Chapter 617

... Jeff took his wife into his arms. “I do not understand you.”

“Good. Now, let’s go home. Watching you kiss her has turned me on something fierce.”

Again, Jeff felt as if someone had laid a gentle kiss on his neck, but when he turned to Diana, she was talking to First, who had just walked up with his women.

What the heck is wrong with me? I know I felt something touch my neck. Even as the thought crossed his mind, he could feel amusement, almost a giggle, coming from Little One. Was that you? he asked.

“Was what me?” she asked innocently.

“Uh, never mind.”

Diana was looking at him with a questioning stare.

“What?” he quietly asked her.

“Isn’t muttering to oneself a sign of old age?” she teased.

Somebody is screwing with me. Surely I said nothing aloud, but I know damn well that I felt something touch my neck.

Diana smiled at her husband before, “Ship.”

“Yes, My Queen.”

“What do you think about having someone work with the females, one on one, to become a friend and coach them with the language and other things which might help with their withdrawal from the drug?”

“I think it is an excellent idea, My Queen.”

“You’re thinking about your sister-wives, right?” Jeff asked her.

“Well, yes – your wives, wives to be, and Selina. Let’s see – that’s seventeen and three is twenty. We’re already working with Adrienné, and I think she can help, so with First’s two women, that will be twenty-three. Even though I’m sure First’s women can be of assistance to the other women, they too, are still in need of a Big Sister for them as well as Adrienné in order to better acclimate them to Earth’s culture.” Diana shrugged, “My sister-wives and I will work it out as need be.”

A thoughtful expression passed over the Prime’s face. “Uh, you might rethink the way you put Selina in a category by herself. She’s a genius and a child, but she considers herself a wife-to-be as well.”

“Point taken. If she had heard that, I would be in big trouble,” Diana agreed. “We still need to confirm that First’s women will help.”

Jeff turned to the alien First Officer who was standing a short distance away. “First, Diana and I have been talking about having my women and yours befriend the other women who are having problems fighting off the drug. What about it? Do you think it’s a good idea?” Jeff asked. “I think they have progressed far enough to be a help to the others, if they want to, and if it’s okay with you?”

The First glanced at his women before replying, “They have told me they have already been talking to the other women about how great it is to be able to think clearly. So, would you two like to help?” he asked as he turned back to them.

The two alien women looked at each other before one nodded to the other, and the latter hesitantly spoke. “If you think it is a good thing to do, and if Diana will coach us on what to do and say, we will be glad to do what we can to help the others.”

“I think it will be beneficial to the other women, and you two as well. I am definitely for it,” First agreed.

As the First and his women discussed helping the other women, Jeff turned to Diana and quietly asked, “Isn’t Kayla due back this afternoon.”

“Yes. She, Tosha and their Security escort will arrive in Denver this afternoon, where the rest of the Security team will pick them up. They should be here by four.”

“I’ve talked to both Kayla and Tosha every day on the phone, but I still miss her ... well, both of them,” Jeff admitted.

“You’re probably still in trouble with Kayla, since she wanted to go alone. But, she and Tosha get along just fine. You might have gotten away with sending only Tosha with her, but once Kayla realized that she had a full Security team going with her...” At Jeff’s depressed look, Diana hugged him. “Ah, she’ll forgive you – eventually,” she teased. “Now, back to our discussion. I think we should wait on the meeting. They’re both going to be tired from the funeral and the flight.”

“Yeah,” he agreed. “We need to have everyone with the same basic plan before we undertake this. We don’t want to screw things up.”

“So, does that mean that you have a plan?” she teased her husband.

“I thought that it was you who had the plan. All I had in mind was to be a friend to them – one on one.”

“Hmmm. They can’t be seen on Earth, but ... no one can get close enough to the Retreat to see any details, right?”

“Several miles down the mountain. Also, no plane can get close enough to see anything, and viewed from a distance, all you get is a blurry shimmer for the entire area. Technically, the area is a military base and a no-fly zone, so the General can pretty much do as he wants.”

“Then, there’s nothing wrong with the women walking down to the Retreat, right?”

“Well, Security knows everything, and they’re blocked besides.” He hesitated for a moment before going on, “I don’t see why not. Come to think about it, having them at the Retreat for the day should make it easier to interact with them, and they can learn a bit about human culture and interactions in the process.”

“We could teach them to cook, use makeup, learn about clothes, oh, everything,” Diana enthused.

“I’ll tell the Security Sergeant about our plans and reiterate that the person on the gate should call us before sending any deliveries on up – and we always have deliveries,” he teased as he grinned at his wife.

“True enough, but remember, not everything delivered is from your wives ordering things. There are other people living here who receive deliveries, not to mention our multiple grocery orders each week.”

“Okay, but we need to be certain none of the aliens are outside the building when a delivery comes in.”

The First Officer and his women had been listening to the exchange between Jeff and Diana. When Jeff turned back to the First and asked, “What do you and your women think about our Big Sister plan? Suggestions?”

“What? Uh, whatever you say, Sir.”

“No,” Jeff said with a sigh. “I am, indeed, your Captain, but I am not the asshole Captain of the Raider. I asked for an opinion. An opinion, as friends, about our idea of working together to help the women. So, what do you think about what we were discussing? You certainly know the women better than we do.”

The First hesitated. “Sorry, Sir. We generally weren’t allowed to voice opinions outside our field, and that mindset is difficult to change. I am afraid that I do not know enough about what you were describing to have an opinion. I do understand that this Retreat you mentioned is the structure where you all live. A change of...”

“ ... scenery,” Diana offered.

“Uh, yes. I think a change of scenery would probably help to stimulate their minds, and that is the basis of what we are trying to do, is it not?”

“Absolutely,” Jeff agreed. “What did you do to your two women that maybe made them fight off the drug so quickly? I know that you were having sex with them, but you told me that you were already doing that before you took them to your quarters, right?”

“I...”

One of the alien women interrupted, “He was good to us. He allowed us to visit in his quarters. He ... sat and talked to us about many topics – things we basically knew nothing about. He made us want to learn.”

The other woman spoke up. “He allowed us to use his pad’s AI to teach us to read. We were never on the bridge, but he allowed us to begin learning about some of the equipment he used there. Most of it we could not understand, but it was fun trying to follow what the AI was teaching.”

“He did not just use us as we began waking up from the drug’s influence,” the first woman added. “He had sex with us, but in his quarters, the sex was different. We both had orgasms for the first time in our lives. He ... cared for us. With his caring and all the other things, we wanted to learn, and when we learned, he gave us more male food as a reward, which made us want to learn more so we could please him more,” she ended with a blush.

“A cycle that obviously worked,” Diana contributed.

Man and wife passed a glance before she continued, “I don’t think it’s time to bring the other males into this yet. Maybe through our Big Sister program, we can at least introduce some new things to the women, maybe even find some new things to interest them.”

Jeff spoke up. “If it doesn’t work, we have lost nothing. It may well increase their curiosity and stimulate them enough that Ship can decrease their drug intake. Anyway, it’s only a five-minute walk across the grounds from Ship to the Retreat, but regretfully, we need to put it off a couple of days. We’re scheduled to help install water into our friends’ ... uh, dwelling.”

The First Officer was obviously curious, so Jeff said, “When we go on the trip I told you about, Morales and his three women will come with us. They live in a cave on another planet. We are going to install a tank and the piping to run water from a spring to their home.”

“A spring?”

“Where water comes up from the ground.”

“Water is scarce on my home planet. We had sufficient on board the Raider because we stopped off at a nearby water world and filled our tanks as we began our journey. With our recovery systems, we lost little during the trip. Do you plan something similar on your trip?”

“I have large water tanks on board, and they are full. I, too, will lose little during our journey,” Ship broke in to assure him.

“If I remember correctly, roughly seventy percent of Earth’s surface is water – mostly saltwater. But three or four percent is also covered by lakes, and most countries also have underground sources of water. We do have some arid sections, and there are countries where water is scarce, but generally, there is plenty of water for most of our population – so far,” Jeff commented.

Jeff and Diana said their goodbyes and went back into Ship proper.

“So, are we going tomorrow?” Diana asked.

“Dave said he thought they could get the last of the supplies in today. If so, we will.”

“We need to take Tosha with us, and, of course, Kayla will be eager to go anywhere you go, especially after she has been away from you for a few days,” Diana remarked.

“Did I hear some jealousy when you mentioned Tosha?” Jeff asked.

“Not even a little, as you well know. I like her, and I want her to go with us. Now, we need to get home and discuss this with all your women.”

“After you, M’Lady,” he said while motioning toward the hatch with a sweeping gesture.

“Bull. You want me to walk in front so you can watch my ass,” she accused.

“Guilty as charged, but you would be disappointed if I didn’t.”

Instead of watching her ass, he put his arm around her, and she did the same for him as they strolled the short distance from Ship to the garage door of the Retreat.

Later, Kayla and Tosha came barreling through the mudroom and on into the Retreat’s back hallway. “He’s in the...” Kayla began before being interrupted.

“That way,” Tosha said, pointing.

A startled look passed over Kayla’s face as she realized that Tosha seemed to have gained the ability to know in what direction Jeff was, but her hesitation allowed Tosha to get a couple of steps in front of her. Kayla quickly caught back up and the two women jogged side by side as they continued on toward the living room.

Neither wanted to run: Kayla because she didn’t want to insult the Security officer if she got ahead of her, and Tosha because she realized that Jeff’s wife had precedence over her, and she didn’t want to risk hard feelings.

Dropping back a step, Tosha encouraged Kayla. “He’s your man. Go for it.”