Author's Note: This story, and all of my stories, will be long narratives. While even I can enjoy a quick read and masturbate, I prefer to write stories that can touch people. I'll be writing further chapters here, as well as chapters for other stories too. Some of these other stories will include futa, while some include bdsm and other elements I enjoy. While I will post chapters to these stories, I won't abandon any of my stories. They will all get proper ends. Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy.
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Months passed as I researched away and brought back several more people. Two months brought back thirty, four months saw that grow to fifty-four, and six months saw that number rise to seventy. The speed of bringing people back was slowed down dramatically due to several factors. First and foremost was resources. I had several farms started by residents of my new community, as food would be a problem because only canned food and select others that used things like noodles which never went bad were still good from before.
There weren't any animals to slaughter and so that limited yet another source, so after six months we had three farms operational which would begin to bring about yields soon enough, hopefully. Some of the smaller fruits and vegetables were already ready for harvest. Other issues which slowed down progress of bringing people back were the efforts I had to go through to collect the energy. The process was tedious and untenable, I wouldn't be able to bring back half of L.A., let alone the world using this method. I needed a new approach.
My daughter really made everything worthwhile during this, and she knew the burden I lived with every day. The guilt was always evident in my eyes when I was around her, but I had to be strong and firm with others, I found. Most came to accept what happened as well as they could. The people seemed to realize how intelligent I was and that I was their only hope for bringing their loved ones back, I needed to be strong for them, especially since I was the leader of this new society
Tomorrow we'd reach seventy-five people. One thing I noticed as time went by longer was how tightly knit the group had become. Large dinners would be held in a local school cafeteria as it could sit everyone, and everyone would attend. Dances were held, music concerts, anything to keep in contact with each other. It actually surprised me a bit.
We still had power, water, the necessities, we even had digital media and video games, but people were closer now than before. We were like a real society, unlike the one from before the event, where you would learn to distance yourself from others, especially strangers. Here, nobody would turn down a request for help from someone, even if they weren't on friendly terms before the event. If it weren't for the fact that most of the worlds population were gone, this would actually be paradise. People actually cared about other people, and taking advantage of another seemed anathema to everyone.
Life here was good, even for me with being swamped with work all the time, not just leading the community but my never ending efforts to bring everyone back home. Eventually I had to stop bringing individuals back. There was some who were upset, but I told them it only slowed down my research into how to bring everyone back in one sweep. One who actually helped out a lot was Vincent, or Vinnie as his friends would call him. He was the first man I brought back, and it turns out he worked in construction so not only was he useful with his hands, but he actually helped people see things from my point of view.
If it weren't for him, I doubt my daughter or I could have turned this community into the beacon of hope and good will that it had become. Amélie was, like always, my lighthouse. She's always been a constant for me, a bright beacon of light that guided me through the wildest of storms, and now that we were lovers everything somehow became even clearer. She'd taken to this new situation like it was fate, but something bugged me. Like a niggling at the back of my head.
