So this was what serving the ship's needs was about, I thought. I was riding the tramp steamer captain's cock in his cabin on the
Pitcairn
. He was on his back, and I was saddled on his hips and both rising and falling and rotating on the shaft, driven deep, in every direction imaginable. He had my full attentionâand had had it ever since he slapped me around when I came to his room and was forced into giving him a brutal, face-pumping, deep-throating blow job. He then had demanded that I ride him well or he'd beat meâand I had every reason to believe him. In any event, riding him hard this way was giving me as much pleasure as it was him, I thought.
He was into what apparently was his fetishâchocking me during the fuck. He had his big, calloused hands wrapped around my throat, using them to pull me up and down on his cock. I, of course, was doing all I could to anticipate when he pulled me up by rising on my knees with his jerk to take the pressure off my neck.
Before I'd come with him to his cabin after dinner on the
Pitcairn
when it already was well out to sea, Christophe had taken me out on the deck and to the side of the ship. With a sweep of his arm, he'd taken in the expanse of the wide, empty sea, no sign of land or of another ship evident.
"I want you to think of this when you are with Captain Thorensen," Christophe said. "We are all aloneâisolatedâout here on the ocean. Here the captain of a ship is the law, a god unto himself. While he's fucking you, I want you to be aware that he can take anything he wants from you. He can beat you; he can choke you; he can fist fuck you. You already know he will do this."
I shuddered at the thought of this, more than half of which was arousal.
Christophe continued. "He can fuck you to death if he wishes, toss your body over the side of the ship, and that will be that. I want you to be thinking of how close you are to the edge of life and of the power he has over you. And then, if you are alive tomorrow, we'll put that into a story."
"But he can't kill me in the story, right?" I asked, trying to make a joke of itâa weak joke, to be sure. "I mean you already have a snuff story for your collection. I can't die twice in it."
"There are other collections I can put it in," he said, pulling away from the rail and walking away a few steps before turning and addressing me again. "I assure you that there is little limit to what I can do to you in a storyâand not much in real life, either. And let's be honest, it's that edge you came to the South Seas to ride."
Shuddering again, I turned to see where he was going to find that the captain was standing in the hatch door Christophe was headed to. As Christophe passed Thorensen, I heard him say, "Rough him up as you like; he wants it rough."
I didn't remember having said anything of the sort, but here I was, out on the wide, empty sea, as Christophe had said, and there Captain Thorensen was, smiling a little smile and beckoning me to come to him. I did, but as I reached him, his smile morphed into a sneer, he backhanded me hard across my cheek, and I went down on the deck. He simply reached down, hauled me up with his strong arms, slung me over his shoulder, and carried me to his cabin.
He was too strong for me to resist him even if I saw any good that would do. I was exhausted from the other "serving of the ship" I'd done that day.
We had arrived at shipside shortly after lunch, maybe around 1:30 p.m. The crew was still loading the ship with supplies going to smaller islands to the east of Fiji. I was later told that supplies would also be taken on, first in Pago Pago, in American Samoa, and then again, after islands in the Cook Islands had been supplied, in Tahiti, before the ship swung north and came back toward Australia by way of the Line Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Solomon Islands.
"They're not ready to cast off yet," I said. "We're early."
"We're not early," Christophe responded. "Part of our passage is covered by you helping with the crew's tasks. I suggest you strip down to your shortsâit's going to get very hot working out hereâand start lending a hand. Besides, they will all want to be able to inspect what the captain has bought for them. I'll go check out the cabins and start working on the 'drugged fuck' story."
"The cabins?" I asked. "We're in separate cabins?"
"Yes. I don't want my sleep interrupted."
It was only the following night that I understood what he meant by that. The first night, I wasn't going to get to my assigned cabin. I'd be in Captain Thorensen's bed.
For the rest of that first afternoon, I worked alongside the crew of the
Pitcairn
, hauling supplies on board and stacking them "just so" in the hold.
The crew of the Pitcairn was a motley collection and included one surprise. They were made up of various nationalities and colors and ranged from their twenties into their late fifties. There were two things that all but one of them had in common, though. They were body, if not face, beautifulâmuscular and cut, little fat on any of them, the result no doubt of the physical demands made on a tramp steamer sailor. The other common denominator is that, throughout the afternoon, they looked at me with slitted eyes and great interest and showed every sign of maintaining hard ons.
The one exception was the surpriseâand he stood out in such contrast that I had difficulty figuring out what he was doing on this crew. It was the young blond man who had walked by Christophe and me along the surf line at the gay resort hotel in Suva the previous day and who had let himself be lured into the bush by an old man with an oversized cock. He was working alongside the rest of us, although neither he nor I were able to hoist what the others did. He wasn't built for the work and he wasn't built like the others. It wasn't that he didn't have good muscle tone. It was that he was willowy and moved like a dancer. There was a natural sensuality and rhythm of movement about him, something slightly androgynous. Something that brought out my arousal in a different way than the men I wanted to fuck me did.
Throughout the afternoon, he stayed close to me. I got the impression he wanted to speak to me, but there were too many others aroundâtoo many giving me the eye. Giving him the eye too. I returned his gazes of interest with ones of my own, but I made no attempt to converse with him then. We would be on the sea for weeks. There was always time for thatâand time for me to work out why he worked my emotions like no other man did.
Inexplicably, when I watched him, it was I who went hard.
The sailor who showed me where my cabin was later in the afternoon when the ship was under way and pulling away from the harbor at Suva, was all handsâtouching me here and there, walking close behind me as he guided me through the narrow corridors of the ship. With a hand on my buttocks he turned me through a doorway and into a tiny roomâmore like a closet. But there was a bed and built-in cabinets on one wall and a door into what was the smallest head I'd ever seenâonly room for a stool toilet and a tiny basin. The cubicle served as a shower too, with a shower head on the wall opposite the toilet and a drain in the floor in front of the toilet.
It was the bed that intrigued me. A single tray bed with high sides all around, The slats rising a good ten inches higher than the top of the mattress. I looked at the sailor, a question on my face.
"For rough seas," he answered. "So you won't fall out onto the deck and break your cute little neck."