Chapter 11

"I need forgiveness something awful."

I moved position and even though I was juicy he dug right in. It was starting to get interesting when I saw Ellen and Melissa eye Herb's slowly growing member.

I said, "Melissa, suck on Herb for a minute. He likes you too."

"Yes, Mistress." She liked to use the term and I kinda' liked it too.

She did this very tentatively. She had very little interaction with men because they usually abused her. She licked to get a taste and then went back to work. Ellen was almost green with envy and in a moment Melissa pulled off Herb and pushed Ellen down. She only fought for a fraction of a second and then sucked Herb in like a pro.

I looked into Herb's mind. He told himself that he couldn't see so it had to be Melissa still sucking on him. Deep inside he liked what his grandmother was doing to him.

I passed the information on to Ellen and she started to really work on Herb. There was movement and Herb's knees came up and I could feel in his mind how a finger was slipping into his bowels.

Moments later Herb was ready to erupt and I beamed as many images as I could into Melissa and Ellen and they came only a few seconds after Herb. I guess it was exciting for me because I came too.

Herb hurried to turn me around so he could kiss me. In a moment he also saw Ellen and Melissa passing his semen back and forth with their mouths.

"She doesn't look like she needs rescuing."

"Not any more but I plan on breeding her soon if I can find a stud that will impregnate her for us." This was not a cruel jest but something Melissa wanted but had never expressed.

All of a sudden I had a lot of very aroused people looking at me.

Herb slept with us that night. Everything felt right with the world apart from imminent doom falling upon us. Colins and Carstairs had two functional espers but little Abicore. The drug had been in Colins' hands before and he had no doubt done some research on it. It wasn't that complicated to make because we did it.

When we had last read Colins' thoughts we knew he wanted to keep the secret. The men we ran into knew nothing of the importance of the drug. The secret might be held by one man or just a select few.

The end result was that a competent researcher knew about the specifics of the drug. It was a given that the two espers would talk under torture of the effects of a truth drug.

They knew lots about Knox' organisation and Colins would dig it all out. The first time we met a threat by taking Knox' money and running. Living in fear was something I didn't plan on doing for the rest of my life.

Colins would see us as competition to control the drug and want to kill or capture us. We were also a threat to his organisation because of what we knew. Even though they knew a lot about us they would still worry and do something. I would rather attack them than to have them come here. If I could I would kill all of them and work slowly to bring the drug to the world.

Melissa was accepted by the pack. Bobby wanted to do all sorts of interesting things to her as did Missy and Joy. The woman did not really object to the thoughts because there was a sort of love behind the ideas.

Now that Herb and Ellen were starting to read minds we let them learn about Melissa's ability. I could float and drift much better than she could but I let her demonstrate this.

Ellen said, "My god! How can she do that?" Herb's shield immediately went up because he was so shocked.

We talked about Melissa's ability for an hour. None of us admitted to being able to do interesting things at this time. Bobby and Joy threw stones at Melissa and they bounced off the shield she formed. We found a length of lumber and ran at Melissa with it. She was pushed back so she was anchoring it to herself instead of the ground around her.

When Melissa was flustered or worried the shield didn't form. She would not be able to use it in a stressful situation. We studied the workings of it.

The tracking ability was explained but there was little we could do to experiment with it.

I said, "Tell us about the two espers." We were trying to get Melissa's feelings on the matter instead of formulating our own opinions from the data she had in her mind.

"Emily had a hard life. She tries to be nice but her true feelings come out. She is not energetic and hates all sorts of authority. She likes girls but turns this around by hating lesbians or even bisexuals. I had a hard time getting her to work. I just tell her what Miss Knox wanted but she did nothing. She can float very well and do it up to four metres high but her strength is in broadcasting fear. Miss Knox wanted this ability to increase but she didn't work at this with a wish to succeed."

I asked, "What could she do to help Colins?"

"I see what he's like in your mind. He'll beat and torture her. He won't let her get away from him. She will learn to obey quickly. She can track fairly well but she has to focus on the target first. She could be a good warning device for him if she tried. She doesn't like guns and noise so she might not be able to function during a fight. Flying may allow her to see people coming but she can't do it if she's frightened."

Melissa went on and discussed incidental points about Emily. Afterwards we started to ask questions. Melissa was upset because she couldn't answer all of them. Ellen hugged the woman and she tried again to help us.

Later she said, "Andrew can float and somehow he's pretty fast now. He can see through walls. We found out that Miss Knox knew of this ability but never told us anything about it. He's a poor tracker. He likes to shoot. He also likes to frighten people to make himself feel superior. He has sex with Emily but he isn't very good. He's lazy. He hates, with a passion, the people that sent him to Miss Knox. He wants to kill them and he even dreams about it. I guess we all want revenge but he wants them to suffer a lot."

I said, "It seems he will fit in well with Colins and Carstairs."

"I think so. They're good at chasing me and I only got away because I wasn't at the site at the time and because they knew where I would go to get away. I used their own knowledge against them."

"Knox attacked that house before. We didn't think it was their main base."

"I don't know about that but they were strengthening it. I don't think you want to attack them there." She read my mind for the answer and said, "But I guess you have to anyway. You're probably right. They will be attacking you soon."

"Melissa, it's all of us that will be attacked. You're part of the pack now. You've found a place here."

A big smile came on her face and a bit more of the structure that supported her ego firmed up.

I turned to Herb and said, "Melissa isn't the only one who can levitate."

"Who else can?"

"Bobby, Joy, Dina, and I can do it too."

He just looked at me. His block went up. I asked verbally, "Did I frighten you?"

It took a while and his face changed expression. "A little maybe. I don't understand any of this."

"Then lower your block so we can talk." When he did I said, "I said this to you before. Our world had many more dimensions than the three we can perceive. When they learn this fact most people tend to deny the idea because it disturbs them. When they see something that contradicts their simplistic comprehension of physics they blot the image out of their mind as impossible."

I added seriously, "As the father of my children, it's up to you to try harder than most people to grasp what is being learned."

I smiled and levitated ten centimetres and kissed the stunned man in front of me. He didn't respond to the kiss at all. Then I leaned back, moved away from him and made a circle around him. The next time around I did Bobby's version of the 'moon walk' where I went backwards while appearing to walk forwards.

When I stood in front of him again I said, "Don't play cards when you gamble with Kim. She's one of those people you hear about in tests that can read the cards you have, not your thoughts about them." This was something perhaps more familiar to him as he had read about it in books on ESP.

He thought, "Does that mean she can see through walls?" His shield wasn't activated and I knew he was still worried.

"Not yet, but think on this. You're the next best thing to a doctor. What if Kim looked into a patient and gave you the info you needed to remove a tumour, bullet, or fragments of bone. Think of what this could do for you if you developed this skill. You could operate through a small incision and not be as intrusive on your patient."

"I can't operate. I'm not a doctor."

"You could be if we have no other threats."

Herb thought about it. He wanted to help people without spending too many years in school. He had already spent five years though some of it was only night school and summer semesters.

He said, "I see you think I should go for it."

"Only because I see in your mind that you want it. It might be fun to have more doctors in the family. Kim was thinking of doing this and this was before she could see the front of cards."

"What about you?"

"I like helping people but I want to work with drugs. I was going to specialise in finance but Nicolas is too good. We can work together and make some discoveries that will benefit mankind."

Herb liked this and saw that I was aware of this fact. He just accepted it like the rest of the pack did.

He said, "How do I learn to see through skin and bone?"

"We haven't found out quite yet. We get hints from those that can do it and try to copy them. All I can say is try it. Do you want to take a look at what I've found so far?"

"Sure."

Herb looked through my mind and I thought of what I had learned. I also presented him with all the minor and major skills that Nicolas, Brandon, and Anthony could do. He stopped and studied Pete's ability to tell somebody that he wasn't there and then Melissa's when he found out she could form a shield. He had already seen Brandon's strength but hadn't understood what it was.

The final set of images showing our research into healing was presented slowly and in detail. Tiffany was good at it and we were getting better ourselves. Ellen also seemed to show some talent.

I read his thoughts better and said, "We're forming a family within the pack. We have to interact within the pack to a small degree but we're already starting to segregate. The older boys like each other's bums but each would like a female of their own. Each woman would be a sort of wife. So far they have being working Ellen over quite well."

Herb was a little shocked. "She sounds like a baby making machine."

"This is where she binds the pack. She accepts the males and the females. She even likes the dogs but not sexually. The dogs like her in return. All this and she hasn't had that much of a chance to get to know anybody."

Herb said, "She's smart but not as smart as you. You started out smarter. Do you think it has to do with taking the drug directly?"

Kim was busy but was very happy to join us. We sat on the living room floor in a equilateral triangle. Kim asked, "What do you want me to do?"

Herb said, "Better ask Piper."

"How about you look into your leg and see where the damage is. We'll try to piggyback on so we can see."

"Ok."

Kim did the looking and Herb and I viewed what she saw. This was difficult for Herb because he hadn't tried to mesh so close before. It was almost twenty minutes before he could do it on his own. We could feel his pride in this. We supported him without being condescending.

When he mastered it to the extent he could we tried healing what we saw as wrong or not finished. This was tiring for us but we stayed at the job until we just had to quit. I was surprised to see that hours had passed and there was a noticeable improvement in Kim's leg.

Herb got up with difficulty and helped both of us up. It was nice to have a strong man around the house to take care of a girl when she needed it.

Herb said to my inner thoughts, "I have quite a few strengths as well."

We were worried about Colins. He was going to learn nearly everything and come looking for us. But he might not think that we would attack first. So far he had been the aggressor and we had just reacted.

Missy was at the strategy meeting and I asked, "Missy, will you look in Melissa's mind and get a feeling for Emily and Andrew."

Melissa could more readily think of Emily when Missy tried to snuggle up to the image. It worked better when she snuggled up to Melissa too. Finally Missy's arm came up and pointed. The direction was in the direction of Carstairs' base. If I had a compass, I would be even more sure.

Knox had good maps of the base since she attacked it once and got shot for her trouble. Digitised versions were copied from Knox's DVD's to our own. Oddly, Missy could even point to where Emily was on the property and we found this revelation very interesting.

Herb seemed more committed now and talked with the group so we had his input. We had to assume that there were at least a dozen adversaries to deal with. Since we had one person from security that had been on that raid we got an idea of how the house was defended and how Knox attacked it.

We made our own tentative plans based on the failed one. Actually, it didn't fail because Knox people had taken the house. She just found few people in it and all of them were dead or dying.

She had to be carried to the house at the time. In a fit of anger she shot the last survivor. When she was treated by her own doctor for the gunshot wound she had gone into an even worse fit when she learned that we had all fled. Knox even had to be sedated when she found her money gone and the tax people knocking on her door.