The two soldiers worked quickly and efficiently, going through the buildings in the little village on the outskirts of Baghdad, checking to make sure the area was clear before the medical convey went through. The village had been deserted for some time, having been caught in several small battles because of its location on the main road. The soldiers didn't really expect to find anything here. The two moved together, in fluid motion. They had been working side by side for several months now, dependent upon and trusting each other with their very lives.
They were having a boisterous and obscene conversation of what the two horny hunks planned to do to their girlfriends, Cindy and Sue, when they got back to the States. They hadn't had any in some time, and it showed in the tension in their voices when they talked of the sex they were missing. The day was sweltering, and, contrary to all of their training, they were down to thin T-shirts and fatigue shorts in addition to their heavy tool belts and combat boots.
They were working together in a back room of a crumbling mud-brick house that was almost hanging over the side of a cliff down to a ravine when a bomb blast rumbled nearby and collapsed the framing of the poorly constructed house in upon itself. As the walls came in upon each other and the ceiling drooped down, the two soldiers were thrown against each other in a small air pocket.
The lithe and wiry young blond's cheek was flattened against the back wall, which still held, although he could still hear the roaring of bomb blast in his ears. his hands were flung out, his palms leveraging against the wall.
The olive-skinned older Italian, the cut and horse-hung bodybuilder with curly black hair in abundance, had been flung up against the blond's back; his pelvis nestled up under the blond's buttocks.
The two huddled closely together as they waited out whatever might follow up the unexpected bombing, hoping that the walls of their prison would hold and that this wasn't the precursor to an all-out terrorist attack on them.
When all was quiet, the older man spoke: "Are you all right, Jake? Anything broken or hurting?"
"No, Mario, I seem to be in one piece, but you've got me pinned to the wall. Can you give me some slack?"
"I don't think I can. I have something biting into my back behind me here."
"Well, you have something pushing at me down here, you horny bastard."
"Sorry, it must have been our talk and me thinking of how I was going to stick it to Cindy."