Transformation
By DocPaul
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Part
Four: Involution
Kyle turned to snuggle against a nice source of warmth. It
took a few moments for him to realize that what he was hugging was not only
warm, but flesh. Waking, he stared into a pair of blue eyes that watched him
amused.
“So, you’re awake.”
“Um …” Kyle sat up but noticed he was lacking
clothes. He quickly covered up his … assets. “I … um, you … I … we
…”
The woman laughed. “Hey, Jackie! Our guest has is
awake!” she called to the other room as the other waitress entered the room in
nothing but a short robe carrying three glasses, a bottle of wine, and a
steaming cup of coffee. She sat the bottle and glasses down on the bedside
table.
“So I see.” She joined them on the bed passing Kyle a
cup of steaming hot coffee which he gladly accepted. He watched as the woman
Dora moved her hand along Jackie’s neck whispering in her ear. The other woman
nodded, and they both stared at him.
“What?” Kyle asked. “Did I do something wrong? I mean
… when I was out of it?”
Dora laughed. “No yet, but we were talking about how you
can repay our kindness.”
Kyle glanced at the two women. They were both in their
mid-twenties, and both were incredibly hot. They were obviously lesbians and
together. Kyle cleared his throat, his voice hitting an unnaturally high pitch.
“You two are …” Dora kissed Jackie passionately pushing her robe off her
shoulders leaving her completely nude. She glanced at Kyle lifting a brow. “Of
course you are,” said Kyle more to himself.
“We brought you home, stripped you, and since we only
have one room, we put you in between us.”
“That was … nice of you.” Kyle wasn’t sure what he
should do. Maybe get dressed, and leave. Jackie settled it for him.
She reached over and kissed him, pulling the blankets away
exposing his very aroused flesh. “We really wouldn’t want to send you out
like that. What trouble could you get into?”
Dora pushed Kyle down. “I really prefer women, but Jackie
tends to bend both ways.”
“That’s …” Kyle cleared his throat again nervously.
“You want me to … um, with Jackie, while you watch?”
Dora laughed. “Actually, I was thinking all three of us
in numerous combinations, and you can watch me and Jackie together as well.”
Kyle gulped hard. “I prayed to Buddha about this very
scenario.”
Jackie moved her hand down Kyle front to grip him hard
extracting a groan from him. “Lucky you … your prayers are going to be
answered.”
“Oh boy!” Kyle decided not to struggle. “Um, you two
aren’t going to hurt me?”
Dora’s mouth ran up the side of his neck. “Not much.”
Both women giggled making Kyle sweat a little. He closed his eyes in a quick
prayer of thanks.
“Oh, um … by the way, I should warn both of you,”
said Kyle, not wanting to not forewarn them, “I’m not quite of this
world.”
Dora tossed jumped off the bed tossing off her clothes
showing a very endowed chest, as she rejoined the other two, quickly pinning
Kyle to the bed aggressively. “Good, we love things to be out of this
world.”
“Oh boy!”
~~~
Maria was quiet. She was always quiet. The youthful wacky
girl that once dreamed of a life of music and laughter was gone. She still had
music, and she had Michael, but the laughter and joy was gone. She sat quietly
listening as a thin layer of sweat beaded on her upper lip.
Michael’s hand found hers, and he held it tight feeling
her sickness. Leaning down, he whispered to her, and she nodded quickly leaving
the room. Michael waited a moment before following her.
“Hey, you okay?”
Maria shook her head. She was sick. “I don’t think so,
Michael.”
“C’mon.” Michael led her to the bed and helped her
lay down. Going to the bathroom he damped a washcloth to wipe her face. “I
should take you to a doctor.”
“We can’t. You know that.”
Michael’s worried eyes moved over her face. This was more
than fear. She was slowly acclimating to the others being around her, or the
baby was. This was something else. Michael leaned his head into her as her tired
hand came up to over the back of his neck stroking the soft hair at his nape.
“I don’t want to lose you. I …”
Maria stopped him, kissing him gently. “You’re not. I
think my body is just a little confused. I need sleep.”
Michael nodded. He stayed until she was asleep. Pulling a
blanket over her, he stood beside the bed staring at her sleeping form. She was
too small. Leaving the room, he was surprised to see Kal waiting outside the
door for him.
“Is she okay?”
“What is your interest in her?” Michael asked
suspiciously.
Kal smiled slightly shrugging. “I don’t know. She could
make a fortune in the movies with that face and those legs.” Kal’s flippant
response made Michael scowl. “Okay, I … I confess an interest in her … in
the baby.” Kal smiled suddenly. “Could I be the godfather?”
Michael shook his head and walked away to rejoin the
others. Kal remained outside Maria’s door for a moment, his face changing
before following Michael. Kal stopped Michael before he reentered the room.
“Look, I can get a doctor to come visit. It’s probably
morning sickness.”
“Wouldn’t the baby be a problem?”
“I don’t think so. You heard the others … the other
baby was human, and it was conceived by two hybrids. A baby conceived by a
hybrid and a human should be very normal.”
Michael looked up the stairs. “Okay, call someone. I
don’t know that I can take her to the doctor, but she needs someone.”
“I’ll take care of it.”
Michael’s hand came out to stop Kal. “Honestly, no
bullshit. What is your interest in my son?”
“Not your son … her son.” Kal sighed shaking his
head. “You haven’t figured it out, have you? You’re an advancement of
humans, but that baby? It will be the first real step forward for the humans on
this planet. The king’s son, Zan … he’s an anomaly and not necessarily a
stable one. Breeding between two hybrids should produce non-viable offspring.”
“Non-viable? You mean that Zan will be sterile?”
“Yes. The genetic flaw necessary to produce hybrids with
the Gandarium would result in a child with that same flaw, and since he has the
flaw from both parents, he should be sterile. Now your child merely gets the
flaw from you, but his mother will give him a healthy genome. His children will
have even less of a chance of inheriting the flaw.”
“Then we weren’t sent here to breed, to be couples?”
“Hardly. You were never meant to return to Antar. In
fact, you can’t. Not for long, and not without some type of engineering, such
as a husk to help you survive long term. You are human. This planet was a gift
from your parents, a chance for you to live out your lives, and perhaps preserve
their family line on a new world, a new planet.”
And your interest in Maria?”
Kal shrugged. “The birth of a new step in evolution for
the humans… she’s a modern day Eve.”
“I’m not sure she’ll appreciate the distinction.”
“Let me call that doctor.” Kal went to make the call
while Michael stood outside the door listening to the others talk. What he
needed was some cedar oil, because once Maria discovered what Kal told him, she
was going to panic. Another person might like the idea of being the mother of a
new era, but he doubted Maria would.
~~~
Michael waited until the doctor finished checking Maria
out. He came outside and talked to Kal for a moment before talking to Michael.
“She’s definitely pregnant,” he told Michael. “I
prescribed her some prenatal vitamins. She is a bit anemic, or that is my best
guess without blood work.”
“No blood work.” Michael said.
“So I gather from Kal. He said it was against your
religion.”
“That’s correct. No blood work. No transfusions.”
“Hmm, well she’s healthy otherwise. I think a bit
tired, but everything looks normal. The morning sickness can get bad, so I wrote
a prescription for nausea and for the vitamins. She is about three weeks
pregnant, so you’re looking at about another two months of this.”
“She really okay?”
“Excellent health. Maybe a tad bit overly stressed, but
otherwise,” the man smiled reassuringly at Michael. New fathers, they were
usually so nervous. “I’ve written out a nice diet. Plenty of exercise and
rest, and she should have no problem. You’ll want to get her a doctor though
to monitor her pregnancy and make sure she doesn’t develop high blood pressure
and other problems along the way.”
“Right.” Michael nodded staring at the closed door.
“Can I …?” He nodded to the door wanting to go check on Maria.
“Absolutely. I already ordered the medication and the
pharmacy will deliver it here later today.” The doctor hit Kal on the
shoulder. “I put your niece’s prescriptions on your bill.”
“Great!” Kal actually smiled as he showed his friend
out. “I’m going to be the godfather too!”
Michael made a face at the Shapeshifter’s receding back
before going into the bedroom. Maria wasn’t asleep. She opened her eyes when
Michael entered the room.
“Hey.”
“Hey,” she returned softly.
“He said you have killer morning sickness.”
“I know.” Maria started to sit up, but Michael stopped
her. He joined her on the bed, his eyes searching her face. “Hey, I’m not
going to break.”
“Promise me that.”
Maria made a huffing laugh as her hand stroked his face.
“You worry too much. I’m fine.” Her other hand came to rest on her flat
stomach. “We’re fine.”
Michael’s eyes darkened as he lowered his head to her
stomach. “I didn’t mean for this to happen,” he told her. “Not now. Not
for a few more years.”
“I know. I thought we were careful. Maybe we shouldn’t
have trusted only the pill, and kept using condoms too.”
“You hate latex.”
Maria moved her fingers through his hair. “I hate
anything that comes between you and me.” Her smile slowly left her face. “I
don’t know, Michael. I don’t know that I can do this alone.”
“You’re not alone, Maria. I’m here. I’m not going
anywhere.”
“I know. It’s just with this aversion I have for both
Isabel and Liz right now … I’m lacking in female companionship.”
“I know.” Michael lay down next to her. “What do you
need?”
“My mom.”
~~~
Kyle went to go relieve himself, shaking his shoulders to
alleviate some of the tiredness. The girls were energetic. He returned to see
them with their heads close together, whispering. They were both wearing short
robes, and yes, something was definitely up other than him. He poured himself
some more wine, handing them their glasses. They both stared at him through
their tousled hair, both taking the glass from him with hesitation. He could
swear that he just had his fingers caressed. He sat on the bed.
“All right, ladies, what's going on?” They looked at
each other and Jackie nodded at Dora. Dora took a sip of the wine and set her
glass down. She crawled over the bed to Kyle, pushing him to sit with his back
to the headboard, literally crawling into his lap lowering her head to his. She
pressed her mouth to his and he automatically opened for her kiss. The rush of
wine into his mouth was the sweetest thing he had ever tasted.
“We decided that you since you were obviously too shy to
do more than watch us, or be with only one of us at a time we would help you
make up your mind.” Jackie said, sitting on the other side of Kyle, balancing
herself with one arm across Dora's waist and the other around his shoulder. Yes,
Kyle old boy, you were definitely in trouble.
Jackie took her turn at his mouth, caressing his tongue
with hers. Kyle moaned, feeling two hands stroking his chest, both of his
nipples being rubbed and lightly pinched. Dora took over his mouth again as
Jackie went to the side of his neck.
“You are definitely out of this world, but there is no
need to try to take care of us separately. We love sharing.” Jackie reassured
him as her hand moved down his body to stroke him. Kyle groaned. Oh, God, he was
going to die a happy man, he thought.
“So, are you going to do us both at the same time, or are
we going to have to take you in hand?” Jackie said in his ear. Kyle opened his
eyes in time to see the women share a kiss with each other. Throwing caution to
the wind, he laid back and watched the show, as his hand moved around their
bodies to bring them closer. He wasn’t sure of the logistics, but what the
hell, he wasn’t afraid to follow their lead.
The girls giggled and he was once again put off balance
when the ladies took over again. They both grabbed him and shoved him flat on
the bed. He landed on his back and then raised up on his elbows. If this was a
wet dream, he hoped he wasn't going to wake up. They didn't undress themselves,
they undressed each other. Hands slowly untying sashes while they kissed, their
tongues fencing delicately. Dora's robe hit the floor first and her breasts were
well worth the view as Jackie lowered her head and gently lathed a nipple with
her mouth, tugging at it with her teeth. She moved behind Dora, looking Kyle in
the eye as she placed her hand between Dora's legs, gently rubbing the woman's
bare clit.
“C’mon, Kyle, don’t be a watcher. Be a player,” she
invited him as she offered him her lover. Dora moaned appreciatively as she
moved forward a little to run her hands up Kyle’s thighs, her hands circling
his erection.
“I think he has a problem.” Dora said over her shoulder
to Jackie.
“Hmm, looks like a fairly big problem. Maybe he'd like
some help with it. Think we should take pity on him?” Dora pretended to debate
the suggestion before shrugging.
“I supposed so. I mean we did drag him into our bed for a
reason.”
Kyle fell back on the bed, his hands covering his flushed
face for a moment. This was a damn dream. It had to be. He never got this lucky
before. He opened his eyes to watch Jackie divest herself of the robe during the
moment when Kyle wasn't looking. They were beautiful. They crawled over him,
each laying on half of him, their legs parting his to make room for theirs.
Jackie leaned over him, lowering her mouth to his, taking
his breath away. He gasped as he felt his nipple suckled and licked. Jackie
moved away from his mouth and took his other nipple, sucking hard while Dora
gently licked him, the duel forces sending signals all the way down to his
hardened cock.
“Oh, God, yes...” Now this was what he was talking
about, what he was looking for at Enigma. He moaned as they moved down his
torso, each licking and suckling at his skin. They licked at the crease of his
groin, their hair tickling his genitals. He clutched at the bedding as they
shared his testicles, sucking and nibbling at him before they tongued the base
of his penis, slowly moving up until they circled the wide head. He had started
to drip some pre-cum and Dora licked it off, making him jump, he looked up when
he couldn't feel them and saw Dora sharing the flavor with Jackie who was
sucking it off Dora's tongue. Jackie left her and leaned down for her own turn,
taking the tip of his cock into her mouth. Dora pressed soft kisses on her
shoulders, encouraging Jackie, as she ran a caressing hand over Jackie's back
and buttocks. Kyle groaned hard and loud when Dora literally took Jackie’s
head and forced her to take more of Kyle in her mouth.
A spark of awareness awakened Kyle's overloaded senses and
he put a hand on Dora's leg. She looked up at him and smiled.
“Shock worn off?” She teased him.
“Come here, straddle my face so I can lick you.” he
ordered her. Quite willing, she scooted around, placing her knees on either side
of his head and held onto the headboard. She shivered and held on for dear life
as she felt his fingers gently spread her folds and caressed her clit before
placing his mouth on her, suckling gently at the delicate nub.
“Kyle,” she moaned.
“You don’t mind?” Kyle asked as she glanced down at
him as he gestured to Jackie who was doing more than an ample job of blowing
him.
Dora laughed. “No. I don’t mind the taste, and actually
don’t mind doing a man, but in truth, I prefer pussy.”
“So do I!” Kyle grinned devilishly as his tongue moved
up her slit, and Dora felt a finger enter her slowly, teasing her for more. She
moved her hips trying to find that finger, only to suddenly have two thrust into
her making her cry out. His teeth nibbled at her clit, just barely raking over
the skin as he invaded her dark wet recesses, in and out of her, timing it to
the rhythm Jackie had set on his cock. Dora ground herself against his face, his
nose buried in her hair as he devoured her pussy until she came, her juices
flooding his mouth with their salty sweetness. It was too much for him, he
couldn't hold it in anymore and he came hard, arching his back, pouring himself
across Jackie's tongue.
Dora fell to the side, her breasts rising and falling fast
as she caught her breath. Jackie crawled up to her and Kyle watched, fascinated,
as she shared his semen with the other woman. As they shared his essence, he
remembered that there was someone who didn't come yet.
He ran his hand down Jackie's back and over her pert
bottom, making her wiggle deliciously for him.
“Will you come for me, Jackie?” he asked in her ear.
His fingers tailed down the middle of her ass, making her legs part in her need
for him to reach his destination. She jumped as he gently grazed her tiny
puckered entry before sliding two fingers into her vagina.
“Oh, God, yes...” she whimpered into Dora's mouth.
“Are you going to come for me, Jackie? Ask me to make you
come.” He quietly ordered her.
“Please, fuck me, make me come. Rub my clit, do it,
please.” she sobbed with frustration as his fingers withdrew. Jackie's breasts
were matched with Dora's, pressing against each other and Kyle leaned over and
sucked the two nearest nipples into his mouth. He moved a finger around the
crease of Jackie's folds, circling her, sometimes moving into her vagina, until
she was on the edge before he took her clit between his fingers, gently milking
her and rubbing the sensitive tip.
“Strokes or circles, Jackie?” he asked, needing to know
her preference.
“Oh, circles, please.” As requested, he moved the tip
of his finger in a circular motion across her clit causing her hips to buck and
a scream to escape her. The smell of the women made him hard again. Thank god
for teenage hormones. When she was close to coming, he whispered to her again.
“Are you ready to come? Do you want to be fucked?” he
asked, turning her head so that he could flick his tongue in her mouth.
“Sucked?” he suckled on her lower lip. “Or stroked?” he kissed her hard,
tasting himself in her mouth.
“Fuck me.” She whispered against his mouth as she
paused long enough to reach into the cupboard of the headboard, taking out a
small foil package. Dora took it from Jackie and put it on Kyle, taking his
place on the bed as he knelt behind Jackie, lifting her hips up into the air,
her knees far enough apart to spread herself, offering her pussy to him. Jackie
leaned her head on Dora's chest, holding her, caressing and kissing her breasts.
Kyle couldn't resist one last stroke before he entered her
so he leaned down and ran his tongue over her, suckling at her clit a moment. He
caressed her hips and the rounded globes of her bottom before positioning
himself. He leaned forward, entering her slowly, savoring the feel of her
tightness.
“Oh yes, fuck me!” she moaned loudly, thrusting back to
take him in the rest of the way. He pulled back and got a hold of her hips with
his hands and thrust into her again.
Dora whispered to Jackie and she picked up her shoulders
for a moment so that Dora could scoot down under her. She moved down until her
face was level with Kyle and Jackie's joined bodies and watched, fascinated, as
his cock thrust in and out of her partner’s vagina. Dora tilted her face up
and took Jackie's clit between her lips.
“Dora! Yes, do that some more!” Jackie said from
somewhere above. Kyle leaned back to see what was going on. Dora's face was
attached to Jackie's clit, he could feel his balls bumping Dora's chin when
suddenly she was suckling on them. He almost came then, but managed to control
it.
Kyle’s hand came down on Jackie’s ass in a stinging
slap as he leaned hard into her, pushing deep. “Do Dora. Take her in your
mouth. I want to watch you eat her while I fuck you.”
Kyle slowed down slightly as Dora showed her appreciation
of him including her in the act as she licked his shaft as he pulled out a
little. Dora altered her ministrations between his penis and Jackie's clit until
he came with a burst into Jackie's vagina. Dora clamped onto the clit and
suckled hard, making Jackie scream her own release.
Kyle fell back onto the bed, breathing hard watching the
two women finish each other as Jackie fell to the side exhausted. Dora gently
cleaned Jackie's pussy with her tongue before moving back up to share a kiss.
They turned and draped themselves over Kyle's arms, caressing his chest and
face, kissing him gently.
“This is your fault, you know.” Dora said to him.
He opened one eye. “How so? I thought the two of you
kidnapped me, took advantage of my drunken state,” he reminded them as Jackie
looked at him.
“That's beside the point. You were teasing us by beating
the crap out of all those guys at the bar. See? It's your fault.” Kyle nodded,
accepting the blame. It was reasonable.
Kyle groaned between the two women, his hand moving over
Dora’s immense hooters, enjoying the large beaded nipple begging for a mouth.
“I should be punished,” Kyle decided. Nothing was worse than a man that
teased. “Buddha would see punishment as a road to my own enlightenment.”
Kyle confessed to them.
Dora and Jackie both sat up taking interest. Yes, he
definitely needed to be punished. It would make a better man of him. Dora calmly
reached over into a drawer, her eyes taking on a special gleam as she pulled out
leather tethering straps.
~~~
“You’re not going to eat that.”
Maria hummed under her breath. “I am.” She took a big
bite out of her sandwich, the humming getting louder. Michael bit back a smile
at her yummy sounds as he controlled his need to gag at her sandwich, a gruesome
concoction of luncheon meats, sweet pickles, and cocktail sauce with chocolate
pudding.
“Hey,” said Kyle as he entered the kitchen surprised to
see anyone awake at three in the morning.
Michael stopped chewing his sandwich to stare at Kyle.
“So the prodigal alien returns.” Michael pushed a newspaper across the
table. “That you?”
Kyle sniffed and read the paper. Swearing, he turned a
little red at the report of a bar brawl resulting in three men hospitalized.
“I … it was harmless. I was a little under the weather.”
“Good plan, this hiding in plain sight.” Michael told
him as he passed the bread. “So where’ve you been?”
“About.” Kyle said cryptically, smiling at Maria when
she passed him the pickles. “So the shape dude has a nice spread of food.”
Maria nodded talking with her mouth full. “Yummy.”
Kyle laughed. “Yummy?”
“It’s the first time she’s been able to hold down
food in days. The morning sickness was eating her lunch.” Michael explained.
“Michael … honey, could you find me some soda? I want
orange, but if not … anything would do.”
“Morning sickness?” Kyle looked between the two.
“You’re pregnant?”
“I am. Michael isn’t.” Maria confirmed.
Kyle frowned. “Did you two think having babies while on
the run was a iffy prospect? I mean birth control …”
“We used it Sherlock. It didn’t work.” Michael
grabbed the bread back. He was still starving.
Kyle paled a little thinking of his recent, um …
activities. “What do you mean, it didn’t work?!”
“Birth control pills.”
“What about condoms?” Kyle asked praying under his
breath.
“Don’t know. We don’t use condoms.”
Maria took back the pickles and hoarded them near to her.
“You don’t have to tell him every detail of our sex life.”
“He asked.”
“Oh, well, great. Draw him a picture by all means.”
Michael pinched his wife. Maria made a face at Michael. “I know all the dirty
things you like to do. You tell, I tell.”
“Have some more pickles.”
Kyle laughed shaking his head. “So birth control is a
bust.”
“Not necessarily. Maria and I used it for years with no
problems. Our local shifter seems to think it was Max and Tess having a baby
that activated the rest our mating cycles. Basically, we were worry free until
after the king had his heir.”
“Okay that sucks.” Kyle seemed really worry. “And you
don’t know about condoms.”
Maria stopped eating long enough to give the AWOL Kyle a
good looking over. “You seem inordinately interested. So watcha up to?”
Kyle sniffed. “Nuthin much. Just a little tryst with a
nice couple of lesbian lovers. They trapped me in their home for the last
twenty-four hours. Barely escaped with my balls.”
Michael put down his sandwich. “That’s a lie.”
“Want to see the bite on my ass?” Kyle reached for his
belt.
Michael quickly waved him off. “Keep it zipped up.”
Unable to help himself, Michael leaned on the table. “So you and them … both
at once? I mean, did you get to watch?”
“Michael!” Maria gave Kyle a stern look. “Do not be
telling my husband any of your perverted kinky stories. He already has too many
kinks to work out. He doesn’t need suggestions.”
Michael laughed, and when Maria lifted a brow at him, he
actually winked at her. She shook her head, her hand resting on his leg.
Kyle finished making his sandwich. “So what did I miss? A
fight no doubt.”
“Numerous ones. Max ordered Kal to tell us about the
Granilith. It was a long boring discussion. Maria went to sleep twice.”
“So in a nutshell for us concentration challenged
viewers...” Kyle begged.
Michael shrugged. “Granilith. Big power. Sent to Earth
with us to spite Kivar. Guess our family decided if they were to die, that they
would be damned if they’d let Kivar win the whole enchilada. So they made us
again, mixing us in a human DNA cocktail, and gave us the Granilith to keep it
away from Kivar. The shifter seemed to imply that we were idiots to think Kivar
would send Skins in full force to scour the Earth for a mere transportation
device. It was so much more. Supposedly, it contained enough power to keep Antar
the ruling planet in that solar system, and hence the reason he failed to ever
tell the other worlds in their solar system that he did not have the device.
Hard to hold the others under his thumb when they feared his power.”
“So it was a ‘holy relic’ of some sort.”
Michael snorted. “Not hardly. The aliens hardly believed
in God or anything divine. Nope, it’s all about power, and when we sent Tess
home in it, Kivar got what he really wanted. The Granilith back, and to hell
with Max’s kid. Tess was duped, as was Nasedo. Killing us was just cream on
top. Guess once ‘the queen’ got home, she found the deal she made wasn’t
that great of a deal, and her son meant nothing, and she was slated for
death.”
“My heart is bleeding.”
“Thought it would be,” said Michael with a smirk,
frowning when Maria went over to look in the refrigerator again. Since she took
the pills for nausea, her appetite returned in full force, enough to force him
to get up in the middle of the night for a kitchen raid. “Maria, watcha
looking for?”
“Green olives.”
“You hate green olives. The pimentos scare you. They look
like eyes, remember?”
Maria waved it off finding not only a nice jar of Spanish
olives, but a bonus jar of capers and cocktail onions. She rejoined the two men
listening to their conversation; too busy munching to add her two cents in.
“So Tess more than likely got a rude awakening?”
“Oh, of that I’m sure. She found it rude enough to
flee, take a ship, and come back to us, the very people she betrayed. If we were
her best bet at survival, then she was truly friendless.”
“Again … having that heart hiccup,” said Kyle. He
might not have voted her dead, but he would never forgive the betrayal he
suffered at her hands. “So, the Granilith was a powerful weapon or machine,
and you stupidly sent it to Kivar.”
“Yep. No Tess. No Granilith … looks like we are
fucked.”
Kyle seemed to think that over. His life was guaranteed to
be abbreviated, according to Kal, so end of the world, didn’t bother him as
much as it did at first. Maybe that was selfish thinking, but hey, he was an
alien now, and no one ever accused them of not being selfish, vain, and whiny.
He was entitled.
“Well at least you got a baby coming … something that
looks like a future, Max and Liz got their ‘great soulmate love’ for as long
as it last, and I got some major alien cajones with real thrusting power.”
“You want to explain that?” Michael begged, more than a
little amused.
Kyle smiled smugly. “I think I converted a lesbian …
the other was already swinging both ways, but that Dora, she was a hard one to
crack.”
Maria held up a hand. “Hello, knocked up girl here. Me
and my unborn child, we are both too innocent to hear this.”
Kyle found that amusing. Maria and innocent were two terms
he hadn’t put together for a long time. He was pretty certain Michael took
care of Maria’s innocence a long time ago. “Sorry,” he said contritely.
“So you should be. You have no idea what kind of trouble
this little Guerin will get into, and being alien … what if he can hear you? I
don’t need you feeding sleazy stories to my unborn child.”
“You’re right. I’ll save them up until he is of an
age to really appreciate them.”
Maria made a face at Kyle, but her eyes lacked any humor.
Her child would probably never reach that age. Maria’s eyes met Michael’s
and neither of them noticed Kal entering the kitchen until he spoke.
“Aw, the kiddies are up for a late night nosh.” They
all turned to look at the man’s outrageous clothing.
“Another red carpet?” Maria asked.
“Nah, just a party. Nothing too fancy.” Kal went to
stand beside Maria, and Michael frowned when he noticed she did not flinch away
from him. Kal took a pickle off Maria’s plate. “So what we talking about?”
He turned to Kyle. “You’re back I see. I noticed a report of a fight at a
bar. Was that you?”
“Supposedly,” Kyle admitted dryly. What? Like he
remembered?
“Good plan … that hide in sight thing.” Kal said with
a sarcastic smile. “So now that you Junior-Spacemen have your missing Sparky
back, are you gone? What’s the plan?”
Michael stared at the Shapeshifter for a moment before
shocking the group of late night kitchen raiders. “I’m taking Maria home to