Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2021 14:15:00 +0000 From: Andrew Passey Subject: The Amulet Part Five (Young Friends) (Science Fiction) "Take a seat, and let's do introductions. I'm Matthias although you can call me Matt, and that's Thomas," The taller boy said pointing at the smaller one. We introduced ourselves and sat down on some chairs. "We should radio down that we've found some possible spies," Thomas said to Matt who scoffed slightly. "They seem unlikely to be spies," Matt said. "They're almost certainly just a bunch of weirdos. But it needs further investigation. First of all, the toilet is in that room should you need it although if it's a piss you can just go outside if it's busy. However while I don't think you're spies I can't be sure. We need to search your bags and your clothes. So strip off please." This surprised me and I wasn't happy about it. However Matt's tone made it clear he wasn't willing to compromise on that. There had been no mention of Jews and it's quite possible things ended up very different here than in my world. But who knows? I wasn't convinced the Nazi's changed their spots that much so I thought of what I'd say if we were challenged. We put our bags down and stripped down to pants before Matt looked at us with a slight smile. "All your clothes so those need to come off. But one at a time. Thomas, search them thoroughly and check they aren't smuggling anything up their bums or under their balls," Matt said with a smile at Thomas. "Do I have to?" Thomas said. "Someone has to and you know I certainly don't want to be near any boy's balls, " Matt replied with a smirk and Thomas looked annoyed. Still, Matt obviously called the shots as Thomas walked over to Lee. He told him to pull his pants off. Lee did as he was told, as he did it I tensed up. "Matthias! Look!" Thomas said urgently as Lee reluctantly pulled his pants off to show his cut dick. Matt's expression and mood definitely turned as he noticed and the room suddenly felt more tense. "Well now. This is serious. Maybe you are spies but even if not there is a lot of explaining to do. How and why is there a Jew with you," Matt said, walking over to Lee and lifting his small dick with his hand up to show his lack of a foreskin. I laughed loudly, hopefully not sounding too fake. "A Jew?! Of course he's not a Jew! Look at his hair! It's red! When did you ever hear of a ginger Jew? He just had a tight foreskin when he was younger and needed to be cut. Don't worry though you're not the first person to get confused," I said. My friends all faked laughs and Lee forced a smile. "You guys always take the piss out of my dick. It's not my fault I had to be cut. It still all works though!" He said and that seemed to relax the tension. Matt and Thomas looked at each other and had a whispered urgent conversation. "That does make sense, after all we know Jews aren't ginger," Matt said. Thomas looked like he was about to protest but Matt waved him away. "Can I get dressed now?" Lee asked but Thomas said he still had to check him. He got him to bend over and then checked under his balls. Thomas was noticeable tenting after this and rearranged himself before then going on to inspect Alex, me ("no hairs!") he said with a snigger and finally a "fucking hell" as James pulled his pants down. The weather turned and it started to rain again. It was heavy with the sound of distant thunder. We were allowed to get dressed again and the boys decided to search our bags. We watched as they rifled through our possessions. Clearly the majority of them were just boring like socks and pants but as they found our phones that caused another stir as Apple seemed to be a brand that wasn't in existence in the UK. Or maybe at all in this world. Which I guess made sense if there was a strange political situation between the UK and the US. "Where did you get these?" Matt asked sternly, waving a phone at Lee. "It's just a brand new model, top of the range, My Dad bought it for me. It's very new. Surprised you haven't seen them here yet, look I'll unlock it for you, use the passcode 696969" Lee said which called a bit of a giggle. Matt became obsessed by the phone, scrolling through apps and stuff with gasps of amazement. Thomas was clearly suspicious about the phone. However Matt said he thought he recognised the type of phone now he was close to it. He just bemoaned the fact that his parents didn't have the money to get him one. Matt then put the phone down before he had a break from searching and chatted to us about his life. He was a nice boy, almost 15 and a good sense of humour. It seemed strange to think of him as a Nazi but then again I got the feeling it was a necessity not a choice. It was getting towards twilight so he suggested we stay the night before they worked out what to do with us tomorrow. He went to sort out some food and drinks and asked Lee to help him in the kitchenette off the main room. It took them a while and there was a lot of whispering going on between the two of them with the occasional giggle. After a while they came back with bowls and we were served pasta with a very basic sauce. It did warm us up though and was very welcome. It was decided we would sleep on the floor on our sleeping bags before Thomas said he would be doing night watch so had to go to bed. Apparently night watch meant getting up at dawn to check all was ok. It sounded pretty brutal to me, who wants to get up early every day?! We stayed up a bit longer chatting before Matt said he was off to bed. He smiled at Lee, "You're probably the smallest and it seems silly for everyone to sleep on the floor. I've got loads of room in my bed Lee if you fancy a soft mattress rather than the floor?" he asked. To my utter surprise Lee shrugged and said that sounded good so off the two of them went. "What the fuck is going on?!" James whispered. "Do you think they might be doing stuff together?" Alex laughed, "No fucking way, did you hear how they had contempt in their voice for "homosexuals"? However something is going on. I guess we'll find out from Lee tomorrow. What do you think will happen? I guess they'll let us go or maybe take us to the police?" He asked sounding concerned. "We need to get out of here really, and when I say here I mean this world. Lee can't get away with it forever and if they ask too many questions it'll become even clearer that we're not from here. Up to now they've been pretty lax with their questioning, but an adult would easily have exposed our lies by now."I said. I held my amulet and shook it hopefully but nothing happened. "Why do you think it's no longer working?" James asked, referring to my amulet. "No fucking idea! Maybe it only activates when I'm in danger? But your guess is as good as mine," I said. I really had no idea but I really hoped it would wake up at some point soon. I wanted to ask it questions let alone get out of this world. What I really wanted at this point though was to cuddle up to Alex but we knew it was too dangerous in case we got caught. So the three of us just fell asleep in a line together. I woke to being poked with something. I quickly realised it wasn't something fun like Alex's hard dick poking in to me. I looked up to see Thomas standing there looking stern with a gun. "Get up and sit on that chair," he said to me. I looked round and saw Alex and James already sat on chairs sitting in their pants and tied up. "What's going on?!" I asked sleepily. It was light outside but it was clearly early. Thomas was quiet until he'd tied me to the chair. "This!" Thomas said, showing me a photo on Lee's phone. It was him with a t- shirt with the Star of David on. I know Lee wasn't a practising Jew so I guessed it was probably a present from his paternal grandparents. He was probably only wearing it ironically but with that and the lack of foreskin it was going to be hard to argue that he wasn't a Jew this time "What?!" I asked innocently. "Don't. Just don't. He's a filthy fucking Jew. I knew it. Matt must know and is keeping him captive in his room which is sensible. You are in a world of trouble. Deliberately sheltering a Jew is a very serious crime and you're all guilty of it." He went over and banged on Matt's door who opened it after a few minutes. There was a whispered conversation and Matt came out in his underwear looking very serious. Despite the situation I couldn't help but check out his bulge which looked pretty decent. However I focused back on our predicament. They now knew Lee had Jewish blood and it was clear that this was a tinderbox of a situation. At best we'd be marched down the hill to their superiors and who knows what would happen to Lee then. At worst an itchy trigger finger now might end us all. We didn't have much choice though as we were tied up. This would need all our skills to talk our way out of it. "Give me the gun. I'll guard these traitors while you radio down to update and ask for assistance. There's four of them and we're outnumbered so need back up in case they try and jump us," Matt said sternly, pointing the gun at us. "Are you sure? We should just shoot them anyway," Thomas said before Matt pulled rank and insisted. Thomas went to get the radio fired up which was behind us so we couldn't see what was going on. Matt still had his gun pointed at us but then moved over towards Thomas. Thomas started to talk, "This is guard post 2386 with an urgent request for help..over. The radio crackled before a voice came over, "Received 2386. This is home base. Give your update...over" came back. We were in a world of shit and I didn't know how we were going to get out of it. Thomas was about to speak when suddenly there was a thud. "We are running low on toilet paper due to minor flooding from the storm. Aside from that no update...over," Matt's voice then said. "Guard post 2386. Urgent updates are for urgent operational updates only. Do not use this channel for trivial matters like this again. Home base out. Over". Matt came over and untied us, "Don't do anything stupid, we need to talk," he said firmly. I looked round at the radio and could see Thomas slumped on the floor. Matt must have knocked him out "Lee come in, it's safe," he shouted and Lee walked in naked, bleary eyed. He had pants in his hand and pulled them on. I did clock that he'd been naked in there with Matt though. "What the fuck is going on?!" I asked in surprise and confusion. "I know Lee is a Jew. I saw the photo last night and your explanation about being ginger wasn't particularly convincing. It was just enough for me to persuade Thomas you weren't though. Luckily for you I'm not a fan of the Nazis. I'm just an ordinary boy with no choice. Thomas though, he's a full blown zealot. I can get you out of here but I don't know where you'll go after this. Thomas is knocked out but he'll come to eventually. And even if I tie him up if we don't radio in then eventually someone will come," He said looking serious, "Why should we trust you? This is probably just more Nazi talk. It's just a big trap that you want us to walk into!" James said. It was clear he disliked the boys after the African jibe and who could blame him? However we weren't really in a position where we had much choice. "It's ok, we can trust him," Lee said. "Really? How do you know?" Alex asked, scoffing. "He doesn't fit in here either. He...er......proved it to me last night by doing something that would lead to a serious punishment for him if it got out," Lee said blushing bright red. I raised an eyebrow at him and he looked away clearly embarrassed. "You don't have to protect me Lee. I'm a homosexual. I like boys. I really like Lee even if he is a Jew! I told him when we were in the kitchen that I knew he was lying but that I fancied him. I had to hide that from Thomas though. I do not want to go to a re-education camp. We had a fun night together. Lee's told me all about his life and yours. I want out of here and Lee said you might have a way?" Matt said smiling at Lee and then us. "Well....we might do but it's stopped working." Alex said looking at me in concern. "Also no offence Matt but we barely know you. You are a nazi after all and you can't come with us," He said firmly. "Yes he can. I'm not going without him. He protected me and saved my life. I owe him for that...and more. And I really like him too!" Lee said with a shy smile. This was a fast moving situation. Was Lee gay then? Had he simply got some sort of Stockholm syndrome? Not that it was the pressing concern but it was complicating the situation. In an ideal world the four of us would just get out of there. But as I could tell, this world was far from ideal. I sighed, "Ok. I don't know why it's not working but I wonder if there are places where the space between worlds is thinner? Maybe if we walk back to where we came through then that might help?" I asked. I suspected that wasn't true as it would be a real coincidence if we'd been about to be attacked at a place where the worlds were close. Unless that was why they were able to get to me there? My head hurt with the complicated nature of it all and we didn't have a better idea. It would also help to put some distance between us and the hut. I wasn't in charge but I had made my decision about Matt and I hoped no one disagreed. "Matt can come with us. Lee has vouched for him and he did save us just now. Although Matt I'm sure you'll appreciate we'll have to keep an eye on you. There is also the matter of sleeping arrangements. We only have two tents," I said, thinking through the logistics. "Thanks Sam. I have a one man tent I can take with us. It's not as fancy as yours but should do the job," Matt said. "I think for now Matt should be watched at all times. I'm happy to share the tent with him and James can use the one man tent," Lee said smiling at Matt who smiled back. Something was clearly going on but I had no time to work it all out. We wanted to get out of there just in case the early radio call had flagged anything up. Matt tied Thomas to a chair and packed up as we got ready to leave. Thomas started to stir and tried to wriggle free. "Why Matt, why? He's a filthy Jew. His friends could be spies. Why are you helping them?" He complained. Matt looked apologetic, "I'm sorry Thomas. It's complicated. I can't live here anymore. I like boys. If people found out It would be serious for me. Why should I need to live a lie? I'm going and please don't try to follow. I'll radio down and ask for assistance so someone will come and find you," He said. Thomas looked at him with revulsion, "You're one of THEM? Oh my god! I've shared this place with you for days. You could have tried to jump me and bum me or anything!" He said clearly appalled. "Don't flatter yourself Thomas. You're not my type. I prefer red headed Jews!" Matt said grinning as Lee who blushed as red as his hair. I suspected it was also said to hurt Thomas and it worked. He was virtually frothing at the mouth by the time and we got ready to go. Matt radioed asking for non urgent back up later that day so they would find Thomas and we headed out to try and retrace our steps. As we walked I held my amulet tightly, how did I activate it? Could I activate it? I tried thinking of lots of words that might work but it seemed a dead end. Instead I dropped back slightly to talk to Lee letting Matt head forward to talk to Alex and James. "Sooooooo........"I started. Lee looked at me, "Fucks sake, just come out and ask me Sam," He said looking slightly annoyed. "Ok. Are you gay and what did you and Matt do last night?" I asked cutting to the chase "I'm not sure. Something amazing" he said simply. "Evasive!" I said grinning at him. "Jesus fucking Christ Sam. It's none of your fucking business! You think because you and Alex have got together I have to tell you everything I did with Matt? Very well. We had a very honest chat. He told me about himself and I told him about me. We then had more chatting and realised we have a lot in common...and then we had some fun involving our hands...and our mouths. Happy?!" He asked exasperatedly. I was happy for him but also slightly jealous. They'd done oral already?! Well that was something I needed to do with Alex to catch up. "I'm happy if you're happy. But being honest Lee..you've only just met him. He's a Nazi. You're a Jew. Can't you see the problem?!" I asked. Lee looked annoyed, "He's not a Nazi and it's not like we're getting married or anything. For now it's just a bit of fun. I'm who knows where and also who knows when I'll be back home. It's nice to have someone else to hang around with and someone...to hold close, and who is happy to tell me he thinks I'm cute. I trust him. He saved me and the rest of us after all. If it wasn't for him we'd probably be waiting to be marched down to Brighton by a bunch of soldiers. So let me and Matt work it out between us," He said in a tone that suggested the conversation was over. With that he walked on to catch the others up leaving me standing there thinking. Lee was right. It was none of my business really although the fact Matt who was he was meant it was tricky. We needed to get out of this world and somewhere safer for Lee so we could sort it all out. "I need help. We need to leave this world,"I said holding the amulet tightly. I wasn't expecting anything as let's be fair it had refused all my attempts so far. To my surprise, it glowed in my hand and fired a beam out creating a gateway again. But no words. No answers to my questions. Silence. I suspected we weren't in imminent danger so it didn't feel the need to talk but it was impossible to tell. Still, it had at least opened a gateway to who knows where, but surely it had to be safer than here. The others stopped and looked at the shimmering hole to another world. I nodded to show it was me, well my amulet anyway that created it. Matt looked in shock at it but with a shrug he watched as James walked through followed by the rest of us. Matt paused at the entrance until Lee nodded and he followed him in.