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Post #115
Today,
let’s find out if Hark can help Ramon, who was in the custody of La Migra the
last time we saw him. And if he can, will it simplify his life or complicate
it? Read on.
I’ll
publish weekly until this story is finished.
*****
HAWK—OTRA VEZ
Part
2
The
whole unit celebrated that evening. They’d caught five of the six breakaway drug
runners. Only one had gotten safely across the border. And they’d scared up a
bunch of illegals to boot. It was the “to boot” that was troubling Hawk. He walked
out to his Dodge pickup to be alone and think, but Grove was right on his
heels.
“Hey,
bro, who were you looking at in that bunch of wetbacks this morning? Couldn’t
be the woman, she looked like my old Aunt Martha. You see one of our drug
guys?”
“A kid
I knew.”
“Knew him
how?”
“Brother
of a woman I met when I first got here. She worked in one of the shops but went
back before you’n me started running together.”
“Well,
if she was as pretty as her brother, you shoulda held onto her.”
Damn,
Grove didn’t miss a thing. His buddy knew exactly who he’d had been looking at.
Hawk embellished his lie. “Looked just like him. That’s the only way I
recognized the kid.”
“What’s
his name?”
“Ramon
Aguila.”
“Aguila,
huh? Looked more like a cat dragged out of the river than an eagle.
Grove
dropped it when they joined the others at the Blue Mesa where Amadeo was buying
a round for his unit. Hawk left before the party degenerated into a riot and drove
by the detention center where the INS held illegals while they checked them
out. If Ramon had been caught in Colorado and deported, this would be his
second deportation. They might end up giving him some jail time. At any rate,
the kid wouldn’t be eligible to cross legally now. Despite the temptation, Hawk
didn’t stop and make inquiries. Unusual curiosity would raise flags that
wouldn’t do him or Ramon any good. He’d have to give this one some thought.
He did
not sleep well that night. The sight of Ramon Aguila sitting in the dirt, his
big, brown eyes following Hawk’s every move, voicing a silent plea for help
played like a broken reel of film over and over in his head. The kid had grown
some but was still as pretty as any girl Hawk had ever seen. Pretty, hell. He
was fucking beautiful. Had to be around nineteen now.
Hawk
dragged himself out of bed in time to greet the morning star, but he sipped his
coffee like a zombie, failing to appreciate the Creator’s wonders this morning.
He was uncharacteristically late pulling into the headquarters parking lot that
morning. If there was one thing he had learned, it was the white man’s clock. The
palefaces forgave a lot, but not for keeping them waiting. So he’d overcome his
tendency to “Indian time” and become a slave to the minute hand. Grove met him
at the door with their assignment for the day, so Hawk didn’t even get a second
cup of coffee.
‘You
hear?” Grove asked before they were out of the parking lot. “Seven of them got
away.”
“Seven?
We only caught six?”
“Seven
of the illegals. Guess they walked in the front door of the detention center and
right out the back door. Wonder if your friend was one?”
Hawk
feigned disinterest. “Dunno. If he was, hope he makes it back to his sister.”
As
they kept an eye on their section of the huge desert and the things that
crossed it, Hawk had a moment of panic when they came upon two of the escaped
illegals. He bit his tongue to keep from asking about Ramon, but Grove did it
for him. The two wetbacks acknowledged that Ramon Aquila had run away with
them. Hawk didn’t know of that was good news or bad. Although the Rezes’
commission was not for hunting illegals, they dropped the two escapees back at
the detention center for fear they’d come to grief in the desert.
“You’re
worried about the kid, aren’t you?” Grove asked as they checked in at Rez headquarters at the end of shift.
“Shit,
Grove, I’m worried about all of them. A lot of wetbacks die out there.”
“But
it’s different when it’s somebody you know. Want me to help you look for him?”
“Not
much we can do for him now. Maybe one of the patrols will find him. Thanks,
anyway.”
That
evening Hawk cleaned up, ate some stew, and sat on the porch in the growing
cold. A northern plains Indian, Hawk was continually amazed at how this place was
a furnace by day and an icebox by night, but he liked it. He hadn’t realized
his subconscious had been working on Ramon’s problem until he suddenly got up,
grabbed a couple of coats and his rifle, and went to the Dodge. He drove as
close as possible to The Dragon’s Back, a jumble of high rocks in the middle of
nowhere. He closed the door to the cab quietly and approached the silent hills
on foot. This was the highest spot anywhere close by, and it held an unmarked
water source, a small spring known to only a few locals. It was also close to
the spot where he first met Ramon and the place where Hawk had taken the boy
for water. If Ramon didn’t make for Hawk’s place, he would try for the spring.
The rock
saddle holding the water hole was deserted except for an aggressive javelina that wasn’t about to let some
redskin cheat him out of his drink. Hawk looked around carefully since the
viscous little pigs normally traveled in packs. This one seemed to be the
exception and went off squealing and grunting to himself when Hawk wouldn’t
abandon the place. He propped his back against a rock in the deep shadows and
settled down to wait. He was good at waiting.
Hawk
woke from a light sleep when he heard the boy… or at least some human. No
self-respecting animal would announce his approach so loudly. By the light of
the moonlight, he watched Ramon make his unsteady way up the high ground,
slipping and sliding on loose rock. The boy fell on his belly and sucked loudly
at the water in the small pool. Hawk let him have a good drink before he spoke
the boy’s name quietly.
The
youth whirled. ¿Quien es? Hawk?
That you, Hawk?” the light baritone broke slightly.
“Hi,
kid,” Hawk said, rising to his feet.
“Hawk!
Thank Dios!” The boy rushed to him and threw his arms around him. “Oh,
Hawk! ¡Mi amor!”
The youth reached up and pulled Hawk’s lips down to his, wincing in pain. As the
cracked, blistered lips pressed against his own, Hawk responded gently. The boy
drew away. “Maybe Hawk don’t want—”
“I
want,” Hawk answered quietly. “I want very much!”
Hawk
pulled out his cache of emergency supplies he kept hidden in the rocks and made
them comfortable. Ramon ate from the tins of food ravenously. Then he stripped
naked and endured the cold night air and frigid waters to bathe in the small
stream below the pool. When he walked to where Hawk sat on the blankets. Hawk covered
his shivering body and held him close, lending his warmth. At length, Ramon
looked up at him.
“You
fuck me now, Halcón. I clean now.”
Hawk
drew him down into the blankets and roved the boy’s long, lean frame,
remembering the beautiful brown flesh, each mole and every scar. Finally, Ramon
turned on his belly. As Hawk entered him slowly, Ramon stretched and purred
with pleasure.
“Is
long time, Hawk. Ramon miss you so much he hurt in his cojones some time.” He groaned pleasantly. “Ramon still love Hawk… much.
Muy, muy much!”
Six
months ago, Hawk would not have hesitated in declaring his feelings, but now a
conflict raged within him. He had once loved the boy. Did he still? Certainly
he was fond of him, wanted him, needed him. But thoughts of Grove intruded. At
length, he murmured. “I love you too, Ramon.” It was true, but the nature of
his love had changed.
The
warmth of their lovemaking spread from Hawk’s groin into his torso, exciting
and sensitizing his nipples, causing him to rub them against the boy’s smooth
back. It spread to his legs as he pressed against Ramon’s thighs, seeking
maximum contact. The boy hooked his lower legs over Hawk’s calves. Chemical and
electrical impulses flooded his brain. Hawk’s loved with his entire body, his
being. He gloried in the difference between this and casual sex of his recent
trip to Phoenix. Hawk and Ramon enjoyed one another because they loved, each in
his own way… Ramon without reservations; Hawk withholding some part of himself.
Orgasm, when it came rocked him more than expected.
Ramon,
shoved hard against the blanket with Hawk’s last thrust and gave a long,
satisfied sigh.
“Is
good, Hawk. More good than I remembered.” Almost instantly, the boy fell asleep
in a pool of his own semen.
“I
missed you, too,” Hawk whispered as he kissed a brown ear. Aware Ramon could no
longer hear him, he continued. “More than I can tell you. I’m not very good at
saying things, but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel them.”
In the
middle of the night, Hawk roused an exhausted Ramon and half carried the boy to
his pickup. The handsome youth fell asleep again the moment Hawk tucked him
into bed in the spare room. Sometime later, Ramon crawled into bed with him to
absorb warmth and comfort.
*****
Looks
like Hawk didn’t get his little Eagle out of INS’ clutches. The kid did it
himself. But now he’ll need Hawk’s help. Can Hawk provide it? Can he stop
himself from trying? And where does Grover Whitedeer fit in now? Tune in next
week for the answer to everything. Well, almost everything.
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