My Wife, Michelle, and Linsey, our daughter, were smiling and waiting on the doorstep when I stepped out of the cab.
I was struck by how different Linsey looked now; she had inherited her Mother's looks and grown into a woman while I was overseas. They almost looked like sisters; Tall and thin with curly brown hair, big brown eyes, and waiflike features.
Then, I wondered for a moment where my sister was - Susan and I were very close and I was sure she would want have wanted to be here when I got home.
Michelle wrapped herself around me.
I took in every sensation: Her soft hair on my cheek; the soft breasts pressed into my chest; the warmth of her body.
I kissed my Wife's neck and thought of my sister again ... for some strange reason.
"Michelle," I whispered, "I missed you so much!"
"Oh, it's so good to finally hear your voice!" she cried! "Linsey come here!"
Linsey wrapped herself around me too, on my other side, and both of them held me tightly.
"I'm really tired," I said.
"Its okay, Daddy!" Linsey cried, "You're here now!"
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The IED got us when we made the turn onto the canal side of the dirt road outside the forsaken hamlet we'd just checked and cleared.
I knew it was coming because they knew it was coming ... I knew as soon as I looked back and the roaches ran for shelter. I felt the air pressure change and the breath being sucked out of my lungs even before the dust blew into my face.
Maybe it was my reaction to drop down in the HMMWV's cab that saved my life. Maybe, dying would have been better than the pain - but eventually even that stopped and I was in a warm comfortable place for a very long time.
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"Its okay, Baby!" Michelle whispered in my ear, "You're okay now."
She lay next to me, her warmth and softness was a kind of comfortable I'd forgotten existed.
I drifted back to sleep.
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I called in the Fire Mission but the soldier at the FDC couldn't get it right and I had to keep repeating the mission over and over, becoming more urgent as more and more of the enemy slipped out of the kill zone and into the rocks that would make following them downright deadly for our Squad and particularly dangerous for the dozen local conscripts that cowered behind us.
We needed Indirect Fire on them - now!
The annoying beeping of the radio warned me the battery was going to die.
Suddenly I heard a young woman's urgent voice crackling on the comm: "Ummmm ... Abort? Come back ... uh ... return to base!"
I felt a crushing wave of homesickness wash over me. That young soldier sounded a lot like my daughter.
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The bed felt hard and my back hurt terribly, as if all of the muscles had been ripped.
It was pitch black and I couldn't see anything at all. I heard someone breathing nearby and reached for my pistol - Of course, I wasn't wearing one anymore.
Then I realized that Michelle must have fallen asleep on the spare sofa in our bedroom again. She did that when I would get restless at night. She'd made me move it into our room after my first tour.
"Michelle?" I called to her.
I heard her stir and the sudden change in the sound of her breathing indicated she was awake.
"Larry?" she asked as if she wasn't sure it was me.
"Please, lay back down with me."
"Huh?"
"Don't make me sleep alone, I just got back."
"Sure, Baby," she said.
I felt her slide into the bed and press into me. She was wearing a long T-shirt and thick cotton sweats. She was a little softer than I remembered, she'd always been extremely thin, but I guess I couldn't expect her to stay the same forever. I didn't care, I was just so happy to hold her again.
She ran her fingers gently through my hair. It was definitely not regulation length anymore. I couldn't remember the last time I'd gotten it cut. This led me to wonder when my new orders were going to be cut and where I'd be reporting to this time. I was going to need to get my hair shaved off and get back in the gym.
"Stop it!" she whispered.
"What?" I asked.
"You're here with me now, okay?"
She was right.
I took her hand and slid it down my chest and over my hard stomach to my hardening penis. It was my way to let her know I was interested in a little playtime. She understood and caressed my stiffening cock gently through the material of my pajama bottoms.
I kissed her cheek and thought of my Sister again.
It took me a second to place it, but eventually I did, and it made sense ... she was wearing a fragrance similar to Susan's favorite perfume and when she was close to me it reminded me of her.
Smell could conjure memories like no other sense could.
"You smell like my Sister," I teased her.
"Oh," she said, "I hope that's not a bad thing!"
"Susan's kinda sexy," I chuckled, "Nice big tits."
"Oh, reaaally?" She giggled and tugged on my dick.
I kissed her lips gently.
"Larry, I ... ."
I kissed her again to silence her.
"I need you," I moaned, running my hand between her thighs, "I need to be inside you."
My fingers became insistent, pressing her clit and sliding back and forth over her luscious thick mound.
"Please?" I wasn't above asking nicely.
I could feel her heat on my fingers through the thick cotton.
"Larry," she said, "You shouldn't ask me to ... you were hurt and the doctors are telling us that you need to stay as still as possible, Okay?"
I tugged her shirt insistently and she slid on top me without too much resistance. I leaned up and kissed her again. Her hair tickled my face as I ran my hands over her soft ass and slid my fingers along the seam of the sweats between her legs.
"Ohhhh, okay," she purred and relaxed into me, "You win."
I tugged at the sweatpants and she assisted me by lifting her ass just enough so that I could slide them down to gain access to her. She reached into my pajamas and stroked my cock again, by this time it was slick with precum.
"I need you so much!" I said hungrily.
"Quietly," she whispered in my ear, "Linsey's sleeping."
I became insistent, grinding myself at her hand.
She slid my cock out of the pajamas through the slit and placed it between her thighs, it settled in against the panties covering her hot damp pussy.
I thrust harder but my back hurt so much that I gasped in pain.
"Shhhhhhhhhh," she hissed quietly, "Don't move," she said, gently rocking her hips, "I'll take care of it, okay?"
She rested her head on me so that we were cheek to cheek. Hers was moist and I wondered if she was crying.
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"Daddy?" Linsey asked from the other side of the room - she must have walked in on us.
"Go back to sleep, Linz, ... please?" My Wife asked insistently.
"Oh!" Linsey gasped, she must have realized what was going on, "Is he okay?"
"Go back to sleep!"
She circled her clit against my pubic bone, she was getting excited and her movements were becoming more urgent.
Linsey was old enough to understand abut sex.
I chuckled and Michelle kissed me as she reached between my legs and pulled aside the panties so that my cock was smeared with her warm juices.