Luke’s HAARP Time Warp: Part 12

The lover's spat.

Based on a post by somethin fishy,
in 15 parts. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.

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Chapter 56.

Luke was anxious to get home. Everyone just assumed that he just wanted to
get home to fuck his hot girlfriend and even hotter wife and he did have to
admit that was part of the reason. Okay a big part. The main reason though was
that he knew that they were scheduled for invasion soon and from the spies that
Marion had sent into Norway, he knew that the historical invasion was still on
track. Luke wanted to get back so that they could get ready for it. Before he
could leave though, he had to deal with some more rebellious nobles. This time
they had acquired some firearms on the black market. Fortunately for Luke’s
army; the nobles didn’t know how to use the guns they had gotten and they also
didn’t have any way to get more ammunition for them. Some of them had managed
to get the secret to making gun powder, but because Luke’s guns required a
primer to fire them; the nobles still couldn’t use them beyond the limited use
of the very small number of primers that they had managed to steal. This was
one of the reasons that Luke had made these firearms, in the first place, and
not simpler muzzleloaders. Luke won the battle easily but it had cost him
almost one hundred dead and almost twice that wounded. The only good thing that
came out of the battle was that the last of the rebellious nobles had been
killed.

After the battle, Luke started his march back to York. Since it was the
middle of summer, he kept the march at a slower pace and made sure that his
army had plenty of water and rest. The last thing he wanted to do was to cause
his soldiers to suffer from heat exhaustion, especially when there was no
pressing reason that they needed to hurry to York. So, Luke and the army took
their time going back. They stopped to help build difficult sections of road
and to occasionally help farmers with their chores. In the end, a march that
could have been done in a couple of days, ended up taking two weeks. The plus
side was that support for Marion had been shored up in the region and Luke knew
that in the near future, that would prove vital. He knew that support for
Marion was still very shaky and he suspected that most of her support was
because people feared him. One day he hoped that people would support her for
her but he feared that this was still a long way off.

The sight when they got back to York left most of them speechless, for the
city had changed drastically in the month and a half that they had been gone.
All the streets were now paved, with concrete, with trees and flowers planted
along the sides. New streets had been laid out and were in the process of
having either their sewers put in or were being paved. New buildings made of
brick and concrete were going up everywhere it seemed. The biggest difference
though was the sheer number of people present in the city. They were everywhere
and they all seemed to be doing some job. The biggest surprise they got though
was from Marion herself; for she ordered that the army march right through the
center of town and to assemble in the castle courtyard.

Luke paused the army outside of York for an hour or so, so that the soldiers
had a chance to clean up a bit and look their best. He made sure that he also
got cleaned up as well. The route to the castle was packed with civilians who
had all turned out to cheer for their army. Finally, it was time; and Luke had
the band led the way, into the city, but the crowd was so loud that barely
anyone could even hear the band. Luke estimated that every one of his soldiers
probably gained five pounds from all the flowers they got. On the way in Luke
had even observed a Jewish synagogue being built with the help of some of the
Christian pastors of the city. Although Luke didn’t really like religion all
that much, he did approve of everyone being allowed to be open with their faith
and practice it in peace. When the army got to the castle gates, they swung
open to reveal Marion and Gabriel standing there, in uniform, to personally
welcome the soldiers back home. Anyone that had any doubts as to Marion’s
ability to be a great leader, had them put to rest that day; for Marion proved
that not only was she an excellent administrator but also that she was
extremely popular with not only her troops but also the population as a whole.
By now everyone had accepted her and Gabriel as a couple when the general
wasn’t in town. When he was in town, every straight leaning guy between puberty
and dead was jealous of him because he had two of the most beautiful and
intelligent women to share his bed with every night.

Since Luke had been about halfway back in the parade, it took him a while
before Marion got to him. When she did, everyone watching expected that she
would jump into his arms. Instead, Luke snapped to attention and gave one of
the crispest salutes that anyone had ever seen.

“General MacDougall and army returning to York as ordered, ma’am.” Marion
returned his salute,

“On behalf of the people of York I am pleased to welcome you and your troops
back to York. You, your troops, and their families are all invited to a banquet
this evening. The doors to the banquet hall will open at eighteen-thirty hours
and will remain open until all the food and drink are gone.”

Everyone in the army was stunned from Luke on down. There had been no news
about a banquet. In addition, everyone was stunned by this display for they
were sure that Luke would be greeted by his wife; instead, he was greeted by
Marion of York, his commander. Luke was actually glad that Marion had done this
for this would help reinforce her position as the military’s
commander-in-chief. Personally, though he was pissed about the banquet, for he
wanted to do nothing more that night than rock his beautiful wife’s world all
night long. For tomorrow he had paperwork to do. Luke turned to the troops once
Marion had finished.

“Due to the banquet everyone has a forty-eight-hour leave starting at
seventeen hundred hours this afternoon. Attention! Dismissed!”

The troops started making their way to the barracks so that they could get
their gear stored away and they could be ready for leave. Luke still had hours
of work ahead of him though. Reports had to be filed, casualty list had to be
updated, supplies had to be inventoried and new supplies had to be
requisitioned. All this Luke had to get done before he could go on leave. So as
the troops headed toward their barracks; he headed for his office for hours of
paperwork. ‘Yippy, and now I have that damn banquet to go to tonight.’ thought
Luke as he walked toward his office. When he tried to unlock his office door,
his key wouldn’t work.

“What the fuck?” Luke said to himself. He was now starting to get really
pissed off and was actually wishing that he was still in the field. He would
have used his old-fashioned door opener but when he had designed the door, he
made it so that it was virtually impossible to force the door open without a
tank or explosives. Plan C was to pick the lock but his tools were in his
chambers. “Well fuck me.” Luke grumbled as he headed to his chamber to get his
tools for, he really wanted to get the paperwork done so that he could
actually, hopefully, enjoy a couple days off.

Luke was in for another surprise when he got back into his chamber for, he
found that his dress uniform was laid out with a note. “Why can’t I just get my
fucking work done?” growled Luke as he picked up the note:

“Luke, make sure to wear your dress uniform this evening. I changed the lock
on your office door so that you can’t lock yourself in your office and I have
hidden your tools so that you can’t pick the lock. Gabriel will come by to get
you at eighteen hundred so make sure that you are ready. I promise you that it
will be worth it.

Your loving wife,

Marion”

“Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!” Luke screamed as he sent his fist through a nearby door.
Now because of Marion he would have to spend a good chunk of his days off
catching up on paperwork. He hated when people did this to him for, he was one
of those people who hated to procrastinate. Luke looked out one of their
windows at the brand-new clock tower outside. It said that it was fifteen
thirty. ‘Fuck, how the hell am I going to kill two and a half hours?’ he
thought. ‘Well, I guess I can try out the shower that Marion has been writing
about so much’. Luke stripped down and went into their bathroom. He turned on
the water and was surprised at just how well it worked. The shower helped him
unwind a bit, but he was still aggravated enough that little Luke didn’t rise
at all which was odd for bath time. He turned the water off, dried off, and
collapsed in bed. It had been well over a month since he had been in a
comfortable bed so he passed out really quickly despite being pissed.

Chapter 57.

After Marion had given her troops the news about the banquet, she and
Gabriel retreated back into the castle.

“Did you hide Luke’s tools?” asked Marion.

“Yep, I highly doubt that he will find them for they are in his office and
you have the only key around your neck.”

“Okay just make sure to get him this evening for I willi