To Wanting Something Bad Enough

Story by JA Red Wolf on SoFurry

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It has been quite some time since I wrote anything, this story happens to be inspired by a number of things but I'm not going to say what at the moment! Lol! Don't want to spoil it for ya!

I wanted to do more of a story then a smut, so don't expect a lot of ooie-gooie goodness Okey! Lol!

Hope you enjoy and feel free to point out errors. I wanted to post this ASAP for my iPhone writing program has a bad habbit erasing my work. There maybe a few bugs and whatnot.


"How did it all happen? I honestly don't know..." Said a teenaged male wolf dressed in rugged clothing, carrying a dirty and hand repaired school backpack that had written in black ink on its single shoulder strap Life's a bitch! In his right hand he carried a sawn off pump action shotgun and in his left a worn picture of a family standing before a town sign that read Paradise Canyon.

"Here I am..." He muttered as he came across the sign in the picture, blown over and scorched almost to cinders. "I'm home!" He said as he looked across the landscape and the barren ruins that at one time he remembered as a thriving town. "I'm home..." He said again and with a sad tone in his voice.

There wasn't much left of the town, the bombs had done their work and all that is left is skeleton frames of houses, destroyed vehicles and broken dreams. 'You think anyone survived?' Said the voice in his head that was his constant companion. "I don't know...I don't think so...god I'm thirsty!" He then laid he's rifle down, took off his backpack, opened it and shuffled around through the things he collected to help him survive on his journey here.

'Take it easy on the water! That's all we got!' The voice said again but he was too thirsty to care and taking up one of the bottled waters he found, he opened it an took a generous chug till it was empty. "Oh fuck yah!" He said with a sigh and heavy breaths, "That killed the fire!" 'Those ain't easy to find! You're going to die of thirst if you keep acting like a pig with the water! Don't you remember what Andy taught you?"

He groaned and answered, "Yah, yah...moderation, rationing and self control! I get it but this is a moment to celebrate! I'm home and..."

'And?' The voice asked to which he continued sadly, "I don't know what I'm going to do next!"

He could barley recognize the town other then the moutians off in the distance. When he was a young pup he would daydream of running off and climbing them to see what wonders laid on the otherwise. The nuclear warheads had left almost everything dust and ruin, most the buildings were toppled over and collapsed. He was beginning to wonder if this long trip was a big mistake and waste of time and supplies.

'First we need to find food, water and shelter! You think Bubba's Groceries has anything to salvage?' He nodded and said, "I think so, it had a LOT of stuff and a most of it was held downstairs...but I don't remember where it is!"

'I do! You see that huge eight ball off in the distance?' The voice asked and the wolf looked off in the distance and saw what the voice was talking about. "Yes I see it!"

'That's Eight Ball's Petrol and Repair! Remember when you were a young pup and mom stopped by there to pick up gas?' The wolf smiled as the memory passed through his mind. "I was nine years old! She would buy me a peanut crunch and daddy's cigarets! Jimmy would..." Just then his ears drooped and he lowered his head with sadness, "Jimmy would be in the backseat playing with his commando ranger toys, I'd always give him a share of my candy bar and..." Tears started leaking from his eyes as the memory of his baby brother came to mind. "He'd always thank me and ask if I wanted to play commando rangers with him!"

He then reached under his shirt and took out a small toy attached to a string that he wore around his neck like a talisman. "General J. Wroth, his favorite Commando Ranger..." He thought back to his little brother, playing in the back seat with this very toy and the imaginary battles he would play to kill time as there mom drove them around town.

'It wasn't your fault Rex, there was nothing you or Andy could do! That radiation, once it gets you, you're already dead!' The voice said and he replied, "I could have checked his Geiger Counter! I could have checked and made sure he charged the batteries and..."

'Rex...enough! Jimmy knew better then to leave the fallout without checking his equipment! It wasn't the geiger counter, it was just bad luck.' Rex nodded and calmed himself down.

'Anyway, Bubba's groceries is just one block down the street! Lets get going, night is coming and we don't want to be out when the feral's come hunting!'

"You're right, I hate ferals!" One that note he tucked his amulet away under his shirt, took up his rifle, shouldered his backpack and jogged into town.

* * *

The gas station was completely destroyed, only thing that survived was the eight ball sign on the pole overhead and countless assorted debris all over street and under his feet. "Damn..." He said as he looked at the mound of destroyed building that was the gas station. "I was hoping maybe at least one crunch bar survived."

'It's been years since the bombs fell Rex, even if one survived it be old and nasty!' Rex chuckled and said, "Like that box of cereal we had yesterday?" The voice laughed and said, 'It was nothing but dust!' He took a moment to laugh with voice in his head.

Just then a small gust of wind blew open a nearby magazine and the picture inside caught his eye, "What's that?" He said as he picked up the magazine.

'Oh my, oh my!' The voice in his head said as Rex's eyes were locked on the picture of a naked gorgeous she wolf, spreading her legs and fondling her breast.

Rex gave a low whine of want as he looked at the picture, wishing it wasn't a picture but flesh and blood begging him to fuck her. His sheath swelled in his pants and he was very aroused. "It's just not fair!" He whined and taking off his backpack, he decided to keep the magazine for viewing later.

'You won't be able to look at it in the dark you know.' The voice said and he replied, "When the moons out I can! I never had a girl and this is the closest thing I got!"

He could sense the voice in his head shaking it own head and sighing. "What?!" He asked in an annoyed tone, the voice didn't reply. "WHAT?!" He asked in a more angered tone.

'Nothing Rex...for once you are right. It's the closest thing you have to a girl...just like you have me as a friend.' Rex calmed himself down and said, "I'm sorry I got angry, I'm just...you know...frustrated." The voice in his head giggled and said, 'You don't have to apologize Rex, I understand completely! Oh there's the store right over there!' Rex looked and saw what remained of the grocery store off in the distance.

"Let's go eat!" He said and resumed jogging off down the street.

* * *

'You smell that?' The voice in his head said in a cautious tone as they approached the ruined grocery store and Rex replied in a whisper, "Yes I do!" Rex raised up his rifle and was ready to shoot on sight. "Someone else is here!" Rex scanned area with his eyes and his raised ears. So far nothing aside from the wind was herd and nothing was in sight.

'Smell the air please!' The voice said and Rex did so. 'Interesting..." The voice continued after Rex inhaled a deep breath of air. "What's interesting?"

'The scent! The scent is wol...' Just then a very hard, painful blow hit him from behind and on his head. The world suddenly stared spinning and his vision dimmed almost to pitch black. When his vision came back he found himself laying down on the street and standing over him was a wolf around his age, a she wolf around of all things and holding a baseball bat.

"Are you..." He muttered in a raspy voice, "Real?" The she wolf was terrified and was ready to hit him again. "What you doing here?!" She demanded and continued, "You here to steal my food?! Kill me?!"

He couldn't quiet understand what she was talking about, only thing that mattered to him was she was another wolf and a female! "You are...so..." He muttered to which she snarled and raised to bat to hit him again, "Beautiful!"

Just then her expression changed from scared and angry to surprised and curious. Her eyes widened and her ears raised up, "You...think I'm beautiful?"

The world started to spin again and his vision started to dim. "Like an angel!" Just then he lapsed into unconsciousness and into a flashback dream.

In his dream all he saw was fire and chaos! His father at the wheel of the car, driving like a crazed wolf as people of different species ran around outside screaming, panicking, fighting and even killing each other. Jimmy was baling as he held tightly to him in the backseat, their mother and father yelling at each over over where to go and then a bright blinding flash of white light!

"OH GOD!" His father screamed, "MY EYES! I CAN'T SEE!" Just then he felt the car shift off the road and down a steep hill where it crashed into a tree.

He moaned and twitched as he laid unconscious, reliving the horrors of the past. The dream fast forward to him and his brother Jimmy running through a field, giant mushroom clouds appeared off in the distance the sky turned black as they risen. There father collapsed tired, breathless and near death from the lose of blood he suffered from a stab wound to his gut from when the the car crashed. Their mother was killed in the wreck but they didn't have time to morn, only run!

"Take your brother and go!" His father ordered as he fall over to his side. "Dad no!" Rex said but his father demanded, "I SAID GO! GET TO THE FALLOUT AND TELL ANDY WHO YOU ARE!" Life slowly slipped from his father with each breath till he finally said, "I love you son! Keep Jimmy safe and stay safe! No go before more bombs fall!" On that note his father laid himself out on his back and welcomed the end.

"NO!" Rex screamed as he awoken and shot up. He was panting heavily and covered in sweat. "I have bad dreams too!" Said a female voice from someplace.

It suddenly dawned on him he was inside a building and was completely naked except for the blanket that covered him.

"Where's my clothes?!" He demanded and looked around. The female voice giggled and said, "Those things you were waring stank awful bad! I burned them while you were asleep!"

Rex let out a low whine and snapped angrily, "GREAT! NOW WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO WEAR NOW!" Just then a bundle of clean clothing tied all together with a string came flying out of no where and landed right next to him.

"I took your size, these should fit and they don't smell bad!" Rex raised his ears and widened his eyes in surprise upon seeing the clothing. "Where...where did you get these?" He asked and suddenly from the shadows, the she wolf he saw when he was barely conscious appeared and was dressed in some very nice female style clothing.

"My god..." He said as he eyed her, "You're real?" She laughed and said, "Yes I'm real silly!

'You sure we arn't dreaming?' The voice asked to which he replied, "You tell me! You are the one living in my head!"

The she wolf, raised her ears up and cocked her head at him. "You been doing that ever since I saw you enter town!" He have her a confused look and said, "Doing what?"

"Talking to no one and acting like someone's taking back...are you crazy or something?" The tone in her voice was serious but he couldn't help but laugh.

"I knew it..." She said and sighed, "Well at least you look good!"

Rex took a moment and said, "No I'm not crazy! I just have a friend I made up in my head is all!" He then took the clothing she tossed him, untied the string and proceeded to put them on, all the while hiding his nudity under the blanket.

"I've been living alone for years ever since Andy and my brother died in an old fallout shelter forty miles out of town! I got so lonely I made up my friend here to keep me company!"

She drew her ears back and gave him a look a pity, "Awe you poor thing! You had a brother?" She said and asked to which he nodded and replied as he pulled a blue shirt on and over his head, "My brother Jimmy died two years ago from radiation and Andy my uncle died in his sleep a month later."

For some reason she was giving him a very funny smile, almost as if she was day dreaming or something. "Something wrong?" He asked to which she snapped out of it and said, "No, I'm just happy you are here and not one of them crazies that come out at night!"

Just then the instinct to take up his gun kicked in at the mention of the feral's coming out at night. "Where's my gun?" He asked in almost a panicked voice and she replied, "I have here, I didn't know if you were one of then or not so I held onto it."

Rex growled and said, "I'm NOT one of them! Feral's kill on sight and cannot talk!"

She shrugged and said, "For all I know they can and I wasn't going to risk it!"

'Smart girl! I really like her Rex!' The voice said to which Rex growled and snarled, "Back off! I saw her first!"

She giggled at him as he had a jealous moment with his imaginary friend. "You are so cute!" Rex couldn't help but blush and smile upon hearing that.

* * *

Rex spent most of the day talking with his new friend Susan, Susie to her friends. After the bombs fell, her family and her took shelter in an underground basement where they lived for quiet some time. Her father and mother were both killed by feral's and she had been camping out here in town at Bubba's Groceries, living off the surviving supplies and reading books to pass the time.

As they spent the time talking and eating canned food, a welcome change from the ration bars he was living on for years, Rex started to sense there was a strong sexual tension building between them, maybe not so much her feeling it as he was! It wasn't surprising being they were both teenagers and opposite genders.

'I think she's in heat Rex!' The voice I his mind suddenly said as he and Susie were talking a book she was reading. "Don't be a pig!" He grumbled to himself and was now blushing very hot, his ears burned as he lowered them to hide his embarrassment.

Susie giggled as she overheard him talking to himself, her ears were razor shape and fine tuned to all sounds. "What did he say about me?" She asked still giggling. "Um...nothing..." He lied and she asked again, "He trying to take me away from you again?"

Rex whined and felt very silly right now, "He...um...he said you were..." Susie smiled and leaned in to hear more, "Yes?"

Rex gulped and said, "He said you were in heat!" Right now all he wanted to do was find a hole and crawl inside of it.

His answer surprised her and she started to blush herself, "Well...um...yes I am in fact!"

'Told you!' The voice said in a snide tone. "Shut up! You're making things worse!"

Susie was about to comment more on it until she noticed it was starting to get dark inside the store. She stood up, walked to where the dying sunlight outside peered through the windows. "It's getting dark! We need to head down stares before the crazies come out!" Rex agreed while heartedly and followed her downstairs, taking his rifle with him.

The downstairs was very well supplied, there was more then enough food and water to last a lifetime!

Susie's dwelling was in a nearby office, she used a flashlight to light their way to the office where she lit some nearby candles and locked the door when they were safe inside.

"We'll be safe here!" Susie said as she walked over to her spot, taking pulled out a mattress and some blankets she found in back stock and laid down.

Rex wasn't comfortable here, the office felt like a death trap, much like the fallout only the door wasn't as secure or hidden.

"I don't like it here!" He said and looked around, "We be sitting ducks if they came after us!"

Susie rolled her eyes and twitched the end of her bushy tail. "They don't like closed spaces Rex! They like hunting outside and never come inside unless they are really hungry."

That worried Rex even more, "Whose to say they aren't that hungry?" Susie sighed and explained, "There's only six I know of that live outside. They hide out at the mill just outside of town when the suns out. There used to be more but they eat each other and so there's not many left."

'That's good to know!' The voice said and Rex nodded his head in agreement.

"Come and lay next to me Rex!" She said and patted the spot next to her. "I really want to cuddle with you! I've been so lonely and wanting to hold someone for like forever!"

Rex couldn't help but smile at that for he too also wanted someone to hold. "Dose this mean...um...your my girlfriend?" He asked in a sheepish tone to which she giggled and nodded her head yes.

'Well I don't believe it! Rex got himself a girlfriend at the end of the world after all!' Rex giggled to the voice and putting aside his gun he laid down next to her to which she wasted no time throwing her arms around him and held him tightly.

"Mmmmmmm..." She murred happily as she nestled her head on his chest, "You smell good!" She said and he replied, "You smell good also!" He locked his arms around her and pulled her closer to himself.

'I'm very tired Rex, I'm going to sleep. G'night!' The voice said and Rex silently mouthed the same.

Rex took a deep yawn and decided to go to sleep also, after all he was tired from walking all day, getting hit on the head and finding a girlfriend.

"What are they?" Susie muttered to which Rex replied, "Hmmm?"

"The crazies that come out at night, you seam to know a lot about them." She sounded tired and close to falling asleep. No doubt she was trying not to in making light conversation.

"They were once beast folk like you and me, my uncle said that living out in the radiation, eating other beat folk, raw meat and living in filth makes them turn mean. The radiation made all their fur fall out and that's why they hide from sunlight. It burns their furless skin!" He pointed out and she murred happily and nuzzled his chest.

"Thank god I found you!" She said and he smiled, blushing a bit.

"If that's the case, why you hit me over the head with a baseball bat?" He asked and she laughed and snorted a bit.

"I'm sorry but I thought you was one of the crazies who killed my family. They been hunting me for sometime but I lost them a long time ago...thank god! When I saw you I thought they had found me again. You was talking to yourself so I figured you was one of them." She explained and he couldn't see any error in her logic.

"Why didn't you kill me?" He then asked and she replied, "Because you said I was beautiful!" She moaned then took a deep breath and sighed happily. "I love you!" She said and for a moment he was at a lose on what to say. "I...love you too Susie!" Really he said it on instinct.

Just then he felt her hand slide down his belly and over his loins, directly and rested directly on top and over his male hood. Rex didn't protest even though it made him feel a little uncomfortable. The primal need inside trumped his fear this time.

"Do you..." He started and took a moment to choose the right words, "Want to...um..." He thought hard for a moment and said, "Make puppies?"

'IDIOT!' The voice in his head screamed, 'NEVER SAY IT LIKE THAT! NOW SHES GOING TO FREAK OUT AND LEAVE!' Rex winched at the angry voice yelling in his head but to both his and the voices surprise she replied, calmly "I would love to!"

'What?'

"What?"

Both him and the voice said after hearing that reply. She pushed herself up and started removing her clothing.

"Um..." Rex said as he was perplexed on what to do now.

'Don't just lay there staring! Get them off and get to it!' Rex only replied in doing what the voice said and removed his clothing also.

'What am I getting myself into?' He thought to himself as he pulled free his underwear, kicked them off and laid there completely nude.

When Susie removed the last of her clothing she moved over, swung a leg over his waist and straddled him, locking her loins to his.

"I...I...um...never..." She cut him off with a shush and reaching down, she took hold of his sheath, pulled it back till he was fully exposed, aim him upright and slid herself onto his member. "Mmmmm!" She moaned as she felt him slid inside her.

"Oh my god!" He said with a gasp as the intense pleasure of her wet and very hot lips of her loins took him in and embraced tightly upon his shaft. He felt a strange sensation of braking through something inside her, she winched and give a small whimper.

"You Okey? Did I hurt you?" He asked and she only shook her head no and explained, "It's my first time also and I'm told the first time hurts a bit, but really it's not that bad."

She rocked her hips back and forth as she took him in deeper and deeper, slowly easing him inside her untouched canal till his not quite swollen knot sank in and quickly swelled inside her.

"Oh god yes!" She moaned and arched her head back as intense pleasure shot all through her body. "Oh god yes like that!" She quickened her pace and started tugging upon his implanted knot as she did so.

The feeling was beyond description and he quickly started ejeculating jets of wet slick semen as she rode his knot.

"Oh god I'm close!" He moaned and willed himself not to so soon. "No baby, don't fight it! Let it happen! I want to to happen!" He panted and taking hold of her hips with his hands he worked with her movements and suddenly, it was all over!

"FUCK!" He yelled as he let lose, flooding her womb with his rich seed and bit down so hard, he could hear his teeth crack. She also let out a loud yell and orgasmed in turn.

"Oh my god!" Rex said and panted, "That was...WOW!" Susie was still basking in the afterglow of it, savoring the moment and still motioning back and forth as their loins were locked together by his imbedded knot.

"Can we go again?" She asked and he just gave a timid chuckle. "I'm spent!" He admitted to which she whined a bit upon hearing that but he reassured her after a good nights sleep, he'll be ready for much, much more!

He felt her tail wag and could tell she was already excited about it. "I want you inside me forever!" She said and playfully tugged at his knot, making him hiss with pleasure. "I would like that!" He said as he reached up, took hold of her neck and brought her down so that he could give her a kiss on the lips.

"Mmmmmm!" He moaned happily as he locked lips with her and kissed her affectionally for a good long while before laying down, her still locked with him and upon him as they both went soundly to sleep.

* * *

Rex awoken in darkness and for a momment thought he was still in the fallout. "Wait...no I'm in the grocery store!" He said and felt around for a light source. "Damn it!" He cursed, not finding anything close by.

"Susie?" He asked. Hoping she was still with him, "Susie you there?" He found some matches and lite one. The room quickly illuminated with the flash of the match fire, he had to wince his eyes for they weren't adjusted to the light. "Susie?" He asked again and quickly light a few candles.

'She must be topside having breakfast.' The voice said and he quickly picked up his clothing, put them on and out the office door headed up the stairs.

"Susie?" He called out to which there was no answer.

'This is not good!' The voice said and he started to panic. "Oh god I hope she didn't go outside while it was still dark!" He said and rushed downstairs to get his rifle.

It was daylight when Rex emerged from the grocery store. He readied his rifle just in case any remaining feral were lying in waiting. "Susie are you out here?" He called out and scanned the area with his ears for her reply.

"Damn it girl! I just found you and I'll be damned if I lose you now!" He said and headed out to look for her.

* * *

Almost four hours had passed since he went out looking for Susie. What troubled him was there was absolutely no trace or scent of here anywhere! Had feral found here there would be evidence of an attack like blood or worse.

"Please god..." He said as his legs buckled and gave out. He collapsed to his knees and was wrought with fear. "Please god let her be Okey! Please god, please!" He begged and started to cry. He quickly whipped his tears away with with his shirt and decided to take a drink a brief rest and rehydrate himself.

He took off his his backpack, opened it and fished around for a bottle of water. "Goddamn it!" He snarled in a tearful voice as he wrestled up get to the bottom. Just then he have a hard tug and the pornographic magazine flew out and landed before him.

"Shit!" He muttered, taking up the magazine and was about to put it away when a picture caught his attention. "What the?" He said and opened the magazine to the picture.

"NO FUCKING WAY!" He yelled and couldn't believe what he saw. There in the magazine was a clear picture of Susie, fully naked and with her legs spread. The writing under the picture said "Susan Delight, Age 18, She's in heat and ready to rock your world!"

"No...NO, NO, NO ITS NOT TRUE!" He yelled to which the voice said, 'I was afraid you would find out this way...'

"WHAT?! YOU KNEW!? WHAT KIND OF A FRIEND ARE YOU!?" He screamed and the voice replied, "Rex...settle down and think for a moment...you're losing your mind!''

"FUCK YOU!" He snarled and taking up the rifle he held it under his chin, holding his finger to the trigger and threatened, "HOW ABOUT I JUST KILL US BOTH AND BE DONE WITH IT!"

'Rex...' The voice began but he cut it off and yelled, "NO YOU FUCKING LISTEN!" Tears poured from his eyes and he sobbed, "I'm just so fucking tired of it all! I'm tired of being alone! I want my mommy and daddy back! I want Jimmy and Uncle Andy back also!" Rex then collapsed onto the ground and held himself in a fetal position.

"I DON'T WANT TO LIVE ALONE!" He yelled and cried helplessly.

"Rex?" He heard Susie's voice say and felt her warm touch lay upon his shoulder. "GO AWAY!" He sobbed, "YOU'RE NOT REAL!"

"Don't be silly Rex! I'm very real!" She said and laid down to embrace him in her arms.

"How...how can I possibly feel you? You're not real!" She giggled and kissed him lovely on the ear. "Baby...let's go home and forget about it!"

He sat himself up and could feel her helping him with her hands. "I don't understand..." He said and touched her cheek. She felt very real indeed, he could smell her and feel her breath on his fur.

"How can you possibly be here?" He asked to which she giggled for a moment, wiped away his tears with her fingers and explained, "If you want something bad enough, it will happen silly!"

Rex still didn't understand and asked, "But you hit me with a bat! How could I possibly want that?"

'A piece of debris flew off the nearby building and hit you pretty hard! I saw it coming from the right side of you're eye and helped you cope with it by meeting Susie.' The voice explained.

"But the building! How did I wake up inside the building, the new clothes and what about the room downstairs?"

'You went there and sat it up yourself, all I did was block it out from you're mind, just like I did with Jimmy.' The voice said and Rex felt a cold feeling of dread.

"What really happened?" He asked but the voice didn't answer. "I WANT TO KNOW!" The voice said nothing for a moment but then explained, 'You ever wonder why you hate feral's so much?'

Rex then realized he honestly never knew why he hated them. He always avoided them but just now couldn't understand why he hated them so.

"Jimmy was killed by a feral?" He asked and the voice answered, 'It's worse then that Rex, Jimmy was killed and eaten right before your eyes! There was nothing you could do but stay hidden. You both broke the rules and went out fishing while it was still dark! You escaped the feral ambush but Jimmy did not! I blocked it from you're memory to protect you...I had to do it Rex! It would have driven you to killing yourself! Jimmy was also careless and so I made you think he died of radiation, believe me it's a much better memory of his death then what really happened! '

Rex was a compleat mess right now, he couldn't tell what parts of his memory were real and which were fabricated. 'Rex...don't think too much about it! Go live with Susie and be happy!'

Rex looked into Susie's eyes and his heart just melted, "You have to be real!" He said and stood himself up. "But why...why did you leave?" Susie rolled her eyes and said, "Can't a girl do her business in privet? Jesus Christ you guys are so clingy!"

She then gave him a tight hug and continued, "But I love anyway!" He returned her hug and said, "I love you too!"

"Shall we go home now?" Susie asked and Rex nodded his head yes. "I'll be just a moment, you go on ahead." Susie smiled and headed off a slow pace, just enough to allow him time to catch up to her. She was absolutely gorgeous from her ears all the way down to her feet and beautiful long busy tail. She was everything and more then he could ever want in a life long mate!

"Can I ask you a favor?" He asked the voice to which it replied, 'What?'

"Make me forget ever finding out Susie isn't real and make this day go away!" He said and the voice asked, 'Are you sure?'

Rex nodded his head yes. "Yes, I want to forget the truth and be happy with Susie!" Susie turn and wave over to him. "You coming yet?" She yelled to him and he yelled back, "I'm on my way!"

Before he headed off, he took up the adult magazine, searched his backpack for a lighter and accelerant. Soaked the magazine in fuel and set it on fire.

"Now I will never be alone again!" He said as he watched the fire burn, shouldered his backpack, took up his rifle and ran off to join Susie. He walked with her hand and hand on over to Bubba's Groceries and hoped to live happily ever after and to the best of his abilities!

_"...No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those." _

-Mark Twain, **"The Mysterious Stranger"**