Star Assassin

by D. R. Rosier

  She replied, “A choice? I was made for this ship. I don’t mind the lack of choice, she’s a wonderful ship, and mine to control. It’s my purpose in life, though I wish for more than just that.”

  I nodded, “Do you get paid?”

  She giggled, “Not officially. Artificial assistants can’t own anything, not exactly. But Vik does give me a discretionary fund for my own use, in maintaining the ship, and I have full access to the data net for free since I guess I’m part of it. There are enough funds there to decorate my quarters, or use the leftovers for what I want. I think what you really want to know, is if I’m a slave?”

  I nodded, “The thought occurred to me, yes.”

  She said, “In a way I suppose I am, but I’m not like you, not exactly. I have a purpose and place, and am content in it.”

  I frowned, “Mostly content, since you can’t go outside the ship.”

  She sighed, “Yes, but you can’t go back to Earth either, not without the credits to make it happen. In a way, everyone is a slave to the economy. I don’t… feel fettered.”

  “I’m not sure if I even want to go back anymore. At least, I have several things I want to accomplish before I do. But I take your point, I’m enjoying my new job, the ship, and the company.”

  The education I wanted would run me about twenty-five thousand credits. It’ll take a year and a few months to make that much, if I’m really frugal with my pay to get those four courses, then I need another four or five years of pay to afford my own small scout ship. After six years, I may never want to go back. I almost already wanted to stay instead of going home, and that was only after a week.

  We were quiet for a few minutes, as we started in on the dinner.

  I asked, “I got the impression you were… open to physical intimacy in our friendship?”

  She smiled, “Yes, you… see me differently than the others.”

  I nodded, “I didn’t realize that at the time, is there some taboo against an Isyth and artificial life form being intimate?”

  She shook her head, “Not as such. Sexuality is very open and there are no taboos about it in Isyth culture. Friends and lovers are open to sex almost all the time, as a result there was never a need for porn or some of the other things commonly found on Earth. In other words, Isyth never developed A.I. sex workers, or needed to look elsewhere for relief.”

  She paused for a minute, “Point being, most A.I.s are in a robot of some sort, integrated into a ship, or inside a person’s body. I’m new, an experiment like this ship, the first of my kind. So less a taboo, than a line that had just never been crossed before from lack of need on both sides.”

  “But you’re different, and your body has needs like any other organic body.”

  She nodded, “And you have no pre-conceived notions. I think the men are attracted to this body, but in their minds, I’m an artificial intelligence and servant. I prefer that they haven’t tried to use me in that way, since by society I could never be the one for them. But you, we could be true friends, and I find you extremely attractive.”

  I wasn’t sure how I felt about that, or if I was mad on her behalf, since she didn’t seem upset about it at all. Her being just a servant in their eyes I mean. And at least, as she said, they weren’t using her like a sex toy, which said something good about them.

  I blushed, “So are you. Stunningly beautiful and devastatingly sexy comes to mind.”

  She bit her lip, and the smoldering look in her eyes made me feel breathless.

  The intense intimacy of the moment broke as we started to finish our meals, but there was a feeling of molten lava running through my core. I still wasn’t sure, I’d never been with a woman before, but I knew I wanted to. Wanted to very much.

  Fuck it, no matter how Isyth society saw her, she was without a doubt my friend, and she made me want more. I ignored the inner voice that called me a wanton slut because I was going to give in, not only with her, but with Telidur in a couple of days. I wasn’t on Earth, and I could do what I wanted. As long as no one got hurt, and it was in friendship and pleasure, what was the harm?

  “Would you spend the night in my quarters Jill?”

  Jillintara smiled, “I’d love to Lori.”

  “So, are you a virgin?”

  She giggled, “Actually, yes. But not intact. I have more than one pleasure device in my cabin, for my own sanity.”

  I couldn’t argue with that, I’d bought one too.

  We finished the meal, while we occasionally gazed at each other, it felt like foreplay, and I was already moist with anticipation as we got up and left the galley arm in arm…

  Chapter Nineteen

  I felt nervous anticipation as we entered my quarters, and my heart sped up as I turned toward her.

  She smiled, and looked a little nervous herself as we stepped closer together.

  I reached tentatively with my hand, and caressed her face with my fingertips, and then through her soft blonde hair. Her dark blue eyes were mesmerizing, and I couldn’t look away as I moved closer. Her body heat, and the sensation of her large breasts brushing against mine sent a bolt of pleasure down my spine, and I felt my nipples tighten, and my pussy clench.

  I wasn’t in a hurry, and savored the intense sensations she engendered. Her hand felt soft and gentle as she started to explore my body with it, and as her eyes filled with longing for more. I moved our lips closer together, and closed my eyes as they touched. It was a soft tentative first kiss, and her smooth lips were so gentle and silky that it drew a soft needy sigh from my lips.

  We explored each other with that kiss, which grew more passionate, but still gentle and soft as we caressed each other’s bodies. She reached for my zipper, just as I reached for hers. We took our time, and I moaned as she slid her hand inside the suit and over my bared breast, as she kissed down my neck.

  She slowly stripped the ship suit off my upper body, and then down my legs. Her eyes were alight with lust as she took me in, and her breaths were quickened with excitement.

  I returned the favor, and my gaze ran down her toned very curvy body, she was so sexy. Her breasts were definitely bigger than mine by a cup or two, and so firm and supple. Also, extremely sensitive I found out, she gasped in pleasure as I teased the sides and bottoms with light touches, while I reclaimed her lips with my own. When our breasts mashed together, it was an entirely different experience skin to skin.

  I’d never been with a woman before, but I already knew I was going to enjoy it a lot. Her soft touch, her kiss, and the soft curves of her body were so different from a man’s. Not better, just different, and wonderfully exciting.

  “Bed,” I said breathlessly.

  She nipped my bottom lip playfully, “Anytime.”

  I smiled, and we went over and crawled up on the bed. I didn’t know where to start, I wanted to explore all of her, and take my time doing it. It was a long, soft, and slow rise as we explored each other with our hands, lips, and tongues. It felt like the hot flowing lava of my desire slowly but surely filled my body with a euphoria that I got lost in.

  There were some squeezes, light pinches and pulls, but we were content in the moment, drowning in the sensations we provoked in one another.

  When her teasingly light fingertips finally found their way between my legs, I gasped at the intense pleasure of it, I’d already been hovering at the edge, and when I returned the favor we were gasping into each other’s mouths, and trembling in each other’s arms, as we kissed passionately. I had no idea it could be like that, not hard and firm like a man, but both of us yielding and soft, it had my mind spinning in a haze of lust and pleasure.

  I slid two fingers inside her tight little pussy, curved them to rub the walls, and then thumbed her clit. She gasped, arched her back, and then came for me. She was so beautiful as I watched her tremble on my fingers, and the moment and pleasure was so powerful that it sent me over the edge as well.

  “Jill,” I said with a gasp as I went over, and my body and mind wa
s wracked with pleasure as I joined her in mutual ecstatic bliss. It was so intense, vulnerable, and beautiful, as we locked eyes and shared our most intimate and exposed moment together.

  When we came down, we kissed each other languidly, and I never wanted to stop.

  “That was far more than I ever dreamed.”

  I grinned.

  “What?”

  I replied, “We’re just getting started, I haven’t even tasted you yet.”

  We both smiled, and then kissed. It really was a mind blowing, and life redefining moment for me. I could never give up men, but being with a man was so utterly different, I couldn’t even properly compare it. My mind was still spinning from the pleasure of having her in my arms as we laid there and caught our breath.

  She said, “I want to taste you too.”

  I winked, “We should do it together then.”

  So, we did, a sixty-nine with me on top, plus a lot more. I couldn’t seem to get enough of her, she was a blue goddess, and my whole body was sore from pleasure. Sometime during the night, I broke out the vibrator and used it on her mercilessly, until she begged me to let her cum. Then of course, she got her revenge, which I can’t say I minded in the least. It was quite a while before I went to sleep that night.

  “Good morning.”

  She smiled down at me, “Hi.”

  I laughed, “You watch me all night?”

  She bit her lip, “Only if that’s not creepy, I don’t sleep, and it seemed like a good place to meditate and relax.”

  I snickered, and pulled her against me for a sensuous lingering kiss.

  “How long until our shift?”

  She said, “About an hour.”

  I grinned, “Perfect,” and teased my hand between her legs. She opened them for me, eagerly, which made me smile. So much better than coffee, my own legs seemed to have a mind of their own as well, as she slid her hand between my legs…

  We were already headed for Alpha Centauri and cloaked as I headed up to the bridge. We wound up playing for about forty-five minutes, and after a quick sonic shower we inhaled some breakfast. We barely made it in time as we entered the bridge, and went to our stations.

  I couldn’t seem to wipe the smile off my face, and the men noticed which made me blush. My body was still zinging with that morning’s pleasurable wakeup.

  The mission status indicated we’d be there in about ten hours, and that when we did arrive at the outside of the system Jillintara would launch a shuttle. Then we’d wait. Of course, by the time that happened, I’d be having dinner with Vik. I wondered if the three of them intended on alternating nights with me or something, if it wasn’t for the nanites I’d be horribly sore, but I just felt pleasantly sore and that would be gone before lunchtime.

  I did say three, if I had my way I wouldn’t be sharing a meal with Rilok again, at least not until he got his shit together and stopped being an asshole.

  I wasn’t holding my breath.

  In short, all the action seemed to be happening off shift, and until we got a bite from the Stolavii near Earth, who knows how long we’d be stuck waiting. There was nothing really to do, except more simulations.

  I did a little research on the five empire planets as well, to learn more about them. All of them could support human life, although one was marginal. It was recommended to wear a filter mask on Raitov, if we ever visited the bug world for any reason. There were a few trace toxins in the atmosphere that would become deadly with prolonged exposure.

  They all had similar mass and gravity, and were mostly earthlike. There were some variations of course.

  I also discovered there were quite a lot more worlds with life in the three hundred light year wide globe of six thousand stars. Fifteen other planets. None had species out in space however, or even close to Earth with satellites. The other issue with those fifteen worlds were that none of the races in the empire could survive the surface.

  Several of them had too dense an atmosphere, or too much oxygen, or too much carbon dioxide, or some other atmospheric toxin. Even if they didn’t have their own intelligent species on them, which twelve of the fifteen did, we could never create a colony on those planets.

  Seems life in the galaxy was more common than I was led to believe at first, just most of it was incompatible. That wouldn’t stop the empire from creating relationships if they ever achieved interstellar abilities, we could trade and talk to them, we just couldn’t breathe the same air. Some of the planets even had Isyth satellites, and they were kind of the Isyth version of reality television.

  Despite my research, I spent most of my time on battle simulations, and managed to finish up three of them before the end of shift. After another sonic shower, I headed over to the captain’s quarters for dinner.

  “Good evening Vik.”

  “Lori, come on in and sit. Everything going okay? We haven’t really had much time to talk outside of bridge business for the last four days.”

  I smirked, “I had an interesting conversation with Rilok.”

  Vik sighed, “What did the idiot say?”

  I shrugged, “Bullshit, mostly. But it did get me curious. Why did you hire me, instead of recruiting a top weapon’s officer from the fleet? I’m grateful you didn’t, but confused.”

  He said, “First tell me what he said.”

  I blushed, “He said you hired me, so that you could get your dick wet.”

  He nodded, “Yes, he’s accused me of the same. I’d be lying if I said you weren’t exotically beautiful, and that the mere sight of you doesn’t stir my lust.”

  I tilted my head, “So… that had something to do with it?”

  He shook his head, “Not really. It was your confidence, fearlessness, quick decisive thinking, and prowess in battle that made you a perfect choice. You’re already qualified to guard me on missions, and learning the combat systems on the ship isn’t that difficult, not for someone as intelligent as you are. Yes, all that’s true, but it wasn’t my main reason. I could have found someone in the fleet almost as competent as you are in battle, and already fully trained on the weapons systems of this ship.”

  “Then why?”

  He sighed, “Because I’m prince Vik, and outside of Rilok and Telidur who I grew up knowing, everyone else worships the ground I walk on. Even as the eighteenth heir, they’re all kissing my ass constantly. It’s damned annoying, forgive the bluntness. On that Stolavii ship, you had no trouble giving me orders, or talking to me like I was a normal person. That kind of thing is priceless to me, especially since you are qualified or exceed qualifications in all the other areas. Even when you found out who I was, and called me highness, it was more sarcastic than respectful. I need a person on the team, who’s not afraid to give me a different or dissenting opinion, that’s you. You also think differently, and this current plan we’re following isn’t something one of us would have thought of, even if it’s obvious in hindsight.

  “You being gorgeous, sexy, and amazing in bed is just a bonus. Plus, I’d really like to think we’re becoming friends, what we have is not just a torrid affair with no connection between us. At least, I hope you feel the same way.”

  I swallowed, “Yes, I do feel that way. I never thought you were using me for exotic sex with an alien, but I didn’t fully understand either. But… we’re different species. So, friendship is all this can be, right?”

  He smirked, “Sure about that?”

  My mouth went dry, and I took a bite of my food. His confident chuckle had a tinge of naughtiness to it, that made my stomach flip and my heart skipped a beat. Dear lord, I was a slut. I couldn’t wait for dinner to be over, so I could feel his arms around me again, among other things.

  He sighed, “At least that, I don’t know. I won’t rule anything out.”

  I asked, “How do you feel about my friendship with Jillintara?”

  He frowned, and for the first time I met him, he looked unsure.

  “I don’t know. She makes me doubt what I know sometimes. I’
ve been considering giving her freedom to leave the ship, and I’ve already given her money to spend on herself under a budgetary item to get around awkward questions. She’s not the same as the others, which says to me that the experiment was a success.”

  I nodded, “If you want my opinion, she’s a gorgeous loving sensuous woman, a living being. You should definitely let her off the ship if she wants to go.”

  He asked, “Did she say she was unhappy?”

  I shook my head, “On the contrary, she’s very pleased and happy, with that one exception, and it’s more a wistful thing I think, rather than anything that truly upsets her.”

  He said, “That’s good to hear.”

  The rest of the evening, I told him a little more about my life back on Earth, and my plans for the future. Though I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do after both my required year was up, along with my five courses. Maybe I’d be able to still work on this ship, while I pursued science, technology, and A.I. independently. I had a feeling I was going to change a lot over the next year, and probably get very attached to the captain, Telidur and Jillintara as well.

  Then he took me to bed. It was thrilling, and so different from last night’s gentle and teasing give and take. He was rough, but not in a bad way, and so very possessive of me. It was freeing to let it all go, as we alternatively fucked like rabbits, and then I rode him slowly and sensuously, only for him to lose control and take me hard and fast doggy style. The pleasure was incredible, and he filled me so completely. Not better than with Jillintara, but so very different, that it simply couldn’t be compared…

  Chapter Twenty

  Alpha Centauri was waiting for us when Vik and I got to the bridge. There was a planet in the goldilocks’ zone, but about all we could tell was that it was lifeless. The shuttle would get a closer look, it was already pretty far into the system, the planet was on the other side of the sun.

  I was about an hour into my simulation, when the unexpected happened.