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By Alvin Leader (akinspal@aol.com)


It was near winter when I docked the boat at the cove near the cabin. It was foolish to come up here so late in the season; there was no fishing to speak of and the cabin was built for summer use not for the winter weather that one could expect this time of year.

The cabin is located in a little cove near Gottard hot springs just about two hours by boat from Sitka Alaska. I had come up here to enjoy the scenery and to take one more plunge into the healing waters of the natural thermal springs in the area before winter really set in.

The City of Sitka had erected two log shelters with large wooden tubs where one could enjoy the hot waters that flowed through.

After I secured the boat, I went to the cabin, lit the lantern and started the fire in the wood stove. I wanted to start the fire in the fireplace also but I also wanted go the springs before dark and the fireplace is too risky to leave unattended.

I started up the quarter-mile-winding path from the cabin to the springs. When I arrived, I checked the first tub enclosure to see if the tub was filled. It was empty. Everybody is supposed to open the drain valve when you are finished using the tub, to let the water run through and out so that alga does not form when the tubs were not in use. I was hoping that someone had forgotten to let the water out of one of the tubs, for it takes a while to fill.

I looked at the other shelter and I saw to my delight that the drain valve was still closed and hot steaming water was spilling out of the overflow.

I went into the shelter to remove my clothes. I was there later than I should have been, the sun had gone down and inside the shelter was very dark. After hanging up my clothes I padded over to the tub that was barely visible in the dim light.

I climbed up the ladder and started down the interior steps.

"Excuse me"! A feminine voice called out.

"Oh I'm so sorry." I said. "I didn't know anyone was here."

I started to leave.

"Please don't go." I heard the haunting voice again.

"But lady, I don't have anything on." I said.

"That's ok I don't have anything on either." She replied.

"My name is Alvin, Alfie everyone calls me." I said.

"My name is Toni." She replied.

"How did you get up here?" I asked.

"I have a canoe." She replied.

"A canoe this time of year?" I asked in amazement. "You could have gotten killed with the way the weather is up. Sudden storms can come up with absolutely no warning."

"Well to tell you the truth I didn't care if I ever got back." She lamented.

"What do you mean you wanted to do away with yourself?" I asked.

"I guess not, but I wanted to do something to get away and be alone." She said.

"Well you are certainly all alone out here." I said. "Well until I came around that is."

"I'm really glad that you showed up, I guess I didn't really want to be alone after all." She confessed.

The conversation suddenly stopped. Each of us was wondering what we might talk about next. I didn't want to pry into her troubles so I waited until she felt comfortable enough to continue the conversation.

Finally, she broke the awkward silence.

"How did you get up here?" She asked.

"I have a boat docked at a cabin in the next cove." I replied.

"Where were you going to spend the night?" I asked.

"I have a tent." She replied.

As we were talking we could hear the wind picking up outside.

"Sounds like a storm brewing." I said.

"I think I'll be heading back to the cabin. If there is anything that you need, my cabin is right over the hill." I offered.

I climbed out of the tub dried myself and dressed; then I walked down to the shore to see what kind of shelter that the lady had. From what I could see, she was not prepared for the weather for this time of year. Her tent was made for summer use and she had yet to set it up. It was just rolled out on the ground. Her canoe was too close to the water and not tied up; the next tide would carry it out to sea. I pulled her boat higher up the beach well above high tide and returned to the shelter to offer her a stay at my cabin for the night.

When I arrived, Toni had a small lantern going and was drying herself with a large towel. She hadn't noticed me standing there. I was caught up with the sight of her nude body as she went about drying herself. After a few moments of watching her, I regained my gentlemanly good sense, and moved out of sight before calling her name.

"Toni." I called. "Maybe you had better come to the cabin tonight; the weather is really getting bad."

"I'll be alright." She said as she stepped out of the shelter.

She still had the lantern and I could see that she was wearing only the towel, as she passed me and walked down towards her camp.

"MY CANOE"! She yelled. "Why did you pull it way up here?"

I walked over to the pile of seaweed and flotsam that the last high tide had deposited.

"I pulled it up because the tide comes way up to here." I said quite indignantly. Pointing out the line where the last tide had left its' debris.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know. I guess I'm not very good at this." She said.

Just then, it started to rain. A little at first then it started down in buckets.

Toni's tent and sleeping bag became soaked immediately. Toni was soaked and chilled as well.

"Come on, grab what you can carry and lets go" I insisted.

I grabbed the tent and used it as a makeshift umbrella. Toni grabbed her backpack and slung it over one shoulder. By this time everything was soaked. I tried to hold the tent over us as we ran up the trail. Toni tried to hold the towel around her in a futile attempt at modesty but modesty was of lesser concern. Keeping from freezing to death by running for shelter was her first concern.

By the time we reached the cabin, the wind had picked up and it had begun to snow.

We both burst through the door to be met with the warmth of the wood stove that was putting out its maximum heat. I brought Toni over to the stove and went to the bathroom to get some fresh towels. When I returned Toni was standing over the stove trying to absorb as much heat into her naked body as she could. I wrapped two large fluffy dry towels around her and went to start the fireplace to add its heat and light to the cabin.

In a few minutes the fire was filling the room with added heat and a warm glow.

"Do you drink coffee? I asked.

"No" She said. "But I'll take tea if you have it."

"Good it's more of a hot tea night anyway." I said.

I brought out the teapot to heat on the stove. Toni was sitting between the stove and the fireplace staring at the fire. She had wrapped herself in the two towels and looked reasonably warm.

"You know, if you hadn't come along I might have died out there." She said.

"I don't know if you would have died, but you would have been very uncomfortable." I said.

I went up to the loft to change. I could see Toni down on the main floor as I changed and I wondered what could have caused her to almost throw her life away. She was attractive and smart; what could have hurt her so?

I returned to the living room with a large heavy robe a pair of heavy socks and a tee shirt for her. She thanked me, deftly dropped the towel and donned the tee shirt without waiting for me to turn my back or leave. She put the oversized robe around her and put on the socks.

"Thank you...... Alfie is it?"

"Alfie will do just fine." I said.

The water was boiling and I went to get our tea.

We sat on either ends of the long couch talking. I tried to get Toni to talk about what ever was bothering her enough to try to get away from people the way she did.

It took a while but I finally found out the reason.

It was a man.

Toni told of her ex-husband who left her unexpectedly. Toni had made a commitment for life and he had thrown that commitment and her life away. I tried to tell her things that I thought were true and that would help her, such as she was attractive and smart and she could start a new life with someone else, but she wasn't buying it.

The fire was dying out and I explained to Toni that I had to let the stove and the fireplace go out. It wasn't safe to let them burn while we were sleeping. The danger of smoke inhalation or carbon dioxide poisoning was too great.

"I'll sleep down here on the couch and you can have the bed in the loft." I told her.

"Are you sure you will be warm enough?" She asked.

"I'll be ok; I've slept down here plenty of times."

I lied. Who would want to sleep down here on this hard couch when there was a big soft feather mattress and a down comforter up in the loft?

I went to the closet and got out everything there was to cover myself; this was going to be one cold night. I thought.

The storm continued to howl outside. There was a lot of snow and the wind was blowing it around the cabin in large drifts.

I heard the rustling of the comforter as Toni crawled into bed. Oh how I envied her. That had to be the most comfortable bed in existence.

Soon the cabin was silent.

'She sure went to sleep in a hurry' I thought to myself. I tried to hunker down under the pile of blankets that I had arranged. Sleep was not going to come easy for me tonight.

Then I heard her voice.

"Alfie." Toni whispered. "Alfie are you awake?"

"Yea Toni, what's wrong, are you alright?" I asked.

"Yes, I'm ok, I was worrying about you." She said.

"You could come up here if you wanted to, I don't want to do anything like, ----you know, but I could use a warm body to cuddle if you are interested." She said.

"Are you sure that's what you want?" I asked.

"I can trust you can't I?" She said.

"Yes I think so." I replied.

I climbed the ladder to the loft.

I eased myself into the bed and settled down. Toni lay on the other side of the bed with her back to me. After I settled down I lay on my back and was just about to fall asleep when she abruptly rolled over and put her arm around me and laid her head on my chest.

"You don't mind do you, I need someone to hold tonight."

Then she promptly fell asleep.

I lay there listening to her soft snores feeling her warm body partly on top of mine and then I finally drifted off to sleep.

I woke several times during the night, and I found Toni in the same place every time. Except for the fact that she was holding me even tighter. She had wrapped her body around me even more. I had to think about something else besides her near naked body doing crazy things to me. I didn't think that she needed my male libido putting stress on her right then. I forced my desires from my head.

She stirred again and gained more ground on my body. Her leg was between my legs and she had moved up so there was more of her on top of me then before. Then she resumed her gentle snoring that was not the least bit unpleasant.

I finally went back to sleep.

***

It was the bright rays of the sun streaming through the window that awakened us.

Toni looked up at me and smiled. I was taken by how pretty she was even in the morning.

Toni made no move to disentangle her self from me.

"Thank you for last night." She said.

"Thanks for what, I didn't do anything." I said.

"That's what I am thanking you for." She said.

"Oh that." I said.

"Yes you were a perfect gentleman, and for that I thank you." She added. "I don't think that I could have refused you if you had wanted to make love to me last night.

"It wasn't easy." I said.

"I know it was hard for you, I could tell." She said laughing at her own pun.

"I'm going to have to get up and start the fires." I said.

"Oh don't go please." She asked. "I'm not cold and I don't want you to leave, we could never find this comfortable position ever again."

I didn't move, I didn't want to break the spell either, but there was a danger of me demonstrating vividly exactly how I was feeling about her if I didn't move soon.

Toni looked up and into my face and kissed me. I kissed her back. She then laid her head back on my chest and snuggled in tighter. There was again the evidence of how much I enjoyed her kiss but she seemed to ignore it.

We talked again about her life and problems and at the end of our conversation, she agreed that she did have something to live for and she was going back to her life in Anchorage with a renewed vigor. But for now she was just going to relax with me here in the cabin for as long as I would let her stay. I told her that she could stay as long as she needed. She soon drifted off to sleep again. I think that she had a renewed sense of well being and I had the idea that I had just met someone who excited me very much.

Soon after Toni went back to sleep, I gently slid out from underneath her and went down to stoke up the stove and fireplace; it must have been almost noon. The bright sun of early morning had turned into more storm clouds.

After both fires began to blaze, I went back up to crawl into bed. Toni had rolled into my spot and there was little room left on my side of the bed. I slid in to the space that was left. Toni reached for me in her sleep and was shocked to find a very cold Alfie. She woke up trying to decide what had happened to her warm bed partner. When she heard the stove crackling she understood and moved back to her original position. She was soon asleep again.

I must have gone to sleep for awhile, for the next thing that I remember is hearing the rattling of pots in the downstairs kitchen. I also smelled bacon frying.

As I came down the ladder I saw Toni in the kitchen fixing breakfast. She was at the wood stove holding a frying pan getting ready to flip some eggs.

"Did you finally decide to wake up?" She asked.

I answered her by putting my arms around her from behind and thanked her for the wonderful smells that she was putting into the cabin. Toni laid her head to one side as I hugged her and I accepted the invitation by gently kissing the nap of her neck. I think I did the right thing because she moaned and laid her hand along side my head to hold it there, so I continued kissing it until there was a danger of our breakfast burning.

After breakfast I cleaned up the kitchen while Toni tended to her gear.

"We should have hung your clothes up to dry last night." I commented as Toni moved around the cabin hanging up her things.

"Its ok they will dry quickly in here and I can wear your tee shirt until they do dry." Toni said.

"I hope you're going to keep that robe on." I said.

"It's getting much too hot in here to keep this heavy robe on." She said as she dropped it off her shoulders.

"You are making it har... I mean difficult for me, just wearing that shirt." I said.

"I'm sorry but I don't see the real harm, even if you couldn't control yourself, after all you saved my life in more ways than one; there should be something that I can offer you in return; unless, of course, you find me totally unattractive."

She had that playful look in her eye that made want to carry her up to the loft and collect my reward.

"I think you know that I find you more than attractive. I consider you someone that I would really like to get close to. And there, fair lady is the problem. If we were to jump into bed now, before we really got to know each other I fear that it would doom any chance for a lasting relationship." I reasoned.

"Ok, it's your call; I will remain ready for you when ever YOU think that we know each other well enough. I feel as if I owe you that much.

I guess you're right though; it might be too soon for us to get intimate.

Besides being around an iron man like you should be fun just to see how long you can hold out." She said with that same playful look.

She busied herself by moving around the cabin hanging her things over chairs and anything else that was available. Toni would stretch and bend and otherwise move in the most provocative ways around the room. Or was I just imagining it. No, she was a sexy woman moving in her natural way; it was just extremely unsettling for me.

The only solution to my problem was for me not to watch her, but I found that very difficult.

"Can we go to the hot tubs today?" Toni asked.

"I don't see why not, when would you like to go?" I replied.

"How about right after we finish up cleaning the kitchen." She said.

"It's a date." I said.

"Is this our first date?" She said with that same playful look.

"If you are counting, I guess it is." I said.

The weather was still uncertain outside. Although the wind had stopped there were snowdrifts that were three feet deep that we would have to wade through to get to the tubs.

I looked for something for Toni to wear. I found sweat pants and a flannel shirt of mine that were much too large for her, but all her clothes were still too wet. She would have to wear her wet hiking boots though I had nothing that would fit her feet. I brought the clothes down for her and laid them on the couch while I finished up in the kitchen.

Toni didn't seem to have any inhibitions in front of me. She lifted the tee shirt from her body and stood there in full view as she donned the shirt and pants.

"I guess I would have to say that we are getting to know each other pretty well." I commented as she dressed.

"I hope you don't mind. I didn't see any point in climbing way up to the loft for the sake of modesty, since we are sleeping together." She said as she pulled a brush through her hair.

"Are you ready?" I asked.

"I'm ready." She said.