by T. J. Quinn
He smiled to himself and gave the command to close the cargo bay. Picking up the suitcase with Alexa’s clothing and necessities, he sauntered to the lift went up to the next level. He stowed them in the bedroom and found Alexa in the sitting area.
The sultry, smoldering look he gave him left him no doubt as to what they would be doing once they were launched and heading out of the system. “Come to the bridge with me, meomee, and sit in the co-pilot’s chair while we launch.”
Alexa got up and followed him the few steps to the entrance that slid open at Chaytok’s approach. He gestured to the seat on the left for her to take it and helped her strap in, ending the procedure with a long slow kiss that sent waves of desire crashing through them. But he forced himself to pull back with great reluctance to finish the task at hand. He slid into his own seat on the right and gave the command to launch.
It was a little strange that Chaytok and Jeck could find no glitch in the guidance system nor the AI interface that would explain how the ship went so far off course. Even the star drive power converter seemed to be working properly, but they replaced it anyway. The ship’s log showed that he had made the change of course, though he didn’t remember doing so. The AI reported the malfunction. He shrugged it off to fate. Any explanation he could conjure was almost too fantastic to believe. Whatever gods where were, that brought Jeck to save him on the battlefield seemed to have conspired to bring him to Alexa to share this new life he planned on Vesta Three.
He always had just called it ‘ship’ because Destiny’s Fortune seemed a bit pretentious for the meek little star hopper. The AI’s for this model were known for their ability to assess a situation and take the appropriate action. Could he somehow have told it to do this? Not directly, of course, but through his log recordings?
Granted, they had more often than not become a stream of conscious inner musings. Chaytok may have actually said he wished for a meomee bring meaning to his life. The AI had weeks to search. Alexa had said her genealogy was fully documented for over 500 years. Could Destiny have found the feline ancestor in her family history and made the connection to his DNA on file at Narovian Matchmaking?
Would it tell him if he asked?
Chaytok shrugged it off as he glanced at Alexa and gave her an affectionate smile. “Ready?”
“I am. Let’s go.”
He gave a series of commands that would start the engine, lift off, and set course for Vesta Three. While the AI attended to that, Chaytok notified the Alliance base that he was leaving Earth.
Alexa was surprised that lift off was so smooth, without the sensation of G-force that Earth astronauts endured during launching into space. Once they reached orbit, Chaytok sent the ship on one full orbit of the earth, so Alexa could see Earth from space. She had seen it in pictures but had never dreamed she ever actually see the sight from space.
How different would life be on Earth if everyone knew all of this existed? She couldn’t quite imagine.
Finally, they left Earth orbit and went into hyperdrive, on course to Vesta. Chaytok unfastened his harness and helped Alexa get out of hers, drawing her to her feet and into his arms. She knew exactly where they were going as soon as she turned up her mouth for his kiss and felt his erection pressing against her lower belly. Her juices were flowing, and her pussy fluttered in anticipation.
Ten
Alexa was no longer thinking about their departure from Earth, only the hot, sexy man in her arms, kissing and caressing her. He dominated her mouth with his tongue stroking and swirling around hers. He drew his hands up and down her back and over her buttocks until her whole body seemed to quiver with need and her breath came in shallow gasps and mews.
He pulled her up so she could wrap her legs around his hips, pressing her core against his erection. Hardly parting his lips from hers, he carried her to the bedroom. He set her down and pulled her blouse untucked from her jeans and unbuttoned it with maddening slowness, one button at a time. He gave her a tolerant smile and pushed her hands away when she tried to help him. She sighed and resigned to let him have his way, this time; since he seemed to have a plan.
When he had finally released the last button, he pushed open the sides and deliberately brushed over her nipples beneath her thin lacy bra before pushing the blouse off her shoulders and down her arms to the floor. He sat her down on the edge of the bed and pulled off her knee high riding boots one at a time.
He paused to remove his shirt then offered his hands to draw her up to stand. Releasing her hands, he unfastened her jeans and unzipped them with the same patience he had demonstrated unbuttoning her blouse. Careful not to remove her panties with them, he pushed the jeans down her shapely legs, squatting down so his face was even with her mound. He breathed in the scent of her desired as he held her feet and ankles trapped in place by her jeans and pressed his lips against her core over her silken white lace panties.
Alexa trembled as ripples of sensation rolled through her body. She exhaled a sound half way between a sign and a groan. She wanted more. He moved his lips against her and her inner walls contracted while her core throbbed with need. He looked up at her, his pupils were large and round, a calculating glint in his feline eyes. Alexa gave him a sexy smirk, her eyes promising him there would be payback for his tormenting her.
In the few weeks, they had been together his lovemaking had taken her to a height of pure sexual bliss she had never known. In his possession, it seemed there was no future no past, only now. There would be ecstasy, a word for a feeling no other man had ever given her. Patience was hard, but she knew it would be worth the wait.
Her panties seemed to find their way to the floor with her jeans where Chaytok held them for her to free her feet. He drew his fingertips up the inside of one leg, deliberately bumping her center with the side of his hand before dragging his fingertips down her other leg. When he reached her other ankle, he drew both hands up the outsides of her legs, so lightly that it both tickled and make her pussy clench and throb.
She was so hot for him she visualized pushing him down and having her way with him. Instead, she let out a soft, ah, to let him know he was making her feel good. When his hands rose to the top of her thighs, he reached back and massaged her buttocks, squeezing them gently. As he stood in front of her dragged his hands over her rib cage and stopped at the underside of her breasts. He paused there until her sudden intake of breath let him know her erect nipples craved his touch.
He watched her face expectantly, holding her gaze as he rubbed his thumbs back and for over the stiff peaks. With one hand he reached behind her and flicked open her bra, then gripped the straps between his forefingers and thumbs, pulling is down her arms and letting it join the rest of her clothing on the floor. He paused to drop his pants to the floor and step out of them, then returned to span her waist with his hands. He gently rubbed her sides up and down closer and closer to the underside of her bared breasts until her breathing quickened.
Then he rubbed his thumbs back and forth over her nipples, keeping his eyes trained on her beloved face. With that she cried out, and shuddered in climax, he had so aroused her with his touch.
“Oh, my God Chay” she gasped putting her hands up on his shoulders to balance against the waves of her orgasm.
Chaytok slid his arm around her waist and reached down to finger her pussy as she came.
She crooned and moan, intermittently murmuring his name through her shudders, until she’d had enough and pushed his hand away.
He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her against him. Never in his life had he felt such love for or from anyone. As she clung to him, he took her face between his hands and kissed her tenderly, caressing her lips with his.
“Sweet, beloved Alexa,” he whispered and kissed her again. “I love you with all of my being. I can even explain how much you mean to me.”
“And you do have to,” she told him softly. “I see it in your eyes, feel it in your touch and when I am wrapped around you with your cock de
ep into me. I have never been so happy as I am with you.” She paused. “It’s not just pheromones, it’s you, Chaytok Larrin. I love you.”
With that she made a little jump and wrapped her legs around him, deftly sheathing his erect cock inside her channel. Now she was going to have her way with him, and he was all into it as he tipped him onto the bed. They landed crossways on the bed with Alexa on top.
She moved slowly up and down on him, using her inner muscles to stroke him inside her as she moved. He smiled up at her, content to go with the flow. She leaned forward and pressed her mouth to his in a tender kiss the teased his lip with the tip of her tongue. Until he groaned and she started riding him faster and harder. He was going to come fast if she kept that up, but he needn’t have worried. Alexa came first and brought him to climax with her. She gave a throaty yell as she contracted around him at length, then fell heavily against his heaving chest.
“Meomee, meomee,” he murmured hugging her so that her breasts were flattened deliciously against his chest.
Alexa pressed butterfly kisses against his throat then raised her head to meet his eyes with a smile, “Yes, meomee?”
He grinned wickedly and rolled them over, chuckling. “My turn to be on top,” he said. His fingers laced through hers, he pressed her hands into the bed on either side of her head. “Now, we take it long and slow.”
Chaytok took her mouth in a deep passionate kiss, and Alexa sighed her approval, visualizing a couple other techniques they could try. The pheromones were flowing then. They might not dress again until they reached Vesta Three.
Eleven
Chaytok and Alexa reached Vesta Three two and a half weeks later. They hadn’t spent the whole time naked in bed but probably a better chunk of it. Chaytok checked many times to be sure Destiny was doing the job properly, which she was. They were right on course, so there was little more to do than wait for the ship to get them there. They had plenty of sex, but also long conversations.
Chaytok finally told her his suspicions about how he had landed on Earth.
“You mean the ship made a conscious decision to detour to Earth and faked the star drive trouble?”
“I can’t figure out a better explanation. There was nothing wrong with the part we switched out. Nothing wrong with the navigational subroutine, either.”
“What do you think made her do it?” Alexa wondered.
“I talked to her, she talks back. I was in space alone for weeks. It got lonely. I think I said I wished I’d found meomee so I could start a family after we got settled,” he explained. “Then things started malfunctioning, so I landed on Earth.”
“Right, less than a mile from my home. Then you just happened to decide to go exploring when I was riding down the trail, and a grouse scared Jetson, so he threw me.”
Chaytok shrugged. When she put it that way it sounded, contrived. “I wanted to see your farm. I was getting bored cooped up in the ship. Had I gotten close enough your scent would have drawn me in as it did when I found you.”
He went on to explain his whole theory about her genealogy which was available in the national genealogy registry. “The AI is capable of learning and formulating a plan of action by analyzing the data available.”
Alexa chuckled. “That gives online dating a whole new meaning. But that doesn’t explain my dreams.”
“Why, or even how, doesn’t really matter now that we are together, meomee.”
“But, if Destiny did what you think, it might be worth notifying your Matchmaking Service of this lower tech way to match your kind to mixed parentage sapiens on Earth. Not everyone depends on DNA testing to trace their ancestry. Even though it’s gaining popularity, I’m sure more people are still doing the old fashioned way or at least researching online.” She paused thoughtfully. “I would be interested in learning where my feline DNA came in and when. Without it, my genealogy is incomplete.”
“Destiny, please send the Narovian Matchmaking Service the information Alexa, and I discussed about her genealogy. Ask them to let us know if they determine the identity of her feline ancestor.”
The AI acknowledged with two beeps. Chaytok and Alexa went back to reviewing the properties that were available on Vesta Three and put in a bid on the one they preferred. It came back approved with just two days before they landed at the Vestal Point Starport. As immigrants to the new colony, they were required to register intent to become legal residents of the colony before they could move the ship to their site. It was the easiest way for them to move the modules that Chaytok had brought to build their new home. They were folded flat and compressed in his cargo bay forming Jetson’s stall.
With the vague hope of a family one day, Chaytok had purchased enough modules for a four bedroom home. The house would not be very glamorous on the outside, as most of the homes on Narova. It would be built into the side of a hill and covered on top and three sides with soil planted with native grasses to prevent erosion. On the inside, however, it would be as modern and attractive as they desired.
Chaytok used one of the modules of his utility building as a stable for Alexa’s horse. They kept him in stasis for the time it took to set up a proper shelter for him. Native grasses on their land were similar enough to those on Earth that Jetson found them palatable and they were safe for him to eat.
Because the building supplies took up most of the cargo bay, there was no room for heavy equipment to construct their dwelling and outbuilding. It was more practical to bring a medium-sized multipurpose robotic farm machine and hire the construction done. The colony was growing so fast, that they were scheduled for mid-summer construction. With modular construction, I would only take a week.
Chaytok and Alexa constructed the small stable for Jetson with the help the farm robot. Although they left Earth in the fall, they arrived on Vesta Three just before spring planting season. Chaytok brought the recommended grain and vegetable seeds to plant their first crops, and Alexa brought her own seed stock for a kitchen garden.
While most people on Narova wouldn’t consider cooking their own food without an automated food processor, people in the colonies were not adverse to it. Semi-automatic processors were readily available. They would produce fully prepared meals or allow traditional cooking as Alexa had done on Earth.
Once Jetson was settled, Chaytok set up his farm robot to prepare the fields for planting. Their farm was small by Narovian standards. Chaytok’s family farm on Narova was 100,000 hectares while his and Alexa’s farm was only 15,000 including about 1000 hectares of woodland. While they were getting it up and running, he still had his share of income from the family farm on Narova. Fully automated, none of his family lived there any longer.
Chaytok and Alexa had lived on Vesta Three for three months when the received news that the Drayids attacked Earth. It was the last thing Chaytok wanted to tell her. She had only begun learning the Narovian used in the interstellar new feeds.
“Only about a dozen major cities were damaged before the Alliance forces drove them back, but at this point, they have no idea how many were killed. There are no bodies. Whole sections of the cities attacked were vaporized.” He told her this in a calm even voice, bracing himself or the tears that soon filled her eyes.
He took her into his arms and held her as she sobbed softly. “None of the damage done was anywhere near your home area or the Alliance base there,” he added, rubbing her back.
“Chay, do you think they will come here?” she asked when she had calmed.
“Not likely, Vesta Three is on the far side of the Alliance territory from their border. There is a strong defense presence in this sector,” he reassured her. “The Alliance has already built up defenses in Earth sector. The world governments have rallied together to open full diplomatic relations with the Alliance.”
“That will certainly change things,” she murmured, “What does that mean for Earth?”
“They will have access to space travel, medical technology, and colonial settlement like Vesta,” Cha
ytok explained. “The Alliance announced their proposal on all public broadcasting media, so all the world governments know what’s out here.”
“Do they know why the Drayids attacked Earth?”
“They were trying to annex the Sol System into their empire. Once the Alliance offered recognition, their chances were practically nil of getting Earth to join their empire. They are an insectoid race with no value for humanoid life. Humanoids to them are like cattle to humans. They look upon us as a food source. There is no compromising with them.”
“The Alliance has never been the aggressor against them, but our forces have driven them back enough times that we got them to agree to stay in their territory and we will stay in ours. They have broken that agreement.” He continued, “The Alliance won’t go into their territory after them, but they are building up the Defense along our border and increasing Law Enforcement patrols. Earth is facing some tremendous changes.”
“Something needs to change,” Alexa said. “I quit watching the news a long time ago because it was all bad.”
“And I just brought you more bad news,” he lamented. “I was just glancing through the headlines and saw Earth mentioned.”
“Maybe having a common extraterrestrial enemy will unite them, so they will stop fighting among themselves.” Alexa sighed. “I’m glad we came here. I love our new home. It will be a great place to raise our children.”
“Are you saying? Are you?” he asked staring into her eyes.
“Yes, I think so. I checked with one of the test kits I brought. It was positive. Can the med scanner in your tablet confirm it?” she asked.
Chaytok was so excited that he forgot which pocket he kept it in, checking the wrong one first then he pulled it out and called up the menu by voice command in Narovian. He made the proper choice and watched the screen for it to assemble the result on the small screen.
