers all over your
desk and if you ask me you are acting a bit mysteriously about it!" she said.
" Itīs nothing" he said but Meg felt how his whole body got tensed under her.
Slowly she slided up to sitting position. Her hair was out and it reached down to the low part of her back.
She looked at him for a very long time, completely ignorant about her own naked form.
" Why are you lying, Ben?"
" I'm not lying. I just can't tell you" he said and ran his finger up her thighs and came to rest on her
hips. He got up slowly to kiss her but she turned away.
She crawled of him and picked up the cover from the floor and wrapped it around her. He sighed and went on
hunt for his pants. When he was done, he walked up to Meg, who was standing by the window. It was the middle of the day and the street where full of people. They could here the afternoon train rolling into the
station.
Ben wrapped his strong arms around her slim waist. "She has an amazing body" he thought to him self while
he caressed her stomach through the fabric of the cover. He could feel how tensed she was and he turned
her to face him. She turned her head down, but he would not let her. Slowly he tipped her chin to make
her look at him.
" I'm sorry Meg" he said and stroke her cheek.
" You are not letting me in, Ben" she stopped his hands motion.
" Listen to me" he took her hand and led her back to the bed. He pulled her down into his lap. " I can't
tell you, because it is dangerous and you could get hurt"
" What do you mean by getting hurt?" she wasn't actually sure if she wanted that answer.
" I am not talking about a broken heart, Meg. You could get hurt- maybe even killed"
Meg got up from his lap and just starred at him.
" Answer me Ben! What are you involved in?"
Ben put his face in his hands and rested his elbows on his thighs. How could he tell her? They where five men
involved. Sworn together by this secret. If he told her, how could he make her understand and then have
her except it? He would most likely lose her.
He felt how she kneeled down between his legs. She rested her hands on his knees. Ben removed his hands and looked at her pleading eyes. They begged him to tell her.
" How can I tell you?" he almost whispered.
" Are you afraid that I'm not going to love you after you tell me?" she asked.
Without hesitation he nodded. Meg smiled and took his face in her hands. Slowly she kissed him. She brushed
his lips with her tongue, suckled on his bottom lip. She explored and worshipped him slowly and gentle.
When she, several minutes later, pulled away she left him breathless. She smiled.
" I will always love you, Ben. Nothing you will ever tell me will change that. Iīll stand by you until the last breath has left this body. I swear that to you!"
He smiled and pulled her into his arms.
" Please tell me what I have done to deserve you, so that I can do it all over again" he said into her hair.
She smiled against his chest, slowly stroking his back lovingly. Suddenly he pulled away and looked at her.
" Do you realy want to know?"
Meg nodded. Ben was still for a long time before he made her stand up and to take a seat next to him. He held onto her hand in a powerful grip.
" Do you know who General Custer is?" he asked.
" Of curse I do. He is a General in the American Army under the Presidents command. His order comes only
from the Government. He has his base camp here." she said.
" Do you know why he is here in Springfield?"
Meg choked her head in silence. Ben got up from his seat and started to pace the room.
" If I'm going to tell you this, you need to know the whole story" he said.
" So tell me" Meg said.
" A couple of years ago when I was new in town, I was out in forest to look at some land. I was shot. Someone mistake me for a deer or something. They left me there to die"
" Oh, my god!" Meg put a hand over her mouth in chock.
" I would have died, if " Dancing Bear" hadn't come along. He belongs to the Cheyenne tribe in the aria.
He saved my life by taking me with him to his camp."
Megīs eyes where filled with tears.
" I woke up three days later. I did not understand one word he said, and he did not get one single word that
came from me. Two different worlds meet"
" And you and "Dancing Bear" became friends" she said in a quiet voice.
Ben looked supriced at her.
"How did you know that?"
" Aunt Bette told me during one of my integration about you" she blushed.
"Oh.did she?" he smiled.
"I also know that you speak Cheyenne"
" Yes, I learned that during my efforts to teach Dancing Bear English" Ben said and sat down next to Meg.
" They are good friends and a peaceful people" Ben looked at Meg like he was begging her to understand.
She took one of his hands and nodded.
" A couple of years ago the army started to send supplies to all the camps in the aria. It looked like
a friendly gesture at first, but..
He stopped and took a deep breath to steady himself.
".But suddenly one by one they got ill. They got a terrible fever. It didn't matter what the medicine man
did, nothing seamed to work. I was in the camp that afternoon that "Dancing bears" woman died"
Ben fought his tears that were building in his eyes. He could still see his friend scream his anger and
grief out over the valley. How he fell to his knees and cursed the goods and his ancestors for taking the
woman he loved. "Dancing Bear" only let Ben be present during the ritual up in mountains, to set "Sunshine's"
spirit free. It hade been the most powerful scene Ben had ever seen in his whole life.
" I begged the doctor in town come and look at them, he was not happy about the idea. But after a lot of
begging he finally came with me. He was shocked. He went to work right away, without any pushing. He put
some of the Indians i quarantine. We started to burn the clouds and the blankets to stop the spreading. And
after only a few days many of them started to get well. So we kept burning all textiles and replaced
them with new. After only a week almost all of them where back to health, except for a small boy. His
mother kept him in her lap all the time, warped in one of the army's blankets. Then it hit me. It was the blankets! "
"They where poised?" Meg where shocked.
Ben nodded.
" I was so ashamed to belong to the white people. I have always known that the Government wanted the
Indians gone, but to do something like that?"
" How can people be so cruel? That fever, if it did not kill you, it weakened you.forever.
I know I have had it. To give that to an innocent people.for a purpose. That is not even human!!! " Meg
looked at Ben with big teary eyes while she spoke.
"I know. Unfortunately we did not isolated the decease in the camp. It spread to Springfield to. Almost
everyone got ill. A.J and I got it to, but not as bad as Bette and Emely. Bette was unconscious for five
days, everyday closer to death. But Emely."
Ben took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
" Oh, my god!!! Emely!!!" He heard his own voice.
" I was going up to her room to check on her, we took turns and I had finally gotten A.J to get some sleep.
When I opened her door, it just looked like she was sleeping like any child. She had kicked of her covers
so I went to her bed to cover her up. I noticed her lips where blue"
"She was not breathing?" Meg asked quietly.
" No. When I saw her lying there just like an angel, my mind shut down completely. I had to fight to
remember how to move my arms and legs. Donīt ask me how, but somewhere in the back of my mind I remembered how they rescues sailors that has been under the water for to long and stopped breathing. And I used that on Emely and suddenly she draw breaths"
" You saved her life" Meg whispered with great admiration in her voice.
Ben took a deep breath. He had come to the hard part in his story.
" Yes, it was after that I learned the meaning of hate."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~