Chapter 18

Dear Summer,

I am very thrilled to hear of your news about the three pregnancies, regardless of paternity, of course. I look forward to seeing those three bellies swell up with baby bumps from each of those babies on the way. We will grow our family and raise it together as a plural and group marriage, as a rare, unique family. I look forward to even more pregnancies with at least two possible fathers. I also look forward to seeing Joanna again.

Naturally, I have no reason to doubt that I am the father of her baby. Neither of us had much time for sex during that campaign, which was why the incident in question was a single tryst, a quickie at that. I’ve had a little more time this time around, probably because we have had more staff eventually to share the load and burden of duties. I think that you would really like Aaron and Kara, a couple that I have grown to know very intimately, to say the least.

That’s Second Lieutenant Aaron Goldberg, a fellow nurse, and newly promoted Staff Sergeant Kara Soares. Kara was just a plain buck sergeant mere hours again, but she received a shiny new promotion and extra chevron to display. They’re lovers and now they’ve enjoyed a couple of devil’s threesomes with me, one last night and one during lunch today. Let’s just say that we didn’t have much time to eat after that, but it was worth it. Last night had a little more time to it.

Speaking of devil’s threesomes, I have another one scheduled for tonight, but not with Aaron and Kara. They’ve agreed to a rain check because of a one-time opportunity. Tonight is my last night of intimacy with Dr. Anne Thorpe, who I will share with Dr. Samuel Singh. After tonight, she’s all his. They’ve agreed to a monogamous relationship in the wake of his impending divorce from his wife Ravneet. After tonight, they’re exclusive, so she can’t have me anymore without it being cheating.

I am eager to enjoy my final night in the arms of my sweet Anne, who is not your equal in my affections by any means, but is still quite the lady, trust me. I will miss being more than mates in the British sense with her, but it is what she feels necessary. Sam needs her more than I do and he’s not willing to share her anymore as he used to be. Then again, she was a mistress back then. Now she’s his only partner and he needs her badly. After tonight, she’s his girlfriend and that’s understood.

It was bound to end sooner or later. They’re both captains and doctors, where I am a nurse and a butterbar, a second lieutenant, the lowest officer rank of all. A nurse and a doctor together does push the limits of fraternization a bit, though so does an officer and an NCO. We’re lucky that no such regulations have been imposed yet, but we know that it’s only a matter of time. They need the troops for now and many of them won’t be long-term, career soldiers. They know that. When the Militia becomes a professional, standing army, the rules are likely to be tightened up a bit.

As for the group wedding plans, those sound very excellent, trust me on that point. I am so eager to see you again, to see you wear white and walk down the aisle alongside Kayla to meet Barry and me for the double wedding. That’s to say nothing of the wedding night, which will likely involve the minister herself, from the sound of it.

As for Dirk, well, do what you must. If he’s unlucky enough to strike when I’m back, he’ll wish for a quick death and in vain. I’m a lot more calloused than I used to be. By the way, I ran into Megan while here in the Winston-Salem area. No, I didn’t break our pact. I didn’t fuck her. I did, however, screw her over a bit, both by withholding morphine drips at the height of her pain on the grounds that it was bad for her unborn baby and ensuring that she was sent to nursing duty in DC. Yeah, she’ll love me for that.

Incidentally, I can’t say too much about present conditions, but I can tell you that the reports of atrocities from both Durham and Winston-Salem were quite true. Sad to say. The Nation of Islam butchered white people wholesale, but especially Jews. The Ku Klux Klan slaughtered anyone who wasn’t a WASP, but especially black people and Jews. Yes, sadly, the Jews caught the double whammy of racism and prejudice there.

There are only two more of these cities left in North Carolina and the state will be fully restored to the Union. In time, there will be elections for a civilian state government, including a civilian Governor and legislature. There will be a new state constitution. The return to a new kind of normalcy will begin and it will be one more state saved from chaos, barbarism, and anarchy. The Union is being restored, one state at a time. We’re that much closer to a brand new America, one worthy of its aspirations. But you can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs, as they say.

Love,
Master Ralph