The area had been cleared of all undergrowth, leaving nothing but dry, brown powdery soil that had a few stones and clumps of dirt amid the tire tracks left by the machinery that had stripped the ground sometime earlier.
Hearing a low voice, Seth moved in toward the sound until he could see a handsome young man sitting on a large stone at the edge of the clearing. He was dressed only in a pair of black shorts, no shoes or shirt. He was playing with another knife like the one he had taken from Nathan. Real looking but harmless.
Stashing his bow in the bushes, Seth moved forward, stepping out of the thick growth and into the clearing a short distance from John. John stood to his feet looking a little embarrassed.
"Well, hello there." Seth said smiling at the startled cutie. "I didn't know anyone was out here. This end of the park is closed to the public."
"Sorry, actually we work here. They are going to be digging here later this afternoon but we have nothing to do until they get here so we started roleplaying." He held up his fake knife and pressed the blade into the handle with his hand. "These are fake. See?" Holding the knife he stabbed it at his chest a couple of times to prove his point.
"Hey, that's cool." Seth replied. "You said 'WE' - are you with that naked guy I saw back there?"
"That's Nathan. Yeah, we are together. We aren't on the clock today until the crew gets here and that won't be until sometime after lunch. So we figured we could get some battles in before they got here. Nathan is supposed to sneak up on me and then we fight to the death."
"That sounds like fun." Seth said with a big smile. "Is it like war, cowboys, ninjas?"
"Actually we are pretending to be the Campus Killer. Everybody's talking about him." he admitted a little sheepishly.
"So you're the killer?" Seth asked.
"No, actually I'm the victim. I've played it the other way but I really like being the victim a lot more than the killer." he answered.
"Really! That's interesting... Why the victim?" Seth asked, stepping closer.
"I don't know, it's just a lot more..." he paused, searching for the word.
"...Erotic?" Seth suggested.
"Yeah, kinda. I was going to say 'fun' but I guess that works too." he said.
"My name is Seth." Seth said, offering his hand to the scantily dressed cadet. "I'm studying at the academy."
"I'm John. Yeah me too. Started this semester. I thought I recognized you from the campus. Are you a Senior?"
"Yeah, sure am. Last year of Academy and then, who knows? My last chance to do the best I can. "
"I wish this was my last year. Shit, three to go after this one." He complained. "You're lucky."
"Who all do you role play with?" Seth asked, "Just Nathan, or are there others?"
"I love to role play with anybody I can get to play with. Nathan is a little wild once he gets started but he is pretty skittish before he gets warmed up to you. I love to really get into my play."
"How do you mean?" Seth prodded. "What do you do?"
"Nathan is a cool guy and looks really hot but he isn't into so much of the sexy stuff." John looked Seth over.
"You're really well built and great looking... Sorry but I'm gay and you turn me on. I really get off on the thought of a guy playing with me, uh, you know, sexually, as I am dying, you know, the killer strokes me to an erection that blows just before I die." A look of concern crossed John's handsome face. "I hope all of that doesn't offend you. Sorry."
"No apology necessary, John. I'm flattered. Thank you." Seth said, "And I know what you mean about the sex play being a big part of any roll playing scenario. What's the point of going to all of the work of getting into some great death story without getting really close, intimate contact during the play? Sure beats jacking off later while reliving the whole thing by memory."
"I hear that. I take it you are a roll player too." John said with an approving smile.
"I've killed my share of partners." Seth answered. "Left some damn satisfied sexually exhausted corpses behind."
"Now that's what I'm looking for!" John responded. "I wish Nathan was into that like you are."
"Hey, I'm here. I'm into it and I would love to show you the best roll play you will ever have." Seth dangled the bait. "You are really hot looking and I would be honored to show you the best death that you have ever experienced."
Seth could tell from the growing bulge in John's shorts that he was willing.
"Want to do something here? Right now?" John asked. "I mean I'm willing if you are."
"You want me to be the Campus Killer and you be his victim?" Seth asked.
"Sure. Sounds great to me." Seth couldn't believe his ears.
"I like to get dirty - real dirty." John explained. "I mean dirt dirty. Nothing like getting all gritty and grimy. It's like a sample of being buried. This dirt here is perfect. Fresh, dusty dry and smells 'earthy', nice and loose too. If you don't want that, I can go over there in the grass..."
"Hey, I'm game if you are." Seth said. "I'm not wearing any underwear but if you don't mind, I can strip down if that turns you on."
"You turn me on dressed or undressed! Are you kidding? That would be awesome." John's eager reply was more than enough for Seth. He peeled off his shirt, sat down and pulled his boots and socks off, then stood and unbuckled his belt.
"I've got something to add to the excitement if you want." Seth said, reaching around to his back and taking out one of his knives. John's eyes widened and a bigger smile spread across his face.
"Wow! That's a beauty." he whispered. "Is it real?"
"Yes it is. Pretty sharp too so we need to be a little careful with them." He handed the knife to John handle first. John looked up into Seth's face again. "Them?" he asked.
"Them!" Seth said, taking the second knife from it's hiding place.
"Cool." John was really excited to get to roleplay with with his new friend. "This is going to be great!"
Seth peeled off his jeans as John watched. Taken for the moment by the size of Seth's cock and the low hanging balls that dangled playfully as Seth moved around, John couldn't help himself. He was getting excited.
"Hey. You're tanned all over." John observed. "That looks great."
"Thanks. Tanning booth." Seth admitted. "I like to keep it all the same shade."
"Yeah, Nathan could take a lesson about that. But then you must have already seen his white ass." John snickered.
"How do you want to do this?" John asked, eager to please his new friend.
"How about we just do it this way. You are working out here in the woods but you hear that the Campus Killer might be out here too so you get your knife ready - just in case. I see you working here and sneak up behind you but instead of killing you I reach around from behind you and hold you tight to my body. I start massaging your cock through your shorts but you try to get away. We fall on the dirt and wrestle around for a bit, getting all dirty until I get you from behind again, this time laying in the dirt. I jack you off again and this time you go along with it..."
"Yeah," John interrupted, "but just as I cum, you shove me down and stab me... Right in the heart!"
"And I keep jacking you off until you are pumped dry, just as you die." Seth continued.
"Yeah. Then after I'm dead you can flip me over and fuck my dead ass." John suggested.
"I like the way you think." Seth said. "Lets do it."
For the next half hour Seth and John acted out their roleplaying scenario. John felt Seth's hard, muscular body against his back, he enjoyed the wrestling in the dirt with his new partner was more than he had ever dreamed. Finally he was laying on his side in the dirt with Seth snuggled tightly against his back stroking his painfully stiff cock through his shorts. He got Seth to pause several times as he neared orgasm but he knew that this time he would not be able to resist and this would mean that he was about to finish this phase of play. He really wanted to hold off again but he also couldn't wait for Seth to take his limp body and screw him with that great, thick and long shaft. He hoped that he could maintain his "dead" act for Seth when the time came.
"Oh! Oh! Here it comes!" John cried, trying to warn Seth.
"Just relax and enjoy."Seth prompted. "This is your time."
John's body strained, trying to hold onto the moment until he jerked with the powerful spasms of a tortured body in the throes of powerful sexual release. Seth squeezed the pulsing shaft inside the dirty black trunks and felt the pulsing shots of semen as they exploded from the tip.
"Hold on," Seth prompted. "Time for the stab. I'm afraid this is going to hurt."
"Gaaaahhhh!" John screamed and recoiled at the impact. His body tightened as his organs renewed their production of semen, filling the snug space inside his shorts with more hot cum than he had ever produced at one time in his entire life. Seth released his grip on the dying man's throbbing cock and stood up.
John's eyes were wide with terror. The pain in his chest was intense and his tortured prostate convulsed with crippling force as it attempted to drown the world in sperm. His balls were on fire and his cock was so hard it felt like it was going to split open.
"You..." He hissed through clenched teeth. "It was you all the time."
"See. I promised the greatest sex you would ever have." Seth said softly, his own cock was standing fully erect, skin stretched so tight it was shiny all over. "By the way, thanks for the use of your willing dead ass. I promise to use it well."
John could feel himself falling. Falling backwards. He knew he was lying on his back on the ground but that didn't stop that sensation from overcoming him as he surrendered to the peace to be found in the gentle arms of death.
Seth watched as John's shuddering, heaving chest rose and fell for the last time. A small trickle of white cum that had pumped through the black cloth of his shorts slowly slipped over his side and smeared a thick trail that finally dripped into the dry, brown dirt. Satisfied that John was dead, Seth carefully slipped John's trunks down around his knees, releasing the floppy, cum soaked shaft to where he could finally get a good look at the pleasure stick that he had just brought to a spectacular climax. Grabbing a quick sample of the abundant man cream he licked the sticky slime from his fingers and turned the body over, coating the man meat in the dirt he had loved to play in while leaving the knife in his chest. The warmth of the snug hole felt great as it slipped along and massaged his hard dick. Starting to drive his cock deep into the unresisting ass, Seth found a new game to play... Watching to see how long it took for the blade in John's chest to poke out through his back as he drove him over and over. He would try to hold off until the blade started splitting the skin in that hunky, dirty body but when it does he knew he would have the most powerful orgasm ever.
Thanks John. See you again soon.
Cleaning his knife blade and scooping up John's fake knife, Seth pulled the note from his pocket. Filling in the one space he had left as an underlined blank, Seth decided to add some emphasis by circling and underlining a couple of points and by adding a last minute taunt for the detective, completed the note, refolded it and slipped it under the dirt sweat and cum soaked waistband.
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Detective Sgt. Anthony Gonzales was alerted that there was something stuffed in the waistband of one of the victims that was specifically addressed to him.
The crime scene tech that was going over the physical evidence at the scene stood up as Gonzales approached.
"Got something here for me?" Gonzales asked.
"Yes sir, right here." the young cop answered, reaching into the cardboard box containing clear plastic bags with items of clothing, cell phone, discarded water bottles and other items gathered at the scene. Pulling out a bag containing a single sheet of paper that had been folded up and stuffed in the victim's waistband. "Not what you might call a fan letter." the officer quipped, handing the grimy note to Gonzales.
"I've been hoping for something like this." Gonzales said, looking at his watch. "I'm taking this with me. I want a copy handed out to every officer on the force. If this shit is true about tonight, we've got the bastard!"
"Anything like this with the other four bodies?" He asked.
"No notes. Five dead bodies, all male, two arrows in one guy - tied to a tree then nailed there by the arrows, a single arrow in one guy's back- all the way through, and another with a single arrow through the chest. The arrows match, and from the force, he's using a compound bow. The other guy died of a single stab wound to the chest - just like this one."
"...And I'll bet they are all good looking, young guys." Gonzales added.
"Yes sir. Every one."
"Then you'd better watch out and hope that he isn't still around, Davis. You are right in the center of his victim profile."
"Don't think that it hasn't entered my mind, sir." Davis replied as Gonzales turned to leave. "Good thing there are so many of us here together." "I hope..."
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Gonzales was visibly pissed about being singled out for the killer's rage and ridicule. The truth was that nobody had found either of the other bodies until earlier this morning and then only the motorcyclist. Sooner or later someone will miss the other victim enough to check his home.
"Check for all missing persons reports. We have another victim out there that no one has stumbled over yet, probably 18 to 30 years old, good looking and into role playing."
"Yes sir." the rookie said as he turned to go.
"Start in the area out by that dead biker," he called after him. A raised hand and a nod let him know that he had been heard.
Gonzales pulled out his thick folder of pictures and reports of the killings that had been assumed to be victims of the campus killer.
"So, we have several killers now." he mused. "That might explain a few things." They had no usable fingerprints so far. No obvious pattern that repeated often enough to predict anything and little else to go on. There was DNA evidence but that would do no good until the killer was found and a sample could be obtained from him.
His mind flashed back to one particular double murder where they found two bodies in the same back room. One stabbed once in the gut and once in the heart - a cowboy type. The other victim had been stabbed in the back and then finished off with a knife blade through the skull. The problem was that the one that died with the split skull had left his finger prints on the knife in the other guy's heart. They had theorized that Kelly was obsessed with the campus killer and had managed to catch him in the act. Maybe it was the campus killer trying to stop a copycat killer.
Grabbing his phone, he called dispatch and ordered that all officers were to be on the watch for any barefoot joggers. "That guy has just over an hour to live if we don't find him first."
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Chet
Seth backed his car into the parking lot for the Quick Shop 'n' Go. Parking at the far end, jumped out of the car and headed inside. A police officer was putting the cover on his fresh cup of coffee and didn't even look up when Seth said "Hi." "Hey there." he called back with a quick smile as he turned his attention to the rack of sweet goodies next to the coffee.
Seth selected a prepackaged sandwich from the Deli cooler and a small carton of milk and headed for the counter just in time to stand behind the officer while he paid for his coffee and snacks.
"Ever see any barefoot joggers around here?" the officer asked as the clerk dropped his change in his open hand.
Pointing to the sign on the door the clerk shrugged and said "That says 'No shirt, no shoes - No service.' If they ain't wearing shoes they ain't comin' here. I ain't gonna see anybody like that here."
"Thanks bud." the cop answered back. "Just keep your eyes open tonight."
The officer headed out the door munching on his goodies and got in his car.
"What the hell was that all about?" the young clerk scowled as Seth dropped his items on the counter.
"Must be illegal to run in your bare feet." Seth quipped, tossing a five on the counter with the food.
The clerk counted out one dollar and eighteen cents change. "Want a bag for that?"
"No thanks. I'm set. Got an appointment to keep." he said scooping up the makeshift meal and heading toward the door.
Sitting in his car killing time and munching on his late lunch, Seth watched the cop sitting in the patrol car and wondered if the guy would ever leave or if he was going to add this guy to his list of harvested souls. He wasn't too bad, a little old but not too... "Shit! he's an overweight slob!"
Glancing at his watch he knew that he had about five more minutes before he HAD to get to the back of the convenience store.
The tinny voice of police dispatch crackled over the portable radio in the cop's car and he responded with an equally unintelligible response, started his car, turned on his lights and siren and sped out of the parking lot on some unknown assignment.
"Finally!" Seth muttered getting out of the driver seat and hurrying to the trunk. Quickly grabbing his bow and arrows, he quietly closed the trunk and headed off across the overgrown brush lot toward the concrete lined gully where the runoff from heavy rains found the way to the river - but between storms it became a nice private place to take a nightly run for one handsome runner named Chet.
Getting into shape can become an obsession. A good obsession but an obsession nonetheless. Having been grossly overweight and enduring the constant taunts of his school mates, the bullies that wanted to torment him and make him run home and seek the comfort of his mother's loving arms, which. of course led to more torment and harassment.
Going off to college, changing his habits and conscientiously watching his diet, working out and toning his newly buff body, Chet was doing well in school and finally had friends that really liked and respected him. He was popular and finally could look in the mirror and see a handsome, likable guy. Finally in control of his life and destiny.
The sun was setting low in the west, the shadows were long and deep. The sticky hot of the afternoon was giving way to the cooler air and a subtle breeze stirred the leaves and cooled Chet's sweaty skin. He smiled as the cooling air made his hot body feel so much better.
Taking a deep breath of the fresh fragrant air, he renewed his stride in the gentle downhill slope knowing in just 5 more blocks he would run up the slope and through the gate, down the street half a block and take a quick dive in the pool before heading inside to study for an hour or so.
Picking up his stride Chet prepared for that final sprint that would get his heart pounding, pouring on the power, burning the calories and making him feel so thoroughly alive,
The sudden, intense pain in his chest brought only one train of thought...
"Oh shit! My heart! What the hell?"
Thinking he was having a heart attack he grabbed for his chest and instead of bare skin his fingers collided with the shaft of the arrow that now impaled his strong, fit body and was about to bring his finally improving life to a sudden and painful end.
Confusion gave way to understanding as he finally focused on the slender shaft and followed it up to the three colored fins that now were a bright colored flag telling the world that there was a dead man at the other end, a life cut short by one man's obsession with strong, good looking, sexy men.
Falling to the concrete he tried to avoid the agony of laying against the the ground where the arrow bent painfully to one side ripping the bloody slit in his back wide, letting the last of his blood stream from his torn lungs and split heart out onto the dark, lonely channel.
Seth watched as the struggling body lay against the slope of the concrete channel, the arrow moving with his labored breathing, watching to be sure that it was a good kill.
Chet struggled for only a few painful minutes. He coughed once and his breath gurgled loudly in his throat until silence and the stillness of the arrow told Seth that Chet was safely in the afterlife where he will wait devotedly until Seth finally arrives and the endless loving begins.
Too bad about Inspector Gonzales. He had his chance.
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Death is always there, patiently standing by, just a heartbeat away, devotedly watching, waiting and ready to cradle you in his strong cold arms, no matter how long we put our final appointment off, and no matter how much we hate him. His love for us never changes.
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