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 Species Two (MF) Species Two

   Hack didn't understand what had happened that night, but he kept pouring
over the data.  April had kept David in bed with her for most of the
morning, though they didn't do anything.  Hack puzzled at the way she
touched ordinary parts of Dvd's body and elicited a sexual response.

   The next night was for Jack who had been very direct with his intentions
from the start.  He was quick and aggressive toward her in everything.  The
moment she got up to leave them, he planted a hand at the base of her spine
and shoved her forward.  To keep her from falling, he gripped her elbow and
scooted her directly to the bed.

   When she turned to him and started to protest, he sucked on her lips. 
His hands squeezed at her breasts and she cried out.

   "Let's open you up so that we can move on to the good parts," he ordered
as he pulled off his shirt.  She looked at his rippling muscles, along with
the intent stare, and knew that she would have to go along or be hurt.  She
folded her arms over her chest.

   "Hey, you gave it up four days in a row.  Don't play shy all of a
sudden."

   "I didn't have sex with...."

   "They don't say it, but you can see it on their faces."

   He shoved her down onto the bed.  "I just want my piece."

   He held her down and smiled slightly at her.  He kissed her forcefully
again and nibbled at her ear.  His tongue snaked out and struck her where
her ear met her neck.  She gasped in pleasure in spite of her fear and
anger.  She struggled harder against his weight and he continued to
stimulate her.

   Hack noted her heightened adrenalin level and looked over.  Jack pulled
her down close and sucked at her nipples through her shirt.

   "Stop it, Jack.  Stop!" She finally shoved him off.

   He reached for her again and she slipped off of the bed.

   "Stop?"

   "I'm not your girlfriend.  I don't know you."

   "So, you admit it.  You`re interested."

   "Get out.  Get away from me.  I don't want anything to do with you."

   "You chose me," he growled as he picked her up off of the floor.

   He forced a kiss on her again, and she pulled away.  He grabbed a
handful of her hair and moved her close.  His ragged breath on her face
made her close her eyes.  He mashed his lips into hers and gripped firmly
at her breast as he moved her back to the bed.  She froze up when he shoved
his hand down her pants.

   Hack opened the outer door to her room and looked in.  Jack hopped up
and moved toward the common room.

   "April?  Your adrenalin is very high.  Are you alright?"

   "No, I'm not okay."

   "Would you like to be moved to your old quarters?  You are afraid.  I
can have Jack removed."

   She looked up at Jack and he cowered from her gaze.

   "No.  I'm okay.  I think I need to be alone."

   Jack took this as a cue and made a well needed exit.

   "I intervened, because he had escalated the issue.  You will be moved in
the morning.  You don't need to look anymore.  I never realized how
aggressive we used to be."

   "Thank you, Hack.  I don`t think you could have been that way."

   "I'm sure." Hack touched her and she rushed into his arms.  He had no
idea why she'd done it, but he hesitantly returned her embrace.  She sobbed
so hard that he moved her to sit on the bed.  She clung to his body like a
child.

   "I won't allow anything like that to happen again."

   She looked up at him and nodded.  He wiped away her tears with his
fingers and whispered, "You shouldn't worry anymore.  I'll put you in with
David.  He's a good man and a good breeder." He was so close to her that he
noticed her strange odor.  It wasn't a bad smell.  It was sort of....  Hack
was having trouble thinking.  He looked at her sadness and put his lips to
her cheek.  A tingle in his jaw shot down to his chest.  He stood abruptly
and excused himself.  He tried to figure out a way to explain how that
would look on the daily transmission

   Kyot came over and kissed him primly on the cheek.  "Move her, tonight.
The council will be outraged by this game.  You have mounted me as per the
requirements for conception.  I am not with babe."

   Hack looked at her and said, "Perhaps, I needed you to be interested in
order to produce sufficient sperm."

   "Or could it be your attraction to this female?  I saw you.  I saw the
look on your face when you kissed her."

   "It was a harmless peck," he tried.

   "Then, why did you blush?  You do not respond to me in this way."

   He couldn't answer.

   "You are to report to the council immediately.  I will supervise the
transfer of the female back to solitary quarters.  Pity, we will miss the
color you would have added to our line."

   * It had taken him a few days to convince the council that he was still
a viable breeding prospect.  He had his latest sperm count ready to show
that he was more than capable of mating.  He had thought that Kyot
immediately would be placed under suspicion for bringing up the accusation.
By her political connections alone, she'd managed to maneuver her way to an
upper level position and his relegation to mid-level non-breeder oblivion.
If he didn't make a choice soon, he might be sterilized before he could
make a counter-offensive.  This was his only shot.  He had to get April and
the others out before she was sedated and artificially inseminated.

   He opened her cell and slipped in.  She turned and lounged quietly on
the bed.  She'd grown wary in the few days that she'd been separated from
him.

   "Where have you been, Hack?  I thought I'd never see a decent person
ever again."

   The bald one stood just in the door and glanced at her.  He looked up at
her on occasion, but he didn't say a word.

   "I know I've been hard to live with, but you used to answer my
questions."

   He walked over to her and sat down.  He was so deep in thought that he
didn't notice her move closer to him.

   "Have you..." He noticed how close she was and moved back.  "I will be
replaced by someone with more self control.  I have become too involved in
my work.  They said more specifically, in you.  Kyot... My former mate said
that I was acting like an animal.  Heh," Hack explained.  "I suppose I may
eventually be reassigned a mate.  But, my breeding days are over.  Upon
completion of this work, I may be sterilized."

   April sighed, "I'm sorry, Haclustor.  I'm really sorry.  I didn't mean
to get you into trouble.  I didn't mean to hug you.  Is that what did it? I
touched you?"

   She got up and searched the solid white walls.  "It was when I kissed
you.  It didn't mean anything.  You knew that, right?  I explained.  I can
explain it to them!  Don't leave me here.  It's so strange when you aren`t
here.  I`ve been weighed and measured so many times, I`ve lost count."

   "April, you are rambling.  Please don't try to explain things.  It isn't
your fault.  I obviously developed a defect of some sort," he soothed as he
rubbed her arms.  "You've touched me more than anyone has ever touched me
before.  I started to bond with you.  I found myself thinking about you,
and I watched you.  Instead of supervising the usual mating, I spent all of
my time making sure you were well.  I did these things without your help. I
hugged you.  I kissed you.  I felt something when I did that, and I was
wrong for it.  I`m not sorry."

   She breathed deeply and turned around.  "You had a reaction to a woman.
You probably would be pretty good if you found the right girl.  You could
just disappear.  You would blend in on earth.  Bald is in now."

   "My first priority is to all of you.  I'll send you all back.  My race
deserves to disappear.  The women look like the men and have no feelings
worth having.  I would have taken care of our offspring.  She would have
gone on to a new male."

   The click of the speaker system made them look up.  <<Hclstr, I can't
keep them from noticing you forever.  How do we proceed?>>

   "Rex, give me an estimate of evacuation of the facility and dispersal of
all humans.  Also disposal of duplicates."

   <<Estimate: 5 hours.  1 hour to remove all workers from the facility, 4
to return subjects to individual dwellings.  Duplicate disposal would be
upon arrival.  No known value of time.>>
"Vsr, start evacuation immediately.  The females first.  The test group
will be last.  Make sure we take all of the refractory lenses, so that all

that want to join us will blend in."

   <<But, where will we go?>>

   "Vsr, you know who is yours.  You go with me.  I've set up a sight for
all of them, and pinpointed a ghost town that they can be housed within.  I
have tested the location and Nebraska is a solitary sort of place."

   <<Hack, you knew this would happen?  Why did you hide us?  We should
have been terminated years ago.>>

   "Because, I felt that a shorter life was better than one with no
passion," he said as he looked into April's eyes.

   "What's going on?"

   "I'll tell you about it when I've wiped the computers and made one last
transmission home."

   The room suddenly darkened and a series of alarm sounds followed the
opening of her door.  Hack led her out by the hand through a series of
winding dark passages.  There were people running everywhere.  Few of them
were bald.  She tightened her grip on his hand as they neared an end to the
narrowing hall.  He raised his free hand and a side door opened into a
still lit room.  He shoved her in and shut the door by hand.

   "Vsr," he called up to his friend.  "Vsr, take us up."

   The small room shook.  It was an elevator.  He continued his grasp of
her hand as the doors opened and a tall gray eyed man smiled at her.

   "Hello, I'm Vsrtrm.  I am glad that you prompted his action.  I will
finally get a chance to see my other sons," his voice seemed less sharp
than in the speakers and he had a few wrinkles around his eyes.  He looked
expectantly at Hack, and went to the screen.  "Which one, Hack?  I have a
number, but I never was allowed to see what he looked like."

   "He should be on screen eight," Hack reassured the nervous man.  He left
April just outside of the elevator and pointed to a screen she didn't see.
The other man's eyes sparkled as he nodded in recognition.  "He knows.  I
told him when I thought he might need to know.  His eyes began to pale when
he started puberty, and his hair is not fully developed.  He's a good man."

   She saw the tears on Vsr's face and knew that it was hard for his people
to show emotion.  He seemed confused by the wetness on his cheeks as he
smiled broadly at her.  She marveled at the softening of his features as he
moved close to her.

   "April, we need to erase all files from the computers and send everyone
back home.  Should I send David with you?"

   She looked at the two hopeful faces and said, "Whatever he wants is fine
with me.  I just want to go home."

   ***

   April woke up with a stiff neck on her couch.  She looked around and
noticed the deepening sky of dusk and smiled at the dream she'd just had.

   `Whoa, that must have been some run.'

   She went to the modest kitchen and started some tea.  She turned on the
television to the news and decided a snack would go nicely as well.

   --- The center for disease control and prevention has issued a low level
warning concerning a mild infection which has swept across the country in
waves.  There have been multiple accidents in connection with this unknown
illness.  They advise the country at large to drink fluids and wash hands
when in contact with others.  Though this sudden sickness is not life
threatening, it may cause a secondary problem, especially for those
stricken while driving or operating heavy machinery.  Symptoms include:
dizziness, headache, confusion, fatigue, drowsiness, loss of consciousness,
and for women a low grade fever which can last for two to three days. 
Officially, a cause has not been found for this outbreak--

   April touched her head.  She did feel a little groggy.  She turned off
the tea and drank some orange juice instead.  She listened to the weather
and settled down on the couch with some cookies and a book.  She figured,
if she passed out, she'd already be someplace safe.  She was just about to
shut off the TV, when a knock on the door startled her.  She looked out of
the window and saw three men on her porch.  They were all wearing shorts in
the fall.  One of them was held up by the other two.  She opened the door a
crack.

   "April, you're okay?" A bald man with hazel eyes and sparse eyebrows
asked.

   "I think so," she said, and couldn't place him in her mind.

   "We need your help.  It's David.  He's not well."

   The weakened man looked up at her with Caribbean ocean eyes and she
rushed out to help him to collapse onto the couch.  This hadn't been a
dream at all.  The proof was standing in her living room.

   "They must have laced the evacuation pods with an agent." Hack touched
her forehead.  "You have a fever." He pulled out his palm unit and moved it
over her.  He looked up at her in confusion, "I didn't give you the shot."

   "What shot?" She sat herself down next to David's sleeping body.

   "Vsr, we can't move him," Hack looked up at the older, now blue eyed,
one.

   His face settled into a noncommittal mask as he responded, "What should
I do?  We are immune, obviously he isn't."

   Hack rested his fingers on April's shoulder.  "You need to take care of
him.  We can't stay.  If he gets worse...." He looked over at Vsr, who was
wringing his hands with the same elusive expression on his face.  "We won't
be back.  We couldn't just leave him on the road.  For a human the disease
runs its course.  We can't interfere anymore.  There may be some changes
that will be explained by this.  I might be able to walk around with out
these things in." He pointed to his eyes.

   Hclstr dragged Vsrtrm close to the man and forced him to make contact
with David's face.

   "You can't take him with you.  You need to say goodbye."

   Vsr knelt down and rested a hand on David's chest.  His fingers moved
slightly over to his far shoulder.  Vsr looked up with a sigh and said,
"Good bye, Dvd."

   "Good," Hack nodded and gave April a hug.  "Good bye, April."

   "Bye bye, Hack."

   They were out and down the road quickly.  She watched from the window as
they talked back and forth down to the main road.  She looked down at David
as he dosed peacefully on the couch.  He didn't quite fit there, so she
moved a chair to support his legs.  He startled awake before she could get
a blanket over him.  He reached out and rubbed at her arm through the
blanket.

   "Where?" His quiet voice seemed scared, so April touched his warm face
and kissed his forehead.

   "You're in my home.  You're sick."

   "I'm with you?" She felt him grip her arms.  He moved forward and
tentatively kissed her.  She kissed him back briefly and stood up.  He
raised up too quickly and toppled back to the cushions.  She moved in to
feel his face and fell onto him.  He chuckled softly and said, "You're
sick, too?"

   "Yeah," she blinked slowly at him.  Her eyes became fuzzy when he kissed
her forehead.

   "Soft, warm April.  I like you." His soothing breath tickled her
earlobe.

   She felt his hand on the flesh of her back.  It was warm and firm as it
pulled her closer into him.  She tried to release herself from his grip,
but she wasn't very forceful.  She allowed him to kiss her lips as he
raised her shirt up to her breasts.

   "Hey, you're sick," she protested as she caught his hand.

   "So, are you.  Can't get any sicker, can we?" Every word was emphasized
by his gentle lips caressing her earlobe.

   She sat up and removed her shirt.  He pulled the blanket from between
them and let her help him with his shirt.  She ran her hands over his warm
hard chest and then undid her bra.  The waistband of her jogging pants gave
to his hand as his fingers encircled her right ass cheek.  His kisses were
warm on her erect nipples as she ran her fingers through his hair.  She
gasped as he sucked her nipple into his lips and surrounded it with his
tongue.  She clutched instinctively to his head and he forced his other
hand to get full control over her slowly rocking hips.

   "Get up," he softly commanded as he let go of her.

   She stood without a second thought.  She wanted those hands back on her
ass and that mouth sucking on her tit.  Did she just think that?  He was up
and shoving her back onto the couch before she could get her thoughts
straight.  He swayed over her for a moment then pulled her pants and
panties to below her knees.  He sucked at her neck in that delicious
pattern that he'd used for her breast and pulled her to balance at the edge
of the couch.  His legs pushed her pants down to lock around her ankles and
spread her knees to make her legs arc uncomfortably against the cushions.

   "David," she whispered as she felt his arm squeeze under her back to
prop her up.

   She kissed his neck and grabbed his ear between her teeth as he moved
back slightly.  She felt his fingers exploring her inner thighs.  She let
out a grunt when he shoved a finger inside her.  He looked into her eyes
and she smiled at him.  He didn't smile back, but rewarded her with a kiss.
She felt something press down on her clitoris which made her tremble.  She
wanted more, but wasn't sure how to get it.  David pulled her even farther
off of the edge and she thought she'd fall.  She clutched at his arm and
back to get some balance.  He shoved into her with such force that the
couch creaked under them.  She let out her breath in a guttural moan.

   "Ssh," he whispered into her ear as he held her squirming body.

   She hung on to him as his rough breathing started to slow.

   "Relax your insides," he softly said.

   She wasn't sure what he meant.  He wasn't moving, and she was pretty
well filled.

   "I can't," she finally said.  "I can't relax."

   He moved out of her nearly to the tip of his cock.  She pulled at him to
get back in, but he just watched her frustration.

   "Please, oh David, please." She begged to be fucked.  She'd never needed
it like that.

   He forced fully into her again and she gasped.  She hugged him and tried
to move her hips to meet him.  He moved out and paused again before he gave
her what she needed.  His slow movements enflamed her even more.  The
thrusting shook her body and she lost her grip on his arm.  He took her
wrist and maneuvered her to be more upright.  As he ground into her, his
cock slid painfully over her clit.  She gasped and wiggled to get away.  He
let out a moan and twisted so that her thigh was pressed firmly to his
abdomen.  The angle spread her open to him in a way she'd never felt.  She
allowed herself to be handled roughly as he explored deeper into her.  He
rammed his balls wetly against her ass.

   She felt this pressure inside and he held her tight against his jumping
cock.  He was coming inside her.  She suddenly realized they hadn't used
any protection.  This wasn't like her.  She had all sorts of shapes, sizes,
colors, and flavors of condoms in her bedroom.  He dropped down partially
on top of her and breathed into her ear.  Just the warmth of his embrace
made her stop worrying.  He slowly moved to kneel next to her.  She felt
self-conscious the way that he studied her body.  He ran his hands over her
over-sensitive skin.  He slowly removed the remaining pant leg from her
ankle and massaged her ankle.

   "I'm sorry I was rough.  The couch is too small." He calmly said as he
gathered her up in his arms.  "Take me to bed?"

   *

   Vsr shut off the data pad and looked over at his son.

   "He was a bit more forceful than I would have thought," passed through
the younger man's tight lips.

   "The second time will be more calm.  I suppose it is more innate than
anticipated in him.  What about the other males?"

   "The returned males seem to be responding well.  The females ovulated as
predicted, but with their alterations, I feel the sport may be the only one
to handle the repeated matings necessary for the effects to wear off. 
Perhaps the nanites should have been subdued in some way to prevent the
simultaneous release of..."

   "Hclstr, stop speaking in such a technical manner.  I've randomly
slipped a few regenerators in the nutritive replicator.  The lucky ones
have a very long breeding schedule ahead of them.  The males along with a
few lucky bystanders will go out with smiles on their faces.  The females,
if they survive, will have the most genetically viable offspring.  You know
as well as I do that our David is well up to the task, even if he doesn't
know why.  His mother was," he smiled with a twinkle in his eye.

   "Father, I don't see why we couldn't bring April with us.  We could have
told her.  You would be able to see your grandchildren..."

   "It's better that she accepts him as an ancestral male and bares the
offspring.  The nanites will tell us when we should return to see my...
grandchildren."

   End

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