within my recall but I never once heard anything that would make me change the way I looked at that encounter.
The voice was quiet but I didn’t have to strain to hear.
“Don’t think you need any one, oh yes you do.”
After that statement from wherever, Michael reached over the small expanse and hooked our pinkie fingers.
Then I heard the voice again.
“You will need this woman for the rest of your life.”
I barely caught the end of it before the blackness came over me and I was done with that adventure.
When I came to consciousness, I saw that Charlie was sitting on the side of the bed looking at me again. His attitude was sadness in the extreme. Neither of us said anything for a very long few minutes. My body wasn‘t yet responding to my commands or I would have been wrapping my arms around Charlie and kissing him soundly about the neck and face in an effort to take away the sadness that I saw there.
Charlie was the first to speak.
“Helen, I can’t take this anymore. You frighten me too much.”
“What do you mean?”
I nearly cried to him. Then I saw that his two suitcases were standing near the door. It took a minute but finally I got it. Charlie was leaving me again. Still without my strength the fear nearly swallowed me.
“Please Charlie.”
I sobbed and tried to reach out to him but my arms wouldn’t answer the will to move.
“You can have me now, Charlie.”
“Woman you’re leaving me out and I just can’t take it anymore.”
I repeated myself as I didn’t know what to do and I was totally unable to move.
“You can have me now, Charlie. Please have me now. I need you so much. Charlie I can’t move. Please don’t leave until you hold me again.
He must have seen the fear in my eyes at the prospect of him leaving me because he gently drew me into his arms and set me on his lap. He kissed me tenderly and my arms were around him as soon as I could feel any strength at all coming back to me. I wrapped myself around him and clutched on to him like a spider monkey - if he left, he’d have to take me with him.
“Shh, shh, shh,” Charlie shushed me and rocked me while I got a better hold on him.
I whispered in his ear.
“If you leave me, I won’t die but I’ll want to. I’m sorry for being so odd and crazy. Have you stopped loving me again?”
“Woman I love you and I always will but you are so reckless and unconcerned for your own safety. I don’t want to watch you hurt yourself.”
“The most painful thing in the world for me would be for you to leave me Charlie. It seems that you want me to be someone else but I am who I am. I was under the impression that you wanted me for your crazy woman. You’re my man. I can’t live without you.”
My strength back, I turned in his arms and straddled his body and wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him and rubbed my breasts into him.
“Please don’t be angry at me and think of leaving.”
That’s when I saw the tell in his eyes. He wasn’t going to leave me; he was grandstanding. I relaxed slightly at the knowledge that he wouldn’t go but I also recognized that he was trying hard to lay down the law, so to speak.
My eyes still glistening with tears, I smiled at him with my next words.
“How about we discuss how you can help to keep me safe when I jump the current into the universe?”
Then I kissed his big lips and suckled on his tongue and worked, in general, to arouse him.
When he put his arms around me and crushed me to him, I nearly cried from the joy of it. He whispered my name as he began the task of removing my clothes. While he worked his clothing removal process he said to me.
“After, let’s talk about keeping you safe while you travel. Promise?”
“I promise,” I assured him.
While Charlie and I made love I thought about how important he was to me. He made me feel really good, better than anything.
“You know Charlie; I am cursed to love you forever even if you stop loving me. It’s just not in my makeup to unlove after I’ve fallen in love.”
“What is so important to you about your travel?”
Charlie started the conversation after we both reached our climax and he lay cradled between my thighs and stroking and kissing my breasts, first one and then the other.
“Research and experimenting is what happens when I travel through the universe. You know that I lack awareness during the present but my recall and the universe allows me to pick up on stuff that I shouldn’t have missed in the first place.”
“Continue please,” Charlie said still kissing my breasts.
“There are two kinds of travel that I have learned of, so far. There’s the short trip that only takes about an hour and is extremely rejuvenating for hours, even days, after the trip; then there is the ‘red spark’ travel that takes a much greater toll of time and depletes all of my energy. It’s the ‘red spark’ travel that I’ve been interested in as of late.”
“More please,” Charlie said.
“The shorter travel is easy to control but so far I’ve learned no controllable way to take charge of the ‘red spark’ travel and to guide me within it. So it’ll take more research and experiments until I get the understanding that I need.”
“So, it’s the ‘red spark’ travel that is causing our issue.”
Charlie was clarifying for both of us.
“Charlie you said I was leaving you out. I’m not trying to leave you out. I’ve explained to you as much as I understand myself. Have you ever been with me when Ricky has sent her red sparks?”
“No,” was all Charlie had to say.
“I’ve jumped the particles when the red spark was present on three different occasions. And each time I traveled back in time as an observer to the cruise ship that Michael and I met on. I think it all means something; Ricky is trying to tell me something, I’m just sure of it.”
Charlie continued his attention to my breasts but I noticed a slight hesitation and a very slight shake of his head.
“Damn woman, you are unbelievably odd. I’m probably odd as well because I believe you.”
Charlie telling me that he believed me was the sweetest thing to me. I put my hands on either side of his face and pulled his head to me for a sexy smooch. As I pulled him to me, he pushed himself into me. He moaned his high-pitched moan while we were kissing.
