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- The following is a new story, part of a late series I've been
- writing. There are two posts, and the first hasn't got much sex in
- it (sorry), but set up is required. Hope you like them.
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- Journal Entry 192 / 0622@END_FILE_ID.DIZ
-
-
- "Ken!" I heard the shout over the general din of boarding. I
- turned to see Kathy running towards me at full tilt. "Hi!"
-
- "Hi yourself, sweetheart. How you been?"
-
- "Fine! What are you doing here?"
-
- "Boarding, what does it look like I'm doing?"
-
- "Boarding? You mean... you're going with us?"
-
- "You didn't know?"
-
- "No! I just go assigned to the Pellaeon Elen just a few weeks ago.
- I heard they're going to de-commission the Eldarfaroth."
-
- "Yup, and they're re-commissioning the Pellaeon Elen."
-
- "As what?"
-
- "The Eldarfaroth-class Pellaeon Elen."
-
- "What?"
-
- "Yup. Ian's getting his name in the history books. Oh, by the
- way, I have some interesting news."
-
- "Yeah?"
-
- I nodded. "P'nyssa's coming on."
-
- She looked confused. "You mean, P'nyssa's going with us?" I nodded
- again. "Then, that means... you and I can't..."
-
- "We'll see. It'll take some time to work out. But now that we're
- at least in the same neighborhood-" she smiled- "we can work things out.
- How's your new ship?"
-
- "A disaster." She smiled wide as she said it.
-
- "How so?"
-
- "The new sickbay is a disaster. Is P'nyssa going to be head of
- medical? I haven't had time to check the roster yet. Can you beleive,
- a crew of nearly three thousand?"
-
- "I can believe it. Some of the arcovessels are that much bigger."
-
- "But those are sea-going vessels, not starships. I can't imagine
- three thousand jobs a starship needs done."
-
- "You can't? Parma support nearly twelve thousand."
-
- "Well, I can. But some of them are... well, they cancel each other
- out."
-
- "They're self-referential."
-
- "Yeah."
-
- We walked down one of the many hallways, this one done in blue.
- "Well, what's wrong with the sickbay?"
-
- "After the incident at Aknat, starfleet command decided to take
- White's Theorem seriously, so we're getting a full lab. The stresses
- that the main White's lab has to take are absurd. Forty Gee, a complete
- bank of radiators, and the atmospherics! Up to 200 atmospheres, gas or
- liquid, plus a complete AV-VR system that'll survive it all!"
-
- "So, does it work?"
-
- "Of course it works. I helped put it together, after all."
-
- I laughed. "It's nice to hear your confidence. I remember you as
- a new Captain of Engineering, almost bald at the end of a mission
- because you'd been pulling your hair out."
-
- She smiled. "It took a few decades, but yeah, I feel a lot better
- now."
-
- "Still play?" I asked, putting an odd stress on the second word.
-
- "Still got the key to my heart?"
-
- "Right here," I said, tapping my shirt. We smiled the knowing
- smile of the centuries. "It's good to know you're still you."
-
- "Well, I've still changed a lot. But yeah, I need the release now
- more than ever. Oh, you didn't answer my question."
-
- I thought about our conversation. "Oh, about Nyss? No, she's
- going to be on second shift. She got a commander's rank respective to
- the head of Medical. Who is head of Medical, anyway?"
-
- "Dunno. Like I said, haven't checked that part of the roster. All
- I've met is the primary bridge crew and my engineering staff."
-
- "What do you make of Captain Argent?" I asked.
-
- "She's big." I laughed. Etta Argent, in my assessment, has to be
- the most muscular human female I've ever met. She stands exactly two
- meters tall, and standing in front of her is like standing before a
- brick wall. She's also a very sweet person. And, in both Josh and
- Ian's opinions, a damn fine captain. She'd better be. They had decided
- to give her the ship of the line.
-
- "Oh," Kathy continued. "A couple of things you might like to know.
- Karri's going out with the exo team."
-
- "Karri Waltonan?"
-
- "The one and only. Or is that 'two and only?'"
-
- "It's 'one,' and don't ever make that mistake. She's gone through
- a lot. Building her was a mistake I've regretted for a long time."
-
- "From your letters, I thought you liked her."
-
- "I love her, Kathy, she's a sweet person, but what I did was
- wrong."
-
- "Why?"
-
- "Kathy, Karri isn't like you and me. Beyond Dolphins and AIs and
- Tellakelvars, Karri is alien. Most people want to know the name of her
- 'other' body, as if the two were seperate. They're not. It takes
- forever to learn that. You may be talking to her right in front of you,
- and she may also be talking halfway across the ship to another person,
- but you can't afford to think of that as 'her other half.' It's not.
- It's her, and that's that.
-
- "But she talks as if there were two of them."
-
- "Yeah, well, that's because its... I dunno. It's hard to explain.
- It's like having to consciousnesses sharing one memory bank. Since we
- react to our environment, and since her bodies are genetically similar,
- there's not much difference between them. Even though one 'experiences'
- an event and the other 'remembers' it, after a few seconds that becomes
- insignificant. They both 'remember' what just happened. The other
- thing is that I didn't anthropomorphize her. She's just a standard
- Pamtheat, except that she has two bodies."
-
- "And can teleport, and is sentient, and is wired for biocybe, and
- can talk. I've met her, Ken. She's really a neat person."
-
- What the... You would think, after almost eight centuries, I'd
- stop thinking like a Terran. Habits die really hard. "Well, she can
- only teleport her bodies together, not apart. I don't see how useful
- that can be. I don't know. Maybe I did the right thing. She's only
- forty-five. I still feel bad."
-
- "The Mustel's are only thirty. And we've got a few of those on
- board. I've got two on my engineering crew."
-
- "Any racial troubles?"
-
- "A few. The usual. There aren't any Mustels in positions of
- authority because they haven't been around long enough to earn any.
- Second trip out it'll be different. I'm sure Etta can work around it."
-
- I nodded. "She's good. Really good. I hope so."
-
- "Well," she said, "Here we are."
-
- "Where we are?" I asked.
-
- "Your cabin. I assumed that's where you were heading."
-
- "You're right. Let's see what it looks like." I paused for a
- second, and whispered to Kathy, "Before I make an ass of myself, what is
- the ship's AI's name?"
-
- "Liffip."
-
- "Liffip?" I said aloud.
-
- "Good afternoon, Dr. Shardik. Can I help you?"
-
- "You could unlock the door to my cabin, please."
-
- "Done." The door slid open smoothly, and inside was a large
- apartment. The waterbed, I'd say Imperial-sized, sat in the far left
- corner of the bedroom on a raise platform, under which was indirect
- lighting. The kitchen was an inset on the left wall of the living room.
- There were no windows on the walls, but there was an overhead skylight.
- My cabin was nominally on the "bottom" of the ship, but with gravitics
- technology and SDisks it was impossible to tell. My biggest problem,
- though, was navigation. I tend to make mental 3-d maps of places like
- starships, and I couldn't reconcile the double-image of 'up' and 'down.'
- I'd get it eventually. It was nice, though, that I'd get a full view of
- any planet we were in orbit over. We were interrupted by a voice behind
- us?
-
- "Captain Hawkwind?"
-
- We turned to see who it was. Kathy answered, "Yes, Amanda?"
-
- I was stunned. This young filly was the first example I'd seen of
- the EQ2vR virus. Introduced into the Centaur population about
- twenty-five years ago, the EQ2vR was supposed to increase the
- possibility of size variation in the general population. Most Centaurs
- were immune, but a small percentage experienced a strong effect. The
- maximum was still around Clydesdale, but the minimum had been pushed
- down almost to Shetland, but not quite. At that level, certain systemic
- failures occured that I'd rather not think about, so I left the size at
- about 1.18 over minimal systemic support.
-
- Amanda was an example of that. She was barely taller than I was,
- I'd guess 190 cm, and she was adorable. And that voice... where had she
- learned such an innocent voice?
-
- I resolved, right there and then, to get to know this filly. I was
- so completely taken in by her that I completely missed what they had
- discussed, until Kathy said, "Ken?" as I watched Amanda turn to leave.
-
- "Hmm? What?"
-
- "YooHoo. It's me, Kathy."
-
- "I know, I know... Who was that?"
-
- "That was Amanda Ohadi. She's the project head for Sickbay
- Engineering."
-
- "She's a project head in your department? How old is she?"
-
- "Twenty-four."
-
- "And you trust her?"
-
- "Remember me at sixteen?" I nodded. "She's better."
-
- "Kathy, at sixteen you redesigned starship drives as we knew them!"
-
- "You should see her work. She thinks she can prove a relation
- between elemental pattern of configuration waves and quark-quark
- distance effects."
-
- I thought about it for a second. "She thinks she can prove the
- Benetti equations?" Kathy nodded. "Kathy, you couldn't prove the
- Benetti equations. People have been trying for centuries! Admittedly,
- Benetti was pretty impressive. Despite the fact that Corrane's collary
- gave us the C3 hyperdrive, and you gave us C5, and despite the fact that
- Samunen's collary of Positional Relations gave us functional
- teleportation, what Benetti was actually trying to do has never worked,
- and I don't think it ever will."
-
- "She's close, Ken. You should see her work."
-
- "May I see it?"
-
- "If you wish. I'd prefer if you ask her."
-
- I smiled. "I think I'll do that."
-
- She noticed the smile. "She's very pretty," Kathy prodded.
-
- "That she is. What would you guess my odds are?"
-
- "I'd guess, sixty-four to one for. When I was working down under
- sickbay with her, she wanted to know all about you."
-
- "Hero worship?" I asked with a groan. That's the last thing I
- needed, and would make me avoid her like the plague.
-
- "Not really. She wanted to know more like... what fascinated me
- about you."
-
- "Hmmm. Does she..."
-
- "I haven't asked, I wouldn't know. She's young, Ken."
-
- "So were you."
-
- She smiled at that.
-
-
- "Where to now?" I asked.
-
- "Where's P'nyssa?" she asked.
-
- "She won't be on for a few days. She has to close down her office
- back at Cutters, and that'll take a while. She's never been to space
- before."
-
- "Never?"
-
- "Well, she's been from here to Earth, but that's only a 30-minute
- trip."
-
- "Now, it's a thirty minute trip. Back before C5, it was two days."
-
- "What I meant was, she's never been on a serious space voyage. Two
- days is nothing. She can visit Earth and be home in a week. This is a
- little different. This is a couple of years."
-
- Kathy nodded. "Well, we can go to your office, my office, or...
- Sickbay."
-
- "My office."
-
- "Not Sickbay?" Kathy asked, her voice tinged with amusement.
-
- "Let's not make it that obvious." I smiled.
-
- "Can I ask you a personal question?"
-
- "I hope so."
-
- "Have you ever slept with a Centaur before?" That "before" made me
- smile. Kathy clearly thought that, in the end, I would be sleeping with
- Amanda Ohadi.
-
- I paused for a few seconds to consider my answer, and said, "Not a
- mare."
-
- "But a stal?" she asked, raising her voice. I nodded. "You're
- kidding, right?"
-
- "Nope."
-
- She shook her head. "Sometimes, Ken, you surprise even me." We
- took a SDisk to Life Sciences, and I opened the door onto my office. It
- looked pretty standard. We went next door to the main lab, and I found
- it gratefully low-tech. Real test tubes. And high-tech: a neutrino-
- source mapping system. "Looks pretty standard."
-
- "I have another question."
-
- "Ask away."
-
- "If you do get Amanda into bed, and I think you will, do you intend
- to teach her the same things you did me?"
-
- "Not unless she asks."
-
- "Fair enough."
-
- "Why, Kathy, I beleive you're becoming downright protective!"
-
- "You were protective of me, remember?" I nodded. I had been. And
- it had been a good thing. It worked.
-
- "Shall we go see your office?" I asked.
-
- We found that even faster. It definitely qualified as a disaster.
- "This is your office?"
-
- "Well, it will be. I haven't quite finished moving in, as you can
- see. I've been working out of my cabin. This was one of the last
- places Interior Environments got to."
-
- "I notice your little model over there."
-
- She blushed, which was quite attractive on her. "Yeah, well...
- When they name a starship after you, you should probably have a model of
- it in your office."
-
- "The P.E.V. Hawkwind. Kind'a nice of 'em."
-
- She shrugged. "In a few years they'll decomission it like they did
- The Eldarfaroth."
-
- "Hey, The Eldarfaroth was our first major starship, Kathy, and
- don't forget it. Before it, all we had were a few interstellar
- couriers."
-
- "I know. And it was a privilege being on her, and being a Captain
- on her. I'm just trying to avoid developing a big head."
-
- "You're doing a good job." I smiled, walked around her desk and
- hugged her. "I love you."
-
- "Love you, too," she said. "Come on. Let's go visit sickbay."
-
- Sickbay was a shambles. "Kathy," I said. "We're doing to leave
- Parma in six days, and this place is a disaster. Do you think you'll be
- ready that quickly?"
-
- "This is exo-. Sickbay itself is ready to go, whenever our CMO
- gets here." She crossed to a door that could have handled two
- Clydesdales across and pushed the open button. The bay it opened onto
- was huge, and in the far corner I could see Amanda and three others all
- clustered around a floor panel that looked like it had been torn apart
- by some sort of explosion.
-
- "What is this?" Kathy asked.
-
- "Captain," Amanda said. "We had a problem with this gravitics
- panel. The temporary placements don't rate to full. Uhm, I'd suggest
- getting some matrix-supported ceramics in here for all of them before we
- power it up again."
-
- "How long?"
-
- Amanda's eyes unfocussed for a moment, and she said, "Three days at
- two shifts per, I think."
-
- "Do it. Liffip?"
-
- "Yes, Captain?"
-
- "Authorize we need a full set of THM replacements for these."
-
- "Done."
-
- I was watching Kathy and examining the gravitic stress pattern on
- the panel when I heard that sweet voice to my right. "Commander
- Shardik?"
-
- I turned to look up at Amanda, who had approached me silently. I
- blinked for a few seconds and said, "Huh?"
-
- "I'm Amanda Ohadi?" She held out her hand. I took it and gently
- shook it. "Commander Hawkwind's told me a lot about you."
-
- "She's told me quite a bit about you. I understand you're giving
- the Benetti equations another crack."
-
- "Actually, we're almost ready to do field experiments." I was
- getting lost in those huge brown eyes. My only objection to Amanda's
- beauty would have been her hair; nanotech had allowed some pretty
- radical chemical modifications in cosmetology, and the latest rage was
- really odd hair colors. Primary green was considered sexy for women,
- primary blue for men. Red was considered 'daring' and yellow was for
- teenagers. Amanda, however, had gone a different route; her hair was
- pastel blue with a suggestion of magenta. I found it extremely
- complimentary, despite my distrust of cosmetics. It was very long and
- hung free down her back, the front pushed to the sides and two small,
- tight curls falling down her cheeks before her ears. It looked very
- soft. Her equine half was white in the front, but became a speckled
- brown in the middle blending into a full brown about her hindquarters,
- with a fully brown tail that was very thoroughly brushed.
-
- "Really?"
-
- "Mmm-Hmm. In a few months, I think."
-
- "How are you proposing to prevent inter-atomic effects at the field
- point?"
-
- "Do it in a vacuum, of course."
-
- "But doesn't some of your hardware have to be interactive with the
- field?"
-
- She smiled. "I'm working on it, Commander."
-
- "Miss Ohadi. I am head of Life Sciences. You are the PD for
- exobio sickbay. We may be seeing a lot of each other." Personally, I
- hoped we'd be seeing a lot more of each other. "Why don't you call me
- Ken?"
-
- "Then why don't you call me Amanda?" She said. Ice broken, I
- thought to myself."
-
- "Ken?" Kathy said.
-
- "Hmm?"
-
- "I'm going to be really busy in a few minutes, could you..."
-
- "Give you some room? Sure. Amanda?"
-
- "Yes, Com... Kennet?"
-
- "I'd like to see your work. It was nice to meet you." I held out
- my hand. She extended hers, and I kissed it.
-
- "It was nice to meet you too..." there was a long pause, and then
- she said, in a much lower voice, "sir."
-
- I raised one eyebrow. Amanda smiled her sweet smile, but I saw,
- out of the corner of my eye, Kathy whirl about in surprise. I walked
- over and kissed Kathy on the cheek on my way out. I left the two of
- them exchanging glances.
-
-
-
- "Hello?" I shouted aloud when I heard the door open. "Nyss? Is
- that you?"
-
- "Hello!" I heard from outside. "Yes, it's me!" I smiled and
- finished what I was doing before leaving the bathroom. I walked out.
-
- "As you can see," I said, "I've already moved in."
-
- She assessed the appearance of the studio and said "It looks...
- different."
-
- "You don't like it?" I asked.
-
- She sighed. "I don't know. I guess I'm just not used to the idea
- of moving. I've lived in the same place for how long? Seven hundred
- years or so?"
-
- I laughed. "I know. Moving's a bitch." I walked over and hugged
- her close to me. "I love you."
-
- "I'm still not sure about this." She frowned, then smiled. "But I
- love you too." She tilted her head up for a kiss, and I gave her one.
- It was a long and familiar kiss, and as always it made me feel warm
- inside.
-
- "What's not to be sure about?" I asked afterwards.
-
- She frowned. "People get killed on this job. It's the most
- dangerous life Pendor offers, Ken, and I don't understand why you enjoy
- it so much."
-
- "Then why did you come along?"
-
- "Because I didn't want to be without you. And because this time,
- you asked if I wanted to come along. And because it gives me a chance
- to practice medicine, as opposed to giving out pills."
-
- I smiled. "You should do okay, Nyss. You did well when Nance
- almost got himself killed. You should do okay."
-
- She frowned. "Ken, the one time I really needed to succeed, I
- didn't. You know it, and I know it."
-
- "P'nyssa Traken, you did everything you could, and it almost killed
- you in the process. I don't blame you for Donna dying. I blame the
- asshole with the gun."
-
- She sighed. "I know. I'm just so... unsure."
-
- "Good. At least you don't think of yourself as completely ready.
- Overconfidence leads to mistakes."
-
- She nodded, her head bent down, examining the floor. "Oh," she
- said, looking up, "P'rose gave us a copy of her new album. I think
- she's giving us a hint."
-
- "What do you mean?"
-
- "The first song on it is called 'Where Are You Going, When Are You
- Coming Home?'"
-
- I laughed. Her lips drew into a lustful smile. "So," she said,
- "Want to inaugurate our new bed? Or have you already done so?"
-
- I laughed. "Why P'nyssa, I'm hurt. How could you suggest that I
- would do such a thing? Of course I've been waiting for you." I paused.
- "I'm also surprised that you beleive I'm that much of a rakeheart."
-
- She smiled again. "But you are. Come 'ere." She walked to the
- bed, her full-length dress flowing behind her, and sat down. "Come on."
-
- I laughed and walked over to the bed, leaning over her and letting
- my full balance fall over; we tumbled onto the bed, her tens wrapping
- around me. I nuzzled her under her neck and she cooed in response.
- "Ken?" she breathed.
-
- "Hmm?"
-
- "It's been five days since I last saw you. Skip the foreplay."
-
- My response was an evil snicker worthy of any bad pirate movie. I
- reached behind her and undid the clip holding together her skirt; we
- managed to pull it off and throw it across the room. It dimly occured
- to me that we'd left the lights going full blast; not even turned down
- for romantic effect.
-
- She returned the favor, almost ripping open my uniform in her haste
- to free my quickly rising erection. I pulled the shirt over my head and
- sent it to join her skirt. She didn't bother to remove hers; just
- tunred over onto her knees and said "Come on, fuck me."
-
- "My pleasure" I said, positioning my erection at her cunt and
- pressing in. Her mitten pad and thumb spread her labia wide, and I slid
- in. She was surprisingly wet, and my cock was soon eveloped all the way
- around by her hot wetness. She cooed gratefully as I did, my hand
- reaching under her shirt to scratch her furred back. "Miss me?"
-
- "Very," she said. "Missed your hot cock. Now, fuck me, please."
-
- I grabbed her hips, and slammed my cock into her. She groaned in
- respons, and I slid out slowly, only to slam into her again. Her moans
- greww louder as I pressed into her, feeling her blue-furred ass against
- my hips. I scratched her butt briskly, grabbed her hips and began
- fucking her with all mt might, taking her. I would stop, every once in
- a while, to take a breath, and to look at her, bent at the waist, ass in
- the air, my cock in her cunt, her head buried in a pillow. I felt her
- mitten playing with her clitoris, sliding up and playing with my cock as
- well when I stopped, then retreating as I began fucking her again. She
- screamed aloud into the pillow as her orgasms washed over her; I felt it
- the background, her telepathy leaking around the edges. It spurred me
- on, and I shouted aloud as I shot my semen into her, my orgasm causing
- me to whip my head back and forth, my hair striking me in the face.
-
- I took a deep breath, my excitement, my head buzzing. I was
- surprised at the intensity; quickies aren't a usual part of our sex
- life. Maybe that's why it was so exciting. I slid out of her, feeling
- her cunt intensely on the top ridge of my cock as I did so.
-
- With absolutely no grace, she fell over onto her side, breathing
- equally as hard from her mouth, her eyes shut for the moment. "So," I
- said, "How was that?"
-
- "Perfect," she said between gasps.
-
-
- The next day it was all hands prepare for transit. We headed out;
- Our destination was the planet Stinz IV, several hundred light years
- away. It would only be a couple of weeks.
-
-