Title: Ghostly Rescue

Author: Dragonkat

Rating: 17.9-

Word Count: 1,143

Kyle had his arm around his boyfriend’s shoulders, grinning at him occasionally above his glasses, wiggling his eyebrows as they drove down a dirt road from the camp site they had been at for the past week. His boyfriend Carson was giggling whenever he looked at him, blushing sweetly, placing a hand on Kyle’s thigh and squeezing enticingly.

They had managed to escape for a week that summer, getting away from their overbearing parents and nosy friends. Finally able to act like they were a couple, as they had been hiding their love for the past year. And also they were finally able to consummate their relationship for the first time in the mountains…and the second time…and the third time…and you get the idea.

Suffice to say the only reason they finally pulled themselves away from their little honeymoon was that they were running out of condoms and lube.

Kyle squeezed his lover tight, occasionally pulling off the road so he could passionately kiss Carson. One time they even gave each other a blowjob, taking off the edge of their lust and passion as they drove home. Kyle almost didn’t want to leave the mountains, just wanted to run away and never go back to their lives full of judgmental people…but they were too young…so they went home…until they were ready to live their own independent lives.

They came to a very bendy part of the main road, having finally pulled off the dirt road from the campsite and were now cruising down the Interstate. Kyle had to pull away from Carson because he didn’t want to drive them off the road by only driving with one hand. Carson just smiled at him though, leaning in to kiss his cheek sweetly, resting his head on his shoulder and closing his eyes.

“I wish we could have stayed longer,” Carson whispered.

Kyle sighed, turning his head and quickly kissing the top of his boyfriend’s head before turning back to focusing on the road. “Me too,” he murmured.

He hit the brakes as they came around a corner, both of them jerking forward, stopped only by their seatbelts. Kyle stared at the woman who stood in the middle of the road, holding out her arms to stop them. She was littered in cuts and bruises, some of them oozing blood. Her hair was matted to her head and she had a desperate look on her face. Carson placed a hand on his arm and he looked at his boyfriend. “Maybe she needs help,” his lover suggested.

Kyle agreed and he slowly pulled his car off of the road, parking it and they both got out. The woman rushed up to them, grabbing Kyle’s arms with shaking hands. “Please you have to help, my family just got in an accident. My husband and son are still in the car. My husband’s dead but I think my baby is still alive…please you have to get him,” she cried desperately, tears trailing down her face.

Kyle placed his hands on the woman’s shoulders gently, pushing her back just a bit so she wasn’t squeezing him so tight. “Alright, I’ll go get your son,” he said, smiling at the woman as a grateful look came to her face. “You stay here. Carson call 911.”

He walked away from his lover and the woman then, crossing the road and looking down a deep ditch, which was about 100 meters deep. A car laid smoking at the bottom of the ditch, broken tree branches and window glass littering the area around it. He heard crying from inside of the car and he quickly descended down, holding on to branches of trees and bushes as he slid down the side of the ditch.

Kyle waved his hand in front of his face when he got close, coughing from the smoke coming from the engine. He got to the side of the car, seeing that the front part of the car was completely smashed in, obviously having taken the impact of the crash. He turned his attention to the back, gripping the door handle and pulling hard. The door wouldn’t budge but he kept trying, putting one foot on the car to brace himself as he tugged.

Suddenly the metal of the door groaned and it flew open, popping off its hinges and going flying along with Kyle, who landed on his back with a thud, knocking the wind from his chest. The crying grew louder and he shook his head, getting his bearing and standing up. He ducked into the car, finding the boy strapped to his car seat, looking relatively unharmed. Kyle quickly grabbed the baby, un-strapping him and pulling the child into his arms.

As he backed away from the car he glanced at the front seat, seeing two figures sitting there dead. One was a man, obviously the husband…but who was this other person? The body seemed to be a woman judging by her hair and what he could see of her battered face. The woman he just met never mentioned a fourth person in the car…and the woman and the dead body in this car had similar hair…

“AHHH,” he heard Carson scream, and he whipped around, leaving the site of the accident, clutching the baby close and rushing up the side of the ditch, worried his lover was harmed.

When he got to the top he saw Carson standing shell-shocked, hand over his mouth and cell phone dangling in his other hand. He was staring at a spot just to the left of Kyle. He turned to look, but found nothing there. Kyle quickly crossed the street, reaching out one hand to shake his boyfriend. “What happened Carson,” he asked anxiously.

“She…she disappeared…she just disappeared,” Carson whispered, looking at him with wide eyes.

“What?”

“That woman. After I called 911 she started to follow after you. She looked down into the ditch and then smiled…and then she just vanished.”

The way Carson said it Kyle knew he could not refute his boyfriend’s words. Carson had never been a liar before, and why would he be one now…besides the woman was no where to be seen at all. Kyle’s eyes opened wide as he put two and two together.

“That means…she was the other…” he trailed off, looking over his shoulder to the ditch, holding the wailing baby close.

“Other what,” Carson asked curiously, pressing his body close to Kyle’s, shaken from what he had seen.

“She was dead…she was the other body in the car,” he whispered. “Somehow she was able to tell us to save her baby.”

The stared at one another for a long while, eyes then turning to the baby who continued to cry in Kyle’s arms, while off in the distance they heard the call of sirens coming towards them down the dangerous mountain road.